Question

完形填空

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

My grandmother used to say to me, “You can count the number of your true friends on the fingers of one hand.” For a long time I thought this was ________ . Because there are not so many true friends in our life. But later, I’ve discovered that my grandmother was only half right. Maybe we do only ________ a few “best” friends in our lifetime, but those aren’t the only people that we can call friends. There are many different ________. Let me tell you about a few of them.

One type of friends is the type that I call the “soccer mum friend”. My neighbor Betty is a good ________ . We both have kids who play soccer, and someone has to take them to their practices and pick them up . Betty and I and two ________ mothers do this. We meet sometimes and have coffee and talk ________ what our kids are doing, but those are the only times that we see each other. I ________staying with these women, but we don’t do anything else together.

Another type is the “________ friend”. This is the person ________you share an interest or a hobby with. Doug and Charles Fisher, who are brothers, are a good example of this type. They all ________ to a bird-watching club. Every few weekends the members of the club go on hikes to watch different kinds of ________ . There’s nothing romantic about my relationship with Doug and Charles, of course. We just share an interest in birds.

________ , there’s the “other half of the couple” type of friends. Carmen is a friend that I’ve known ________ college. When Carmen married George, I knew that I would have to be ________ friend if I wanted to continue to be Carmen’s. George and I don’t share that many interests, but we do have a ________ relationship . Because he is my good friend’s husband.

1.A. wrong B. beautiful C. friendly D. true

2.A. make B. take C. give D. find

3.A. rows B. types C. groups D. teams

4.A. kind B. friend C. example D. mother

5.A. another B. other C. more of D. the other

6.A. to B. with C. on D. about

7.A. enjoy B. wish C. hope D. dislike

8.A. club B. bird C. weekend D. hobby

9.A. when B. where C. that D. why

10.A. belong B. join C. turn D. point

11.A. persons B. animals C. birds D. friends

12.A. First B. Besides C. Therefore D. So

13.A. since B. before C. after D. until

14.A. Doug’s B. George’s C. Charles’sD. Betty’s

15.A. friendlyB. bad C. poor D. difficult

Answer 1