When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who has wings of their own and who will fly with me.
When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and “too serious” about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say, “Let’s start with a train whistle（鳴笛）today.” We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changing into social persons and the stories and poems stopped.
When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend. He was in despair（失望）and I was in despair, too. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not travel over this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other.
For almost four years I have had a great friend whose imagination brightens mine. We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves. Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the other’s dreams. She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of the same mind.
It is such comforting companions（陪伴）I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist, who will only fill up the healing silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would rather be with my own best friend.
【小題1】We can infer from Paragraph 2 that the writer ______ finally.

A．wasn’t serious about her studies
B．didn’t like writing poems or stories
C．became popular with her classmates
D．developed her proper social behaviors
【小題2】The underlined sentence “We gave London to each other” probably means ______.
A．our tour in London was a memorable gift to both of us
B．our unpleasant feeling about London disappeared
C．we were unwilling to stay away from London
D．we waved goodbye to each other in London
【小題3】What is the best title for the passage?
A．Unforgettable Experiences.
B．Unbelievable Imagination.
C．Touching Companions.
D．Lifelong Friendship.


【小題1】D
【小題2】A
【小題3】D

解析試題分析：短文大意：這篇短文中作者主要講述了自己在人生的幾個不同階段所遇到的幾個好朋友，從而告訴我們朋友對于我們?nèi)松闹匾饬x。
【小題1】段落大意題。根據(jù)第二段描述可知作者最終形成了自己正常的社會行為習(xí)慣。故選D。
【小題2】句意猜測題。結(jié)合第三段描述，可知通過我們在倫敦的旅行，讓我們發(fā)現(xiàn)了許多的好東西，原先的絕望心情消失不見了。故選A，我們在倫敦的旅行對于我們兩個人來說都是值得記憶的東西。
【小題3】標(biāo)題歸納題。閱讀短文可知作者主要在本文中介紹了自己幾個不同人生階段中遇到的好朋友。故選D，一生   
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