Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Phoebe. That’s
36 the similarities
ended.
I was tall and she was small. I was one of the oldest in the class while she was the youngest. I was
37 and shy. She wasn’t. I couldn’t
38 her, considering her my enemy. But she wanted to be friends.
One day, she invited me over and I said yes — I was too
39 to say no. Actually no one has invited me over to play before. But this girl, who wore the latest fashion, wanted to see me.
She lived on the fourth floor in a two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister. When we got to the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies（芭比娃娃）- which was my next
40 . I would have thought she’d outgrown them. I had never played with them. But we sat on the floor of a walk-in cupboard laughing as we made up crazy stories about the Barbies. That’s
41 we found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older. We both had wild
42 .
We had a great day that afternoon. Our jaws ached from
43 so much. She showed me her outfits, which had mostly come from a designer clothing store down the block. The woman who owned it used her
44 a model sometimes for her newspaper ads and gave her clothes in exchange.Phoebe had the whole neighborhood
45 . The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines, the movie theater gave her free passes and the pizza place let her have free slices. Soon I was included in her magic world. We slept over at each other's houses and spent every free moment together. My dark hair grew out and I learned to love being
46 .
Phoebe, my first real friend since childhood, helped me get through the through teenage years and taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends: your “worst enemy” can
47 to be your best friend.
| 小题2: | | A．beautiful | B．awkward | C．brave | D．clever |
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| 小题3: | | A．like | B．hate | C．stand | D．help |
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| 小题4: | | A．shocked | B．worried | C．shamed | D．happy |
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| 小题5: | | A．surprise | B．puzzle | C．issue | D．question |
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| 小题7: | | A．profile | B．imagination | C．image | D．thinking |
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| 小题8: | | A．crying | B．shouting | C．smiling | D．doing |
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| 小题10: | | A．confused | B．charmed | C．addicted | D．annoyed |
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| 小题11: | | A．short | B．high | C．funny | D．tall |
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| 小题12: | | A．turn out | B．look out | C．watch out | D．work out |
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