题目内容
I had to ______ because someone else wanted to use the phone.
A. give up B. put up
C. hang up D. ring up
C。
解析:
give up 指“放弃”，put up 指“举起，架起，修建，张贴”等，hang up 指“挂断(电话)”，ring up 指“给某人打电话”。
Loma just had to get in touch with someone: “I had to tell my best
friend something important. I tried calling her but I couldn’t get through. So I sent her an e-mail and then I spoke to her on MSN. Without technology I would not have been able to tell her. ”
Staying connected with friends and family is important for us. That’s
why we asked our readers to tell us how cell-phones, e-mail, blogs, text messaging, and personal pages help them keep in touch. More than 1,500 responded.
Most of them told us they couldn’t live without technology: 80％of
teens said they need technology to stay in touch. Almost 30％said they’d be completely out of their friends without their cell-phones and other methods of communication.
What do they do when they’ve got news they need to share now? Most
teens say they try to reach their friends by phone. But if they don’t reach them, they use QQ, e-mails, and text messaging to get the words out.
Lots of people use one way of communication—like text messaging—to
get a friend’s attention and then use another where they can talk more. “My friends and I always tell each other everything that happens. So I send them text messages to tell them to come online so we can talk about it,” said Sabeiha.
“When planning to get together with friends”, Julian said, “the easiest
and fastest way I know is to send a text message to my contact group.”
Jocelyn said. “If I want to go to see a movie with a few friends, I usually
send text message to them. By telephone, you have to call every single friend
one by one. But text messaging allows you to send the same message to as
many as you’d like, which saves a lot of time. ”
1.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
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A．E-mails. |
B．Blogs. |
C．Personal pages. |
D．Personal letters. |
2.What do most young people use first when they have news to tell their friends?
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A．MSN. |
B．QQ. |
C．Phones. |
D．Text message. |
3.The underlined part “get the words out” means“ ”.
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A．send the message |
B．send the e-mail |
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C．talk with their friends |
D．meet their friends |
4. In which part of a newspaper can you find this passage?
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A．Sport. |
B．Education. |
C．Technology. |
D．Culture. |
Maybelle said she wouldn't be coming with me to the library. I asked why, and she said she could get all the short stories she wanted off the Internet. Saved walking all the way to the library, and putting up with my long chat on the way there, and on the way back. Maybelle is very direct like that, always has been.
"But, Maybelle, we've been walking to the library every' Monday for the last fifty years!"
She said," Why don't you get Internet'? We can send each other emails."
So I had to get Internet. I called the local high school. They said they'd send me a good student to tell me all about computers and such.
Evil thing, this Internet. Makes you lose old friends, forces you to learn new complex ideas, even if you're too old. But Maybelle said you have to be modern; otherwise, you're dead.
The kid came the next day. Tall skinny black kid, by tile name of Arsenius, said his work would cost me.
I said, "All right. As long as I get Internet."
"You need a computer, then you need to get hooked up," he said.
"Let's buy a computer and get hooked up, then."
"How much you want to spend?"
"Whatever it takes."
"How many rams you want?"
I wasn't going to show him my ignorance, so I said, "Whatever it takes."
"Let's go to the mall. You got a car?"
"In the garage."
When I opened the garage door, he gasped. Daddy's car is still there, a'57 Chevy. I never drive it. Walk everywhere.
I said," Let's walk. It's only a mile or so."
He said," Let's drive, or you will faint on me in this heat."
"Young man, I don't faint, never have. We're walking."
"I get paid by the hour," he said. "Walking will cost you a lot more. Also, you feel like carrying a computer a mile or so?"
1.What kind of person is Maybelle?
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A．She always says what she means in an honest way. |
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B．She no longer likes reading in her old age. |
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C．She doesn't want to be friends with the writer any mort. |
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D．She doesn't want to keep up with the time. |
2.Why does the writer want to have Internet at his place?
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A．Because the writer believes that one is never too old to learn. |
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B．Because the writer thinks that it is better late than never. |
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C．Because of the pressure from people of his age. |
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D．Because of the convenience the Internet will bring. |
3.Arsenius gives _________ reasons for driving to the mall.
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A．two |
B．three |
C．four |
D．five |
I didn’t know the new word in the text, so I had to the word in a dictionary.
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A．look out |
B．consult |
C．refer to |
D．look up |