Walking in an American middle school, I see groups of students,   (1)  ) cliques (小集团)， talking and walking together. If you go to a middle school I see the same. These students do almost  (2)  together: eat lunch, do homework, play sports, and go to movies.

    We all need a group of   (3)  . They are the ones we run to tell how well we did on the last test. They listen when we complain how our parents made us do homework  (4)  playing with our best friends. They help us with hard homework problems.

       But like everything else, cliques can be bad. What happens if a close friend (let’s call her Sally) has a fight with   (5)  friend (Joe)? Sally stops talking to Joe, and that’s not all. She   (6)   wants you to stop talking to him, even though Joe and you have been friends for two years.

      What can you do? The best way is  (7)  to Sally and tell her you do not want to be involved (卷入) in the argument. Tell her that this fight is not between you and Joe. Tell her that you want to be friends with   (8)  ) of them. If she is a good friend she   (9)  ) Then, you should also try to help them talk with each other again!

    Be kind and  (10)   all your friends, whether some of them are not talking to one another. You have the freedom to talk to all of them and to help all of them.