It’s a Friday night. Your girl friends are out at a bar and your boyfriend is playing soccer with his mates. Two text messages later, you’re eating pizza and watching action movies with three guy friends. Perfect.
“Guy friends” have the potential to enrich your life in ways that female friends and boyfriends just can’t. For starters, they provide an insider’s perspective on how men think, feel and behave. When dealing with male relatives, coworkers and even boyfriends, another man’s point of view can be incredibly useful. Three hours spent analyzing a situation in a café with your girlfriends can’t compete with a quick chat to a guy friend.
Many women find that time spent with male friends can be a liberating and somewhat refreshing break from spending time with the girls. Without the judgmental gaze of other females, there is less pressure to dress up and compete for attention.
Traditionally, girl-guy friendships are seen as hard to maintain. Most relationships between males and females that we come across in our day-to-day lives, whether in movies or books, are romantic by nature. These cultural images make girl-guy friendships seem impossible.
Yet in reality, as gender roles loosen and equality becomes a norm in the workplace, it has become much more common for platonic friendships to blossom.
“The belief that men and women can’t be friends comes from another era in which women were at home and men were in the workplace, and the only way they could get together was for romance,” explains psychologist Linda Sapadin to Psychology Today magazine. “Now they work together and share sports interests and socialize together.”
“My boyfriend has met all of my guy friends so he’s quite accepting of me hanging out with them,” says Nellie. “Because we’ve been dating so long, there’s a level of trust where he knows I will make the right decision when choosing who to be friends with.
“He understands that the kind of time that I spend differs between guys and girls. When I’m out with the girls, we’re gossiping or talking about clothes but when I’m spending time with the guys, it’s different. I think their carefree and ‘whatever goes’ attitude can sometimes be exactly what I need.”
小題1:  What is the best title of the passage?
A．Platonic friendship can be fun and liberating.
B．Platonic friendship can take the place of boy-or-girl friendship.
C．Man friendship is far more exciting than woman friendship.
D．Both man friendship and woman friendship are necessary forgirls.
小題2:  In writer’s opinion, girl-guy friendships_________
A．a(chǎn)re hard to maintain in modern society.
B．a(chǎn)re impossible for most boys and girls.
C．a(chǎn)re quite reasonable and thought highly of by most people.
D．a(chǎn)re quite interesting and accepted by more and more and moregirls.
小題3: Why did people think men and women can’t be friends in the past?
A．Becausemen were at home and women were in the workplace.
B．Becauseboth men and women are too shy to make friends.
C．Because they were hard to keep in touch and only bymarrying cantheystay in touch with each other.
D．Becausewomen were at home and men were in the workplace, and the only way they could get together was for friendship.
小題4:  According to what Nellie said, _______
A．Her boyfriend enjoys she and her guy friend stay together.
B．When I’m out with the boys, we’re not gossiping or talking about clothes.
C．Sometimes whatmy guy friends giveisjustwhatI need.
D．My boyfriend trusts me so heaccepts my decision.

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:C
小題4:C

試題分析：本文主要講述了在現(xiàn)代生活里，男性和女性也會有很多的友誼的存在，這和以前有很大的差別，文章中分析了具體的原因。
小題1:A 主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章2,3段第一句Many women find that time spent with male friends can be a liberating and somewhat refreshing break from spending time with the girls.和“Guy friends” have the potential to enrich your life in ways that female friends and boyfriends just can’t.可知這樣的友誼會很有趣，故A正確。
小題2:D 推理題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第三段“The belief that men and women can’t be friends comes from another era in which women were at home and men were in the workplace說明男性和女性之間的友誼在現(xiàn)在是廣泛存在，也已經(jīng)被人們所接受。故D正確。
小題3:C 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第四段Traditionally, girl-guy friendships are seen as hard to maintain. Most relationships between males and females that we come across in our day-to-day lives, whether in movies or books, are romantic by nature. These cultural images make girl-guy friendships seem impossible.說明以前主要是因為男性和女性很難保持長時間的聯(lián)系，除非是婚宴。而現(xiàn)在的情況不一樣了。故C正確。
小題4:C 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章最后2行I’m spending time with the guys, it’s different. I think their carefree and ‘whatever goes’ attitude can sometimes be exactly what I need.”說明男性朋友給她很多的幫助，正是她所需要的東西。故C正確。
點評：本文主要講述了在現(xiàn)代生活里，男性和女性也會有很多的友誼的存在，這和以前有很大的差別，文章中分析了具體的原因。本文主旨鮮明,很容易在文中找到答案。做題時要注意文章的首段和每一段的首句或尾句，因為它們往往就是文章的主題句。閱讀中要注意要點之間的關(guān)系。然后帶著問題，再讀全文，找出答題所需要的依據(jù)，完成閱讀任務(wù)。
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小題1:Which is another title suitable of the passage?
A．The Patients’ Temperature
B．The Body Temperature Should Always Be the Same
C．The Body Temperature
D．The Temperature and Your Skin
小題2:How does the body keep the same temperature all the time?
A．It is always producing heat from food.
B．It gives off the heat produced in it.
C．It balances the heat it gets and loses.
D．It stops producing heat when necessary.
小題3:When one feels chilly, which of the following will he do?
A．His skin becomes tight in order to keep warm.
B．He does exercises to make his muscle produce more heat.
C．He puts on more clothes to keep heat in.
D．He keeps shivering to produce more heat.
小題4:When in summer, people prefer to_____.
A．workB．playC．do exerciseD．relax and do nothing

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