Facebook users may feel socially successful in the web world but they are more likely to perform poorly in exams. The majority of students who use Facebook every day are doing badly compared with those who don’t. About 83% of British 16 to 24-year-old people are using social networking site such as Facebook and MySpace, to keep in touch with friends and organize their social activities.
“Our study shows people who spend more time on Facebook spend less time studying,” said Aryn Karpinski, a researcher. “Every generation has its distractions(娱乐), but I think Facebook is a unique phenomenon.” Karpinski and a colleague questioned 219 US undergraduates and graduates about their study and general Internet use, as well as their specific use of Facebook. They found 65% of Facebook users accessed their account daily, checking it several times to see if they had received new messages. The amount of time spent on Facebook at each log-in(登录) varied from just a few minutes to more than an hour.
Some UK students have already realized the potential danger. Daisy Jones, 21, an undergraduate, realized the time she was spending on Facebook was threatening her grades, urging her to deactivate(使无效) her account, “I was in the library and tried to write a 2,000-word essay when I realized my Facebook habit had got out of hand,” she said. “I couldn’t resist going online, when thinking about it. Before you know it , a couple of minutes have turned into a couple of hours and you haven’t written a word.”
Jones is among the few to have realized the risks. 79% of the users, however, believed the time they spent on the site had no impact on their work. The CEO of Facebook said, “There is also academic research that shows the benefits of services like Facebook. It’s in the hands of students to decide how to spend their time.”
1.What can we know from Paragraph 1?
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A．All the students who don’t use Facebook do well in exams. |
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B．Social networking sites have both advantages and disadvantages. |
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C．Facebook is the main site for British people to keep in touch. |
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D．Most of British students use social networking sites daily. |
2.Facebook users check their account frequently to ____________.
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A．spend less time on study |
B．make sure new messages aren’t missed |
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C．practise specific use of Facebook |
D．accumulate amount of time spent on Facebook. |
3.Why did Daisy Jones deactivate her account?
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A．She was warned about the risk of using Facebook. |
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B．Spending much time on Facebook affected her study |
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C．She wanted to write a long article in the library. |
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D．There was something wrong with her eyes. |
4.What’s the best title of the passage ?
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A．Facebook fans do worse in exams |
B．Social networking sites and their fans |
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C．Facebook helps organize social activities |
D．How to use social networking sites correctly. |
A man had a little daughter—an only and much-loved child. He lived ___21__ her—she was his life. So when she became ill, he became like a man moving 22 and earth to bring about her restoration to 23 .
His best efforts, 24 , proved 25 and the child died. The father became a bitter loner, 26 himself away from his many friends and refusing every 27 that might restore his calm and bring him back to his normal self. But one night he had a 28 .
He was in heaven, 29 a grand presentation of all the little child angels. They were 30 in a line passing by the Great White Throne. Every white-robed angelic child 31 a candle. He noticed that one child’s candle was not lighted. Then he saw that the child with the 32 candle was his own little girl. 33 to her, he seized her in his arms, 34 her tenderly, and then asked, “ 35 is it, darling, that your candle alone is unlighted?”“Daddy, they often relight it, but your tears always 36 .”
Just then he awoke from his dream. The lesson was clear, and its effects were 37 . From that hour on he was not a loner, but associated freely and 38 with his former friends and colleagues. 39 would his darling’s candle be extinguished(熄灭) by his 40 tears.
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---What’s wrong with your cell phone? I can’t get through.
--- Oh, my line was cut off because I ________ my bill.
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A．haven’t paid |
B．hadn’t paid |
C．wasn’t paying |
D．don’t pay |
It is obvious that John is unhappy. _________, it comes as no surprise that she has decided to change her job.
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A．However |
B．Otherwise |
C．Moreover |
D．Therefore |
– She will finish the project within three days!
-- ______________! I could do it in three hours.
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A．You are right. |
B．I’m stuck. |
C．Oh, come on |
D．Don’t mention it. |
--You know Mr. Green has been ill for days?
--Yes, I wonder if he is ______ better now.
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A．any |
B．some |
C．any |
D．no |
