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Facebook means never having to say goodbye.The social media website has earned a reputation for
reconnecting old friends.Last week,a guy whom I hadn"t seen since my bachelor party five years ago sent me a friend request.I accepted and waited for "Easy E" to send me a greeting of some kind.He had sought me out,after all.
I learned from his profile that he was in a relationship and had a son.However,I"m pretty sure we won"t ever write walltowall,let alone email each other.But he"ll remain a friend of online until one of us makes a
point of removing the other from his official list.
My pool of friends consists of family members,college buddies,coworkers from past and present,and
friends of friends.There are 35 in all.If I spent some time uploading old email addresses,I"m confident that
I could increase my friend count actually.
A person could make a mission out of reconnecting with childhood friends,former classmates,distant
cousins, and those one would like to get to know better.And some people can even handle hundreds of
onscreen relationships,keeping up with the daily happenings of their small army of companions.After all,
there are worse fates than having too many friends.
Thanks to email,the inability to schedule facetoface meetings no longer means a friendship must come
to a close. But even with email, people will lose touch if one or both parties stop writing back. That"s
normal.People move from school to school,job to job,city to city.You never have to feel guilty for breaking away.Every day,the masterminds of Web 2.0 find new ways of making human communication easier.However,convenience can be a crutch(拐杖) Some things shouldn"t be simplified.When it comes to friendship,
there can be no shortcuts. |
| 1．According to Paragraph 1,the website is famous because ________. |
A．it has an interesting name of "Facebook"
B．it helps people get in touch with old friends
C．it can send people a greeting of some kind
D．it reminds people of events in the past |
| 2．From the second paragraph we can learn that the writer ________. |
A．would write to the friend quite often
B．asked the friend to email him
C．did get some information about the friend
D．would keep in touch with the friend forever |
| 3．Which of the following statements is NOT true? |
A．There are 35 people in the author"s list of friends right now.
B．The author communicates with all the 35 friends by emails.
C．The list of 35 friends doesn"t include the old email addresses.
D．It is not difficult for the author to increase his friend count. |
| 4.What does the writer mean by saying "However,convenience can be a crutch(拐杖)"? |
A．The masterminds of Web 2.0 also sell crutch online.
B．Taking a crutch is a new way of making friends online.
C．Convenience is dangerous for human communication.
D．Convenience is not really good for human communication. |
答案
| 1-4.BCBD |
举一反三
Every culture has a recognized point when a child becomes an adult, when rules must be followed
and tests passed.
In China, although teenagers can get their ID cards at 16, many only see themselves as an adult
when they are 18. In the US, where everyone drives, the main step to the freedom of adult life is
learning to drive. At 16, American teens take their driving test. When they have their license, they drive
into the grownup world.
"Nobody wants to ride the cheese bus to school," said Eleanor Fulham, 17. She brought the
pressure back to memory, especially for kids from wealthier families. "It"s like you"re not cool if you
don"t have a car," she said.
According to recent research, 41% of 16 to 19yearolds in the US own cars, up from 23% in 1985.
Although, most of these cars are bought by parents, some teens get parttime jobs to help pay.
Not all families can afford cars for their children. In cities with subways and limited parking, some
teenagers don"t want them. But in rich suburban areas without subways, and where bicycles are more
for fun than transportation, it is strange for a teenager not to have a car.
But police say 16yearolds have almost three times more accidents than 18 to 19yearolds. This has
made many parents pause before letting their kids drive.
Julie Sussman, of Virginia, decided that her son Chad, 15, will wait until he is 17 to apply for his
learner"s permit.
Chad said he has accepted his parents" decision, although it has caused some teasing from his
friends. "They say that I am unlucky," he said, "But I"d rather be alive than driving, and I don"t really
trust my friends on the road, either."
In China as more families get cars, more 18yearolds learn to drive. Will this become a big step to
becoming an adult? |
| 1. Which may serve as the best title of the article? |
A. Cars Helping You to GrowUp
B. Driving into the GrownUp World
C. Teenagers" Driving in America
D. Recognized Point of Becoming an Adult |
| 2. 16yearold drivers have more accidents possibly because________. |
A. they want to show themselves off
B. they are never experienced drivers
C. older people always drive better
D. they never drive carefully on the road |
| 3. Which may NOT be taken into consideration when deciding whether to buy a car? |
A. How well off the family is.
B. Whether the kid is old enough.
C. What traffic condition there is around.
D. Whether it"s practically needed. |
I"m usually fairly skeptical about any research that concludes that people are either happier or
unhappier or more or less certain of themselves than they were 50 years ago. While any of these
statements might be true, they are practically impossible to prove scientifically. Still, I was struck by
a report which concluded that today"s children are significantly more anxious than children in the
1950s. In fact, the analysis showed, normal children aged 9 to 17 exhibit a higher level of anxiety today
than children who were treated for mental illness 50 years ago.
Why are America"s kids so stressed? The report cites two main causes: increasing physical isolation
(隔离) brought on by high divorce rates and less involvement in community, among other things and a
growing perception that the world is a more dangerous place.
Considering that we_can"t_turn_the_clock_back,_adults can still do plenty to help the next
generation.
At the top of the list is nurturing(培育) a better appreciation of the limits of individualism. No child is
an island. Strengthening social ties helps build communities and protect individuals against stress.
To help kids build stronger connections with others, you can pull the plug on TVs and computers.
Your family will thank you later. They will have more time for facetoface relationships, and they will get
more sleep.
Limit the amount of virtual(虚拟的) violence your children are exposed to. It"s not just video games
and movies; children see a lot of murder and crime on the local news.
Keep your expectations for your children reasonable. Many highly successful people never attended
Harvard or Yale.
Make exercise part of your daily routine. It will help you cope with your own anxieties and provide
a good model for your kids. Sometimes anxiety is unavoidable. But it doesn"t have to ruin your life. |
| 1. According to the analysis, compared with normal children today, children treated as mentally ill 50 years ago ________. |
A. probably suffered less from anxiety
B. were considered less individualistic
C. were less isolated physically
D. were probably less selfcentered |
| 2. What does the author mean by saying "we can"t turn the clock back" in the third paragraph? |
A. It"s impossible to forget the past.
B. The social reality children are facing cannot be forgotten.
C. It"s impossible to slow down the pace of change.
D. Lessons learned from the past should not be forgotten. |
| 3. The author thinks that the conclusions of any research about people"s state of mind are ________. |
A. illogical
B. confusing
C. surprising
D. questionable |
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If your family is like many in the United States, unloading the week"s groceries includes hauling a
case or two of bottled water into your home. On your way to a soccer game or activity, it"s easy to
grab a cold one right out of the fridge, right?
But all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment. In fact, Americans
buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29 billion water bottles a year to the
problem. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That"s
enough oil to keep a million cars going for twelve months.
Imagine a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That"s about how much oil was
needed to produce the bottle.
So why don"t more people drink water straight from the kitchen faucet? Some people drink bottled
water because they think it is better for them than water out of the tap, but that"s not true. In the United
States, local governments make sure water from the faucet is safe. There is also growing concern that
chemicals in the bottles themselves may leach(过滤) into the water.
People love the convenience of bottled water. But maybe if they realized the problems it causes, they
would try drinking from a glass at home or carrying water in a refillable steel container instead of plastic.
Plastic bottle recycling can help-instead of going out with the trash, plastic bottles can be turned into
items like carpeting or cozy fleece clothing.
Unfortunately, for every six water bottles we use, only one makes it to the recycling bin. The rest
are sent to landfills. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean.
Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.
Water is good for you, so keep drinking it. But think about how often you use water bottles, and
see if you can make a change.
Betty McLaughlin, who runs an organization called the Container Recycling Institute, says we should
try using fewer bottles: "If you take one to school in your lunch, don"t throw it away-bring it home and
refill it from the tap for the next day. Keep track of how many times you refill a bottle before you
recycle it."
And yes, you can make a difference. Remember this: Recycling one plastic bottle can save enough
energy to power a 60watt light bulb for six hours.
| Title | Drinking Water: Bottled or From the Tap? | | 1. ________ situation | Americans consume the 2. ________ bottled
water in the world. | | 3. ________ for people"s preference for bottled water | | | Bottled water is of higher 4. ________ . | | | It’s more 5. ________ for people to drink bottled water. | | | Problems with bottled water | | | The 6. ________ of plastic bottles use lots of fossil fuels. | | | Water bottles we use cause serious 7. ________. | | | 8. ________ the passage offers | | | Use bottles 9. ________ of glass or steel. | | | Use a refillable plastic bottle as many times as | | | 10. ________ before recycling. | | | 阅读理解 | Too often we accuse others of not listening, pretending that we ourselves are faultless, yet in our
hearts we know that many of the mistakes we make come about because we haven"t listened carefully
enough. We get things wrong because we haven"t listened carefully enough. We get things wrong because we haven"t quite understood what someone meant when they were talking to us. Anyone who has ever
taken the minutes of a long meeting will know how hard it is to remember-despite the benefit of
notes-exactly what everyone said. But success depends on getting things right-and that means listening.
Listening is not the same thing as hearing which is not quite an effort. It demands attention and
concentration. It may mean quizzing the speaker for additional information or for clarification-it is always
better to ask than to continue regardless and get things wrong. However, if you allow your mind to
wander onto something else, even for a few minutes, you"ll miss what the speaker is saying -probably
at the very moment when he or she is saying something critical. And not having heard, you won"t know
you"ve missed anything until it"s too late.
The most common bad habit we have is to start thinking of what we are going to say about the
subject long before the other speaker has finished. We then stop listening. Even worse, this often adds
rudeness to inattentiveness, as once you have decided what to say there is a fair chance you will interrupt
to say it. Good listeners don"t interrupt. In fact it is often worth explaining the main idea of what you have
just been told before going on to make your own points. Nobody is offended by this and it shows that
you have listened well.
Above all, be patient and accept that many people are not very good communicators. It"s helpful to
remember that the ways people move and position themselves while they are speaking can reveal a
great deal about what they are saying. Equally important you should put yourself in the other person"s
place, both intellectually and emotionally; it will help you to understand what_they_are_getting_at and
form a response. But don"t be too clever. Faced with a know-all, many people keep quiet because they
see no point in continuing. | | 1. Which is the best title for this passage? | A. Don"t be too clever
B. Be a good listener
C. Don"t miss anything critical
D. Think of the speaker | | 2. In the last paragraph, the underlined words mean ________. | A. what they imply
B. what they like
C. what they attack
D. what they achieve | | 3. According to the passage, which of the following is the writer"s opinion? | A. If you want to be a good listener, you should be very clever and emotional.
B. Speakers won"t continue talking when their listeners explain what they’ve heard.
C. If you don"t want to get things wrong, it"s important to be a good listener.
D. It"s hard to be a good listener because listening tests you on your intelligence. | | 4. What is the lesson we can learn from this passage? | A. Don"t accuse others of not listening while talking with them.
B. Don"t get anything wrong if you miss what the speaker is saying.
C. Listening inattentively may cost you the loss of your success.
D. Think carefully of what you"re going to say before the speaker finishes. | | 阅读理解。 | As a kid,I can remember going to the supermarket and grabbing eggs off the shelf.I would run them
home to my mother because they were usually going into a delicious cake. Times have changed.
Cage－free?Organic?Brown?White?Omega－3s?Help!Here are some tips to help you figure out which
eggs you should choose:
●Brown or white?In fact,color is simply a sign of the breed of hen.Find the freshest egg with the most
flavor and let color be a secondary concern.
●Extra Omega－3s?Omega－3 eggs come from a hen whose diet has added flaxseed(亚麻籽),which
produces an egg containing an average of 225 mg of Omega－3 fatty acids and Vitamin E.The countless
health benefits for humans make these eggs an attractive purchase.My opinion?Eat a piece of fresh fish and
get a pure dose of Omega－3s.Let eggs be eggs.
●Does your egg need exercise?Free－range eggs are from hens raised without the confines of a cage,
though they may or may not have spent much time outdoors.Organic eggs are from hens whose feed must
meet organic standards.These hens must be raised humanely,and they must be given time to stay outdoors.
Hey,happier hens do lay tastier eggs.
●Does local make a difference?Nothing is better than local eggs.They may have a feather or two stuck
to them or a little imperfect shape and they may or may not be certified(证明)organic;however,they have
one quality I prize:I know exactly where my food came from and how it came to be!In some cases I can
even ask the farmer when the eggs were laid and what the hens were fed. | | 1．What does the author think of Omega－3 eggs? | A．They are a good choice for people to purchase.
B．They contain fewer Omega－3s than fresh fish.
C．They have the highest content of pure Omega－3s.
D．They are not the best source of Omega－3s. | | 2．The underlined part "Free－range" probably means"__________"． | A．wild
B．organic
C．special
D．Omega－3－free | | 3．According to the passage,which of the following has nothing to do with an egg"s quality? | A．The egg"s color.
B．The hen"s exercise.
C．The hen"s living conditions.
D．The hen"s food. | | 4．This passage is most probably taken from a book named __________. | A．Shopping Skills
B．Eggs and Cooking
C．Raising Hens
D．Healthy Diet | 最新试题
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