完形填空。      Recently, one of my best friends, whom I"ve shared just about everything with since the first day of
kindergarten, spent the week- end with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we"ve both
always    1   the few times a year when we can see each other.
     Over the    2  , we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she
was    3    around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he experimented
with    4   and was into other    5   behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been    6   to her
parents about where she was going and even sneaking out to see this guy because they didn"t want her    7   
him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she    8   better, she didn"t believe me. Her self-respect seemed
to have disappeared.
     I tried to    9   her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting   10 .
I just couldn"t believe that she really thought it was   11  to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her
boyfriend.
     By the time she left, I was really worried about her and   12  by the experience. It had been so frustrating,
I had come   13  to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to
 14   our friendship-but I didn"t. I put the power of   15  to the ultimate test. We"d been friends for far too long.
The chance was that she   16  me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted
to believe that our friendship could   17  anything.
     A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our   18 , and then she told me
that she had   19  with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running
down my face. It was one of the truly   20  moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.

(     )1.A. worried about    (     )2.A. weekend          (     )3.A. working          (     )4.A. books            (     )5.A. self-destructive (     )6.A. explaining       (     )7.A. on               (     )8.A. did              (     )9.A. told             (     )10.A. somewhere       (     )11.A. acceptable      (     )12.A. exhausted       (     )13.A. almost          (     )14.A. stop            (     )15.A. love            (     )16.A. thought         (     )17.A. mean            (     )18.A. friendship      (     )19.A. broke away      (     )20.A. demanding

B. looked forward to B. months            B. falling in love   B. girls             B. self-respecting   B. reasoning         B. beside            B. deserved          B. convince          B. everywhere        B. believable        B. surprised         B. nearly            B. continue          B. friendship        B. remembered        B. conquer           B. relationship      B. broke down        B. challenging

C. paid attention to C. years            C. hanging          C. friends          C. self-confident   C. declaring        C. around           C. had              C. force            C. nowhere          C. reliable         C. satisfied        C. close            C. start            C. truth            C. valued           C. tell             C. quarrel          C. broke up         C. frustrating

D. think of          D. days              D. keeping in touch  D. drugs             D. self-defensive    D. lying             D. to                D. got               D. warn              D. anywhere          D. admirable         D. terrified         D. over              D. make              D. justice           D. hated             D. prove             D. conversation                 D. broke out         D. rewarding