单选题 Friend is better than fortune. Friend is worse than poison in some (56) . The above two statements are opposite and seem to be (57) but they can be explained (58) : The latter (59) all evil friends who (60) us astray; the former (61) all good friends who drive us towards good.
My (62) friend is of course a good friend (63) goodness is shown (64) . He has no bad (65) , as smoking and drinking. He lives frugally. He studies diligently. (66) waste his golden time. (67) he (68) his parents and loves his brothers; at school he respects his teachers and (69) his schoolmates. He treats those truly who are (70) him. He never speaks of others' evils (71) boasts of his own merits. (72) ., he has all the good characters better than (73) . I can follow him as a model. By his precepts I am (74) the danger of doing a wrong action. By his help I (75) all difficulties.
Indeed, if I have such a person as my friend, I shall never feel difficult and I shall never know the existence of the word "failure./

单选题 A. conditions B. cases C. times D. occasions
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】case情况，状况；condition环境；time时候；occasion时机。
单选题 A. unreasonable B. unspeakable C. unthinkable D. unseasonable
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】unreasonable不合理的；unspeakable无法形容的；unthinkable无法想象的；unseasonable不合时宜的。
单选题 A. in follow B. in following C. as follows D. as following
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】as follows是惯用法，意思是“如下”。
单选题 A. complies B. implies C. complied with D. complied to
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】implies意为“暗示，含有……的意思”，而complies是“应允，答应，遵照”的意思。
单选题 A. tempt B. lead C. push D. force
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】lead sb．astray把人引入歧途，固定用法。A、C、D三项不接astray。
单选题 A. relates B. refers C. refers to D. directs to
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】refer to意为“指的是”，refer在这里是不及物动词，后面加to。directto指挥，指导。
单选题 A. fine B. perfect C. ideal D. new
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】ideal理想的。
单选题 A. one's B. who's C. whose D. his
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】whose这里是定语从句的连接词。
单选题 A. down B. up C. below D. under
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】below副词，“在下面”，在接下来的句子中，作者便一一介绍这些优点。
单选题 A. likeness B. likes C. likelihood D. liking
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】liking动名词，意为“嗜好”，另外这里liking还要和下面的两个动名词相呼应。
单选题 A. so as to not B. in order to not C. so as not to D. in order that
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】so as not to是so as to…“以便……”的否定式，意为“以便不……”。因为后面跟的不是完整的句子，所以不能用in order that。
单选题 A. In the home B. At the home C. In home D. At home
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】athome在家。
单选题 A. admires B. is interested in C. is fond of D. honors
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】honor作及物动词时意为“尊敬，尊重”。admire崇拜；be interested in对某事感兴趣；be fond of喜欢。
单选题 A. sympathizes with B. sympathizes about
C. sympathizes to D. sympathizes on
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】sympathizes with(sb．)对某人表示同情。
单选题 A. real to B. true with C. true to D. true on
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】are true to him对他真诚。
单选题 A. not B. nor C. or D. but
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】因前面有never，故选nor。它和连词neither...nor意思相同。
单选题 A. Least of all B. In all C. In words D. In a word
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】In aword总而言之。
单选题 A. mine B. our C. my D. ours
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】mine=my good characters。
单选题 A. award of B. awaring C. aware of D. aware with
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】be aware of意识到；award奖励。
单选题 A. pardon from B. am free from C. excuse from D. am derived from
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】be free from意思是“无……的，不受……影响的”。excuse sb．from使某人免于，be derived from起源于。