Friendship is indispensable to people's life.

A man without
friends is an angel without wings, whose life will suffer in the long tolerance of
loneliness and depression. Friendship is the mother of our psyche, who'll
warm her kid when hurt occurs. We have much to share with our friends in
life, perplexity, excitement, bitterness etc. Alas, it's magnificent to maintain a
genuine friendship.

It takes many special qualities to make a friend. Understanding should

come first. Only when we get a better understanding of each other can we
gain an authentic and meaningful friendship. We may find our hobbies of
common interests. This feeling of affinity gets us closer and closer.

It also takes a special kind of love that seems to know no end. Never
hesitate to show your heartfelt care and kindness to your friend when he/she
is in trouble. Love is not selfish. Love is endowed by God that we should
treasure all our life.

Tolerance is the third essential part in friendship. We are absolutely

different persons. This individual distinction may cause conflict between us in
every aspect of our life. Don't immerse ourself in this infliction too long. Try to
tolerant his/her in an introspective mood. Saints are not perfect, let alone
those ordinary people like us. Afterwards, we should get a good
communication. Never shy to confess.

Understanding, love and tolerance are the first three essences

that comes to an authentic friendship. Other qualities are also
concerned such as thoughtfulness, trust and patience. Remember,
friendship is your psyche's guard, treasure it

Friendship is a kind of human relations. It is a human

instinct to make friends.When in trouble, we

　　need friends to offer us help, support and encouragement. With success

achieved, we also need friends to share our joys.

　　     Friendship is also one of the greatest pleasures that we can

enjoy. It implies loyalty, cordiality, sympathy, affection,and readiness to
help. No man can make the most of his life without carefully and
conscientiously striving to win the right kind of friends as he goes along.

　　     Knowing how valuable friendship is, we should be very careful in

making friends. Real friends are those who have good character, superior
ability and kindness of heart. Real friends can share all our sorrows and
double all our joys.While making friends, we should take care to select those
who have such fine qualities. Then we should treat our friends with courtesy,
be careful not to interfere unreasonably with them,and not to ridicule their
proceedings. We should forgive their failures and do our best to help them. In
short, when we have established friendship, we ought to cherish and treasure it
by means of words and deeds. Only thus, can we develop real friendship and keep
the sacred lamp of friendship burning all our life.

　Friendship Friends play an important part in our lives,and although we may take friendship for

granted,we often dont 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.In all the cases of friendly relationships,two people like one another

and enjoy being together.but beyond that,the degree of intimacy between them and the reasons for

the shared interests vary enormously.As we get to know people we take into account things like

age,race ,economic conditions,social position,and intelligence.Although these factors are not of

prime importance,it is more difficult to get on with people when there is a marked difference in

age and background.

   Some friendly relationships can be kept on argument and discussion,but it is usual for close

friends to have similar ideas and beliefs,to have attitudes and interests in commen ---they often

talk about being on the same wavelength .it generally takes time to reach this point.And the more

intimately involved people become,the more they rely on one another .people want to do friends

favours and hate to break a promise.Equally,friends have to learn to put up with annoying habits

and try to tolerate differencesof opinion.wWw.xiNgkoo.coMIn contrast with marriage ,there are

no friendship ceremonies to strengthen the association between two persons.But the supporting

and understanding of each other that results from shared experiences and emotions does seem to  a

powerful bond ,which can overcome differences in background ,and break down barriers of age,

class or race.
 Friendship is a kind of relationship that many accompany you all your life. The relationship
with your wife or husband occurs only after you are married and runs the risks of being cut down
by divorce. The relationship with your parents will be put to an end with their passing away. The
relationship with your children begins late in the middle of your life. You have an association with
your colleagues, but it is always changing, because one day, one or another colleague may
disappear suddenly out of your routine by changing jobs and you may similarly jump out of your
colleagues' lives. You have connection with your neighbors only for the sake of living in the same
neighborhood and it will break down when you or one of your neighbors moves. Only friendship
can be everlasting an steady. You may have friends as early as infancy. No matter whether you are
married or not, no matter where you live and work, your friends are your friends. It is not based on
bloodline. It is not absolutely an objective social relationship which befalls you. It is rooted in the
desires and feelings derived from social experiences. It relies on your intention. In my opinion,
that is the social nature of friendship. Making friends is to meet people's varying needs. People
have all kinds of desires. To achieve progress, you make friends with those who surpass you. To
enjoy freedom, equality an mutual respectyou make friends with those who are of equal stature
with you. On behalf of your vanity and relaxation you make friends with the inferior. To you,
some friends are fun-loving, some give encouragement, some offer knowledge, and others help
you to find your own identity. You expose your worries and weakness to some friends, while you
show only your merits, your bright side, in the face of other friends. Before your friends, you may
act as a supervisor, a learned brother, a lovely child, a gentleman or a playmate. In a word,
friendship helps you to be a full person. So friendship can benefit every individual and thus
complete society which is composed of numerous individuals. That is the very social function of
friendship. I hold the point of view that friendship also has its historic nature and functions.
Friendship is created since it is needed and lasts until it fulfills its tasks. If you are obsessed by a
problem, a certain friend may come into your help until the problem is solved and then will be
somewhat estranged from you. Friendship is produced because you want a helper and he is willing
to be a helper. Friendship is estranged because it has served both of your purposes. The fact that a
friend can become an enemy is demonstrated by the historic nature of friendship. So when a friend
drifts apart from you, don't be sad. What you should do is to cherish the friendship that once
existed between you and your friend, and be grateful to him. Life is a bouquet, friendship is
flower.
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: What
does friendship mean? You should write at least 120 words and you shouldbase your composition
on the outline (given in Chinese) below

  Friendship is a kind of relationship that many accompany you all your life. The relationship with
your wife or husband occurs only after you are married and runs the risks of being cut down by
divorce. The relationship with your parents will be put to an end with their passing away. The
relationship with your children begins late in the middle of your life. You have an association with
your colleagues, but it is always changing, because one day, one or another colleague may
disappear suddenly out of your routine by changing jobs and you may similarly jump out of your
colleagues' lives. You have connection with your neighbors only for the sake of living in the same
neighborhood and it will break down when you or one of your neighbors moves. Only friendship
can be everlasting an steady. You may have friends as early as infancy. No matter whether you are
married or not, no matter where you live and work, your friends are your friends. It is not based on
bloodline. It is not absolutely an objective social relationship which befalls you. It is rooted in the
desires and feelings derived from social experiences. It relies on your intention. In my opinion,
that is the social nature of friendship. Making friends is to meet people's varying needs. People
have all kinds of desires. To achieve proGREss, you make friends with those who surpass you. To
enjoy freedom, equality an mutual respect, you make friends with those who are of equal stature
with you. On behalf of your vanity and relaxation you make friends with the inferior. To you,
some friends are fun-loving, some give encouragement, some offer knowledge, and others help
you to find your own identity. You expose your worries and weakness to some friends, while you
show only your merits, your bright side, in the face of other friends. Before your friends, you may
act as a supervisor, a learned brother, a lovely child, a gentleman or a playmate. In a word,
friendship helps you to be a full person. So friendship can benefit every individual and thus
complete society which is composed of numerous individuals. That is the very social function of
friendship.

I hold the point of view that friendship also has its historic nature and functions. Friendship is
created since it is needed and lasts until it fulfills its tasks. If you are obsessed by a problem, a
certain friend may come into your help until the problem is solved and then will be somewhat
estranged from you. Friendship is produced because you want a helper and he is willing to be a
helper. Friendship is estranged because it has served both of your purposes. The fact that a friend
can become an enemy is demonstrated by the historic nature of friendship. So when a friend drifts
apart from you, don't be sad. What you should do is to cherish the friendship that once existed
between you and your friend, and be grateful to him.

Life is a bouquet, friendship is flower.