Your friends might be in Australia or maybe just down the road, but they are all just a few clicks 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 on Friday nights, and Saturdays or Sundays when I feel everything around me boring. I usually spend about ten hours chatting online every week,” she said. “But I never talk with strangers, especially boys or men.”
Even though she likes chatting, she is careful about making friends with strangers 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 known 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.” 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 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.”
1.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 popular to make friends online
C．it is possible to live much closer to your friends
D．it is easy and fast to get in touch with your friends
2.Fox’s Shadow thinks QQ is .
A．a good place to spend her time when bored
B．the biggest messaging service in China
C．a safe place to chat with strangers
D．the best place to make friends
3.Which of the following sentences is TRUE according to the passage?
A．All the people on QQ are talking about foolish things.
B．We should think more of our friends in real life.
C．We should be careful about boys or men online.
D．Chatting online is a waste of time and money.
4.The underlined phrase means .
A．turn on the computer B．enter in QQ
C．surf the internet D．make friends
It is believed that if an event is _______, it will surely ______ the readers of the paper.
A．astonished; astonish B．astonishing; be astonished
C．astonishing; astonish D．astonished; be astonished
If we are not _______ the progress we have made, we will have greater success.
A．interested in B．strict in C．popular with D．content with
最近我校同学正在参加某报社组织的一次讨论。讨论的主题是：中国是否应该大力发展家用小汽车?请你根据下表所提供的信息，客观地阐述这两种不同的意见。
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60％的同学认为 |
40％的同学认为 |
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1. 应大力发展 2. 促进国家经济发展 3. 增加就业机会 4. 省时、提高生活质量 |
1．应有限度地发展 2．城市交通拥挤、事故 3．修路占用土地 4．噪声污染 |
注意：1．开头部分已写好，不计入词数。词数为100个左右。
2．参考词汇： 促进promote 国民经济the national economy
We had a discussion about whether China should devote major efforts to developing car industry．Opinions are divided on the question．
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1 Futuroscope里有如此多先进的设备，卡彭特(Carpenter)一家玩得很开心。(so---that)
2在学一门语言时, 我们很可能犯错误。（be likely to）
3看着古老漂亮的中国陶瓷(pot)，她为祖国无比自豪。(V-ing 作状语)
4这个主题公园内所有景区都是按古代中国的生活复制的。(be modelled after )
5 那位歌手兼钢琴家常常在大城市举办音乐会。
1.Our headmaster stepped onto the platform, closely following by his secretary.
2.The building intended to be a museum. Now it’s a school.
3.Anji County is famous for a green tea producing place.
4.Travel can help us get closed to parts of the world we have never experienced.
5.It’s certain that patient teachers are more popular than dispatient ones.
6.Three years has passed since the couple met last time, and for them, three years is really a long time.
7.A cook will be immediately fired (解雇) if he is found smoke in the kitchen.
8.It’s very kind for you to help me.
9.Doctor Yuan Longping has devoted himself to increase rice harvests.
10.Seen from the top of the hill, we can see a small village under it.
