As much as we like to think otherwise, most of us initially judge others on some pretty superficial things: appearance, for example, or qualifications. Or else we might judge people on the type of people they hang out with, thinking that they're probably similar to their friends and acquaintances. People usually make friends with people of similar interests or personalities.
Or do they? A man may be known by the company he keeps. But if you take a closer look, is that man really as similar to his friends as he seems at first glance? Well, I've been constantly surprised. I remember this guy who used to spend his whole life in the library, with his fellowbookworms, poring over books, polishing their spectacles and wearing the cardigans their mothers knitted for them. Everyone just wrote him off as a nerd, but getting to know him later, I realized everyone had him down completely wrong. He turned out to be a seriously cool hip-hop DJ star.
I also remember living in a dorm at my high school in Pennsylvania. My roommate, Elena, and I got on very well. I loved her drawings, her writing, her sense of humor. She was artistic and thoughtful. She was also a Goth. Quite a lot of her friends were Goths too, with their black-rimmed eyes, piercings and their different shades of black. The rest of the school quickly lumped Elena with all the usual Goth stereotypes.
Then one day, Elena bumped intoMr. Jock. Mr. Jock was one of the best-looking, most popular seniors at our school. He always hung out with the other jocks and he was always followed around by a bevy of pretty, love-starved girls who lived on and fought over the occasional glances from their Adonis. Elena and I, we didn't like jocks, and to us Mr. Jock was the worst of the arrogant, dim-wittedbunch.
Q1 Kana got along with Elena well because:
A1) Elena was a Goth who hated art and literature
A2) Elena was artistic and thoughtful, with a good sense of humor
A3) Elena had a lot of Goth friends
正解： A2) Elena was artistic and thoughtful, with a good sense of humor
Q2 "A man might be known by the company he keeps, but that doesn't mean he is the company he keeps" because:
A1) People don't necessarily hang out with people like themselves.
A2) People like to pretend they are like the people they hang out with.
A3) People only hang out with those that are very like themselves.
正解： A1) People don't necessarily hang out with people like themselves.
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