Life can be a lonely thing without friends. Acquaintances(熟人) are easy to come by but true friends are a whole other story. 【小题1】 Learn these four steps if you'd like to be a true friend that can be relied on.
●Be present for their highs and lows.
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. —Will Smith
It's easy to be there for our friends when they ask us out for fun things. 【小题2】 You might not feel comfortable while spending time with an emotionally weak person on the verge of tears, but true friends are always there when they're needed the most.
●【小题3】
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. —Ernest Hemingway
Give your friend the gift of silence so they can drop their baggage and get on with living.
●Accept them as they are.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

—George Orwell

If you can't accept people as they are, you will never know the feeling of true friendship. 【小题4】
●Forgive the past.
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. —Buddha
【小题5】 If so, you should understand that even the best of us suffer from the occasional slip of the tongue. Holding onto anger over a small mistake will make you look petty(小气的), so let it go.

A．Know when to be silent.

B．Offer your encouragement.

C．Never hesitate to speak your thoughts and feelings.

D．Never attempt to"fix"them, no matter how crazy their action might make you.

E．But are you willing to be there for the hard times that are the opposite of fun?

F．Have you ever shouted at a person when you were feeling stressed and wished you could take it back?

G．The best way to develop meaningful connections with true friends you can trust is to become a true friend yourself.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余项。It is necessary as well as important that teenagers learn how to save money. As is known, the money you save can be for rainy days and be used to pay through your college education. If you think it is a hard task and don’t know how to do it, please do as the following.____【小题1】__My dad always tells me that if one doesn’t respect money, it will never respect you. Hence, it’s important that you keep a record of your daily expenses. Make it a habit to write down all that you have spent. And when you find out the total expense at the end of the month, you’ll realize what you’ve spent more money in doing_【小题2】____.Open a savings accountOpening a savings account is a better way to save money. You can set a goal: say (for example), the money is for a new notebook or for college, and then save, until you have enough money to buy a notebook or until you go to college. ___【小题3】__Don’t carry much cashDo you have the habit of not leaving a store without buying anything? The only way to stop that is carrying less money with you. Go to the store with the minimum amount of money, which will not even help you buy a drink. ___【小题4】__.Save the changeSave the change that you get back. If you have gone to a shop to buy something and get back some change, then do not spend them  【小题5】__And you’ll be surprised at the huge amount of money after days.Follow these tips above, and thus you can save a lot of money. And surely, they’ll help you be more responsible in your life.

A．Next month, you will automatically try and save more in that part. B．Instead, you can save them in your piggy bank. C．By that time, you’ll realize the importance of saving money. D．Nowadays in the developed and developing countries, people are all working for the sake of earning money. E．Keep a record of your daily expenses F．After a few days, you’ll get rid of this habit. G．Saving money builds your financial power and personal freedom.

 

   El Nifio, a Spanish term for “the Christ child”, was named by South American fisherman who noticed that the global weather pattern, which happens every two to seven years, reduced the amount of fishes caught around Christmas. El Nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in the western Pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken, or sometimes the other way round.
The weather effects both good and bad, are felt in many places. Rich countries gain more from powerful Nifio, on balance, than they lose. A study found that a strong Nifio in 1997 helped American’s economy grow by 15 billion, partly because of better agricultural harvest, farmers in the Midwest gained from extra rain. The total rise in agricultural in rich countries in growth than the fall in poor ones.
But in Indonesia extremely dry forests are in flames. A multi-year drought (干旱）in south-east Brazil is becoming worse. Though heavy rains brought about by El Nino may relieve the drought in California, they are likely to cause surface flooding and other disasters.
The most recent powerful Nino, in 1997-98, killed around 21,000 people and caused damage worth $36 billion around the globe. But such Ninos come with months of warning, and so much is known about how they happen that governments can prepare. According to the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards. This is despite evidence that a dollar spent on risk-reduction saves at least two on reconstruction.
Simple improvements to infrastructure (基础设施）can reduce the spread of disease. Better sewers (下水道）make it less likely that heavy rain is followed by an outbreak of the disease of bad stomach. Stronger bridges mean villages are less likely to be left without food and medicine after floods. According to a paper in 2011 by Mr Hsiang and co-authors, civil conflict is related to El Nino’s harmful effects—and the poorer the country, the stronger the link. Though the relationship may not be causal, helping divided communities to prepare for disasters would at least reduce the risk that those disasters are followed by killing and wounding people. Since the poorest are least likely to make up for their losses from disasters linked to El Nino, reducing their losses needs to be the priority.
【小题1】What can we learn about El Nino in Paragraph 1?

A．It is named after a South American fisherman.

B．It takes place almost every year all over the world.

C．It forces fishermen to stop catching fish around Christmas.

D．It sees the changes of water flow direction in the ocean.

【小题2】What may El Ninos bring about to the countries affected?

A．Agricultural harvests in rich countries fall.

B．Droughts become more harmful than floods.

C．Rich countries’ gains are greater than their losses.

D．Poor countries suffer less from droughts economically.

【小题3】The data provided by ODI in Paragraph 4 suggest that_________.

A．more investment should go to risk reduction

B．governments of poor countries need more aid

C．victims of El Nino deserve more compensation

D．recovery and reconstruction should come first

【小题4】What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A．To introduce El Nino and its origin.

B．To explain the consequences of El Nino.

C．To show ways of fighting against El Nino.

D．To urge people to prepare for El Nino.