高中英语阅读理解七选五.doc

Friendship is a very important human relationship and everyone needs good friends. Good friendship has many benefits. It offers companionship, improves self-worth and promotes good health. There are times in our lives such as when we have recently moved into a new town, or changed our jobs or schools. Such changes often leave us without a friend. 1 But for many of us the process is difficult and requires courage. Below are some helpful suggestions on how to make and keep friends.
1. Associate with others.
The first step to making friends is associating with other people. You can go to public places to meet new people. Besides, you will need to make yourself known by becoming an active member of such places.
2.Start a conversation
Starting a conversation is the second most important step in making new friends. ___2 You can always start the conversation. Being able to make small talk is a very useful skill in relating with other people.
3.___3
Choosing friends with common interests is important in building friendship as these interests would always bring you and your friend together. Hanging out will always be a pleasant experience.
4.Let it grow.
It is a good thing to stay in touch. However, try not to press your new friend with calls, messages or visits as this would likely wear him or her out and finally you may lose your friend. 4 . The best friendships are the ones that grow naturally.
5.Enjoy your friendship
The best way to enjoy your friendship is to allow your friends to be themselves. __5 Try not to change them from who they are to what you want them to be. Become the kind of friend you will want your friend to be to you.
A. Be cheerful.
B. Do things together.
C. Do not wait to be spoken to.
D. Try not to find fault with your friends.
E. Making new friends comes easy for some people.
F. For a friendship to develop you need to stay in touch.
G. So you will need to give your friend time to react to you.

_71_ one of the best things you can possibly do is to start you own club. It’s great fun especially if you are the sort of person who feels there’s never anything to do during the school holidays.
  The first thing you need to come up with is an idea for your club. _72_ pets, clothes, pop music or dancing groups, sports, making things? The list is endless.
  Next you need some friends to be in your club with you. _73_ all you need is three or four other people who are interested in the same thing as you.
  _74 you should all sit down somewhere together with lots of pieces of paper and write down every name you can think up. That’ll keep you busy for ages.
  At your first meeting you should make up a rule book. And the first rule should be no grown-ups or little/big brothers or sisters! The best clubs are always secret!
  Now you have just about everything you need, except membership cards. These are very important and again you can speed a lot of time making them. 75 why not leave some space for a photo of yourself? That will make the membership card really look like it.
  So there you are, get clubbing! Once you get started you’ll think of loads of more interesting things to do!
A. That’s easy.
B. Enjoy your own club!
C. Invite a designer to join you.
D. What are you interest in?
E.  Some vacation is just around the corner.
F.  Then you need to pick a name for your club.
G.  Use a bright thick pen to make a special design.

Choosing the right job is probably one of the most important decisions we have to make in life, and it is frequently one of the hardest decisions we have to make. One important question that you might ask yourself is: “How do I get a good job?”__71__.
There are people who can answer an insignificant advertisement in the local paper and land the best job in the world; others write to all sorts of places all over the country, and never seem to get a reply at all. Still others believe that the in person, door-to-door approach is by far the best way to get a job; and then there are those who, through no active decision of their own, just seem to be in the right place at the right time. ___72__. He used to spend a lot of his free time down by the sea watching the tall ships, but never thinking that he might one day sail one of them. His father was a farmer, and being a sailor could never be anything for the boy but an idle dream. One day, on his usual wandering, he heard the captain of the ship complaining that he could not sail because one member of his crew was sick. Without stopping to think, the lad(少年) offered to take his place. __73__.
__74__. If the lad had gone home to ponder（考虑）his decision for a week, he may have missed his chance. It is one thing to be offered an opportunity; it is another thing to take it and use it well.
Sometimes we hear stories about people who break all the rules and still seem to land plum jobs（美差）. When you go for a job interview or fill out an application, you are expected to say nice things about the company to which you are applying. __75__. And within a year this person had become general manger of the company.
A．This story also illustrates the importance of seizing an opportunity when it presents itself.
B．People find jobs in an infinite number of ways.
C．it’s almost impossible to find a good job by answering advertisement in newspapers
D．Take for example the young man who wanted to be a sailor.
E．But there was one person who landed an excellent job by telling the interviewer all the
company’s faults.
F．He spent the rest of his life happily sailing the ships he had always loved.
G．It is very important to seize an opportunity when it presents itself.

What do you, the trees，and a bird have in common? __1__ All living things must have water to survive，whether they get it from a water fountain，a rain cloud，or a little bottle attached to the side of a bird cage.
__2__ Water makes up more than half of your body weight and a person can't survive for more than a few days without it. Why? Your body has lots of important jobs and it needs water to do many of them. For instance, your blood, which contains a lot of water, carries oxygen to all the cells of your body. Without oxygen, those tiny cells would die and your body would stop working.
Water is also in lymph, a fluid (流体) that is part of your immune system (免疫系统), which helps you fight off illness. __3__ Water is needed for digestive juices, urine, and poop. And you can bet that water makes up most of sweat.
In addition to being an important part of the fluids in your body, each cell depends on water to function normally.
__4__ Any fluid you drink will contain water, but water and milk are the best choices. Lots of foods contain water, too. __5__ You could probably tell that if you've ever bitten into a peach or pear and felt the juices dripping down your chin ! Vegetables, too, contain a lot of water—think of biting into a fat tomato from the garden.
A. You need water to digest your food and get rid of waste，too.
B. You all need water.
C. Without water，your body would stop working properly.
D. How much is enough?
E. Your body doesn't get water only from drinking water.
F. When you drink is also important.
G. Fruit contains quite a bit of water.