高考英语一轮巩固达标练题unit1friendship含解析.pdfVIP

小学 +初中 +高中 Unit 1 Friendship 李仕才 *** 阅读理解 One cold day last November, my wife and I came home from work to a sick young daughter and we decided to stay at homefor the night. Problem was, we had two tickets to see Miranda July, the performance artist, being interviewed at the Herbst Theatre. Wedecided to sell them online for ＄50. One hour before the event, a guy named Peter called me and said he wanted to buy the tickets. Since the time was limited, I told Peter to pay me the next day. Peter seemed touched and we said a fond goodbye. However, a month later, Peter still didn ’t pay me back. A few more weeks passed. Another month. There ’d been one e -mail promising to mail the check, then silence. Maybe he was having a hard time, I thought. But truth was, Peter seemed to be having a pretty normal time. According to the pictures and messages on his Facebook, he had been playing golf, dancing happily with his friends, and traveling on a boat. But he just refused to answer mycalls, or reply to my e-mails or messages. So I tried reaching him with my wife ’s phone one night. And he didn ’t pick up when I called,but texted right back, playfully wondering who might be calling him. “You should go to his office, ”my wife said, “He would have to give you the money if all his coworkers w ere watching. ” But I didn ’t want to becomea debt collector. Myefforts to reach Peter over these months had been light and I wanted to keep it that way. My initial exchange with Peter had been just two regular people agreeing to handle things humanly. There was a rare niceness in that, and I still wanted to keep that balloon in the a