A question from TOEFL exam preparation: What do you want most in a friend — someone who is intelligent, or

someone who has a sense of humor, or someone who is reliable?

Which one of these characteristics is most important to you? 

  My mini intersession course takes a lot of mini time. So I don't have very interesting subject to write about so I ended with answering this. Why these questions always have to make us choose the extreme boundaries of things. Okay let’s be realistic. No I don’t prefer a friend who has a computer brain, I mean very intelligent, and he is dried from any drop of sense of humorous. And I don’t prefer someone as a friend who is funny if his sense of humor is coming from being stupid. Now reliable which is very important but how I would know if he or she is reliable or isn’t if I don’t interact and spend a quality time with him or her, and I can’t  spend long time with this friend without the two other characteristics .  Friends really have a great impact on each other, and close friends you always find something similar and share the same experiences that you have. Close friends' influence can get you to a higher point( mentally, the way of thinking, spiritually, attitude) or lower. So the three are important, no exception.

I think if I had this question and I wrote this answer in my TOEFL exam, they wouldn’t let me pass.