Question

【题目】 When you write a text message or an email, you might put a smiling face or other pictures at the end to make the message more fun. These pictures are emojis. The first emojis were on Japanese mobile phones in the 1990s. Later, they were used on Apple’s iPhone and Android phones. Now they are everywhere!

Before emojis, there were emoticons. The word is a mixture(混合) of emotion(感情) and icon(图标). Emoticons are made of the signs you can find on your keyboard, for example:-) for a smiley or @};---for a rose. The first use of :-)was in 1982 and it was called “joke marker”. Emoji is a Japanese word which means pictograph: e(picture) +moji (character). Emojis are real pictures, for example，or.There are 1851emojis that can be used on mobile phones and other devices. There are all kinds of emojis, from faces and weather to things in the kitchen and animal.

In England, we have a saying: A picture paints a thousand words. For many people, an emoji is like a punctuation mark(标点). It’s like the tone of voice when we speak on the phone, or hand movements(gestures) used in conversation. Emojis are also changing the way we write. The more we use emojis, the less we use slang(俚语), such as LOL or OMG.

When someone speaks and looks serious, we try to look serious, too, and when someone smiles, we smile as well. This is how we show empathy(同感) and make friends(and enemies!). But when we’re online, we can’t see the person’s face and there’s no emotion. The invention of emojis changed that! Scientists in Australia have discovered that when we look at a smiley face online, the same parts of the brain start working as when we look at a real smiley face. Our mood changes, and we try to change our face to match the emoji. This is something we learn as we get older. Our brains have developed this ability over the last two or three years. This means that emojis have created a new brain pattern(模式)in us!

【1】Where does the writer of this passage possibly come from?

A.AustraliaB.JapaneseC.AmericaD.Britain

【2】What is NOT true about Paragraph 3?

A.Some slang is used less often because of emojis.

B.We no more need words.

C.An Emoji adds emotions to our messages.

D.An Emoji makes people feel face to face.

【3】What is (=￣ω￣=) according to the passage?

A.an emojiB.a pictureC.an emoticonD.a sound

【4】What can we learn from the passage?

A.Emojis will make our words disappear.

B.Emojis have greatly influenced us in many ways.

C.We don’t need to speak to others or meet others any more.

D.Scientists are worried about this invention of emojis.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】C

【4】B

【解析】

本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲了表情符号的发展及影响。

【1】细节理解题。根据In England, we have a saying: A picture paints a thousand words.在英国，我们有一句谚语:一幅画能描绘千言万语可知作者来自英国，故选D。

【2】推理判断题。通过文字“The more we use emojis, the less we use slang(俚语), ”判断A正确。阅读最后一段可以知道表情符号为我们的信息增加了情感。判断C正确。从文中“Scientists in Australia have discovered that when…”判断表情符号可以让人感觉到面对面。所以D正确。根据In England, we have a saying: A picture paints a thousand words.可知在英国,我们有一 句谚语:一幅画能描绘千言万语，而不是我们不再需要话语，故选B。

【3】细节理解题。根据Before emojis, there were emoticons. The word is a mixture(混合) of emotion(感情) and icon (图标). Emoticons are made of the signs you can find on your keyboard可知emoticons是由键盘上的符号组成的,而Emojis are real pictures , emojis指的是真正的图片,故选C。

【4】细节理解题。根据This means that emojis have created a new brain pattern(模式)in us!可知这意味着表情符号在我们大脑中创造了一个新的模式! 即表情符号已经在许多方面影响了我们，故选B。