Text B——Is True Friendship Dying Away? (真正的友谊正在消失吗？)

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Exercises for Text B

A. Choose the best answer according to the text.

1. What does NOT happen to interpersonal communication (人际交往) nowadays according to the passage?

A. People have deeper relationships.

B. People use the Internet to get in touch with others.

C. People like texting and messaging more than talking on a phone.

D. People have more acquaintances through electronic communication.

 

2. About half of British people think that ________.

A. they have stronger connection with their friends

B. they are rich in friends

C. they are entering a new period of friendship

D. they have fewer closest friends

 

3. Pressures on friendship include ________.

A. demands of work             B. long distance

C. better-paid jobs              D. all of the above

 

4. When is most likely for a person to make true friends?

A. In summer.                 B. In childhood.

C. In playtime.                 D. At night.

 

5. What does “the device” mainly refer to in the last sentence of the passage?

A. Mobile phone.               B. Telephone.

C. MP3 player.                 D. iPad.

B. Read the sentences below and decide if they are true or false according to the text. Write T for true or F for false.

 

1. The Internet is changing the way people manage relationships.

2. People do not like to use the telephone now.

3. Electronic communication reduces the chances of human contact.

4. Aristotle believed that one’s life is fundamentally lacking without a good friend’s company (陪伴).

5. People themselves are to blame for having less friendship.

 

Keys: 1. T   2. F   3. T   4. T   5. F

Comprehensive Exercises

A. Choose the best answer.

1. This radio is almost the same as ________.

A. she’s                   B. her

C. hers                    D. she

2. She told me two stories, but ________ of them was interesting.

A. either                   B. both

C. neither                  D. none

3. I agree with most of what you said, but I don’t agree with ________.

A. all things                B. everything

C. something               D. nothing

4. The doctor said that she would try ________ best to cure me.

A. one’s                   B. her

C. his                     D. the

5. Which newspaper do you think ________ young people in Australia?

A. most popular of          B. is the most popular with

C. be most popular of        D. are the most popular with

6. I was in the kitchen ________ something when the doorbell rang.

A. cooked                 B. cook

C. to cook                 D. cooking

7. There ________ a swimming pool in the school.

A. lived                   B. happened

C. seemed                 D. was

8. When will those shops open? I don’t know when ________.

A. those shops will open      B. will those shops be open

C. will those shops open      D. those shops are opening 

C. Translate the sentences into English, using the given words or phrases.

1. 他的一番话伤了朋友的感情。(hurt)

What he said hurt his friend’s feelings.

 

2. 约翰对比尔来说很重要，因为他总是给比尔许多帮助。(mean … to)

John means a lot to Bill because he often helps him a lot.

 

3. 我们大家都同情她。(sympathy)

We all have sympathy for her.

 

4. 比起电子通讯，我更喜欢面对面的交谈。(prefer … to)

I prefer face-to-face talk to electronic communication.

 

5. 他们小时候常在一起玩。(hang out)

They often hung out together when they were young.

D. Translate the following passage from Text A into Chinese.

When I was quite young, my family had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. Soon I discovered that somewhere inside that wonderful device lived an amazing person — her name was “Information Please” and there was nothing she did not know. My mother could ask her for anybody’s number; when our clock stopped, Information Please gave us the correct time at once.

 

在我还很小的时候，家里有了所在街区的第一部电话。不久，我就发现那个奇妙的装置里住着一个神奇的人——她的名字叫“请接查询台”。她简直无所不晓：妈妈要别人的电话号码会找她；家里的钟坏了，她会立刻给我们准确报时。