Do you want to make friends with others? Please remember to keep your words all the time. In this way, people around you will get along well with you.
To make friends and keep them, you have to keep your words. If you agree to meet someone at a certain time, you should arrive at the place on time or a little earlier. If you agree to help others, you must do it. Of course if there is something unexpected(没有预料到的) happening and you can’t do what you have agreed to do, your friends will understand this.
He is always lying or making excuses for breaking his words. Would you like to have him as one of your best friends? You wouldn’t. And your own friends feel the same way.
So, be more careful when you have to agree to do something for your friends. Don’t have “Maybe”in your mind when you say something about what you are going to do.
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【小题1】The underlined phrase keep one’s words means ____ in Chinese.

"I don't like my parents. They always tell me I should do this, and should not do that. It sometimes makes me angry," said Zhang Hua, a middle school student in Guangzhou．Do you have the same problem? Perhaps your parents had the same problem when they were your age long ago. Why does it seem that some parents are not so friendly in their children's eyes?

One of the biggest things is when someone becomes a parent, he/she likes worrying things. They worry about everything about you, from the time you were born. They do a lot for you, though something would make you angry, because they care about you and worry about you. They worry about your choice of friends, the food you eat, your work at school, how much sleep you get, etc．All these things are part of your life. They want you to grow up healthily and happily.

So how can you make things easier on yourself? It's easier than you think. Just make sure your parents know what you're doing. Get them to know your friends. Phone if you stay somewhere else so that your parents don't call every hospital in the phone book looking for your body. Say sorry to them when you make mistakes. Take responsibility（责任） for what you have done. Talk about your ideas with them. They may talk about theirs with you.

Most of all, try to think about why your parents do this or do that. They are still practising being parents and need help you can give them. Someday, when you become a parent, they may be able to help you how to get on with your children.

1．The writer thinks we should       if we go back home later than usual.

A．tell our friends

B．tell the teacher

C．say sorry to our parents

D．make a telephone call to our parents

2．The writer thinks        .

A．it's wrong of parents to worry about their children too much

B．some parents are unfriendly, which makes their children angry

C．children should do everything as their parents say

D． parents love their children very much and the children should understand them

3．Which is the best title（标题） for the passage?

A．Parents' Responsibility

B．How to get on with parents?

C．Zhang Hua's Problem

D．What are parents worrying about?

    If you don’t use your arms or legs for some time，they become weak．When you start using them again，they will slowly become strong again．Everybody knows that．But many people do not know that the use of our memory works in the same way.

    When someone says that he has a good memory，he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it．But when someone says that his memory is poor，it is because he does not give it enough chance(机会)to become good．

   If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak，we know that it is his own fault(过错)．But if he tells us that he has a poor memory，many of us think that his parents are to be blamed，and only few of them know that it is his own fault．

   Some people who can’t read or write sometimes have better memories．Because they can’t read or write，they always have to make their memories work，This is to remember the days，names，songs，and stories in their mind．

   So if you want to have a good memory．please practice it．

1．According to the passage，the main reason for one’s poor memory is that                 

                              .

2．If you don’t use your arms or legs for some time，                           .

3．Your memory，like your al-ms and legs，becomes weak if                        .

4．Some people who can’t read or write sometimes have better memories because          

                                       .

5．So if you want to have a good memory，please practice it．(翻译成中文)

                                                                    ．

It’s hard to make friends if you stay at home alone all the time. Get out of house and do things that will put you in touch with other people. It’s easier to make friends when you have similar interests.
Don’t be afraid to show people what you’re really good at. Talk about things you like and do best. People will be interested in you if there is something interesting about you.
Look at people in the eyes when you talk to them. That way , they’ll find it easier to talk to you.
Be a good listener. Let people talk about themselves before talking about ”me ,me, me”
Try to make friends with the kinds of people you really like, respect(尊敬）and admire（羡慕），not just with those who we are easy to meet. Be friends with a  lot of people .That way ,you ‘ll have a bigger group of people to choose and have more chances for making friends.
【小题1】How can we have more friends?