READING - UNIT 1 - CLASS 11

READING REVISION

Multiple choices
Everyone has a number of (1) _________; but no one has (2) ________ friends. For true friendship is not common; and there are many people who seem to be (3) _________ of it. For a friendship to be close and lasting, both the friends must have some very special qualities.
The first quality is (4) _________. A person who is (5) _________ only with his own interests and feelings cannot be a true friend. Friendship is a two-sided affair; it lives by (6) __________ and no friendship can last long which is all give on one side and all take on the other.
(7) ___________ is another important condition of friendship. Some people do not seem to be constant. They take up an (8) _________ with enthusiasm, but they are soon tired of it, and feel the attraction of some new object. Such (9) __________ and uncertain people are incapable of a lifelong friendship.
Loyalty is the third quality. Two friends must be loyal (10) __________ each other, and they must know each other so well that there can be no (11) _________ between them. We do not think much of people who readily believe (12) __________ and gossip about their friends. Those who are easily influenced by rumours can never make good friends.
Trust is perhaps the fourth quality. There must be (13) __________ trust between friends, so that each can feel safe when telling the other his or her secrets. There are people who cannot (14) _________ a secret, either their own or of others. Such people will never keep a friend long.
Lastly, there must be a perfect sympathy (15) __________ friends- sympathy with each other’s aims, like, joys, sorrows, pursuits and pleasures. Where such mutual sympathy does not exist, friendship is impossible.
A. friends B. relatives C. acquaintances D. people
A. a few B. more C. little D. many
A. incapable B. capable C. possible D. impossible
A. selfishness B. selfishless C. unselfishness D. unselfishless
A. interesting B. interested C. concerning D. concerned
A. give-and-take B. taking-and-giving C takes-and-gives D. given-and-taken
A. constance B. constancy C. constancity D. constant
A. interest B. interests C. interesting D. interested
A. change B. changing C. changeably D. changeable
A. from B. to C. for D. with
A. suspicion B. suspicions C. suspicious D. suspicouss
A. rumourous B. rumours C. talk D. in
A. mutual B. mutually C. mutualing D. mutualed
A. keep B. give C. take D. make
A. among B. between C. with D. about
Answer these questions below.
Is the friendship close and lasting if the mutual sympathy doesn’t exist?
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How many qualities are there in the reading above? What are they?
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Do we need loyalty to our friends? Why or why not?
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What is friendship and how does it exist?
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Why don’t we like some people who are disloyal to the others?
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True or False (T/F)
For a true friendship, two friends do not need loyalty to each other.
According to the reading, there are four important qualities to have a good friendship.
Some changeable and uncertain people cannot keep a lifelong friendship.
In our society, we always have many close friends and the true friendship is so popular.
Friendship exists by give-and-take that we give some things to the others and get some things from the others.
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