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【題目】 In this age of Facebook and Twitter, we are all supposed to have hundreds of friends. But in fact most of us have just two close friends — down from an average(平均水平) of three 25 years ago, a study says.

Researchers (研究者) say there is no need to worry about that. Instead, they say that while some of us may be getting “more vulnerable (脆弱的)”, many are becoming better at deciding who is their close friend.

The result seems unexpected. Because a lot of young people are trying to make as many “friends” as possible on the Internet.

According to Facebook, the average user usually has 130 friends, but many of these are people who are known by accident or people the user will never meet in real life.

But the researcher, Mr. Brashears says, although the circle(圈子) of friends is getting smaller, which may make us more vulnerable, we’re not as “l(fā)onely” as the result shows.

For his study, Mr. Brashears did a survey in more than 2,000 adults aged 18 and older. He found that, modern discussion networks have been smaller in size. It is the same as other researchers’ findings, but few people have become lonelier.

Researchers asked people to list the names of people they had discussed important matters with over the past six months. About 48% of them listed one name, 18 % listed two, and about 29% listed more than two names for these close friends.

On average, one person had 2.03 close friends. And just over 4% of them didn’t list any names.

【1】According to the study, how many close friends do most of us have?

A.25.B.2.C.3.

【2】The underlined word “unexpected” probably means “________” in the passage.

A.有趣B.令人興奮C.意外

【3】About Facebook friends, which of the following is TRUE?

A.The Facebook user never meet some Facebook friends in real life.

B.The average user usually has 310 friends.

C.Facebook friends are all old and close friends.

【4】The passage shows the result of the survey by ________.

A.giving adviceB.telling storiesC.listing numbers

【5】What does the passage mainly talk about?

A.Many people are worrying about their circle of friends.

B.Researchers find many people have only two close friends.

C.Young people make as many friends as possible on the Internet.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】A

【4】C

【5】B

【解析】

本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，主要介紹了網(wǎng)絡(luò)交友時(shí)代人們似乎有許許多多的朋友，然而調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，很多人事實(shí)上只有兩名親密的朋友。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段“But in fact most of us have just two close friends”但事實(shí)上，我們大多數(shù)人只有兩個(gè)親密的朋友。故可知我們大多數(shù)人有2個(gè)親密的朋友。故選B。

【2】詞義猜測(cè)題。文章前面的部分指出人們的密友很少，下文又指出很多年輕人熱衷于網(wǎng)絡(luò)交友，兩者似乎是矛盾的，故調(diào)查結(jié)果在人們的意料之外。unexpected形容詞，意想不到的，意外的。故選C。

【3】推理判斷題。由第四段第一句“the average user usually has 130 friends, ”普通用戶通常有130個(gè)好友�？芍�B項(xiàng)中數(shù)字錯(cuò)誤，不正確。根據(jù)“but many of these are people who are known by accident or people the user will never meet in real life.”但其中很多人是偶然認(rèn)識(shí)的，或者是用戶在現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)遇到的人�？芍�Facebook上的朋友不都是老朋友和密友。故C項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤。且根據(jù)這一句可知Facebook用戶在現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中從未見(jiàn)過(guò)Facebook上的一些朋友。故A項(xiàng)正確，故選A。

【4】推理判斷題。由最后兩段可以明顯看出文章運(yùn)用了“列舉數(shù)據(jù)”的方法來(lái)說(shuō)明調(diào)查結(jié)果。故選C。

【5】主旨大意題。本文是對(duì)一個(gè)調(diào)查報(bào)告結(jié)果的介紹，其中心內(nèi)容是：在當(dāng)今網(wǎng)絡(luò)交友盛行的時(shí)代，人們?cè)诂F(xiàn)實(shí)生活中的密友卻只有兩名。故選B。