Though sending text messages or writing micro...

Though sending text messages or writing micro-blogs allows us to exchange thoughts, bits and pieces of online connection can’t ______ for a “real conversation”.

A．change           B．tolerate           C．substitute         D．contribute

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Text messaging, or simply “texting”, which allows people to send and receive messages on mobile phones, becomes very popular today.

The advantages of texting are obvious. Texting helps to save money. If you have a few words to greet your families and friends on their birthdays or on some important festivals, sending messages can be cheaper than phone calling. Texting helps to save time. Even if you want to send a message to 100 people, you can do it one second. Texting helps you to “talk” to someone when he is too busy to answer the phone. Texting can also help you to “talk” to someone secretly if you don’t want others to hear what you are talking on the phone. These advantages are so amazing that many people are crazy about it. They hold mobile phones in hands all day long, send dozens of messages each day, and even text while driving or walking.

However, texting has its disadvantages. Junk（垃圾）messages may come into your mobile phone box now and then. When your phone box gets too full, you can’t receive any more messages. You may therefore miss some important information.

What’s more, if you don’t do texting properly, for example texting while driving or walking, it can be dangerous. It can cause injuries and even death. It is reported that about 6,000 people are killed and half a million were injured for this reason each year. In Fort Lee, a small town in New Jersey, USA, three people died because they walked into traffic while texting in 2011. Two researchers at Stony Brook University, New York found that texters are 60% more probably to have an accident than others. When people are texting, they don’t notice other people or things around them. To reduce traffic accidents, no drivers of the USA are now allowed to text while driving. About 32 countries have passed laws forbidding the use of mobile phones while driving.

Texting is a wonderful way of communication. However, only when we use it properly, can we fully enjoy the fun it brings.

1.How many advantages of texting are mentioned in the passage?

A. Three.　　　　　　　　　　 B. Four.　　　　　　　 C. Five.　　　　　　　　 D. Six.

2.When your phone box gets full because of junk messages, what will happen?

A. Your phone will break down.

B. Your phone can’t get through.

C. Your phone can’t get messages any more.

D. You lose contact with others.

3.What did the researchers at Stony Brook University find?

A. Texting can cause accidents more easily.

B. Texting while walking can cause death.

C. Calling while driving is easier to have accidents.

D. Many people were killed and injured.

4.According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

A. Drivers are allowed to text in the USA.

B. Text while walking is dangerous.

C. Junk texting cannot prevent you receiving messages.

D. The advantages of texting are not obvious.

5.This passage is written to tell us that _______.

A. we should do less texting

B. texting has many advantages

C. texting has many disadvantages

D. we should do texting properly

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Some people are so rude!

Who sends an e­mail or a text message that just says “Thank you”？ Who leaves a voice mail message rather than texts you? Who asks for a fact easily found on Google? Don’t these people realize that they’re wasting your time?

Maybe I’m the rude one for not appreciating life’s little politeness. But many social agreed standards just don’t make sense to people drowning in digital communication.

In texts, you don’t have to declare who you are or even say hello. E­mail, too, is slower than a text. Voice mail is a now impolite way of trying to connect.

My father learned this lesson after leaving me a dozen voice mail messages, none of which I listened to. Exasperated, he called my sister to express his dissatisfaction that I never returned his phone calls. “Why are you leaving him voice mail？” my sister asked. “Just text him.”

In the age of the smartphone, there is no reason to ask once­acceptable questions about: the weather forecast, a business’s phone number, or directions to a house, a restaurant, which can be easily found on Google Maps. But people still ask these things. And when you answer, they respond with a thank­you e­mail.

How to handle these differing standards? Easy. Consider your audience. Some people, especially older ones, appreciate a thank­you message. Others, like me, want no reply.

The anthropologist (人类学家) Margaret Mead once said that in traditional societies, the young learn from the old. But in modern societies, the old can also learn from the young. Here’s hoping that politeness never goes out of fashion but that time­wasting forms of communication do.

1.What does the underlined word “Exasperated” mean in the fifth paragraph?

A.Worried. B.Surprised.

C.Annoyed. D.Tired.

2.Why didn’t the writer reply to his father?

A.He liked text messages better.

B.He enjoyed checking his voice mail.

C.He didn’t receive any voice mail messages.

D.He didn’t want to talk with his father.

3.Which of the following does the writer agree to?

A.People needn’t learn from one another in traditional societies.

B.Dealing with voice mail should vary with each individual.

C.People needn’t turn to Google for help when in trouble.

D.Declaring who you are or saying hello in texts is necessary.

4.What’s the best title for this passage?

A.Nowadays: what should we do with text messages?

B.Nowadays: do you like leaving others a voice message?

C.Nowadays: what means should we use in communication?

D.Nowadays: do you need a thank­you message?

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

By sending text messages or chatting online, we’ve been in touch for months, but I’ve never met my new friend _____.

A. by accident　　　　 B. on purpose    C. in the flesh     　　　 D. in her absence

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Talking on a mobile phone is expensive, so a lot of people send text messages. Text messages are much cheaper than talking on a mobile phone, and you can make it cheaper by making the words shorter. You can do this by taking out “unimportant” letters in the words and using numbers instead of words (2 =" to," 3 =" free," 4 =" for," 8 =" ate," so h8 =" hate," etc.). You can also keep away from using punctuation (标点). Here is an example: Do U wnt 2 g 2 th cnma tnite (Do you want to go to the cinema tonight?)

What do you think these text messages mean?

Whr hv U bn? Iv bn wtng hrs fr a cll.

Im hm nw, why nt gv me a cll.

I gt a txt mssge frm my frnd. Shes hvng a prty on Strdy.

Mobile phone users have developed a group of symbols (符号) to show how they feel. They are called emoticons, and there are some examples below. To read an emoticon, you have to look at it sideways. For example, if you say something in a text message that is a joke, you can follow it with a smiling face. Like this: Why didt u call me? I’m so sad.   (

Here are some others. Can you think of text messages where you could use them?

) laughing     ( sad    ＜ really sad

Ⅴ shouting    |·| asleep   ：0 shocked

8·| surprised    \·o bored

1.Why are text messages popular?

2.The first paragraph tells us that we can make the text messages shorter in ________   ways.

3. What does this text message “Do U wnt 2 cm?” mean? It means “ ________ ?”.

4.Why do people use emoticons?

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

Talking on a mobile phone is expensive, so a lot of people send text messages. Text messages are much cheaper than talking on a mobile phone, and you can make it cheaper by making the words shorter. You can do this by taking out “unimportant” letters in the words and using numbers instead of words (2 =" to," 3 =" free," 4 =" for," 8 =" ate," so h8 =" hate," etc.). You can also keep away from using punctuation (标点).       Here is an example: Do U wnt 2 g 2 th cnma tnite (Do you want to go to the cinema tonight?)

What do you think these text messages mean?

Whr hv U bn? Iv bn wtng hrs fr a cll.

Im hm nw, why nt gv me a cll.

I gt a txt mssge frm my frnd. Shes hvng a prty on Strdy.

Mobile phone users have developed a group of symbols (符号) to show how they feel. They are called emoticons, and there are some examples below. To read an emoticon, you have to look at it sideways. For example, if you say something in a text message that is a joke, you can follow it with a smiling face.

1.Why are text messages popular?

2.The first paragraph tells us that we can make the text messages shorter in ________ ways.

3.What does this text message “Do U wnt 2 cm?” mean? It means “________?”.

4.Why do people use emoticons?

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Writing text messages while walking is dangerous. A study says it is more dangerous than texting while driving. Researchers found that there are more 1.　　 (injury) to texting pedestrians(行人) than there are to texting motorists. Their report says walking is not as easy 　 2.　 we think. We must focus on many things at the same time to walk safely in a straight line. The researchers said that people forget how to walk　 　　 3.(proper), so dangerous things happen to them. They bump(撞) into walls and other people. They walk into cars, fall over things in the street, 4. even fall into holes.

A professor said walking is a difficult action. There are several reasons 　 5. texting makes walking dangerous. 6. is that people cannot see the street. Another is that they focus on their phone keyboard instead of their feet. A final reason is that their minds are somewhere else—they are not thinking about 7.　 (walk) from A to B safely. The professor said over 6,000 people 8.　 (visit) his hospital last year because of texting. He said 9.　 worst cases are head injuries. When a pedestrian is tossed into the air he/she has nothing　 　 10. (protect) the head. The damage can be serious.

高二英语语法填空简单题查看答案及解析

If you are sending a text, watching the TV or listening to the radio, you may want to stop and give this your full attention. Multi-tasking shrinks (萎缩) the brain, research suggests.

A study found that men and women who frequently used several types of technology at the same time had less grey matter in a key part of the brain. University of Sussex researchers said, “Simultaneously using mobile phones, laptops and other media devices could be changing the structure of our brains.”

The finding follows research which has linked multi-tasking with a shortened attention span, depression, anxiety and lower grades at school. The researchers began by asking 75 healthy men and women how often they divided their attention between different types of technology. This could mean sending a text message while listening to music and checking email, or speaking on the phone while watching TV and surfing the web. The volunteers were then given brain scans which showed they had less grey matter in a region called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). The findings held even when differences in personality were taken into account.

The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, is the first to make a link between multi-tasking and the structure of the brain.

Researcher Kep Kee Loh said, “Media multi-tasking is becoming more common in our lives today and there is increasing concern about its impacts on our cognition and social-emotional well-being.”

He added that more research is needed to prove that multi-tasking shrinks the brain. This is because it is also possible that people with less grey matter in the ACC are more drawn to using lots of small devices simultaneously.

Scientists have previously demonstrated brain structure can be changed on prolonged exposure to new environments and experience. Other studies have shown that training — such as learning to juggle or taxi drivers learning the map of London — can increase grey-matter densities (密度) in certain parts. Experts have also warned of the harmful impact technology can have on our memory and attention span.

1.According to Kep Kee Loh, ________.

A. the link between multi-tasking and brain shrinkage needs further research

B. people with less grey matter in the ACC are more attracted to multi-tasking

C. multi-tasking has harmful impacts on our cognition and social-emotional well-being

D. multi-tasking leads to a shortened attention span, depression, anxiety and lower grades

2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. What multi-tasking is probably linked with.

B. How researchers draw inferences about multi-tasking.

C. How different health conditions affect brain structure.

D. Significance and limits of the research from University of Sussex .

3.The purpose of the passage is to ________.

A. compare the latest research with previous ones

B. prove the dangers of multi-tasking

C. inform readers of research on multi-tasking

D. discuss the benefits and problems of multi-tasking

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

How do people pass on messages? When you write a letter or make a telephone call, your words _ 1___ a message. People communicate with words. Do you think you can communicate _2__ words?  A smile __3_ your face shows you are happy and friendly. Tears in your eyes tell__4__ that you are sad. When you __5_ your hand in class, the teacher knows you want to say something __6___ ask questions. You shake your head, and people know you are saying no. You nod and people know you are saying ____ .7

Other things can also give some information. For example,  a sign at the bus stop helps you to know which bus __8___. A sign on the wall of your school helps you to find the library. Signs on doors tell you __ 9___ to go in or out. __10___ you ever noticed that there are a lot of signs around you and that you receive messages __11__ them all the time? People can communicate __12___ many other ways. A (An) 13__  can use his drawings to tell about beautiful mountains,  about the blue sea and many other things. Books __14___ to tell you about all wonderful things in the world and also about people and their ideas. Books,  magazines,  TV and radio and films all help us to communicate with other people. They all help us to know __15__ is going on in the world.

1.                A．take           B．carry           C．bring D．gives

2.                A．by             B．with           C．without   D．use

3.                A．in             B．on             C．at   D．of

4.                A．others         B．the others       C．other D．the other

5.                A．put on         B．put down       C．put up    D．put out

6.                A．when          B．or             C．but  D．if

7.                A．no            B．hello           C．yes  D．nothing

8.                A．to get          B．to take          C．to have   D．to bring

9.                A．which          B．where          C．how D．what

10.               A．Do            B．Did            C．Have D．Had

11.               A．from           B．of             C．about D．by

12.               A．with           B．in             C．without   D．for

13.               A．writer          B．artist           C．science   D．in

14.               A．write          B．wrote          C．are written D．is wrote

15.               A．what           B．which          C．that  D．how

高二英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

______ you talk or write a message to someone, you show your language skills to others.

A. Every time   B. Some time    C. At times     D. The time

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析