Friends play an important role in our lives, and although we may take 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. 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 their shared interest vary enormously. As we get to know people we take into account things like age, race, economic conditions, social position and intelligence. These factors are of prime importance, as it is often more difficult to get on with people when there is a clear difference in means, background, maturity, and/or capabilities.
Some friendly relationships can be kept on despite argument or heated discussion, but it is usual for close friends to have similar ideas, beliefs, att
A. using the same frequency while talking
B. keeping the same friendly relationship as other people do
C. having similar ideas, belief, attitudes and interest
D. having the same background
This is true of the (61) of mankind. It is also true of mankind’s spiritual resources. Most of these resources, both technical and spiritual, are (62) in books. When you have read a book, you have (63) to your human experience. Read Homer and your mind (64) a piece of Homer’s mind. Through books you can acquire at least fragments of the mind and experience of Virgil, Dante, Shake—speare—the list is endless. For a great book is necessarily a gift; it (65) you a life you have not time to live yourself, and it takes you into a world you have not the time to travel in literal time. A (66) mind is one that (67) many such lives and many such worlds. If you are too much in a (68) , or too proud of your own limitations, to accept as a gift to your humanity some (69) of the minds of Aristotle or Einstein, then you are neither a developed human nor a useful (70) of a civilizati
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