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ТОПИК 1
It’s nice to have a best friend. A best friend stops you from getting lonely. He or she is someone you can share all the good times and the bad times with — and that’s great.
There are several school-mates with whom I am friends and whose company I enjoy. They are nice and pleasant people in many ways and they are interesting to talk to. But a person who is very special for me is my friend Maxim. I have known him for over five years since we came to live in a new block of flats and we studied at the same school. He is a year older than me and he finished school last year.
He is a true and faithful friend who has never betrayed or let me down. I can fully rely on him and trust him completely. One of the most attractive features of his character is honesty. He has a wonderful sense of humour and it’s always fun to be in his company.
He is a first-year student of the Belarusian State University. His studies law which is his real passion. I am sure he’ll make a good lawyer as he is hard-working, self-organized, determined and has a great sense of responsibility. He is sociable, well-informed and well-read, besides he is fond of sports and music.
He Jives in the same block of flats as I do, so we spend quite a good deal of time together. We share every secret and understand each other so well that as they say we «finish each other’s sentences». Of course, we may disagree on some points and our tastes in films, books and music are sometimes different, but we never quarrel. He is tolerant and never presses his opinion and views on others. He is a good listener and always lets his opponent speak his mind.
Surely he is not an angel and has his drawbacks. He is stubborn and hot-tempered at times, but this doesn’t spoil our relations in the least.
I am proud of having such a friend and I’ll try to keep up our friendship as long as I can.
ТОПИК 2
We all need friends. Yet even in the highly populated areas, loneliness is still a sad feature of the lives of many. Friends play an important role in our life and although we may take the fact of friendship for granted, we often don’t clearly understand how friendships are formed. Every day we mix with hundreds of people, get on well with some of them and make friends with only a few. Some people have lots of friends, others are very reluctant to make new friends. There are people who are very easy to get on with, and there are people whose friendships never last very long.
In my opinion a real friend is a person whom you trust and respect, who is «a friend in need» and who never lets you down. There are no rules of how to make friends. Usually friendship between people grows when they have common views and judgements on things and events, have common interests and ambitions. A real friend should treat me with understanding, sympathy and compassion, exactly the way he wants to be treated by me.
In general I have a very wide circle of friends, most of whom are girls. But only two or three of them are really dear to me and I hope I am to them too. My best friend is Victoria. We have known each other since we were first-formers. But our friendship really started when we got together at my friend’s place one day and talked about different things. I felt that she was a similar soul. We’ve been close friends since then.
Here I should say that Victoria is exceptionally pretty. She is about 180 cm tall with dark hair and blue eyes. She wears her hair long, sometimes she ties it in a knot. She has a straight nose and her pleasant smile makes her really attractive.
She is an energetic girl, good at sports, especially at volleyball and swimming. She is also fond of painting and some of her pictures are really good. She lives not far from my place, so we spend a lot of time together after school and on weekends.
She never speaks badly of other people and finds more positive than negative features in every person. I admire her for that.
I can’t say she is a top pupil in her class but she is capable, intelligent and well-read. She is good at science, while I’ve always been better at humanities. She is going to enter the physics department of the Moscow pedagogical university. I hope she will do well at the examinations and make a good student afterwards.
Of course, we quarrel from time to time and fight over small things, but we make up our quarrels in no time. We can’t stay angry with each other for more than a day.
She is a hot-tempered person and at times she tends to act a little impulsively. She easily loses self-control when things don’t go well or the way she wants them to go. This is the feature which I don’t find attractive, but I know that there are bad things even in the best of us and I have to put up with it. In general she has a charming personality, she is sociable, frank and honest.
She is reliable and never lets you down. I can trust her as much as I do myself. She never fails to help or share your sorrows. These are the qualities I like about her most of all.
