Question

Recently the barbican museum in London held an exhibition called the rain room. During the time this exhibition was open, my twitter stream was filled with photos of people standing in the rain room, accompanied by the caption “rain room@ the barbican!” and a location attachment to prove that they were indeed in the rain room.

This got me thinking. What were people actually saying by Tweeting about their visit? I think all they were doing was fulfilling the obligation that we have to share. Not sharing in the sense of treasuring a moment with people close to us, but sharing in the sense of “tell the world that I am doing a thing”.

It’s not sharing; it’s showing off. When we log in to Facebook or Twitter we see an infinitely updating stream of people enjoying themselves. It’s not real life, because people only post about the good things whereas all the dull or deep stuff doesn’t get mentioned. But despite this obvious fact, it subconsciously makes us feel like everyone is having a better time than us.

This is the curse of our age. We walk around with the tools to capture extensive data about our surroundings and transmit them in real-time to every friend we’ve made. We end up with a reduced understanding of reality because we’re more concerned about choosing a good Instagram filter(過濾器) for our meal than how it tastes.

I don’t think that it’s inherently wrong to want to keep the world updated about that you’re doing. But when you go through life robotically posting about everything you do, you’re not a human being. You’re just a prism that takes bits of light and sound and channels them into the cloud.

The key thing to remember is that you are not enriching your experiences by sharing them online; you are detracting from them because all your efforts are focused on making the look attractive to other people. Once you stop seeing things through the eyes of the people following you on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, you can make your experiences significant, because you were there and you saw the sights and smelled the smells and heard the sounds, not snapped a photo of it through a half-inch camera lens.

1.What do we learn from the first two paragraphs?

A. Rain Room exhibition received a large audience in London.

B. Most of people feel obligated to share their experience with friends.

C. Many people want to inform others of their experience by Tweeting.

D. All people having gone to the Rain Room took pictures.

2.It seems to the author that ___________.

A. Facebook or Twitter is a good place where we share personal experience

B. people seldom show depressing stuff on the social networking websites

C. most of people tend to show off that they are having a better time than others

D. sharing experience on the social networking websites is not real life

3.By talking of “a good Instagram filter for our meal” (Line 3-4, Para.4), the author wants to show _____________.

A. we are surrounded by various tools to capture our daily data

B. we are more concerned about how our life seems to be to others

C. we transmit our experience immediately to everybody we know

D. we gain more extensive perception of reality with digital tools

4.What suggestion does the author give in the last paragraph?

A. Enrich your experiences by sharing them online.

B. Make efforts to make your life attractive to others.

C. Stop showing your personal experience.

D. Record the details of what you see, smell and hear.

Answer 1

1.C

2.B

3.B

4.C

【解析】

試題分析：本文主要講述了英國倫敦的芭比肯美術(shù)館舉辦一次展覽。在展覽舉辦期間，我的Twitter掛滿了在雨屋中的人，我由此而思考，人們大聲說明自己這次參觀，這樣做的目的是什么？作者認(rèn)為人們這樣做的目的只是為了告訴世界自己在做什么，而不是和親近的人享受珍貴的時(shí)刻。而且這不是分析，而是在炫耀，因?yàn)樗麄冎皇钦故竞玫囊幻妫�而不好的方面，不�?huì)展示。

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2. not real life, because people only post about the good things whereas all the dull or deep stuff doesn’t get mentioned.意思是：這不是真正的生活，因?yàn)槿藗儍H僅張貼一些好的事情，然而所有的灰暗的或者復(fù)雜的事情，卻沒有提到�？芍�人們很少在社交網(wǎng)站上提及令人沮喪的事情。故選B。

3. end up with a reduced understanding of reality because we’re more concerned about choosing a good Instagram filter(過濾器) for our meal than how it tastes.意思是：我們以對(duì)生活不足的理解而結(jié)束，因?yàn)槲覀兏�關(guān)心為晚餐選擇一個(gè)好的過濾器，而關(guān)心晚餐的味道如何�？芍�人們我們更加關(guān)心我們的生活對(duì)別人來看是什么樣子的。故選B。

4. key thing to remember is that you are not enriching your experiences by sharing them online意思是：關(guān)鍵的事情是記住在網(wǎng)上分享經(jīng)驗(yàn)并沒有豐富你的個(gè)人經(jīng)驗(yàn)�？芍�作者給予人們的建議是停止顯示個(gè)人經(jīng)驗(yàn)。故選C。

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