Question

【题目】

How would you feel if moving to a new town meant losing track of your friends? What if the only way of getting news from faraway friends was writing letters that took ages to be delivered（递送）? This was how things worked not very long ago. Thanks to advances in technology, how we make friends and communicate with them has changed greatly.

Nowadays, we can move around the world and still stay in touch with our friends. Social media tools（社交媒体工具） let us see what our friends are busy with and maintain friendships.

The digital （数字）age also enables us to find people who share our interests. Whatever our hobbies, the Internet can connect us with others who also enjoy doing them, even if they live on the other side of the world.

But when you friend people online, does this mean that they really are your friends? It depends.

If people always exchange true personal information online, then yes, these friendships can be real and meaningful. But we need to remember that what we see on social media is often not the whole truth about a person. Sometimes smiling photos can hide real problems. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. A young person could be old；a woman could be a man；we could even be sharing our information with criminals.

But this doesn't mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater. Although technology has changed the way we acquire（获得）friends, the meaning of friendship and our longing for friends remain the same. As Aristotle said, no one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other goods.

【1】Ways of making friends and communicating with them have changed greatly because of ________.

【2】To stay in touch with our faraway friends, we can ________.

【3】Online friendships can be real and meaningful if people ________ with each other.

【4】The phrase “throw the baby out with the bathwater” means “________” in Chinese.

【5】This passage mainly talks about ________ of making friends online.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】advances in technology/ developments in technology

【2】use social media tools

【3】exchange true personal information/share true personal information

【4】丢弃不想要的东西的同时失去宝贵的东西

【5】advantages and disadvantages

【解析】

本文是一篇议论文，论述了发达的网络技术使得人们交友和保持友谊更简单了；但网络是把双刃剑，网络上的友情有真也有假，所以人们也要谨慎。

【1】

根据“Thanks to advances in technology, how we make friends and communicate with them has changed greatly”，可知是因为技术的发展，故答案为advances in technology/ developments in technology。

【2】

根据“Nowadays, we can move around the world and still stay in touch with our friends. Social media tools（社交媒体工具） let us see what our friends are busy with and maintain friendships”，可知我们可以使用社交工具，故答案为use social media tools。

【3】

根据“If people always exchange true personal information online, then yes, these friendships can be real and meaningful”，可知是如果人们交换真实的个人信息，那就是真的友谊，故答案为exchange true personal information/share true personal information。

【4】

该句字面意思为“把孩子连洗澡水一起丢掉”，再结合作者的观点，可知其深层含义是“丢弃不想要的东西的同时失去宝贵的东西”，故答案为“丢弃不想要的东西的同时失去宝贵的东西”。

【5】

通读全文，可知文章主要论述了在网上交友的好处和坏处，故答案为advantages and disadvantages。