Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, it _______ patience(耐心). If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be willing to take some action. You must first go where there are people. You won’t make friends staying home _______.
Joining a club or group, talking to those who like the same things _______ you do is much easier. Or join someone in some activity.
Many people are _______ when talking to new people. _______ meeting strangers means seeing the unknown. And it’s human nature to feel a bit _______ about the unknown. Most of fears about _______ new people come from doubts (怀疑) about _______. We imagine other people are judging us — finding us too tall or too short, too this or too that. But don’t forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept yourself as you are, and try to put the other at ease. You’ll both feel more comfortable.
Try to act self-confident(自信) _______ you don’t feel that way when you ________ a room full of strangers. Walk tall and straight, look at other people directly and ________.
If you see someone you’d like to ________, say something. Don’t wait for ________ person to start a talk.
Just meeting someone new does not mean that you’ll make friends with that person. ________ is based on mutual(相互的) likings and “give and take”. It takes time to ________ friendship.
1.A.costs B.needs C.spends D.wants
2.A.lonely B.yourself C.alone D.with you
3.A.as B.that C.which D.what
4.A.shy B.excited C.afraid D.worried
5.A.At all B.For all C.In all D.After all
6.A.unhappy B.usual C.worried D.unlucky
7.A.meeting B.talking C.visiting D.speaking
8.A.yourself B.himself C.yourselves D.ourselves
9.A.even when B.even if C.as if D.what if
10.A.come B.go C.enter D.step to
11.A.laugh B.smile C.cry D.jump
12.A.speak to B.talk about C.say to D.call up
13.A.other B.the other C.another D.others
14.A.Relation B.Friendship C.Connection D.Feeling
15.A.develop B.start C.keep D.change
Do you know 1. lives of children in Victorian Britain? Are you 2.(interest) in it? I searched online and found out the 3.(follow).
In Victorian Britain, thousands of people came to the cities to work in 4.(factory). Instead 5. the green, open countryside, people lived in very small houses 6. were very close to each other, with no space for children 7.(play). Families in those days were quite big. People put their rubbish outside in the street, the street were always full of rubbish. As a result, there were many 8.(ill).
And life was harder for children in those times. They didn’t always go to school, 9. they had to work instead. They worked twelve hours a day in dangerous jobs for very little money. Many 10.(hurt) in accidents with machines.
Mrs. Li, my neighbor, told me something about life in the past and how life had changed.
In the past her family lived in a very 1.(极小的) house. There were no 2.(用电的) lights. They could only use 3.(蜡烛). Her father and brother were 4.(邮递员) and they often worked 12 hours a day. But they still got very little money, so they could only eat meat once or 5.(两次) a year. Her mother was a farm girl. She didn’t have a good 6.(教育) only because she was a female.
Now life is very different. She lives a good life. People work for 7.(更少的) hours a day but they got more money than before. The 8.(作用) of women has changed. All the children can go to primary and junior schools without paying anything. 9.(交通) and travel are easier. They can go anywhere in the world easily.
10. speaking(一般来说), life today is much better than it was in the past.
The couple _________ for over 20 years, and they love each very much.
A.have been married B.have married C.have got married D.married
When we’re away, you must _________ yourself well.
A.look up B.look for C.look through D.look after
Nowadays many old people stay at home ________, so they often feel ________.
A.lonely, lonely B.lonely, alone C.alone, lonely D.alone, alone
