题目内容
I’m not so sure I like my friends any more. I used to like them-to be honest. We’d have lunch, talk on the phone or exchange emails, and they all seemed normal enough. But then came Face Book, and I was introduced to a sad fact: many of my friends have dark sides that they had kept from me.
Today my friends show off the more unpleasant aspects of their personalities via FaceBook. No longer hidden, they’re thrown in my face like TV commercials -unavoidable and endless advertisements for the worst of their personalities.
Take Fred. If you were to have lunch with him, you’d find him warm, and self-effacing(谦逊的).Read his FaceBook and you’ll realize he’s an unbearable, food-obsessed boring man. He’d pause to have a cup of coffee on his way to save a drowning man-and then write about it.
Take Andy. You won’t find a smarter CEO anywhere, but now he’s a CEO without a company to run. So he plays Mafia Wars on FaceBook. He’s doing well-level 731. Thanks to FaceBook, I know he’s playing about 18 hours a day. Andy, you’ve run four companies-and this is how you spend your downtime? What happned to golf?What happened to getting another job?
Take Liz. She is positive that the flu vaccine will kill us all and that we should avoid it. And then comes Chris who likes to post at least 20 times a day on every website he can find, so I get to read his thoughts twice, once on FaceBook and once on Twitter.
In real life, I don’t see these sides of people. Face to face, my friends show me their best. They’re nice, smart people. But face to FaceBook, my friends is like a blind date which goes horribly wrong.
I’m left with a dilemma. Who is my real friend?Is it the Liz I have lunch with or the anti-vaccine madman on FaceBook? Is it the Fred I can grab a sandwich with or the Fred who weeps if he’s at a party and the wine isn’t up to his standard?
1. Who is opposed to the flu vaccine in the text?
A. Fred B. Andy C. Liz D. Chris
2.What’s Andy probably busy in doing now?
A. He’s running his company
B. He’s playing golf all day
C. He’s looking for another job
D. He’s playing computer games
3.According to the text, FaceBook tends to _______.
A. present another side of people
B. offer some foods for free
C. show endless advertisements
D. get you to more parties
4.The text is developed mainly by _____.
A. giving examples B. following the time order
C. listing figures D. raising questions
1.C
2.D
3.A
4.A
【解析】
试题分析:文章大意是讲自从有了FaceBook之后,朋友们的变化。以前朋友会一起吃饭、聊天或者相互打电话,发短信。而如今即使在一起,也只是应付着,时不时地去玩一下他们的FaceBook,让作者不得不怀疑自己是不是没有朋友了。
1.细节理解题。文章第五段第一句话Take Liz. She is positive that the flu vaccine will kill us all and that we should avoid it.她肯定地认为流感疫苗将会把我们所有人杀死,因此我们应该避免种植。故选C。
2.细节理解题。文章第四段第一、二句话but now he’s a CEO without a company to run. So he plays Mafia Wars on FaceBook.但是他现在是个没有公司的CEO,所以正在FaceBook.上玩黑手党战争游戏。故选D。
3.推理判断题。文章第一段最后一句But then came FaceBook, and I was introduced to a sad fact: many of my friends have dark sides that they had kept from me.然后就有了FaceBook,我被告知了一个悲哀的事实:我的许多朋友都有一面一直没被我发现的阴暗面。故选A。
4.文章结构题。文章通过举例来说明FaceBook对人们生活的影响。故选A。
考点:考查社会现象类短文阅读。
Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality (理性), but when it comes to my college education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer and, of course, any reasonable student with my aims would have chosen a college with a large engineering department, many famous professors and lots of good labs and research equipment. But that's not what I did.
I chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts (文科) university that doesn't even offer a major in electrical engineering. Obviously, this was not a practical choice; I came here for more noble reasons. I wanted a broad education that would provide me with flexibility and a value system to guide me in my job. I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by communicating with people who weren't studying science or engineering. My parents, teachers and other adults praised me for such a wise choice. They told me I was wise and grown-up beyond my 18 years, and I believed them.
I headed off to the college and sure I was going to have an advantage over those students who went to big engineering "factories" where they didn't care if you had values or were flexible. I was going to be a complete engineer: technical expert and excellent humanist all in one.
Now I'm not so sure. Somewhere along the way my noble ideas crashed into reality, as all noble ideas finally do. After three years of struggling to balance math, physics and engineering courses with liberal-arts courses, I have learned there are reasons why few engineering students try to reconcile engineering with liberal-arts courses in college.
The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal arts simply don't mix as easily as I supposed in high school. Individually they shape a person in very different ways. The struggle to reconcile the two fields of study is difficult.
1.Why did the author choose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts university?
A.He intended to become an engineer and humanist. |
B.He intended to be a reasonable student with noble ideals. |
C.He wanted to be an example of practicality and rationality. |
D.He wanted to communicate with liberal-arts students. |
2.According to the author, by communicating with people who study liberal arts, engineering students can ___________.
A.become noble idealists |
B.broaden their knowledge |
C.find a better job in the future |
D.balance engineering and liberal arts |
3. Which word below can replace the underlined word “reconcile”?
A.confuse |
B.compare |
C.combine |
D.compete |
4.The underlined sentence in 1st paragraph means ___________.
A.he has failed to achieve his ideal aims |
B.he is not a practical and rational student |
C.his choice of attending to a small liberal-arts university is reasonable |
D.his idea of combining engineering with liberal - arts is noble and wise |
5. The author suggests in this passage that ___________.
A.liberal-arts students are supported to take engineering courses |
B.technical experts with a wide vision are expected in the society |
C.successful engineering students are more welcomed in the society |
D.engineering universities with liberal-arts courses are needed |