Question

  Gossip moves so quickly that few people have time to cover their ears，even if they want

to. "I hate it when others gossip about me," said Mandy Miraglia, 16, a high school student from California， " but to be honest，gossip with my close friends make me feel I am trusted and belong to the group. " Miraglia is not the only person who feels like that.

    Gossip has long been looked down on as little more than nonsense(廢話) and bad manners. But recent research showed that gossip has many positive effects on your social life.

"There has been a trend among people to dislike gossip”，said David Sloan Wilson，a pro?fessor from the     State University of New York in Binghamton，US,"but gossip appears to be a very important form(形式) of behavior in a group of friends, defining their group membership.”

   For 18 months，Kevin Kniffin，from the University of Wisconsin，US，researched the be?havior of 50 people. He found that gossip levels peaked when a sports team included a slacker (懶蟲) ，someone who regularly missed practices or showed up late. Other members of the team would soon start to joke about the slacker's shortcomings behind his back,because they think they are bad for the whole team.

   Gossip about the mistakes of senior members helps newcomers rebuild their confidence after a failure. It also helps relieve(釋放) social and professional anxiety. Long-term studies show that people around the world devote from a fifth to two-thirds or more of their daily conversation to gossip, and men appear to be just as eager for gossip as women.

It is hard to judge gossip, but it is more powerful than you think. 

(   ) 5. It can be inferred from the research by Kevin Kniffin that        .

   A.gossip sometimes sends away the slacker of a team

   B.gossip is no use to the teamwork at all

   C.gossip sometimes helps newcomers rebuild their confidence

   D.gossip makes people separate with each other 

(   ) 6. It is true about Mandy Miraglia that        .

   A.she hates gossip all the time

   B.she enjoy gossips about others

   C.gossip sometimes makes her feel closer to the friends

   D.her recent study is about the gossip

(   ) 7. What's the writer's attitude about gossip?

   A.He looks down upon the gossip as bad manners.

   B.He thinks highly of making a gossip.

   C.He doesn't want to talk about gossip at all.

   D.He believes that gossip is powerful.

(   ) 8. We can learn from the passage that        .

   A.there will be more and more gossip in the future

   B.gossip will moves slowly and secretly

   C.people may think about gossip from another aspect

   D.sportsmen enjoy gossip more than the other people

Answer 1

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B篇講述了流言的社會(huì)影響、人們對(duì)流言的態(tài)度以及流言最易產(chǎn)生的環(huán)境。

5.C邏輯推理題。從文章最后一段可以得知，流言已經(jīng)有了過(guò)去不為人知的作用，即helps newcomers rebuild their confidence after a fail?ure.

6.C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。文章第二段引號(hào)內(nèi)的描述給出了該答案。

7.D意圖揣摩題。作者在文章結(jié)尾處說(shuō)It is hard to judge gossip, but it is more powerful than you think，可見作者贊同重新審視流言，以全新的角度去認(rèn)識(shí)它。

8.C邏輯推理題。從第三、六、七段不難看出，流言的作用不再只是負(fù)面的，本文描寫的事實(shí)必將令讀者重新認(rèn)識(shí)gossip,而不是像過(guò)去那樣鄙視,看不起它。