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  3. Making Friends Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take the fact of friendship for granted, we

Making Friends Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take the fact of friendship for granted, we

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问题                         Making Friends
    Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take the fact of friendship for granted, we often don’t clearly understand how we make friends. While we get on well with a number of people, we are usually friends with only a very few—for example, the average among students is about 6 per person.
    Moreover, a great many relationships come under the general term "friendship". In all cases, two people like one another and enjoy being together, but beyond that, the degree of closeness between them and the reasons for their interest in each other vary greatly.
    At the beginning, much depends on how people meet, and on good first impressions. As we get to know people, we consider things like age, race, looks, economic and social status, and intelligence. Although these factors are not of the greatest importance, it is more difficult to have a good relationship with people when there is a big difference in age and background.
    We pay attention to actual behavior, facial expression, and the way a person speaks. Friends will stand closer together and will spend more time looking at each other than ordinary acquaintances. Smiles and soft voices also express friendliness, and it is because they may give the wrong signals that shy people often have difficulty in making friends. A friendly look with the wrong facial expression can turn into an unfriendly stare, and nervousness may be wrongly understood as unfriendliness. People who do not look one in the eye are not trusted when, in fact, they simply do not have confidence.
    Some relationships are a result of argument and discussion, but it is usual for close friends to have the same ideas and beliefs, the same opinions and interests—they often talk about "being on the same wavelength. " The more closely involved people become, the more they depend on one another. People want to do friends favors and hate to Jet them down. Equally, friends have to learn to make allowances for each other, to put up with annoying habits, and to accept differences in opinion. Imagine going on a long trip with someone you occasionally meet for a drink!
    In contrast with marriage, there are no friendship ceremonies to strengthen the relationship between two people. But the mutual support and understanding that results from shared experiences and emotions does seem to create a close and lasting relationship, which can overcome differences in background, and break down barriers of age, class or race.  
When people talk about "being on the same wavelength, " they mean that ______.
选项 A、they watch the same TV programs
B、they are the same in all respects
C、they listen to the same radio programs
D、they understand and agree with each other
答案D
解析 本题考查考生结合上下文理解短语意思的能力。题目是：当人们说“波长一致”时，他们的意思是什么?选择D为正确答案的依据是第五段第一句的：“it is usual for close friends to have the same ideas and beliefs，the same opinions and interests”好朋友常有共同的想法和信仰，共同的观点和兴趣。这部分内容与问题中的“being on the same wavelength”同在一句话中，并用破折号相连，说明二者之间为解释说明关系，利用这一信息，得出选项D他们相互理解并相互认同是正确答案。
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