I’m not so sure I like my friends any more. I used to like them-to be honest. We’d have lunch, talk on the phone or exchange emails, and they all seemed normal enough. But then came Face Book, and I was introduced to a sad fact: many of my friends have dark sides that they had kept from me.
Today my friends show off the more unpleasant aspects of their personalities via FaceBook. No longer hidden, they’re thrown in my face like TV commercials -unavoidable and endless advertisements for the worst of their personalities.
Take Fred. If you were to have lunch with him, you’d find him warm, and self-effacing（謙遜的）.Read his FaceBook and you’ll realize he’s an unbearable, food-obsessed boring man. He’d pause to have a cup of coffee on his way to save a drowning man-and then write about it.
Take Andy. You won’t find a smarter CEO anywhere, but now he’s a CEO without a company to run. So he plays Mafia Wars on FaceBook. He’s doing well-level 731. Thanks to FaceBook, I know he’s playing about 18 hours a day. Andy, you’ve run four companies-and this is how you spend your downtime? What happned to golf?What happened to getting another job?
Take Liz. She is positive that the flu vaccine will kill us all and that we should avoid it. And then comes Chris who likes to post at least 20 times a day on every website he can find, so I get to read his thoughts twice, once on FaceBook and once on Twitter.
In real life, I don’t see these sides of people. Face to face, my friends show me their best. They’re nice, smart people. But face to FaceBook, my friends is like a blind date which goes horribly wrong.
I’m left with a dilemma. Who is my real friend?Is it the Liz I have lunch with or the anti-vaccine madman on FaceBook? Is it the Fred I can grab a sandwich with or the Fred who weeps if he’s at a party and the wine isn’t up to his standard?
小題1: Who is opposed to the flu vaccine in the text?
A．FredB．AndyC．LizD．Chris
小題2:What’s Andy probably busy in doing now?
A．He’s running his company
B．He’s playing golf all day
C．He’s looking for another job
D．He’s playing computer games
小題3:According to the text, FaceBook tends to _______.
A．present another side of people
B．offer some foods for free
C．show endless advertisements
D．get you to more parties
小題4:The text is developed mainly by _____.
A．giving examplesB．following the time order
C．listing figuresD．raising questions

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:A
小題4:A

試題分析：文章大意是講自從有了FaceBook之后，朋友們的變化。以前朋友會一起吃飯、聊天或者相互打電話，發(fā)短信。而如今即使在一起，也只是應(yīng)付著，時不時地去玩一下他們的FaceBook，讓作者不得不懷疑自己是不是沒有朋友了。
小題1:細節(jié)理解題。文章第五段第一句話Take Liz. She is positive that the flu vaccine will kill us all and that we should avoid it.她肯定地認為流感疫苗將會把我們所有人殺死，因此我們應(yīng)該避免種植。故選C。
小題2:細節(jié)理解題。文章第四段第一、二句話but now he’s a CEO without a company to run. So he plays Mafia Wars on FaceBook.但是他現(xiàn)在是個沒有公司的CEO，所以正在FaceBook.上玩黑手黨戰(zhàn)爭游戲。故選D。
小題3:推理判斷題。文章第一段最后一句But then came FaceBook, and I was introduced to a sad fact: many of my friends have dark sides that they had kept from me.然后就有了FaceBook，我被告知了一個悲哀的事實：我的許多朋友都有一面一直沒被我發(fā)現(xiàn)的陰暗面。故選A。
小題4:文章結(jié)構(gòu)題。文章通過舉例來說明FaceBook對人們生活的影響。故選A。
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