| A．She wouldn’t use her ticket. | B．She didn’t want her ticket. |
| C．She had forgotten about her ticket. | D．She didn’t want to go to the game. |
| A．The number of the train. | B．When the next train will depart. |
| C．Where to find some equipment. | D．Where to board the train. |
| A．He eats too much when playing chess. |
| B．He won’t join the chess club. |
| C．Chess is his favorite game. |
| D．He doesn’t enjoy chess as much as he used to. |
| A．The meeting was announced today. | B．She’ll make the call later. |
| C．There won’t be a meeting tomorrow. | D．She has confirmed everything. |
| A．She had difficulty getting tickets. | B．She’s already been to the exhibition. |
| C．She wanted to get tickets for everybody. | D．She’ll try to get tickets after work. |
| A．Mr. James is the new advisor. | B．The new advisor is a woman. |
| C．Every undergraduate has an advisor. | D．The advisor is not there. |
| A．Move her bag at the desk. | B．Tell a story with humor. |
| C．Undergo an operation. | D．Have a quarrel with the man. |
| A．His signature. | B．His room number. |
| C．His receipt. | D．His check. |
I heard about Matthew through my Aunt Mary. He was the son of Aunt Mary’s sister and she referred to him too often.
We were compared hundreds of times as we grew up. I remembered the first day I began school. I lay on the floor in the classroom, crying that I wanted to go home. At night, my mother said Aunt Mary told her that Matthew started school on the same day and enjoyed his school life like a duck to water.
And so it went on. What a genius (天オ), he knew his nine - times table (九九乘法表) like the back of his hand, while I was still hopelessly stuck in the fours ; I began to be afraid of Aunt Mary’s visits. She always brought chocolate for me, but as soon as she had gone, Mother was sure to say the words:
“Tom, Aunt Mary was telling me that Matthew…”
According to Aunt Mary, Matthew never took a math exam without getting a full mark and never took part in a football match without scoring a goal while I was bad at neither Math nor sports.
Aunt Mary kept saying we boys should meet each other and be good friends. Luckily, Matthew and I never got to meet each other.
When I was in high school, news about Matthew stopped after Aunt Mary stopped visiting us. She passed away. But Matthew was still a role model in my mind. I studied as hard as I could, minding nothing else. My hard work paid off and I was admitted to a key university. Personally speaking, I was really grateful to Aunt Mary and did want to meet Matthew in person. They both shaped my life.
One day, I was reading a book on campus when a fat short boy of my age with big glasses approached me, asking shyly whether I was Tom.
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I had never seen the boy before, wondering who he was.
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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________10 . More than 4.85 billion people have access to the Internet. Online, they can find all the information available to humankind and form their own opinion about anything. This has completely changed society. But what disturbs most is the new technological ability of the large number of people to express themselves. It is not free access to information but access to self-expression that changes the world. We are living through an unexpected explosion of authorship.
Thе book Human as Media gives us a vivid picture of this explosion of authorship. Humankind had 300 million authors in 5,000 years of written civilization and, all of a sudden, this number has risen to 4.85 billion in the space of 40 years. Such authorship has given us opportunities to express ourselves freely, but it has also led to thoughtless self - expression.
Social media such as Facebook and Twitter are commonly blamed for creating cultural mess. People can express this or that opinion as they like. But what really matters is that social media provide chances for billions who can reach out to others beyond their physical and social limits. This itself has become an important factor to shape society, regardless of the content. In reality, social media are specifically taking advantage of our desire to “struggle for recognition”. We humans need to feel a sense of being together. So is our thirst for response. Social media provide, or at least offer, responses to even the smallest activities of a user such as likes, posts, and comments. I click, therefore I am.
But with this great service comes great risks. Those self-expressions are exposed to some extent unseen before. Unprepared and unhesitating judgments regarding someone’s personal matters or public affairs increase incredibly. Personal becomes public and public becomes personal.
1. Why does the author mention the book Human as Media in Paragraph 2?| A．To explain a rule. |
| B．To provide a proof. |
| C．To clarify a concept. |
| D．To make a prediction. |
| A．They blame humans’ desire for fame. |
| B．They offer a platform for self-expression. |
| C．They provide users with different activities. |
| D．They benefit users by judging them carefully. |
| A．Unclear. | B．Favorable. | C．Negative. | D．Hopeful. |
| A．The Internet encourages self-expression |
| B．Social media realize online users’ dreams |
| C．Network mixes personal with public affairs |
| D．Technologies promote network development |
