题目内容
After all,there is no substitute of our earth.
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Let’s say you have a piece of wood, a nail, and a hammer. Pretend the wood is a person, and the nail is a mean rumor(谣言) about that person. If you hammer in the nail, you’re obviously hurting him or her. If you then pull out the nail, there’s still a hole in the wood, and the damage has been done.
There are many reasons why that nail of a rumor can be so harmful. Rumors are, quite simply, a form of bullying(欺侮). When a person or a group makes up a rumor about someone or decides to spread gossip, it’s usually to hurt someone, break up a friendship, or make someone less popular. It’s the same thing as teasing, only it’s done behind someone’s back instead of to his or her face.
When you spread a rumor about someone, you’re sending a signal that the person is outside of the group, and somehow less worthy of friendship than others. You’re making fun of that person or pointing out negative things about him or her. This can let others think that it’s okay to make the person feel bad, and make him or her an outsider.
We need to be able to trust our friends, and gossip and rumors can break this trust. If you tell a personal secret to a friend, and he turns around and tells it to someone else, you might feel like you will get burned if you ever get close to him again.
Letting a rumor influence your behavior is like letting someone else make a big decision for you. Let’s say you hear that the teacher plans to call a Snow Day tomorrow because a blizzard (暴风雪) is coming. Expecting a day off, you don’t do your homework. The next morning, the blizzard turns out to be nothing more than a drizzle(毛毛雨), and school isn’t off after all. You get zeroes on your work.
【小题1】To tell a rumor and a tease apart, you depend on ______.
A.whether it is done behind someone |
B.whether it is painful or not |
C.whether it is a kind of bullying |
D.whether it is spread fast. |
A.point out his or her advantages |
B.keep away from him or her |
C.not feel he or she is an outsider |
D.be hurt if getting close to him or her again. |
A.advise on how to deal with rumors |
B.teach us how to judge a rumor |
C.find out why rumors spread fast |
D.explain why rumors hurt |
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 e-mail 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, co-workers from past and present, and friends of friends. There are 35 in all. If I spent some time uploading old e-mail 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 on-screen 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 e-mail, the inability to schedule face-to-face meetings no longer means a friendship must come to a close. But even with e-mail, 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 walking stick. Some things shouldn’t be simplified. When it comes to friendship, there can be no shortcuts.
【小题1】According to Paragraph 1, the website is famous because .
A.it has an interesting name of “Facebook” |
B.it can send people a greeting of some kind |
C.it helps people get in touch with old friends |
D.it reminds people of events in the past |
A.would write to the friend quite often |
B.did get some information about the friend |
C.asked the friend to e-mail him |
D.would keep in touch with the friend forever |
A.The author communicates with all the 35 friends by e-mails. |
B.There are 35 people in the author’s list of friends right now. |
C.The list of 35 friends doesn’t include the old e-mail addresses. |
D.It is not difficult for the author to increase his friend count. |
A.The masterminds of Web 2.0 also sell walking sticks online. |
B.Taking a walking stick is a new way of making friends online. |
C.Convenience is dangerous for human communication. |
D.Convenience is not really good for human communication. |