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Facebook users may feel socially successful in the web world but they are more likely to perform poorly in exams. The majority of students who use Facebook every day are doing badly compared with those who don’t. About 83% of British 16 to 24-year-old people are using social networking site such as Facebook and MySpace, to keep in touch with friends and organize their social activities.

“Our study shows people who spend more time on Facebook spend less time studying,” said Aryn Karpinski, a researcher. “Every generation has its distractions(娱乐), but I think Facebook is a unique phenomenon.” Karpinski and a colleague questioned 219 US undergraduates and graduates about their study and general Internet use, as well as their specific use of Facebook. They found 65% of Facebook users accessed their account daily, checking it several times to see if they had received new messages. The amount of time spent on Facebook at each log-in(登录) varied from just a few minutes to more than an hour.

Some UK students have already realized the potential danger. Daisy Jones, 21, an undergraduate, realized the time she was spending on Facebook was threatening her grades, urging her to deactivate(使无效) her account, “I was in the library and tried to write a 2,000-word essay when I realized my Facebook habit had got out of hand,” she said. “I couldn’t resist going online, when thinking about it. Before you know it , a couple of minutes have turned into a couple of hours and you haven’t written a word.”

Jones is among the few to have realized the risks. 79% of the users, however, believed the time they spent on the site had no impact on their work. The CEO of Facebook said, “There is also academic research that shows the benefits of services like Facebook. It’s in the hands of students to decide how to spend their time.”

1.What can we know from Paragraph 1?

2.Facebook users check their account frequently to ____________.

3.Why did Daisy Jones deactivate her account?

4.What’s the best title of the passage ?

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It is a common fear among users of Facebook and other social media around the world—how to deal with a friend request from your boss or employee.

A survey released on Thursday found that 56 percent of Americans say it is irresponsible to be friends with a boss and 62 percent say it is wrong to be friends with an employee. But 76 percent believe it is acceptable to be friends with a workplace peer，according to the survey of 1，000 people by Liberty Mutual’s Responsibility Project.

"When the roles change what do you do then? Do you unfriend someone if they have now been promoted to be your boss or if you’re now their boss，”said researcher Kelly Holland. "We get into some really sticky situations there in terms of what people will think is responsible，”she said.

When using social media at work，73 percent say it is not appropriate to update your Facebook status，82 percent say you should not upload photos，72 percent believe tweeting is wrong and 79 percent say it is not acceptable to watch online videos. Yet 66 percent say it is fine to check your personal email while at work.

“When people focus on responsibility，they know what the responsible thing is to do but whether they are doing that in practice or not is a different story,”said Holland.

Americans are split on whether companies should review the social media profiles of job candidates with 52 percent saying it is appropriate and 48 percent saying it is unacceptable. Social media can also lead to some difficult decisions when it comes to family and relationships. Sixty percent of those polled say that it is“completely acceptable" to unfriend an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend. More than 40 percent of parents believe it is irresponsible to post photos of children online. Thirty one percent monitor their children's Facebook accounts and almost 70 percent are friends with their children on Facebook or MySpace. But 72 percent limit the time their children spend on social media networks.

The poll was taken between January 12一15．

1.The text is mainly about________

A. social，family and relationships.    B. ways of making friends

C. not using social media at work       D. action of responsibility

2. The underlined word "Facebook" in the first paragraph refers to________

A. a book about face                    B. an Internet site of making friends

C. a broadcasting media                 D. a newspaper or magazine

3.Which the following is TRUE according to the text?

A.thirty one percent of the parents keep watching on their children’s Fecebook accounts.

B. Forty eight percent agree to review the social media profiles of job candidates.

C. Eighty two percent say it isn’t appropriate to upload photos at work.

D. Seventy six percent believe it is acceptable to be friends with employee,

4. What was the writer’s attitude towards the result of survey?

A. Defensive.       B. Critical.        C.Objective.        D. Doubtful

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Unknown to most Facebook users, the social network actually offers a lot of privacy controls and security features which can help you lock your account, so you can speak freely. If it’s used properly, you’ll never have to worry about whether you will have to “friend” your boss or your mom. You can friend anyone you want while staying comfortable in the knowledge that not everyone gets to see everything you post.

The problem with carrying out these privacy options is that they’re just too confusing for most non-tech clever people to handle. And often, most people don’t want to bother to take the time to learn. To simplify the process, we’re offering one easy step you can take today to help make your Facebook experience safer, more secure, and more private.

Just make “Friend Lists”. Yes, it will take some time, especially if you’re connected to a couple of hundred friends already. But this step, while not the quickest, is fairly simple. And it will be one of the most useful things you can do on Facebook.

Friend lists, as the name suggests, are lists for classifying your friends into various groups. The nice thing about this feature is that once you set these lists up, you won’t have to do it again. We suggest that you put your work colleagues and professional acquaintances into a friend list named “Work”, personal friends you’re not very close with into a list called “Acquaintances”, and people you’re related to into a list called “Family”. Those three main categories will separate out the groups of “friends” who you may want to hide some information from.

To create a friend list, click on “Friends” at the top of the Facebook homepage. In the left-hand column, click “Friends” again under the “Lists” section. Now you’ll see a button at the top that says “Create New List”. Click it. In the pop-up that appears, you can name your list and pick members. If you’ve ever shared an application with your friends, the process of doing this will be very familiar.

When you’ve finished making lists, you’ll be able to use them when selecting who can see what (or who can’t!) when configuring (配置) the security settings described below.

1.What function isn’t understood by most people on Facebook?

A. Surfing the Internet.

B. Setting safety protection.

C. Sharing personal information.

D. Making foreign friends.

2.What can we learn about Facebook according to the text?

A. Its process of privacy-setting is too complex.

B. It displays everything people post.

C. It lacks privacy controls and security features.

D. Its post is designed for technical people.

3.What advantage can we get from making friend lists?

A. We can avoid our bosses adding us as friends.

B. We can share applications with friends.

C. We can separate acquaintances from family.

D. We can hide different information from different friends.

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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Facebook has a new idea to keep users 1. (engage) in its social network. It connects them with strangers. The firm is testing a feature in the United States 2. shows interests, employment history and public groups that you share in common with random users.

When someone you don’t know comments on a public post, Facebook will show information on 3. you live in the same city or want to go to the same school.

Facebook hopes the feature, which is being tested currently by 4. number of users, will spark conversations with people you might otherwise have never met. Facebook emphasizes that the tool, which 5. (know) as Things in Common, will only use data that is already available 6. (public) on your profile.

Above the 7. (name) of people who have left comments, Facebook will highlight things you have in common with each user. Next 8. one name a label might read “You both went to the University of Manchester” or “You were both born in Bristol”. The feature is part of Facebook’s efforts 9. (make) public discussions on its network more 10. (meaning).

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Investors soon will be able to own shares of Facebook stock. The world’s biggest social media network presented documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. The documents are required before the company can make its initial public offering（首次公开募股）or IPO. A date for the stock sale has yet to be announced.

Experts say Facebook could raise about five billion dollars. That would be one of the biggest IPO sales ever. And it would be much bigger than Google’s first public stock sale in 2004. At that time, the Internet search company raised almost two billion dollars.

Facebook has 800 million users around the world. It is the second most visited website after Google. Now, experts say the social media network is in a position to become one of the most valuable Internet companies.

Stock expert Anupam Palit at Greencrest Capital says that among social media sites, Facebook is in a class by itself.

“It is the biggest company in this space and we believe what makes it very unique from every other company that went public last year in this space is that it is very, very profitable.” said Anupam Palit.

Early estimates place the total value of the social network between 75 and 100 billion dollars. That includes earlier investments by other companies. David Kirkpatrick wrote the book The Facebook Effect. He says Facebook’s IPO will be historic.

The stock sale could also make Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg one of the world’s youngest billionaires. He is only 27.

Investment companies are likely to buy Facebook stock first. But investment manager Jim O’Shaugnessy says that is not so bad. He says the prices of some IPO stocks are too high and fall not long after they first go on sale.

Recently, share prices of some Internet businesses have fallen after their stocks were first offered. For example, stocks of Linkedln, Groupon and Zynga, dropped in price by as much as 25% after going public.

There were similar questions eight years ago when Google first sold stock to the public. Today, Google is one of the world’s most valuable technology companies.

1.Which of the following is true about Google?

A. Google’s first public stock sale began in 2005.

B. Google is the world’s most valuable company.

C. Google’s share price rose after its stock was first offered.

D. Google raised almost two billion dollars from its first public stock sale.

2.According to the passage, we can know Facebook ________.

A. has 800 million users in the USA       B. has announced the date for its first stock sale

C. is the most visited website today       D. is the world’s biggest social media network

3.We can infer from the passage that ________.

A. Facebook stock is being sold very well

B. Mark Zuckerberg will get much money from the stock sale

C. Mark Zuckerberg was only 27 when Facebook was founded

D. investment companies have bought many Facebook shares

4.Which would be the best title for this passage?

A. Facebook and Its IPO               B. The Difference Between Facebook and Google

C. The Founder of Facebook            D. A Book Called The Facebook Effect

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Social media is one of the fastest-growing industries in today’s world. Your friends’ lives may look more exciting than yours on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but a new research shows it is because they are faking(伪造) it.

A recent survey has found around two-thirds of people on social media post images to their personal information to make their lives seem more adventurous. And more than three quarters of those asked said they judged their peers based on what they saw on their Instagrm, Snapehat or Facebook pages.

The British survey, by smart phone maker HTC, found that, in order to make our own pages and lives appear more exciting, six percent also said they had borrowed items to include in the images in order to pass them off as their own. More than half of those surveyed said they posted images of items and places purely to show off, causing jealousy among friends and family.

Behavioral psychologist Hemmings said the trend was unsurprising due to the rise of social media. “We’re living in a world instant communication.” she said. “Fashion and style used to live and die in magazines; now people are in search of authentic, peer-to-peer recommendations as well, making social media an equal power house to magazines and newspaper.”

“With images being shared in an instant, we desire to know what our friends are wearing, or what super stars are buying, as soon as they have got them.” Such is the influence of social media sites like Instagram, 76 percent of those asked also said seeing items on social influences them to buy them, with men more likely to take style advice and buy what they see.

1.How do some people make their lives appear more exciting?

A. By buying pictures.　　 B. By posting images.

C. By making up stories.　　 D. By risking their lives.

2.What does the underlined word “jealousy” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A. Adventure.　　 B. Conflict

C. Envy　　 D. Misunderstanding

3.What can we learn from Hemmings?

A. The trend reflects the development of social media.

B. Fashion and style no longer exist in magazines.

C. Magazines and newspapers are less important.

D. The trend is beyond people’s expectation.

4.Which of the following best describes social media like Instagram?

A. Positive　　 B. Creative

C. Persuasive　　 D. Honest

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A Facebook user uploaded photos of a dog, Leo, sharing that he had seen the animal sitting in the same spot every day, as if waiting for someone. They originally thought the dog had been abandoned, but then realized that he looked well-fed. It turned out that the dog had indeed been spending most of his around that intersection, but a woman had been coming around regularly to bring him food and water.

The 45-year-old woman, named Saowalak, said that when she first found him in that very same spot, several years ago, Leo was all skin and bones and plagued by skin disease, so she took him home and nursed him back to health. However, Leo returned to the same place she first saw him, making her assume that he was waiting there for his owner. She just came and brought him food and water every few days.

After learning about the story, the Facebook user decided to share it on social media, documenting with photos of the dog and the kind-hearted woman who looked after him. The post soon went viral and the photos of Leo got shared hundreds of times online.

Nang Noi Sittisam, a 64-year-old woman, almost had a heart-attack when her daughter showed her a photo of a dog that looked a lot like BonBon, the beloved dog she had lost during a car trip. Learning that he had been waiting for her in the same spot for the last four years, her heart melted.

Auntie Noi told her daughter to drive her to where the dog was waiting instantly she saw the photo and heard the story. When she got there and called his name, “Bon Bon”, the poor dog started wiggling his tail and came to her, but when she tried to take him home with her, he was reluctant to follow. She then understood that her BonBon had become attached to Saowalak, the woman who had nursed him back to health.

1.What can we learn about the dog, Leo?

A.He was abandoned by his former owner because of his disease.

B.He stayed at the same spot hoping to wait for a good owner.

C.He was lost but finally reunited with his master.

D.He waited at the same place because he didn’t like to stay with Saowalak.

2.Why did the Facebook user upload the photos of Leo and a woman?

A.To make an ad for Facebook.

B.To share a moving story.

C.To honor the woman for her kindness.

D.To help Leo find his former owner.

3.Which of the following words best describe the dog?

A.Stubborn but attached.

B.Considerate but discouraged.

C.Optimistic and cute.

D.Loyal and faithful.

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People around the world may feel that the climate _1.__ (get) steadily warmer and warmer in recent years. Places _2._ used to be abundant in snowfall have frequently experienced snow-free (无雪的) winters. Droughts last _3._(long) in some dry areas. People find that _4._ air conditioners they could hardly work or fall asleep in hot summer days.

The side effects of global warming are alarming. __5._ warming global climate melts the ice caps，_6._ (raise) sea levels. What is more，_7._ disturbs weather patterns, causing droughts, severe storms and hurricanes. People suffer a lot from disasters relevant to global warming. __8._ (stop) global warming we should make immediate and __9.__(continue) efforts. We hope the situation will soon change. Global warming catches and holds our concern，_10.__ it affects us and will affect our later generations. We cannot wait any longer. Do it right. Do it right now.

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“The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do whether it’s protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is well spent,” Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook in January.

If the tech firm succeeded, Facebook would end 2018 on a much better path. But the cracks in Zuckerberg’s social media empire only grew as scandals(丑闻)about data misuse, security and even Facebook’s leadership piled up.

The social network has faced criticism many times since launching 14 years ago, but the public uproar reached new heights in 2018. Facebook’s missteps, even as it tried to fix its problems, were yet another reminder of what happens when a company grows rapidly with little oversight(监管). They also set the stage for another showdown between the tech powerhouse and lawmakers who have their own ideas on how to manage a platform used by 2.3 billion people every month.

“I think there’s just a general growing consensus from both parties in Congress that self-policing is not going to work,” Democratic senator Mark Warner of Virginia said in an interview. Facebook pointed to a series of notes Zuckerberg published this year outlining what the tech firm has done to combat(战斗，争论)election meddling(好干预的), as well as hate speech, misinformation and other offensive content. The social network pulled down more than 1.5 billion fake accounts, launched a database of political ads and announced the creation of a Supreme Court like independent body to oversee content appals.

But in many ways, Zuckerberg fell short of his New Year’s resolution(决议). UN investigators said Facebook played a role in spreading hate speech that fueled ethnic cleansing(清洗)in Myanmar. Media outlets found loopholes(漏洞)and errors in Facebook’s political ads database. Users questioned whether they should delete Facebook after learning that Cambridge Analytical, a UK political consulting firm with ties to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, gathered data on as many as 87 million Facebook users without their permission.

In short, Facebook’s problems ballooned out of the company’s control.

“They created a platform where sharing was mindlessly easy and interacting with each other required almost no forethought at all,” said Woodrow Hertzog, a law and computer science professor at Northeastern University. “As a result, there was massive sharing, including leaking of personal information that put lots of people at risk.”

1.What can be inferred about Facebook from the passage?

A. It is a platform where people can easily share well-selected information.

B. It is a social network that has faced criticism because of data misuses from Zuckerberg.

C. It is a social network which grows rapidly without enough management from the government.

D. It is a popular app that 2.3 bllion people use for information and communication every day.

2.The underlined word “uproar” in Paragraph 3 has the similar meaning to “________”.

A. crack B. criticism C. disagreement D. argument

3.What is the best title of this passage?

A. A tough challenge for Facebook B. Zuckerberg’s new year resolution

C. Criticism of Facebook for misusing D. A dark future for Facebook

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First thing in the morning, I check the social networking website Facebook, only to see how I’ve already fallen behind. A workmate has written a new book. Two of my 1. (hero) have completed a big project. One of my old college friends posted a video for an online program she 2. (take)at the moment. She looks successful, shiny and 3. (charm) while I’m still in bed, bleary-eyed.

Am I really falling behind? Did these people post any of these things 4. (make) me feel bad? Of course not. But if I'm not careful, it's5. (terribl) easy to see social media as 6. reminder of all the things i'm not doing and dreams I'm not fulfilling.

But 7. isn't a social media problem. It's a comparison problem. it's all about how I think about it.

And I know it's not just me. Our culture is full of comparisons, and it's hard not to look around 8. what other people are doing with their short time, and ask, "What about me?"

But all these years I've learned one thing: don't compare your insides with someone else's outsides. You have no idea 9. it took for other people to get where they are. Don't act as if it was effortless or pure luck. it's much 10. (easy) to look at someone "up there" and be jealous of what they have than to be happy for them and make yours better.

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