Passage 13
学霸导读 朋友在我们的生活中扮演着重要的角色，但友谊也并不是千篇一律的，可以分为不同的类别，丰富生活的方方面面。
I once believed that a friend is a friend all the way. Now I have changed my ideas about friendships.
Friends of convenience They can be the people who live next door or the mothers of our children’s closest friends. Friends of convenience are convenient i 1 . They’ll help us when we need them. They’ll look after our cats when we go on holidays. But we don’t ever get too close or talk too much. We keep our public face and emotional distance. That m 2 we’ll talk about being overweight but not about being sad or disappointed. However, people still feel these friendships valuable to them.
Special-interest friends These friendships aren’t deeply personal or emotional. Their value is that they can s 3 interests, so we may have an off ice friend, a tennis friend, or even a shopping friend.
Historical friends We all have a friend who knew us when... maybe we were back in the second grade of primary school, or when our family lived in that two-room f lat downtown. He or she was the f irst, the only friend we told our s 4 to.
The years have gone by, and we have gone different ways. We have l 5 in common now, but we’re still a personal part of each other’s past. We know how we looked before our teeth were straightened, and our getting together reminds us of an earlier part of ourselves, which is important and n 6 lost.
Cross-generational friends These are friendships that form across generations. I have a p 7 friend in my own life, a woman of 65, who is wise, listens well, and represents not only an ideal mother to me but also the person I’d like to be when I grow up.
Best friends, I believe, totally trust, support and love each other.
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高频词汇
convenience /kən'viːniəns/ n. 方便，便利
valuable /'væljuəbl/ adj. 宝贵的，贵重的
in common 共同的，共有的
generation /ˌdʒenə'reɪʃn/ n. 一代人；一代，一辈
represent /ˌreprɪ'zent/ v. 代表