Life is filled with changes. As we get older we ___1___ realize that those challenges are the very things that ___2___ us and make us who we are. It is the same with the challenges that come with ___3___.

When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two ___4___. We can try to beat it off, or we can decide that the thing ___5___ the challenge isn’t worth the ___6___ and call it quits. Although there are certainly ___7___when calling it quits is the right thing to do, in most ___8___all that is needed is ___9___ and communication.

When we are committed to something, it means that no matter how ____10____ or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to ____11____ it and work it through instead of running away from it. Communication is making a ____12____ for discussion and talking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong. ____13____ you can say to a friend, “I got my feelings hurt,” ____14____ “You hurt my feelings,” you are going to be able to solve the problem much faster.

In dealing with the challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for ____15____ they are: small hurdles you need to jump or ____16____ on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is ____17____ to get over, and hurt only ____18____ to make us stronger. It is all part of growing up, it ____19____ to everyone, and some day you will ____20____ all this and say, “ Hard as it was, it made me who I am today. And that is a good thing.”

1. A. seem to          B. come to             C. hope to             D. try to

2. A. design           B. promote             C. direct              D. shape

3. A. confidence       B. pressure            C. friendship          D. difficulty

4. A. opportunities    B. expectations        C. choices             D. aspects

5. A. demanding        B. deserving           C. predicting          D. presenting

6. A. comment          B. loss                C. trouble             D. expense

7. A. spans            B. times               C. dates               D. ages

8. A. cases            B. fields              C. parts               D. occasions

9. A. assessment       B. commitment          C. encouragement       D. adjustment

10. A. doubtful        B. shameful            C. harmful             D. painful

11. A. keep            B. control             C. face                D. catch

12. A. space           B. plan                C. topic               D. room

13. A. If              B. As                  C. While               D. Unless

14. A. other than      B. rather than         C. or rather           D. or else

15. A. what            B. who                 C. where               D. which

16. A. pass by         B. come across         C. get through         D. run over

17. A. unnecessary     B. necessary           C. impossible          D. possible

18. A. helps           B. means               C. aims                D. attempts

19. A. opens           B. appeals             C. goes                D. happens

20. A. look down on    B. look back on        C. look forward to     D. look up to