Loma just had to get in touch with someone: “I had to tell my best
friend something important. I tried calling her but I couldn’t get through. So I sent her an e-mail and then I spoke to her on MSN. Without technology I would not have been able to tell her. ”
Staying connected with friends and family is important for us. That’s
why we asked our readers to tell us how cell-phones, e-mail, blogs, text messaging, and personal pages help them keep in touch. More than 1,500 responded.
Most of them told us they couldn’t live without technology: 80％of
teens said they need technology to stay in touch. Almost 30％said they’d be completely out of their friends without their cell-phones and other methods of communication.
What do they do when they’ve got news they need to share now? Most
teens say they try to reach their friends by phone. But if they don’t reach them, they use QQ, e-mails, and text messaging to get the words out.
Lots of people use one way of communication—like text messaging—to
get a friend’s attention and then use another where they can talk more. “My friends and I always tell each other everything that happens. So I send them text messages to tell them to come online so we can talk about it,” said Sabeiha.
“When planning to get together with friends”, Julian said, “the easiest
and fastest way I know is to send a text message to my contact group.”
Jocelyn said. “If I want to go to see a movie with a few friends, I usually
send text message to them. By telephone, you have to call every single friend
one by one. But text messaging allows you to send the same message to as
many as you’d like, which saves a lot of time. ”
小題1:Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A．E-mails.B．Blogs.C．Personal pages.D．Personal letters.
小題2:What do most young people use first when they have news to tell their friends?
A．MSN.B．QQ.C．Phones.D．Text message.
小題3:The underlined part “get the words out” means“     ”.
A．send the messageB．send the e-mail
C．talk with their friendsD．meet their friends
小題4: In which part of a newspaper can you find this passage?
A．Sport.B．Education.C．Technology.D．Culture.

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:A
小題4:C

試題分析：
小題1:D 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第二段2,3,4行That’swhy we asked our readers to tell us how cell-phones, e-mail, blogs, text messaging, and personal pages help them keep in touch.說明ABC都是保持聯(lián)系方法，D文章沒有提及。故D符合要求。
小題2:C 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第四段第二句Most teens say they try to reach their friends by phone.說明C正確。
小題3:A 推理題。根據(jù)本句. But if they don’t reach them, they use QQ, e-mails, and text messaging to get the words out.說明他們使用這些溝通的技巧讓自己的觀點被對方理解，故A正確。
小題4:C 推理題。本文討論的溝通技術(shù)對交流的影響，最有可能在報紙上與技術(shù)有關(guān)的部分出現(xiàn)，故C正確。
點評：文章講述了在人與人之間的溝通中，各種溝通技術(shù)的重要性。集中考查細節(jié)題和推理題，要求考生在仔細閱讀全文的基礎(chǔ)之上，認真的推理分析，準(zhǔn)確判斷。
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