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[单项选择]Caught in the Web
A few months ago, it wasn’t unusual for 47-year-old Carla Toebe to spend 15 hours per day online. She’d wake up early, turn on her laptop and chat on Internet dating sites and instant-messaging programs – leaving her bed for only brief intervals. Her household bills piled up, along with the dishes and dirty laundry, but it took near-constant complaints from her four daughters before she realized she had a problem.
"I was starting to feel like my whole world was falling apart – kind of slipping into a depression," said Carla. "I knew that if I didn’t get off the dating sites, I’d just keep going," detaching (使脱离) herself further from the outside world.
Toebe’s conclusion: She felt like she was "addicted" to the Internet. She’s not alone.
Concern about excessive Internet use isn’t new. As far back as 1995, articles in medical journals and the establishment of a Pennsylvania treatment center for overusers generated interest in the subject. There’s
A. Her daughter’s repeated complaints.
B. Fatigue resulting from lack of sleep.
C. The poorly managed state of her house.
D. The high financial costs adding up.
[单项选择]What happened in London a few months ago
A. The heart of London was flooded.
B. An emergency exercise was conducted.
C. 100 people in the suburbs were drowned.
D. One of the bridges between North and South London collapsed.
[单项选择]Passage Four
A few years ago it was fashionable to speak of a generation gap, a division between young people and their elders. Parents complained that children did not show them proper respect and obedience, while children complained that their parents did not understand them at all. What had gone wrong Why had the generation gap suddenly appeared Actually, the generation gap bas been around for a long time. Many critics argue that it is built into the fabric of our society.
One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own life style. In more traditional societies, when children grow up, they are expected to live in the same area as their parents, to marry people that their parents know and approve of, and often to continue the family occupation. In our society, young people often travel great distances for their educations, move out of the family home at an early age, marry or live with people who
A. the generation gap suddenly appeared
B. the generation gap is a feature of American life
C. how people can reduce the generation gap
D. many critics argue over the nature of the generation gap
[简答题]I bought a sports car few days ago.
[简答题] A few years ago an Italian friend of mine traveled by train from Boston to Providence. She had only been in America for a couple weeks and hadn’’t seen much of the country yet. She arrived looking astonished. "It’’s so ugly!"
People from other rich countries can scarcely imagine the squalor (肮脏) Of the man-made bits of America. In travel books they show you mostly natural environments: the Grand Canyon, Whitewater rafting, horses in a field. If you see pictures with man-made things in them, it will be either a view of the New York skyline shot from a discreet distance, or a carefully cropped image of a seacoast town in Maine. How can it be, visitors must wonder. How can the richest country in the world look like this
Oddly enough, it may not be a coincidence. Americans are good at some things and bad at others. We’’re good at making movies and software, and bad at making cars and cities. And I think we may be good at what we’’re good at for the same reason we’’re bad at
