历届高考完形填空语篇荟萃(23)

（单词翻译:单击）

(二十三)

What an exciting day it was for Jennifer and Valerie! They had been friends since Grade Three and had shared many of their high school experience. Now they were driving together to their final high school event. Today was graduation day at Lamar High school .Although they were close friends, they were different in many ways. Jennifer was a fairly¹ diligent² student while Valerie did just enough to get by and was mainly interested in a good social life.
"Isn't it great that we've all finished? "said Valerie." I'm really looking forward to having a good time this summer."
"Must be nice. "Jennifer replied," I'm afraid I'm going to have to work most of the summer to help pay for my college expenses."
Junnifer's parents had only a small income and she had made up her mind to have an occupation³ in which she could afford all the things her parents could not.
Valerie, on the other hand ,came from a fairly well－to－do family. She had little desire to work hard for what she had always taken for granted⁴.
"I really don't want to go to college for a while," she admitted.
"My uncle runs a restaurant in the Bahamas and he has proposed⁵ me to spend a year there as a waitress. That should give me plenty of time for the beach."
"It seems we'll really be going different ways now," thought Jennifer.
简析：记叙文文体，叙述Jennifer和Valerie虽是朋友，但中学毕业后两人将各奔前程。