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Book6 M3 阅读素材 一、翻译下列谚语： Between friends all is common. Old friends and old wine are best. The friendship of a gentleman is insipid as water. A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near. Most mens friendships are too inarticulate. Friendship is like a plant of slow growth. A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. I like a simple friend, who holds my faults like a looking glass before my face. It is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world . It is only the greathearted who can be true friends; the mean and the cowardly can never know what true friendship is. No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. Nothing makes the earth seem to spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. Of our mixed life two quests are given control: food for the body, friendship for the soul. The best that we find in our travel is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many. The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a mans success in life. The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them. The smell of coin is often the knell of friendship. The true friendship seeks to give, not take; to help, not to be helped; to minister, not to be ministered unto. To prepare a friend, three things are required: to honor him present, praise him absent, and assist him in his necessities. Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice. My friend is not perfect—nor am I—and so we suit each other admirably. For a congenial friend a thousand toasts are too few; in a disagreeable conversation one word more is too many. 二、美文欣赏： 给文章拟定一个标题: __________________________________ Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel. All claimed that they were the best.