题目内容
The friendship between us never fades. Mary Allen was my best friend—like a sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horseback riding, and so on.
When I was 13, my family moved. Mary and I 36 in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special 37 — like my wedding and Mary’s. Soon we were 38 with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less. One day a card that I sent came back, 39 “Address Unknown.” I had no idea how to 40 Mary.
Over the years, I thought of Mary often. I wanted to 41 stories of my children and then grandchildren. I need to share my 42 when my brother and then my mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Mary could 43 .
One day I was reading a newspaper 44 I notice a picture of a young woman who looked a lot like Mary and whose last name was Wagman— Mary’s married name. “There must be thousands of Wagmans,” I thought, 45 I wrote to her anyway.
She called as soon as she got my letter. “Mrs. Tobin!” she said excitedly, “Mary Allen Wagman is my mother”. Minutes later I heard a voice that I 46 at once, even after 40 years. We laughed and cried and asked about each other’s 47 .
Now the empty place in my heart is filled, and there is one thing that Mary and I know for sure: We won’t lose each other again!
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【解析】
试题分析：1.考查词组;keep in touch with“和…保持联系”选B
2.根据破折号的内容：like my wedding and Mary’s.说明是一些特殊场合。选B
3.考查词组：be busy with “忙于”选D
4.saying是伴随状语，表示“写到”选A
5.根据前面的Address Unknown.说明选find，说明：不知怎么找到她，选C
6.从下文的I need to share ….，说明此处填share，选A
7.从后面的when my brother and then my mother died说明是sorrow，选B
8.从前面的an empty place说明是fill，填满，选C
9.考查when引导的时间状语从句，翻译成：这时，选A
10.考查上下文的逻辑关系：从后面的I wrote to her anyway说明两句话是转折关系。选C
11.考查动词辨析：A．realized意识到，B．received收到，C．contacted联系， D．recognized识别，这题表示认出声音。选D
12.表示询问彼此的人生。选C
考点：考查故事类短文阅读
点评：本文对上下文的串联要求较高，文章比较简单，要求考生在阅读的时候，关注前后的串联和理解以及词义的辨析。
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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. |
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 ________.
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A．it has an interesting name of “Facebook” |
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B．it helps people get in touch with old friends |
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C．it can send people a greeting of some kind |
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D．it reminds people of events in the past |
2.From the second paragraph we can learn that the writer ________.
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A．would write to the friend quite often |
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B．asked the friend to email him |
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C．did get some information about the friend |
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D．would keep in touch with the friend forever |
3.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
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A．There are 35 people in the author's list of friends right now. |
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B．The author communicates with all the 35 friends by emails. |
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C．The list of 35 friends doesn't include the old email addresses. |
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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?
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A．The technology could not keep true friendship forever. |
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B．The social website of Facebook means nothing at all. |
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C．There will be no ways of making real friends online. |
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D．People will not lose friends with the help of the Facebook. |