A.Video and online game.B.Hazards of a high-tech society.C.Relationships on campu
A.Video and online game.
B.Hazards of a high-tech society.
C.Relationships on campus.
D.Internet addiction.
A.Video and online game.
B.Hazards of a high-tech society.
C.Relationships on campus.
D.Internet addiction.
M: Thank you very much for inviting me.
W: Is Internet addiction a relatively new thing?
M: Well, some may have been addicted for a while.
W: How does it present itself?
M: Well, some of them have issues like relationship problems, (23)or problems maintaining their grades because they are spending so much time on the Net.
W: But I think the computer is a very positive thing. How do I know when my impulse to go online will turn me into an Internet addict?
M: Uh...I'm not sure the exact amount of time is really the issue, (24)but I think if it begins to affect other areas of your life, such as your work or school performance. One of the problems with the Internet, is that people start losing some of the skills that make relationships successful. (24)If you are beginning to feel anxious or depressed or empty or lonely and you know you really look forward to those times when you can be online to be connected with other people in that way, then, a serious issue is starting to happen.
W: What if you start giving up other things, like going out for a walk...is that a symptom?
M: Well, (25)I think it's helpful to have some sort of balance in your life. If you can, spend some time on the Internet and then go out and take a walk.
W: So that's how we can avoid Internet addiction. Thank you very much, Dr.James.
(23)
A.Video and online games.
B.Hazards of a high-tech society.
C.Relationships on campus.
D.Internet additions.
A.Make use of library.
B.Consult with their teachers.
C.Work together in groups.
D.Search online for quick information.
According to the passage, education has to __
A.adapt its system to the need of the new generation
B.use more technologies to cater for the iGeneration
C.risk its system to certain extent for the iGeneration
D.be conducted online for iGenerations individualized need
The author's general attitude towards video games is that ______.
A.video games create a world which reflect our real life
B.most video games are helpful rather than harmful to people
C.more research should be done regarding the benefits of video games
D.video games mirror a balance between reality and our own wishes
The 1992 Los Angeles riots broke out because ________.
A.video coverage from helicopters had made people angry
B.video coverage had provided powerful feedback
C.the jury acquitted the policemen who had beaten Rodney King
D.people can make their own judgements
Passage 5
High street shops use a variety of means to attract shoppers, such as striking window displays, huge red “Sale” signs and special promotions. Online retailers also _1_ similar techniques to tempt people to their websites and to make a purchase. “In the Internet _2_ years, online retailers competed on price, but today you just pay the same price online as offline. Any difference is made up by the delivery charge, says Gavin George, a partner at Itim Group, a consultancy. Today’s online retailers are using e-mail marketing, personalized technology, smart search engines and _3_ in an effort to increase traffic and sales. Some online retailers are using _4_ e-mail services to encourage customers to visit their sites. The travel and leisure retailer Lastminute, for example, sends more than 2 million emails to customers every week. The content of the email is _5_ to fit the recipient’s age, lifestyle. and other factors. Carl Lyons, head of marketing at Lastminute.com UK, says:“E-mail is a different medium with its own culture, so you have to know how to use it _6_ if it’s going to be effective. What you’re trying to do is to _7_ lookers into bookers.” MyPoints is an _8_ scheme for online shoppers, which gives them points for reading e-mails,visiting sites and making purchases. The acquired points can be _9_ for a variety of goods and services. In the US, there are more than 10 million MyPoints registered users. The service is free to join and subscribers complete an online _10_ that produces 400 data points about them.
A) incentive
B) tailored
C) diplomatic
D) profile
E) properly
F) embarked
G) boom
H) targeted
I) indicative
J) deploy
K) recommendation
L) convert
M) multimedia
N) invariably
O) redeemed
第1空答案是:
Passage 4
America’s most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yet to set out plans for a paywall around its digital offering, _1_ the accepted practice that internet users will not pay for news. Struggling with an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times intends to introduce a “metered” model at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be required to pay when they have _2_ a set number of its online articles per month. The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper on the charging side of an _3_ wide chasm (鸿沟)in the media industry. But others, including the Guardian, have said they will not _4_ internet readers. The New York Times&39;s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, _5_ that the move is a gamble. Boasting a print _6_ of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays, The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper, behind the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. While most US papers focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can claim _7_ scope—as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and maintains 26 bureaus elsewhere in the world. But like many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a _8_ financial crisis. Its parent company, the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but _9_ a loss of $70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a $250 million _10_ from a Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, to strengthen its balance sheet.
A) national
B) interactively
C) circulation
D) loan
E) crude
F) exceeded
G) charge
H) ascend
I) abandoning
J) suffered
K) serious
L) deducting
M) increasingly
N) evaluation
O) acknowledged
第1空答案是:
A.The online program is more convenient.
B.The online program costs less.
C.The online program requires high technology.
D.The online program offers no supervision for a person's study.
According to the passage, e-mails are used by online retailers to ______.
A.cater to the special needs of the online shoppers
B.help online customers to learn to do online shopping
C.change the attitude of the potential buyers toward online shopping
D.convert lookers into bookers