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When it comes to friends, I desire tho who will share my happiness with me.When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend.We were shy and “too rious” about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors.We said little at school, but she would come to my hou and we would sgossip girl第四季it down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say：“Let’s start with a train whistle today.”We would sit qui
etly together and write parate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle.Then we would read them aloud.At the end of that school year, we, too, were changed into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.
When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend.He was in despair (失望) and I was in despair.But our friendship was bad on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not explore this great city becau we had felt bad at the time.We met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things.We walked until our despairs disappeared and then we parted.We__有空gave__London__to__each__other.
For almost four years I have had a remarkable friend.We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest lves.Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the other’s dreams.She and I agree that, at certain times, we em to be parts of the same mind.In my most interesting moments, I often think：“Yes, I ”We have never met.
意见英文It is such comforting companions I wish to keep.One bright hour with their kind is worth m
ore to me than the lifetime rvices of a psychologist (心理学家)，六一手抄报内容who will only fill up the healing (愈合的) silence necessary to tho darkest moments in which I would rather be my own best friend.
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【解题导语】 全文讲述了朋友在成长过程中的重要作用。
1full phone test．In the eighth grade, what the author did before developing proper social behavior was to ________．
A．become rious about her study
B．go to her friend’s hou regularly
C．learn from her classmates at school
D．share poems and stories with her friend
D英语范文 解析：细节理解题。由第一段最后三句可知：作者与她的朋友分享诗歌与故事。
2．In Paragraph 2，“We gave London to each other.”probably means ________．
A．our exploration of London was a memorable gift to both of us
B．we were unwilling to tear ourlves away from London
C．our unpleasant feelings about London disappeared
D．we parted with each other in London
A 解析：句意理解题。由第二段内容可知在我们的沮丧消失后美国之声评委，我们分开了，我们给对方留下了自己开拓的空间。
3．According to Paragraph 3, the author and her friend ________．
A．call each other regularly
B．have similar personalities
C．enjoy writing to each other
D．dream of meeting each other
C 解析：推理判断题。由第三段内容可知作者和朋友写了四年时间的信，由此可以推断她们都喜欢相互写信。
4．kasimirIn the darkest moments, the author would prefer to ________．
A．ask for professional help
B．be left alone
deem什么意思
C．stay with her best friend
D．break the silence
B 解析：细节理解题。由最后一段最后一句可知，作者在最黑暗的时候喜欢一个人待着。
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Ragtime is a fast and complex kind of music that was popular around the beginning of the twentieth century. Scott Joplin is now considered to be the most important American ragtime compor(作曲家) and piano player. During his lifetime, Joplin only enjoyed a brief period of professional success in the early 1900s. However, his work had an important, lasting effect on audiences, as well as other compors.
When ragtime first appeared in the late nineteenth century, it was considered a low form of cheap entertainment, not a rious musical movement. Then in 1899, Joplin wrote a ragtime song called Maple Leaf Rag. The song showed Joplin’s creative blend(融合) of AfricanAmerican rhythm and more established EuropeanAmerican musical styles. It was a huge success and helped to make ragtime popular with the general public. Maple Leaf
Rag was the first instrumental composition to ll over one million copies of sheet music. It was also the first music by an African American to find a large audience among European Americans.
Although the general ragtime style already existed before Joplin began composing, his work attracted a lot of attention from other ragtime compors of his time. Songs like Maple Leaf Rag influenced the compors mostly becau they were very popular with the public. And many of them started to add similar fast and complex rhythm to their music. Later, compors came to appreciate the high quality of Joplin’s music, which has continued to capture(引起) the imagination of many compors and musicians up to the prent day. For example, many later jazz musicians were influenced by Joplin’s complex Africanstyle rhythm. Jazz, in turn, went on to influence many more popular music styles. The include the blues, rock and roll, soul, and even hiphop. As a result, many music historians now list Joplin’s work as an early basis of all modern popular music.
