《山西省太原双语中学2015届高考英语专题精选阅读理解强化训练集23》.docVIP

山西省太原双语中学2015届高考英语专题精选阅读理解强化训练集（二十三） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。 A Women are friends, I once would have said, when they totally love and support and trust each other, and tell each other the secrets of their souls, and run no questions asked to help each other, and tell unpleasant truths to each other (no, you cant wear that dress unless you lose ten pounds first) when unpleasant truths must be told. A woman friend is a friend all the way, I once would have said, but now I believe that’s a narrow point of view. For the friendships I have and the friendships I see are conducted at many levels of closeness, serve many different functions, meet different needs and range from the soul sisters to the most casual playmates. Consider these varieties of friendship: Convenience friends They’ll lend us their cups for a party. They’ll drive our kids to school when we’re sick…As we will do for them. But we don’t, with convenience friends, ever come too close or tell too much; we maintain our public face and emotional distance. Special-interest friends These friendships aren’t close, and they needn’t involve kids or cups. Their value lies in some interest commonly shared. And so we may have an office friend or a yoga friend or a tennis friend. “I’d say that what we’re doing is doing together, not being together.” Historical friends We all have a friend who knew us when maybe way back in Miss Meltzer’s second grade, when our family lived in that three-room flat .The years have gone by and we’ve gone separate ways and we’ve little in common now, but we’re still a close part of each other’s past. Crossroads friends Crossroads friends form powerful links, links strong enough to last with just communication of a once-a-year letter at Christmas. And out of respect for those crossroads years, for those dreams and dreams we once shared, we will always be friends. Cross-generational friends The friendship exists across generations in what one woman calls her daughter–mo