Parties and social gathering no longer excite...

Parties and social gathering no longer excite us the same way they once did. This is not because of a lack of desire to socialize, but the mobile-phone.

At parties, more people are on their phones than on their drinks. According to a recent International Data Corporation Study, over half of all Americans have a smartphone and reach for it as soon as they wake up, keeping it in hand all day. In addition, too many people in society are using smartphones while driving and as a result, they get into car crashes. 34 percent of teenagers admit sending messages while driving, and they agree that sending messages is their number one driving interruption. People’s addiction(沉溺) to their smartphones is unbelievably becoming more important than the lives of themselves and others.

Just as drivers ignore the importance of focusing while on the road, many people also fail to recognize the importance of human communication. When with their friends, some people aimlessly check or send messages in front of a friend, which sends a message to that friend: the person I am texting is more important than you. In addition, relying on our smartphones to make friends does not give us the same advantage as being able to make new friendships in the real world. Face-to-face conversations will give us much stronger communication skills in the long run.

As many people risk their lives and the lives of people around them just to send a message or mindlessly check their messages, smartphones are in many ways more dangerous to people. The quality of this technology is preventing societal achievements and weakening the value of communication. Not only is the smartphone affecting our desire to communicate face to face, but it is also lowering society’s ability to communicate.

1. The purpose of the passage is to 　　　　　　　　 .

A. call for an end to use the smartphone while driving

B. tell us to pay attention to communication skills

C. express a concern about the overuse of the smartphone

D. advise us to be careful about the addiction to face-to-face communication.

2.The second paragraph is developed by 　　　　　　　　 .

A. giving examples　　　 B. time order.

C. comparing facts　　　 D. analyzing the effects

3.The author advises us to make new friends 　　　　　　 .

A. by using smartphones　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. in a face-to-face way

C. in different ways　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. by writing letters.

4.Over-dependence on the smartphone leads to the fact that 　　　　　　 .

A. parties and gathering limit their social circle.

B. people are more and more easy-going.

C. people’s communication skills are weakened.

D. face-to-face communication becomes more and more dangerous.

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For many years, parties have been an important social event. When 25 people or more gather at a certain location in order to have fun and engage in conversation, it can be considered a party. Parties usually have different drinks and food choices, and music is a large part of the event, very often.

Birthday parties are held in honor of an individual who is having a birthday, and presents and gifts are usually brought by attendees(出席者).The song “Happy Birthday to You” is very often sung by partygoers for the person who is having a birthday.

There are different kinds of Birthday parties. Adults may have birthday parties in restaurants or nightclubs, while children usually have parties at home or at funhouses. Sometimes children may have parties at water parks or amusement parks as well.

Birthday parties may also happen in the manner of a surprise party, where the person having a birthday is not told about the birthday preparations. Surprise parties include guests hiding in a location where the party is to take place, then shouting “surprise!” when the guest of honor enters.

Sporting event parties usually take place around a specific sports happening, such as the Super Bowl, the World Cup or the World Series. People gather and eat, drink, and laugh as they talk about the happenings of the games within that sporting event. These types of parties are very lively and usually loud.

Nightly socialization parties include house parties and dance parties. House parties sometimes are held by teenagers and young adults of college age in a set location; private houses are often the location of choice. People who manage the music are hired to provide musical entertainment. Usually alcohol is included, resulting in trouble for the attendants of the party.

Dance parties include energetic music like disco or pop. People gather at these parties to dance, drink, and have a good time. Usually people at these parities will be of younger ages between 18-28.

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根据中文意思完成句子,每空一词。

1.因此，农民喜欢我们就不再猎杀我们了。

____  ____  ____, farmers like us and no longer hunt us.

2.我 正 在 保 护 自 己 免 受 蚊 虫 叮咬。

I'm ____  ______  _______mosquitoes

3.没有雨林就没有动物，也就没有药物

_____rainforest, no animals,_____  ________.

4.谁不能参加古代奥运会？

Who  could  not  ____  _____  ______  the  ancient  Olympic Games？

5.奥运会会旗上的五环代表什么？

What do the five rings on the Olympic flag_____  ______？

6.运动会主要有两种——夏季奥运会和冬季奥运会。这两种运动会每四年都会定期举行一次。

There are two main sets of Games—the Winter and the Summer Olympics, and both _____  ______every four years on a regular basis

7.作为回赠，沙皇则送给他一队自己最好的士兵。

____  _____,  the  Czar  sent  him  a  troop  of  his  best soldiers

8.电视机正在修理。

The TV set is _____ _______.

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To a growing number of US students in China, study in the ancient country is no longer just a cultural experience it has become an important part of their future professional careers.

Sam Gor, a 26-year-old student from Santa Clara, a county near San Francisco, said the purpose of his studies in Beijing was to help him find a good job when he goes back to the United States. "Culture matters," he said. "But more importantly, to learn Chinese and get a better understanding of the country may help me professionally."  As a new student at Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), Gor hopes to find a job in Santa Clara's local government when he goes back home in one year. "I need to learn Chinese if I want the job, as we have a large Chinese community there."

Gor is not alone in his thinking. While the number of US students in China has grown from less than 100 in the early 1980s to more than 10,000 for the time being. Many of them are here to boost(提高) a professional skill as much as to enjoy a new culture.

“In the past, foreign students came to China simply for our culture,” said Xu Quihan, director of BLCU’s foreign students office. “But because of China’s rapid economic and social development, being able to speak Chinese has become a useful tool to a student’s future job”

There are more US students who choose to stay in the country instead of going back after graduation. Stephanie Schubmehlo, a 23-year-old from Rochester, New York State, said she would like to stay in Beijing after graduation. “I love the city, and I can earn myself a living here if I can speak good Chinese,” she said, adding that some of the US students she knows shared the same idea.

1.By saying “culture matters”, Gor

A. questioned the popularity of Chinese

B. expressed his difficulty in learning Chinese

C. showed the differences between two languages

D. stressed the importance of learning about another culture

2.Compared with that of the past, the present number of US students in China

A. has decreased greatly

B. remains slightly unchanged

C. has been over 100 times larger

D. has nearly doubled

3.We can infer from the text that in 1984 US students learnt Chinese

A. just for the fun of it

B. to experience a different culture

C. to ensure themselves a promising future

D. for both cultural and professional purposes

4.In Xu Qiuhan’s opinion,

A. Chinese is too difficult for foreign students

B. more and more Americans will study in China

C. professional skills are more important than culture

D. China’s development makes Chinese professionally useful

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To our great surprise, Bill is no longer the naughty boy _________.

A．what he used to be　　　　　　 B．that he used to be

C．what he was used to　　　　　　 D．who he was used to

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Although the US is so big and its people have so many different racial backgrounds, it is in some ways less varied than Europe．The English language is used almost everywhere in its American form．The American way of speaking has developed independently of English and is on the whole closer to what can be heard in Ireland.

Another example of uniformity(一致)is in habits and ways of living．From Boston to Los Angeles it is as far as from France to Central Asia, and from east to west there are five time zones; but everywhere people get up and go to bed at about the same time, eat the same kind of food, buy in the same kind of shops, work and rest at the same time of the day and have the same pattern of holidays．In most of the things that matter there is less difference between rich people and ordinary people or between town and country, than in any single European nation.

Although far more food is produced than the present population needs, America is actually an urban society．Less than a tenth of the people are engaged in (从事) agriculture and most of the rest live in or around towns large and small．Here the traditional picture is changing; most Americans do not live in small towns any more．Half the population now live in some thirty metropolitan (大城市的) areas.

The fact that the United States has always been a single economic unit has contributed to uniformity．Modern industry favors large organization, and it is no accident that the world’s biggest commercial firms are American．The people can choose between the products of competing manufacturers (制造商) but the products are all much alike.

1.In describing the uniformity in the U.S．the author does not mention that the American people ________.

A．get up and go to work at the same time

B．spend their holidays in the same pattern

C．buy and eat the same kind of food

D．have more or less the same income

2.What can we learn from the passage about the U.S．agriculture?

A．The American farmers need more land.

B．Americans are interested in farming.

C．It is now going backward.

D．It is quite developed.

3.The last paragraph suggests that ___________.

A．the production size in the United States is very big

B．a single economic unit produces the same kind of products

C．there are more and more competing manufactures

D．people can choose from all kinds of products that are similar.

4.The underlined part “In most of the things that matter” probably refers to________.

A．in most basic things such as food, clothing and houses

B．in the more expensive things such as cars, TV sets, etc

C．in their land, housing and bank savings

D．in their wealth and income

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Great changes have taken place in that college. It’s no longer _____ it was 20 years

ago, _____ it was so poorly equipped.

高一英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

Great changes have taken place in that village. It is no longer ____ it was 10 years ago, ____ it was so poor.

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Great changes have taken place in that school. It is no longer_____ it was 20 years ago,______ it was so poorly equipped.

A. what ; when      B. that; which              C. what; which       D. when, that

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When I was 4, my parents decided they could no longer live together. That same year, my mom moved to Los Angeles (L.A.) and a therapist (治疗师) was hired to decide where I would live. Playing with a dollhouse in her office, I showed her the mother’s room on one side and the father’s room on the other. When she asked me about the little boy’s room, I told her the little boy didn’t know where to sleep.

The therapist finally decided I would stay with my dad during the school years and visit my mom on long holidays and for summers. I began flying between two cities and leading two different lives. I remember my last school day in Grade Six. My friends made plans to go to the beach together, but I couldn’t join them because I had to fly to L.A. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to see my mom and stepdad; I just didn’t want to leave my friends. It wasn’t easy to put up a wall, and pretend I didn’t hate saying goodbye to them. In the morning, my dad drove me to school with my packed bags, and after school, my friends went together, and I went to the airport.

What has come of this in the end is that I’m always missing somebody. When I’m in northern California, I miss my mom and stepdad, while in L.A. I miss going out with my friends, my dad, and my little brother and sister. But after so many flights, I’ve learned that it’s also fun traveling between two cities and experiencing different lives. Other children may not have the opportunity to experience so much.

1.The dollhouse game showed that the boy _______ .

A. didn’t want his parents to stay together

B. was very independent

C. had no feeling of belonging

D. didn’t like his parents

2.Why didn’t the author like traveling between two cities at first?

A. Because the traveling separated him from his friends.

B. Because he hated saying goodbye to his mom.

C. Because the traveling made it difficult for him to meet his parents.

D. Because he wanted to spend his summers with his dad.

3.We learn from the text that the author _______ .

A. stayed with his mom during the school years

B. finally accepted his traveling lifestyle

C. enjoyed traveling more than others did

D. never enjoyed staying with his family

4.What would be the best title for the text?

A. Always Miss Somebody

B. Travel on My Own

C. My Divorced Parents

D. My Lonely Life

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