2. The office boy tried to dissipate the smoke by opening a window of the meeting room,
3. The angry man smashed his fists against the desk and demanded immediate service.
READING ONE

Check your comprehension A
1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. F 6. T
Check your comprehension B
1. Friendship comes naturally. Setting a price on it will never win you true friendship.
6. promptly 7. kiss up to 8. stretch 9. halt 10. keep bottled up
Check your vocabulary B
1 The door was locked with a dead bolt. He had to ram it with a sledgehammer until it broke open.
Reading two
Check your comprehension A 1. F 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. T
Check your vocabulary A
1. knot 2. accommodate 3. slip away 4. be treated like dirt 5. loosen the rein
4. The people who had refused to join the strike were ostracized by their workmates for a long time.
Check your vocabulary
1. Friendship does not rely on judgment. You may feel the goodness in a friend, but the goodness was acknowledged after you had made friends with him.
2. A good wish to make friends may come to our minds easia true friendship takes a long time and efforts, in the same way as a fruit slowly ripens.
2. If you only want those who possess good qualities to be your friends because you have good qualities, you are far from getting true friendship just as you can hardly build up true friendship if you are after friendship out of the motivation of gaining profits.
4. We should remain humble before friendship and love because we are granted this free gift. We should feel ashamed rather than pleased and happy when we are no longer humble because friendship and love are gone.
3. If you want to succeed in gaining the support and loyalty of a man with his dedication to your goal, you have to first prove to him that you are his true friend.
Unit 6 Friendship
Lecture One
Quotations
The explanation of the quotations
1. True friendship is like good health. We
often do not appreciate its existence until we lose it.
2. We should remain humble before friendship and love.
3. The warmth of friendship keeps reminding us that pure love without making any judgments is a richness of our nature.
3. So if one knows what friendship really means, he would never put an end to it only because his friend happens to be lacking respectability in character.
5. Our judgments and penalties have to be part of our life as we pay men and dress them in the court suit and let them be the judges to make judgments on other men.