57. From the passage, we know “… they are all just a few clicks away”means “_______”.

    A. it is wonderful to see your friends by clicking

    B. it is easy and fast to get in touch with your friends

    C. it is possible to live much closer to your friends

    D. it is popular to make friends online

  56. Fox’s Shadow thinks QQ is ________.

    A. the biggest messaging service in China

    B. a good place to spend her boring time

    C. a safe place to chat with strangers

    D. the best place to make friends

  55. People meet face to face offline when they think they ________.

    A. have known each other well

    B. have the same interest

    C. have enough free time

    D. have nothing to do

  54. Some people like loud music because ______.

    A. it sounds beautiful          B. they can hear it clearly

    C. it is quite popular              D. they like to hear and feel it

B

    Your friends might be in Australia or maybe just down the road, but they are all just a few clicks （点击）away. Life has changed for millions of young people across the world who now make friends online. Whether you use chat-rooms, QQ, MSN or ICQ, you are a member of this group.

    “I don’t often talk with my parents or grandparents, but I talk a lot with my old friends on QQ, ”said Fox’s Shadow, the online name used by a girl student in China. “Most of my classmates use QQ after school. ”

    QQ is the biggest messaging service in China. A record from Tencent, the company which developed QQ, shows that 4 million people used it one Saturday night in October.

    And probably Fox’s Shadow was one of them. “I log in （登陆）on Friday nights, and Saturdays or Sundays when I feel everything around me boring. I usually spend about ten hours chatting （聊天）online every week, ”she said. “But I never talk with stranger, especially boys or men. ”

    Even though she likes chatting, she is careful about making friends with stranger online. “You don’t know who you’re talking to. You should always be careful about whom you believe in online. ”

    Many people would like to meet offline when they feel they have got to know someone very well. Fox’s Shadow once met one of her online friends face to face. It was a girl who was a football fan like herself and they went to a football match together.

    A 16-year-old Beijing boy, named Bart Simon online, dislikes QQ users. “I used to chat on QQ, but I found that most people were talking about foolish things, ”he said. Now he chats online in English, using MSN. “I only chat online because I’ve got friends in Japan, the US and Singapore, ”he said. “I want to learn more about foreign cultures（文化）. ”But he spends little time chatting on QQ as he sees it as a waste of time and money.

    “If you are really addicted to （上瘾）it, sometimes you can’t give your mind to your lessons, ”he said. “And friends in your real life are always more important than those so-called friends you meet online. ”

  53. In stores people usually touch things _______.

    A. they like            B. they want to buy

    C. that are beautiful       D. that are expensive

  52. It is not easy to feel ________ on your feet at first because you are too used to them.

    A. the grass            B. the sand

    C. the shoes            D. the rug

  51. By holding a glass ball in your hands, you can not feel _______ it is.

    A. how much         B. how cold

    C. how heavy            D. how smooth

  49. A. good news      B. pleasant stories C. bad news     D. true stories

  48. A. danger     B. science      C. life         D. disease