题目内容
Facebook is one of the most popular websites that offer social networking today with more than l billion users around the world. Online social networking is just like-minded people coming together for some activities, forming groups, having discussions, sharing photographs, etc. Similarly, Facebook enables all these activities by various applications(运用程序) , for example, providing forums, photo sharing options. video updating, keeping a track on all the happenings in their formed communities, people they have approved to be linked to, etc. Online gaming is one of the biggest USPs(独特的卖点) of Facebook, and indeed, games like Farmville and Mafia Wars have attracted many users to the site. Facebook also offered a brilliant platform for business to reach out to their customers.
???? In the beginning, Facebook was just meant for Harvard University students to find and contact fellow students. It was meant to serve the purpose of keeping track of who was new to college to get in touch with each other for project purposes.? It was an online directory(目录) , and was founded in 2004 0n the Harvard University campus. However, as soon as it was launched, almost two thirds of the total number of students registered themselves on Facebook. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, along with Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz. and Eduardo Saverin. helped in the launch of the site. To pursue this, Mark dropped out of Harvard and got into making Facebook a worldwide accessible site, and then to its current stand of being the top social networking site in the world.
???? Today, Facebook rules the social networking world, with one person in fourteen using it. It is also the second most popular site in the US, and is worth billions of dollars. And it has been a success story for the four co-founders, making them all accidental billionaires.
???? Title :? Facebook-the most popular social networking site in the world
I . Definition :
???? *One popular website?? ? 1.??
Ⅱ.? ? 2.? :
???? * Enabling people to gather for 3.?? ? 0n it
???? * ? 4.? ?
* Offering a brilliant platform for businesses to reach out to their customers
Ⅲ?? Birth :
???? * Time: in 2004
???? * Place: ?? 5.
lV. ?? 6.?? :
???? * To help students contact each other
V.? ? 7.?? :
???? * Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, along with Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin
VI. Popularity:
??? * As an??? ? 8.? ?? : having almost two thirds of the students on it
??? * As the top social networking site :
????????????????????????????????????????? ruling? the social networking ;
????????????????????????????????????????? having over???? 9.?? ? in the world;
???????????????????????????????????????????? being ?? 10.?? ? billions of dollars
1.Offering social networking
2.Initial(original) advantages /benefits
3.Different/various activities
4.Providing/Offering online games.
5.In Harvard University
6.Purpose/Aim/Goal/Intention
7.Inventors/founders
8.Online directory
9.1 billion users
10.worth
【解析】
试题分析：文章介绍关于Facebook的信息，包括它的创建者，最初目的，和现在的发展流行情况。
1.原词重现：从第一段的句子：Facebook is one of the most popular websites that offer social networking today with more than l billion users around the world. 可知Facebook的一个主要的功能是提供社交网络：Offering social networking
2.归纳题：下面提到的都是Facebook的好处：Initial(original) advantages /benefits
3.句意归纳题：从第一段的句子：Facebook enables all these activities by various applications(运用程序) 可知Facebook可以让人们参加里面的各种各样的活动：Different/various activities
4.句意归纳题：从第一段的句子：Online gaming is one of the biggest USPs(独特的卖点) of Facebook, 可知Facebook可以给人们提供晚上的游戏：Providing/Offering online games.
5.句意归纳题：从第二段的句子：In the beginning, Facebook was just meant for Harvard University students to find and contact fellow students. 可知Facebook是在哈佛大学被创建的：In Harvard University
6.句意归纳题：从第二段的句子：It was meant to serve the purpose of keeping track of who was new to college to get in touch with each other for project purposes.? 可知这里将的是创办Facebook的目的：Purpose/Aim/Goal/Intention
7.句意归纳题：从第二段的句子：Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, along with Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz. and Eduardo Saverin. helped in the launch of the site. 可知Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz, 和 Eduardo Saverin是Facebook的创办者： Inventors/founders
8.原词重现：从第二段的句子：It was an online directory(目录) , and was founded in 2004 0n the Harvard University campus.可知填 Online directory
9.原词重现：从第一段的句子：Facebook is one of the most popular websites that offer social networking today with more than l billion users around the world. 1 billion users
10.原词重现：从第三段的句子：It is also the second most popular site in the US, and is worth billions of dollars. 可知填worth
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一课一练课时达标系列答案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 e-mails, and they all seemed normal enough. 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.
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 down-to-earth. Read his Facebook and you realize he’s an unbearable, food-obsessed bore. 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 lull. 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 happened to golf? What happened to getting another job?
Take Liz. She is positive that the H1N1 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 are 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 lunatic(狂人)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 standards?
【小题1】Who is opposed to the H1N1 vaccine in the text?
| A．Fred. | B．Andy. | C．Liz. | D．Chris. |
| 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. |
| A．present another side of people |
| B．offer some food for free |
| C．show endless advertisements |
| D．get you to more parties |
| A．giving examples | B．following the time order |
| C．listing figures | D．raising questions |
| A．what is Facebook | B．what happened to golf |
| C．who is my real friend | D．who can help me |
Nowadays more and more people are trapped in too busy work to relax themselves. We have no time to tell a bed-time story to our children, or enjoy a nice dinner with our family, or take a break to think about how we live the precious life, or even meet friends. All we notice is that the distinctions that used to guide and steady us ------ between Sunday and Monday, public and private, here and there ------ are gone. We have more ways to communicate, but less and less to say. Partly because we’re so busy communicating.
Maybe that’s why more and more people I know, even if they have no religious commitment, seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation, or tai chi. Some friends of mine try to go on long walks every Sunday, or to “forget” their cellphones at home. A series of tests in recent years has shown that after spending time in quiet rural settings, subjects “exhibit greater attentiveness, stronger memory and generally improved cognition. Their brains become both calmer and sharper.” More than that, empathy, as well as deep thought, depends on neural processes that are “inherently slow. ” The very ones our high-speed lives have little time for.
In my own case, I turn to eccentric and often extreme measures to try to keep my sanity and ensure that I have time to do nothing at all. I’ve not yet used a cellphone and I’ve never Tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day’s writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan.
None of this is a matter of principle or asceticism (苦行主义): it’s just pure selfishness. Nothing makes me feel better-----calmer, clearer and happier----than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It’s actually something deeper than mere happiness: it’s joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as “that kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.” That is the highest of the highest we have been longing for----The Joy of Quiet.
【小题1】The writer sometimes doesn’t do anything because ________.
| A．he is out of work . |
| B．whatever he does make no sense |
| C．he is worried about his writing. |
| D．he can enjoy himself in his leisure time. |
| A．Somebody really forgets his cellphone at home. |
| B．Somebody thinks cellphone is not a suitable means of communication. |
| C．Somebody hates modern techniques such as the cellphone. |
| D．Somebody leaves his cellphone at home on purpose. |
| A．It is better to go back to the ancient times since we are so busy now. |
| B．The writer is unwilling to help others since he is selfish. |
| C．Slowing down to find time and space to think and enjoy oneself is urgent. |
| D．We have more to say because we have more ways to communicate. |
| A．difference | B．sameness | C．simplicity | D．complication |
| A．The importance of spending time in quiet. |
| B．We can do some sports such as yoga to relax. |
| C．Principle or asceticism is important in one’s life. |
| D．The more we communicate, the more we will be closer. |