3.University can be the most sociable time of your life.For most students,social media is the glue that holds packed social diaries together.Facebook will let you know if a game is cancelled,Twitter can promote your DJ set in 140 characters,and your Instagram account will remind you when there are new photos.
These tools have made the world increasingly connected,and most students wouldn't consider shunning them at such a sociable stage of their lives.But social media is by no means a requirement at university,and many do without.
"I'm a private person and don't feel the need to share everything with everybody I know,"says Caty Forster,20,a student at the University of Manchester,who has never used Facebook or Twitter.Despite social media's benefits,F(xiàn)orster is largely indifferent.Bethany Elgood,25,stopped using Facebook after she discovered she had developed a bit of an anxiety towards the social media platforms that contain lots of personal details."
I quit Facebook when I was 13.I left because,not only was I bored of passively involved in its Newsfeed,I was also experiencing anxiety.To me,F(xiàn)acebook meant clicking and nosing around people's lives.
People would ask,"How do you keep in touch with people?"and"Won't you miss out anything important?"I was in agreement with Forster,who says,"I never feel like I'm missing out too much.I don't feel like I'd have anything valuable to share or gain from it."
Adrienne Jolly,a careers advisor at UEA,says,"It's hard to prove reliable statistics on social media.But it's generally accepted that social media networks are pretty influential in this process-for better or worse."
You might decide quitting social media isn't practical in the long run.However,if its ugly side is bringing you down,why not consider taking leave?By doing so,I gained confidence and a strong connection with reality.
29.The author listed three kinds of social media to prove theyC.
A.a(chǎn)re important for him and others like Caty
B.have the power to make students learn more
C.a(chǎn)re frequently used by many university students
D.should be used by all of the students in universities
30.The underlined word"shunning"in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by"A"
A.a(chǎn)voiding B.choosing C.using D.a(chǎn)dding
31.Why doesn't Bethany use social media?B
A.She hates to share everything with others.
B.She hopes her personal information is safe.
C.She buries herself in the busy studies every day.
D.She doesn't care what has happened to her friends.
32.What is the attitude of Adrienne Jolly to using social media online?D
A.She is completely against them.
B.She herself refuses to use them.
C.She is completely for them.
D.She is objective.
分析 本文寫了社交媒體在大學生中的頻繁使用,闡述了人們對于社交媒體使用的不同的觀點.
解答 29.C 細節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)句子For most students,social media is the glue that holds packed social diaries together對于大多數(shù)學生來說,社交媒體是把社交日記放在一起的粘合劑,可見社交媒體是被很多的大學生頻繁使用,所以答案選C.30.A 詞義猜測題. 根據(jù)前一句These tools have made the world increasingly connected這些工具使世界連接起來,后一句at such a sociable stage of their lives在他們生活中這樣一個社交的階段,可以推斷出大部分學生不可能考慮的是回避它,avoid是"回避,擺脫",所以答案選A.
31.B 細節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)句子Bethany Elgood,25,stopped using Facebook after she discovered she had developed a bit of an anxiety towards the social media platforms that contain lots of personal details."當她發(fā)現(xiàn)自己對社交媒體平臺有一點焦慮的時候,就停止使用了,可見她擔心個人信息的不安全性,所以答案選B.
32.D 推理判斷題.It's hard to prove reliable statistics on social media.But it's generally accepted that social media networks are pretty influential in this process-for better or worse."很難在社交媒體上證明可靠的統(tǒng)計數(shù)據(jù),但人們普遍認為社交媒體網(wǎng)絡(luò)在這個過程中的影響力.可見她對于使用網(wǎng)上的社交媒體的觀點是客觀的.
點評 本文寫了社交媒體在大學生中的頻繁使用,內(nèi)容不是很貼近中學生的生活,要求學生根據(jù)文章所述事件的邏輯關(guān)系,對未說明的趨勢或結(jié)局作出合理的推斷;或根據(jù)作者所闡述的觀點理論,對文章未涉及的現(xiàn)象、事例給以解釋.考生首先要仔細閱讀短文,完整了解信息,準確把握作者觀點.