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 mercials -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（谦逊的）.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 pany 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 panies-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 es 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?
【小题1】 Who is opposed to the flu vaccine in the text?A．FredB．AndyC．LizD．Chris【小题2】What’s Andy probably busy in doing now?A．He’s running his panyB．He’s playing golf all dayC．He’s looking for another jobD．He’s playing puter games【小题3】According to the text, FaceBook tends to . A．present another side of peopleB．offer some foods for freeC．show endless advertisementsD．get you to more parties【小题4】The text is developed mainly by . A．giving examplesB．following the time orderC．listing figuresD．raising questionsC
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(答案→)C
解析：文章大意是讲自从有了FaceBook之后，朋友们的变化。以前朋友会一起吃饭、聊天或者相互打电话，发短信。而如今即使在一起，也只是应付着，时不时地去玩一下他们的FaceBook，让作者不得不怀疑自己是不是没有朋友了。
【小题1】细节理解题。文章第五段第一句话Take Liz. She is positive that the flu vaccine will kill us all and that we should avoid it.她肯定地认为流感疫苗将会把我们所有人杀死，因此我们应该避免种植。故选C。
【小题2】细节理解题。文章第四段第一、二句话but now he’s a CEO without a pany to run. So he plays Mafia Wars on FaceBook.但是他现在是个没有公司的CEO，所以正在FaceBook.上玩黑手党战争游戏。故选D。
【小题3】推理判断题。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，我被告知了一个悲哀的事实：我的许多朋友都有一面一直没被我发现的阴暗面。故选A。
【小题4】文章结构题。文章通过举例来说明FaceBook对人们生活的影响。故选A。