Bài đọc hiểu 12: How Friendships Form: It’s Surprising!

Cấp độ: Intermediate.

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That’s all well and good, but if a potential new friend doesn’t see the same joyous charms in you, it’s (1)_________that anything deep and lasting will come of it. That said, there’s no telling when and where a friendship will develop. Often, they arise from a shared interest or hobby, and people are typically drawn together (2)________ they’re in the same stage of life, like new parents or retirees. People of similar backgrounds and cultures also tend to come together by bonding (3)______ shared lifelong experiences. Although most of these relationships take time to get really deep, occasionally friendship is more like a lightning (4) __________. “Sometimes you can be in a big group of new people and you catch someone’s eye and it’s like ‘boom!’ – instant friendship,” Degges-White says about an experience she’s termed the “clicking phenomenon.” “It’s kind of like that burst of ‘love at first sight,’ but it’s a friendship, not (5)_________ .”

Audio:

500 Bài Luyện Đọc Hiểu – Đọc Điền Tiếng Anh by Trang Anh

NEW VOCABULARY:

potential (adj): có tiềm năng

joyous (adj): tràn đầy hạnh phúc

charms (n): sự thu hút, cuốn hút

arise (v): xảy ra, bắt đầu

retirees (n): (những) người đã nghỉ hưu

occasionally (adv): thỉnh thoảng, không thường xuyên

lightning (n): tia sét, sét

phenomenon (n): hiện tượng

love at first sight (phrase): yêu từ cái nhìn đầu tiên.

QUESTIONS:

Question 1: A. unlikely       B. impossibly     C. improbably    D. potentially

Question 2: A. although     B. as soon as     C. because    D. therefore

Question 3: A. up    B. over     C. in    D. down

Question 4: A. storm     B. thunder     C. sky    D. strike

Question 5: A. romance     B. romantic     C. romantically      D. romanticism