Have you got a Facebook account? Are you thinking of getting one? Jamie Simmonds has just signed up. Let’s see how she’s getting along.
My Diary
MONDAY: I’m officially a Facebooker. I find a few people I used to know and I’ve soon got seven friends. I’ve never felt so popular! I wonder if my old university flatmate Steve is on here…What do you know! He is! Maybe Facebook has its uses.
TUESDAY: I’ve received lots of nice welcoming messages on my wall. Later, I meet up with Steve for a drink after not seeing him for five years. We get on really well! Then, he uses his Facebook app for iPhone to suggest me as a friend to some other former classmates. Some of them even come to the pub and it’s just like old times – possibly a bit too much like old times. During the night, photos are uploaded to Facebook.
WEDNESDAY: Disaster! My mum’s on Facebook! Has she seen the photos of me dancing on the table from last night? Has she shown them to dad? Oh. And I have a friend request – mum again!
THURSDAY: There’s a message from my boyfriend, “so, it’s over then, ;is it?” Evidently I haven’t changed my settings to show I’m “in a relationship”, and I haven’t even added him as a friend. Ah, well, I wonder what my ex-boyfriend is doing… Whoops! I accidentally type his name into my status box instead of the search ‘ and now every one can see it on their news feed.’
FRIDAY: Time to update my status:“Work is boring. Can’t wait for the weekend!” Yeah, that about sums it up. Oh, look, I’ve received a comment! Someone must feel the same way. Lots of my friends now“l(fā)ike” this status.
SATURDAY: Good news! I’ve got 100 friends But wait! Someone’s “un-friended” me! I look through my “friend list” to try to work out who it was. Why did they do that? Am I really such a terrible person? I never knew Facebook could be this cruel.
SUNDAY: Wake up. Check my Facebook page. Make coffee. Check my Facebook page again. Get ready to leave. Change my mind and check my Facebook page … again. I am becoming addicted to it! I think it’s time to end it all before it takes over my life. I delete my account. Back to good, old, simple e-mails. Oh, look, I’ve got a message: A friend invited you to join Twitter. . .
In July 2010, Facebook had more than 500 million active users. The average Facebook user has 130 friends. Facebook is translated into more than 70 different languages. The world spends 700 billion minutes a month on Facebook. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page says he’s a Harvard graduate, even though he actually dropped out to focus on Facebook. The site is valued at between $7.9 and $11 billion.
小題1: Why did Jamie’s boyfriend ask her whether she had broken up with him?
A．He had seen photos of Jamie dancing on the table.
B．She showed in her facebook that she was still not dating anyone.
C．Her boyfriend was angry that she refused to add him as her friend.
D．He saw the name of her ex-boyfriend on his news feed.
小題2:Which of the following is conveyed in this article?
A．Visiting Facebook website took up a large part of Jamie’s time and energy.
B．Jamie is enthusiastic about her present job.
C．Facebook was created by a Harvard graduate, Mark Zuckerberg.
D．Compared with Facebook, Twitter is a better choice for Jamie.
小題3:What does the word“un-friend” mean in“Someone’s ‘un-friended’ me!”?
A． Being unfriendly to others.
B． Having a quarrel with somebody.
C． Removing a name from the friend list.
D． Ending friendship with somebody.
小題4:Which of the following is true according to the passage ?
A．Steve was Jamie’s boyfriend in the university.
B．People all over the world spend 700 billion minutes a week on Facebook.
C．Jamie’s mother has seen the photos of her dancing on the table.
D．Jamie felt enthusiastic about Facebook at first.
小題5:It can be learned from the passage that the writer’s attitude towards Facebook is ______ .
A．a(chǎn)pprovalB．objectiveC．negativeD．positive

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:C
小題4:D
小題5:C

試題分析：
小題1:B 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)THURSDAY Evidently I haven’t changed my settings to show I’m “in a relationship”, and I haven’t even added him as a friend.說明B正確。
小題2:A 推理題。根據(jù)文章最后一段The average Facebook user has 130 friends. Facebook is translated into more than 70 different languages. The world spends 700 billion minutes a month on Facebook說明人們在facebook中花費了很多的時間內(nèi)和精力，故A正確。
小題3:C 推理題。根據(jù)本句Good news! I’ve got 100 friends But wait! Someone’s “un-friended” me!說明我有了100個好友，但是有人把我從他的好友中刪除了，本題的關(guān)鍵詞是but。故C正確。
小題4:D 推理題。根據(jù)TUESDAY:部分的I’ve received lots of nice welcoming messages on my wall. Later, I meet up with Steve for a drink after not seeing him for five years. We get on really well!說明她在剛剛使用的時候很興奮很有激情，故D正確。
小題5:C 推理題。作者舉Jamie Simmonds為例說明使用facebook的問題，在SUNDAY部分. I am becoming addicted to it! I think it’s time to end it all before it takes over my life. I delete my account. Back to good, old, simple e-mails.說明很多人都上癮了，影響了正常的生活，故他對facebook持否定的態(tài)度。故C正確。
點評：文章介紹了facebook對人的影響，會讓人在它身上花費了太多的時間和精力而影響了正常的生活。同樣也是對推理題的考查較多，　解推斷題最主要的方法是根據(jù)詞義關(guān)系推斷具體細(xì)節(jié)。
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A．be great friendsB．bring us pleasure
C．help us keep healthyD．do harm to us
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A．washing your fingernails after touching your pet
B．wearing gloves when cleaning your pet’s cage
C．washing your pet in the bathtub
D．bringing your pet for examinations regularly
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A．Sharing your chocolate with your dog.
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C．Feeding your little cat with raw meat.
D．Giving your cat cooked fish.
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YES
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NO
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A．urge for the final solution to the problem with the unwanted books.
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D．show his anger to Cosmo Books Ltd..
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B．fifteen pounds and fifty pence.
C．a(chǎn) set of 10 books of the works of Shakespeare.
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A．disabilities destroyed major bodily functions
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The financial situation of most students explains a lot about what is happening in schools.  Why are the traditional courses so unpopular?  Why are students flocking to accounting and computer science and any professional programs that seem to lead to careers?
Answer: Today’s working student has been forced into a kind of premature matter-of-fact way of viewing things.  Romance is gone.  The notion of transforming one’s self through study alone has disappeared.  Today’s students seek freedom from manual labor, and the status conferred by a good job.
There are other consequences.  Today’s students don’t have much time or energy to be devoted, and carry out independent research or even do serious homework.  That’s the secret behind falling academic standards.  Students have become consumers.  They want grades and certifications.  Their professors can’t be expected to give a grade of failure to students who are clearly tired from the effort to pay their bills.
There’s a lot wrong with this situation.  It’s twisting the definition of education out of shape.  Worse, it’s creating a generation that is totally unpleasant.  The brightest students turn out to be yuppies (雅皮士).  The vast majority are, at least, good-natured semi-literates.
The time has run out for philosophical debates about fixed courses of study.  What this country needs is someone to stand up and say that being a full-time student during one’s formative years is an honorable calling worthy of support.  If families can’t or won’t give it to their children, then the government should.
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B．warn Americans that academic standards are falling
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D．provide a suggestion that only full-time students be enrolled
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A．Many students are often absent from classes.
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D．Students don’t devote much time and energy to their homework.
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A．We should encourage students to give up full-time jobs.
B．Families should offer their children more help financially.
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A．They went out of business.
B．They made their websites.
C．They bought Internet companies.
D．They sold their companies.
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A．All the “brick and click” companies run a successful business.
B．“Brick and click” companies are certain to win the business competition.
C．It is uncertain whether “brick and click” companies will win the competition.
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Age has its special advantage in America. And one of the more impressive of them is the senior citizen discount. Anyone who has reached a certain age—in some cases as low as 55－is automatically entitled to plenty of price reductions at nearly every level of commercial life. Eligibility（資格）is determined not by one’s need but by the date on one’s birth certificate. Practically the discounts have become a routine part of many businesses-as common as color televisions in motel rooms and free coffee on airliners.
People with gray hair often are given the discounts without even asking for them；yet, millions of Americans above age 60 are healthy and solvent（有支付能力的）. Businesses that would never dare offer discounts to college students or anyone under 30 freely offer them to older Americans. The practice is acceptable because of the widespread belief that “elderly” and “needy” are synonymous（同義的）. Perhaps that once was true, but today, to be sure, there is economic variety within the elderly, and most of them aren’t poor.
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Generational tensions are being fueled by continuing debate over Social Security benefits, which mostly involves a transfer of resources from the young to the old. Employment is another point. Supported by laws and court decisions, more and more older Americans are refusing the retirement dinner in favor of staying on the job-thereby lessening employment and promotion opportunities for younger workers. Far from a kind of charity they once were, senior citizen discounts have become a powerful economic privilege（特權(quán)）to a group with millions of members who don’t need them.
It no longer makes sense to treat the elderly as a single group whose economic needs deserve priority over those of others. Senior citizen discounts only enrich the myth that older people can’t take care of themselves and need special treatment；and they threaten the creation of a new myth, that the elderly ale ungrateful and taking for themselves at the expense of children and other age groups. Senior citizen discounts are the heart of the very thing older Americans are fighting against－discrimination by age.
小題1:We learn from the first paragraph that   .
A．offering senior citizen discounts has become routine commercial practice
B．senior citizen discounts have enabled many old people to live a good life
C．giving senior citizen discounts has increased the market for the elderly
D．senior citizens have to show their birth certificates to get a discount
小題2:The reason to give the senior citizen discount is that   .
A．the elderly need humane help from society
B．businesses should do something for society in return
C．old people are entitled to special treatment for their contribution to society
D．the senior discounts can make up for the lack of the Social Security system
小題3:What does the author think of the Social Security system?
A．It encourages elderly people to retire in time.
B．It opens up broad career chances for young people.
C．It benefits the old at the expense of the young.
D．It should be strengthened by laws and court decisions.
小題4:What does the author mainly argue in the passage?
A．Senior citizens should fight hard against age discrimination.
B．The elderly are selfish and taking senior discounts for granted.
C．Senior citizen discounts may well be a type of age discrimination.
D．Discount should be given to the economic needs of senior citizens.

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