新综合教程 第二册 教学课件 熊选琴 刘重霄Unit 5 2 U5.pptVIP

Unit 5 Text A: Women’s Friends Women are friends, I once would have said, when they totally love and support and trust each other and bare to each other the secrets of their soul. When they run, no questions asked to help each other and tell truths to each other, when truths must be told. In other words, I once would have said, that a friend is a friend all the way. But now, I believe thats a narrow point of view. From the friendships I have and the friendships I see, friendships are conducted at many levels of intensity. Friendships can serve many different functions, meet different needs, and range from the soul sisters to the casual playmates. Consider these varieties of friendship: Some friends are convenience friends, such as a next-door neighbor, the mother of one of our childrens closest friends. Convenience friends are convenient indeed. Theyll drive our kids to soccer when were sick; theyll even take our cats when we go on vacation, just as we will do the same for them. Some people share special interests. They are special-interest friends. These friendships arent intimate, and they needn’t involve kids, or silverware, or cats. Their value lies in some interest jointly shared. Special-interest friends may be an office friend, or a yoga friend, or a tennis friend or, perhaps, a shopping friend. There are friends who bring us back to our history. I tend to call them historical friends. We all have a friend who knew us when our family lived in that three-room flat in Brooklyn; when our dad was out of work for seven months; when our brother Allie got in that fight where they had to call the police; when the day after we secretly got engaged against our parents wishes. She was the first and the only friend we told. Another type of friend can be called crossroads friends. Like historical friends, our crossroads friends are important for what was— for the friendship we shared at a crucial time in our past life. A time, perhaps, when w