However, parents often try to choose their children’s friends for them．Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends．The question of “choice” is an interesting one．Have you ever thought of the following questions?
Who choose your friends?
Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?
Have you got a good friend your parent don’t like?
【小题1】Many teenagers think their _______ know them better than their parents do.
| A．friends |
| B．teachers |
| C．brothers and sisters |
| D．classmates |
| A．go to their friends |
| B．talk with their parents |
| C．talk with their friends on the phone |
| D．have a discussion with their family |
| A．Some parents may want their children to stop to meet their good friends. |
| B．Some parents may even ask their children to stay away from their good friends. |
| C．Some parents may even not let their children meet their good friends. |
| D．Some parents may even not allow their children to meet their good friends. |
| A．Parents should like everything their children enjoy. |
| B．In all families, children can choose everything they like. |
| C．Parents should try their best to understand their children better. |
| D．Teenagers can only go to their friends for help． |
Towards the end of high school, one of my best friends and I had a fight. She told me I had no common sense, I replied that she was childish, and in a matter of minutes, we went from inseparable to very separate.
We didn’t speak for most of our senior year. We both found other friends, avoiding each other like the plague (瘟疫). A few months after graduation, I learned that she was having some trouble. I sent her a message: “I’m still here, if you ever need me.” She replied shortly after. We reunited, and thus ended our friendship break.
Friendship breakups aren’t all that uncommon. People grow apart and fight. But friendship breaks are a different story. While they’re often healthy, sometimes, they’re also tough to control. Sometimes, like in my case, they happen suddenly and with zero intentions to reunite. In other situations, they’re more of a slow burn.
Katie, 33, says she took a break from her best college friend after a few tense exchanges, like when the friend pressured Katie—then a graduate student on a tight budget—to go on an international trip. “We’d probably been friends for ten years at the time of the break,” Katie says. “I felt that the relationship had stopped being enjoyable.” For four years, she and her friend sent only the occasional text messages. Then, a year and a half ago, the two women happened to move to the same town. “She asked whether I would like to meet,” Katie says, “and we took it slowly, speaking on the phone and going for lunches and a few nights out.”
Once you reconnect, you may find that your friendship is totally different, for better or for worse. “A friendship break allows both friends to reassess the situation and see if they miss each other during the cooling-off period,” says sociologist Jan Yager. “When they do reconnect, it might be with a new perspective.”
【小题1】Why did the author break up with her friend?| A．Because they had a big argument. |
| B．Because her friend befriended other students. |
| C．Because her friend avoided the author purposely. |
| D．Because they got bored with playing with each other. |
| A．She wanted to share her story. | B．She intended to visit her. |
| C．She still cared about her. | D．She needed her help. |
| A．They have been friends for over ten years. |
| B．They rebuilt their friendship gradually. |
| C．They were eager to fix the broken friendship. |
| D．They lost touch with each other after graduation. |
| A．It will harm friendship in the long run. |
| B．It is a necessary part of friendship. |
| C．It usually results in reconnection. |
| D．It is a time for reflection. |
Researchers are only now starting to pay attention to the importance of friendship and social networks in overall health. A 10-year Australian study found that older people with a large circle of friends were 22 percent less likely to die during the study period than those with fewer friends. A large 2007 study showed an increase of nearly 60 percent in the risk for obesity among people whose friends gained weight. And last year, Harvard researchers reported that strong social ties could promote brain health as we age.
“In general, the role of friendship in our lives isn’ t well appreciated,” said Rebecca G. Adams, a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. “There are a lot of things on families and marriage, but very little on friendship. It baffles me. Friendship has a bigger impact on our psychological well being than family relationships.”
Bella DePaulo, a visiting psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, whose work focuses on single people and friendships, notes that in many studies, friendship has an even greater effect on health than a spouse or a family member.
It isn’ t entirely clear why friendship has such a big effect. It may be because people with strong social ties also have better access to health services and care. Beyond that, however, friendship clearly has a profound psychological effect. People with strong friendships are less likely than others to get colds, perhaps because they have lower stress levels.
Last year, researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, taking them to the base of a steep hill and fitting them with a weighted backpack. They were then asked to estimate the steepness of the hill. Some participants stood next to friends during the exercise, while others were alone.
The students who stood with friends gave lower estimates of the steepness of the hill. And the longer the friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared.
“People with stronger friendship networks feel like there is someone they can turn to，” said Karen A．Roberto, director of the center for gerontology (老年医学) at Virginia Tech.“ Friendship is an undervalued resource. The consistent message of these studies is that friends make your life better.”
【小题1】What’ s the main idea of the passage?
| A．People should make friends as many as possible. |
| B．Friendships do great good to human health. |
| C．People with friends have optimistic attitude. |
| D．Several studies have been done on friendships. |
| A．People haven’t attached importance to friendships. |
| B．A friend can replace doctors and selfhelp books. |
| C．People with many friends may have higher stress levels. |
| D．People who have friends tend to be fat. |
| A．students should climb the steep hill with friends |
| B．it takes a long time to make friends |
| C．a friend in need is a friend indeed |
| D．people accompanied by friends remain optimistic in the face of difficulty |
| A．friendship has a strong physical effect on people’s health |
| B．we cannot be too careful when making friends |
| C．older people are likely to have fewer friends |
| D．60 percent of the people without friends will become fat when they get old |
| A．the effect of friendships is overvalued |
| B．studies on friendships make our life better |
| C．friends are more important than family members |
| D．friends can help each other when faced with problems |
As we all know, positive inspiration can make a lot of difference in a person’s life. Inspiration is indeed powerful.
Show care and enthusiasm. If you can’t show a person that you honestly care about them, do you think you will be able to inspire them? The answer is an unquestionable no.
Earn trust. If a person you know and love tells you a secret, it stays between you and them. Trust takes a long time to build, but it can be destroyed overnight, so don’t take part in gossip in your social networks.
Build people up.
| A．Set people free. |
| B．However, it isn’t easy. |
| C．You can inspire others in everyday life. |
| D．Make people do things all by themselves. |
| E．Small praise has a way of brightening any day. |
| F．So, show people your concern in your words and your actions. |
| G．Thus, you can be a positive influence that people are unafraid to talk to. |
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