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.
1.The underlined phrase keep one’s words means ____ in Chinese.
A. 记住单词B. 记录语言 C. 保存语言 D. 信守诺言
2.If you want to make friends, it is very important to ____.
A. keep your wordsB. be funny C. be kind to them D. be helpful for them
3.You wouldn’t mind if ____.
A. your friends agree to help you
B. they are helpful
C. there is something unexpected happening
D. they are late
4.Who can be your best friend?
A. He is always being late.B. He is always lying.
C. He is always breaking his words.D. He is always keeping.
5.We can know that ____ from the passage.
A. we shouldn’t agree to help others
B. we should be ready to help others
C. it’s difficult to make friends
D. we should keep our words when we make friends
Everyone needs friends. We all like to close to someone. It is nice to have a friend to talk, laugh and do things with. , sometimes we need to be alone. We don’t always want people . But we would feel lonely if we never had a friend.
No two people are . Friends sometimes don’t get on well. That doesn’t mean they no longer like each other. Most of the time they will make peace with each other，and become again.
Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very . We miss them very much, but we can them and write to them. It could be possible that we could even see them again. And we can also new friends.
There’s more good news for people who have friends. They live longer than people who don’t have. Why? It could be that they are . Being happy helps you stay well and it could be good just knowing that someone cares about you.
1.A. look B. watch C. feel D. see
2.A. HardlyB. NearlyC. SuddenlyD. Certainly
3.A. aloneB. awayC. all overD. around
4.A. friendlyB. kindC. just the sameD. quite different
5.A. thatB. whetherC. howD. why
6.A. enemiesB. strangersC. studentsD. friends
7.A. angryB. sadC. happyD. alone
8.A. callB. askC. tellD. talk with
9.A. look forB. findC. makeD. know
10.A. happierB. strongerC. kinderD. richer
—Mom, I’ll go to my friend’s party, but I don’t know what to wear. Could you make a ____ for me?
—OK. Let me see.
A. adviceB. senseC. suggestionD. decision
—I’m always afraid of giving a speech in front of the class. —____ You can do it well.
A. I’m sorry to hear that. B. Take it easy. C. You are too nervous. D. Good luck.
The man refused to say sorry to me, ____ it was his mistakes.
A. becauseB. whenC. afterD. even though
He feels lonely because he has no close friends ____.
A. to talkB. to talk withC. talkingD. talking with
