Maybe you’re really busy. Maybe you don’t have much to say. Or maybe you’re just lazy. Not a problem. This free service works by letting you broadcast a group text message to your {fiends’ mobile phones from either your own phone, an instant message or an online form at twitter, com. All your notes are then stored and displayed on your personal profile page on the site, which includes links to your friends’ Twitter pages, a thumbnail picture of your choice, and a short bio. All this is what the new service Twitter can bring you. Just remember to keep it short: posts are limited to !40 characters, and the topic is, invariably, “What are you doing?”
More often than not, it turns out, Twitter’s 100,00 members--twice as many as it had just a month ago, according to Twitter business development director Biz Stone--are simply killing time. Even Presidential hopeful John Edwards is on it, although he seems to be the only one thinking about more than lunch. As I type this, Caroline is mulling over some Girl Scout cookies, Ian Hocking is “waiting for Jessica to arrive so we can eat!” and Hlantz is “having a nice cup of Soft Starmint tea.”
The chatter (闲话) about Twitter turned into a virtual roar two weeks ago during the South by Southwest Multimedia Festival in Austin, Texas, when the barebones service owned by Blogger founder Evan Williams, 34, was named the best blogging tool and attendees used it to meet up at parties. Nevertheless, Twitter has been the top term on blog search engine Technorati for the past two weeks.
Plenty of people would happily have Twitter silenced, rather than tolerate the beeping alert for yet another new text message. But I’m betting that Twitter will get a lot noisier before netizens move on to the next new thing. We cyberjunkies need a new thrill, and what is better than a service like Twitter that combines social networking, blogging and texting? And if you don’t like it, well, in the words of one Twit from San Francisco, “I’m so sick to death of Twitter-haters. If you don’t like it, why waste your time writing, reading, or talking about it?”
1. This text is intended to __________.
A. point out the virtues and faults of Twitter B. tell people how to use Twitter to communicate
C. give a general outline of Twitter. Com D. introduce a new and easy way of instant communication
2. According to the text, Twitter is designed mainly for the purpose of ___________.
A. promoting products and services B. talking about small daily things
C. discussing serious social matters D. attracting voters for presidential election
3. We know from the text that Twitter may be superior to Blogger in that ________.
A. it limits each user’s texting under 140 words B. it saves users’ time and thinking
C. it can be easily operated through users’ mobile phones
D. it is newly invented by Blogger owner Evan Williams
4. By quoting one Twit from San Francisco, the author implies that ___________.
A. like it or not, Twitter will be accepted by more and more people
B. if one doesn’t like Twitter, he/she can choose not to mention it
C. writing, reading and talking about Twitter is a waste of time
D. twitter users naturally have a strong dislike for non-Twitter users
第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）.
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
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第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的（A、B、C和D）四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The relationship between a son and his father changes over time. it may 36 and flourish(繁茂) in mutual maturity. It may fail in disliked dependence or independence.
The first 37 I have of him--of anything, really--is his strength. To a little boy right after World War II , a father seemed a god with strange strengths and powers 38 him to do and know any things in the world, such as putting a bicycle chain back on, building a hamster cage or guiding a jigsaw(拼板玩具) so it 39 the letter F. In fact, I learned the alphabet that way in those pre-television days.
There were, of course, rules to learn. First came the handshake. 40 of those fishy (冷冰冰的) little finger grips, but a good firm squeeze 41 by an equally strong gaze into the other’s eyes.
As time passed, there were other rules to learn. “Always do your best.” “Do it now.” “Never lie!” And most 42 , “You can do whatever you have to do.”
By my teens, he wasn’t telling me 43 to do anymore, which was scary and exciting at the same time. He 44 perspective (视角), not telling me what was around the great corner of life but letting me know there was a lot 45 just today and the next, which I hadn’t thought of.
With father, I 46 became a grown up.
But one day, I realize now, there was a(n) 47 .
A School fact 48 something he said. Impossible that he could be wrong, but there it was in the book. I began to see, too, his 49 spots, his prejudices and his weaknesses. I never threw these up at him. He hadn’t to me. I 50 asking his advice.
There seemed to be a 51 between us, which I found 52 to fill in.
After much thought and practice (“You can do whatever you have to do.”), one night last winter, I sat down by his bed. I told my father how much I 53 him and talked of some of my advice on him.
He said he knew how hard my 54 had been to say and how proud he was of me.
“I had the best teacher,” I said. “You can do whatever you have to do.” He smiled a little. And we shook hands once again, 55 .
36. A. raise B. grow C. worsen D. exist
37. A. lesson B. idea C. memory D. touch
38. A. making B. encouraging C. getting D. enabling
39. A. writes B. forms C. appears D. comes
40. A. Nothing B. All C. None D. Some
41. A. approved B. accompanied C. astonished D. appointed
42. A. strictly B. importantly C. urgently D. surprisingly
43. A. how B. when C. what D. why
44. A. provided B. gained C. lost D. kept
45. A. earlier than B. more than C. shorter than D. less than
46. A. luckily B. gradually C. surprisingly D. regularly
47. A. choice B. chance C. change D. check
48. A. confirmed B. confused C. contradicted D. connected
49. A. strong B. blind C. poor D. dark
50. A. began B. continued C. stopped D. missed
51. A. gap B. failure C. crash D. loss
52. A. impossible B. easy C. necessary D. strange
53. A. disappointed B. misunderstood C. loved D. supported
54. A. life B. years C. speech D. words
55. A. hardly B. firmly C. warmly D. friendly
. ---- Dad, John isn’t cool and buries himself in jobs all day. I want to break up with him.
---- Break up with such a nice man? ________ . I don’t want to see you for ever.
A. Don’t talk that tone to me! B. Go to hell
C. None of your nonsense. D. Don’t be a wet blanket.
. We were just taking about Jane when, at that _______ moment, she walked in.
A. accurate B. tense C. unique D. precise
After graduation I hunted for jobs here and there, meeting with many setbacks,_______ I obtained a vacant post in a small business.
A. though B. in that C. unless D. until
