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【題目】Facebook Is a Big Waster

During the first decade of the 21st century, a popular and new word has come into our vocabulary—Facebook. This is the most popular social networking website on the Internet. 【1】You can send messages to your friend’s electronic wall, put up a status saying something like “Going to the mall, I need to get a new pair of shoes” or “it’s finally the weekend! :)”.

In spite of the benefit it does on common people, it is true that this social network is a big waster. There are about 350 million active users on this website and 67% of them are between the ages of 13-25. More than 35 million users update their status every day. 【2】

The highest age group who use Facebook are teenagers. Most of them keep the website running whenever they are using the computer, if they aren’t in school or when they aren’t asleep. Facebook is just changing the new generation of youngsters unconsciously. The teenage life is one of the most important stages of life. 【3】 It is a distraction to their mind as well. Nowadays, when all their homework and research are on ICT(信息技術(shù)), they would easily switch to Facebook just to check if there was anything updated among their friends.

Facebook is also where people can see the gossip among their friends, virtual arguments, relationship status and updates, who is in whose “top friends”, you can become fan of anything, join groups, post pictures and videos, play childish games, invite friends to parties or events and a lot more. Generally, all these would just disturb people into living life to the fullest. It’s not just teens who become addicted, even grown-ups do. An average person spends about 55 minutes on Facebook. 【4】 Technology might be taking over people’s life. Furthermore, people who use Facebook through their mobile phones are 50% more active on Facebook than non-mobile phone users. This shows people using Facebook on their phones as well as computers just can’t stand being away from the website. Facebook is like crack to some folk.

【5】 This would make them think how life is like without saying what’s on their mind to all their friends on the Internet. A break would also make them more active, like socializing in person. This would finally help them focus better in school or in work. Although about 80% of people who take a break would come back to Facebook within days.

A. And 2.5 billion photos are added each month.

B. Wasting it on Facebook is not encouraging in any way.

C. This statistic isn’t that bad but some people spend about 3-5 hours.

D. It is time people should take a break from Facebook once in a while.

E. As a result, the average Facebook users have 130 friends who they share links with.

F.Usually, when people hear the words “social networking”, their brains automatically go to sites such as Twitter or Facebook.

G. The main idea of Facebook is that you can keep in touch with all your friends around the world who have Facebook.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】G

【2】A

【3】B

【4】C

【5】D

【解析】這是一篇講述Facebook危害的議論文。從Facebook的流行說起，然后講述了過度使用Facebook的危害，最后講述適當離開Facebook的好處。

【1】空格位于You can send messages to your friend's electronic wall前，此段空格后講述的都是與朋友聯(lián)系。而G選項中keep in touch with all your friends正好與后文呼應。故選G。

【2】空格位于More than 35 million users update their status every day.后，G選項中2.5 billion photos are added each month正好承接上一句，并有and連接。講的都是使用者在Facebook中的使用情況。故選A。

【3】空格在The teenage life is one of the most important stages of life（青少年時期是人生階段最重要的時期）之后。而且在此空格前，也講述了Facebook所造成的現(xiàn)狀。而空格后的as well也說明前面說的是Facebook的壞處。B選項中的it指的是the teenage life。故選B。

【4】空格前講述人們平均花費55分鐘在Facebook中。根據(jù)常識，55分鐘并不算長，而此段一直在講使用者沉迷于Facebook中。通讀選項，C選項正好講述這項統(tǒng)計不壞，但是一些人花費3-5小時，帶入后整體就顯得很通順了。并且C選項中的The statistic 與上句的數(shù)據(jù)相對應。故選C。

【5】空格后講述了很多好處，說明此處空格應該講的是不過度依賴于Facebook，通讀選項，D選項很合適，并且與后文中的a break相呼應。故選D