题目内容
– I spent $ 20 for this shirt. How much is yours?
--- I just paid ______.
A. half the money B. half
B. halves D. the half money
A
解析
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 wall-to-wall,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 face-to-face 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 author think of the convenience of communicating online?
A.The technology could not keep true friendship forever. |
B.The social website of Facebook means nothing at all. |
C.There will be no ways of making real friends online. |
D.People will not lose friends with the help of the Facebook. |
My husband and I insisted that our children were old enough to clean their rooms and make their beds. But they thought 1 . My complaints, even self-justified(自有道理) 2 , were always landing on 3 ears. Very often a whole hour’s scolding would end with their 4 into tears. I felt very frustrated. I realized I needed to 5 my method of “mothering”.
One day when they were at school, I spent some time tidying their rooms. On their desks, in plain 6 , I left the cards: “Dear Bill(the other card was 7 to Sarah), your room was messy this morning and I’m sure you like it clean. Love, the Room Fairy.” 8 arriving back, the children were 9 excited to receive the little note from the Room Fairy. The next day, their rooms were fairly tidy. Sure enough, there was another note from the Room Fairy 10 for them, thanking them for their nice “gift” of a clean room and 11 asking them to play a certain violin 12 . Each day, thank-you notes would be written differently to keep the ideas 13 .
Sometimes the Room Fairy would propose a little 14 : “If you can finish your homework and go over your lessons before dinner, I’d like to watch a particular television program with you tonight.” Sometimes some colored markers or other little items would be left in 15 of well-done jobs the day 16 .
17 I can’t remember how long “the Room Fairy” continued leaving her love notes. When they were age appropriate, we used various versions of Post-Its (贴条). The bathroom mirror became the 18 centre of our home. Appointments, notices about visiting relatives, lesson schedules, and changes in plans could be 19 .
We all benefited from and 20 the idea of sharing reminders and daily details of life through notes. I believe the true advantage of the Room Fairy notes survives in our frequent and enjoyable communication.
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