语言知识应用篇
Ⅰ. 选用方框内合适的选项完成下面短文(其中有两个多余选项)。
A. You no longer have to memorise anyone's phone numbers.B. Let us see a few significant changes we observed in the last 20 years.C. Think about it: do you know anyone's number by heart D. Is it necessary to search your phone books to contact your friends E. Most of the websites we know and love today weren't even an idea in 2000.F. At the beginning of the new millennium (千年), the world was a completely different place.G. Today, you use your cellphone instead of a camera, and you see your pictures immediately.
As we move through 2020, it's hard not to look back on the years past and reflect on how different everything is now. 1. ________ Cellphones were only just beginning to become popular, social media was not yet the number one topic of conversation and newspapers and magazines were still going strong. Here are a few more examples of how different our lives are today:
★ You're now on the Internet more than you are not on the Internet, instead of just using it for school or work.
In 2000, the Internet was still shiny and new, something that seemed to be full of exciting possibilities … we just didn't know how to use it yet. 2. ________ Those who went online were using the Internet for school or work, not for entertainment or connecting with people. Today, the Internet is obviously a huge part of our lives.
★3. ________
In 2000, cellphones were nowhere near as popular as they are today. If you wanted to remember someone's number, you either wrote it down in an address book, or you memorised it so you could call them whenever you needed to. But it's different now. 4. ________ Probably not.
★You now take photos on your cellphone instead of a film camera. People took photos, then waited days or weeks for the film to get developed before having the chance to see how they turned out in 2000. 5. ________
Ⅱ. 阅读下面材料,在空白处填入1个单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Have you ever been bored and decided to check social media, only to find out that your best friend is at Disneyland and one of your classmates is eating delicious pizza at your favourite pizzeria Have you ever had that feeling 1. ________ others are experiencing things and enjoying life more than you are Researchers call that feeling the fear of missing out or FOMO.
FOMO is a real phenomenon (现象) that over 75% of young people report feeling from time to time. Social media is the main reason, because 2. ________ is so easy today to know what your friends are doing, eating, buying, or talking about. 3. ________ (unlucky), enjoying all the same activities we see others engaged 4. ________ on social media would be impossible. Rather than realising this basic truth, though, we tend 5. ________ (let) FOMO lead us to compare our lives to those of others on social media. This comparison leaves us 6. ________ (feel) disappointed.
So how do we break the cycle and avoid FOMO Researchers recommend that we 7. ________ (stop) looking to social media for happiness. Instead, we should focus our 8. ________ (attend) on our real life, including the people around us and all the things we're grateful for. The more grateful you are for what you already have, the 9. ________ (happy) you will be. Nothing can compare to good memories 10. ________ (make) with the ones you love.
参考答案:
Ⅰ. 1-5 FEACG
Ⅱ. 1. that 2. it 3. Unluckily 4. in 5. to let 6. feeling 7. stop 8. attention 9. happier
10. made