17．Could you get away from t he Internet today and not go online again for 12 months？For many of us，the answer is probably an emphatic"No!"-the Internet has become part of our life and we have a hard time without it．But Paul，a 26-year-old writer at The Verge，a technology website，just did the seemingly impossible：he survived a year without the Internet．
Beginning on Oct.30，2011，he didn't read e-mail，type a word into Google or download a single app．He lived his entire year offline in hope of finding out more about himself and focusing on other activities．But on November 1，2012，Paul turned on the Wi Fi on his laptop and i-Pad．
"I was wrong，"he began．His article is titled"I'm still here：back online after a year without the Internet．"At first，the was encouraged to"stop and smell the flowers by a new friend he made at the beginning of his Internet-free adventure"．And that is what he intended to do．He described the first months of 2011 as full of surprising events：real life meetings，bike rides and reading．Besides，his relationships with his family got closer．He visited his brother's family instead of using Facebook to communicate with them．
But as the months went by，Paul"had learned how to make a new style of wrong choices off the Internet"．The learning and creativity turned into social retreat（隱退）．Instead of reading and writing，he started playing video games for hours on his sofa．He missed some of his Facebook and long-distance friends．"I fell out of the flow of life．"he wrote，"The experiment was a failure．My plan was to leave the Internet and therefore find the‘real'Paul and contact the‘real'world，but the real Paul and the real world are always connected to the Internet．Not to say my life wasn't different without the Internet，jus that it wasn't real life．The Internet is where people are．"
38．The underlined word"emphatic"means doing or saying somethingA．
A．in a definite way
B．with great interest
C．in a delighted manner
D．without a clear attitude
39．Paul decided to spend a year offline becauseC．
A．he wanted to have more adventure in his life
B．he was tired of sitting in front of his computer all day
C．he wanted to discover more about himself and the world
D．he missed his long-distance friends and his family members
40．What happened after Paul stopped using the Internet in the first months？D
A．He spent all the time reading and meeting people．
B．He became interested in adventures around the world．
C．He played computer games and did some experiments．
D．He i mproved his relationships with his family members．
41．We can conclude from the passage that Paul has realized thatA．
A．the Internet has become part of our life today
B．an Internet-free life is a healthier life
C．there is no need to contact the real world
D．without the Internet，one can enjoy life better．
分析 本文講述了一名作家決定在離開網絡一年后又選擇了重返網絡世界，繼續(xù)日常的生活．
解答 38．A．詞義猜測題．由后面對問題的回答"No!"，可知這個回答是果斷確定的，故選A．
39．C．細節(jié)理解題．由第二段He lived his entire year offline in hope of finding out more about himself and focusing on other activities．可知，他希望更多地發(fā)現(xiàn)自身，并且專注于其他運動，故選C．
40．D．細節(jié)理解題．由第三段Besides，his relationships with his family got closer．可知他的家庭關系變得更親密了，故選D．
41．A．理解推斷題．由全文內容可知，保羅在離開網絡一年后選擇了又重返網絡世界，并開始玩游戲，閱讀，寫作，和朋友通信，可推知網絡已經成為了我們如今生活的一部分，故選A．
點評 本篇文章難點在推理判斷題上．推理判斷題要以表面文字為前提，以具體事實為依據(jù)進行推理，做出判斷．這種推理方式比較直接，考生只要弄清事實，即可結合上下文推斷出合理的結論．
