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 tough 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.
