Question

【题目】(2011河南长葛第三实验高中月考)

Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.

Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members，but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care more about. I know this from my personal experience.

E-mail makes it easy to work at home, where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren't necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she'd been born before E-mail became such a practical tool.

The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun—see a great movie perhaps— and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may be tired of telling the story.

With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience，and address it to all the friends who you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.

E-mail is also an inexpensive way to stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children at college.

We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don't take the place of any of the old ways.

【1】 The purpose of this passage is to ______ .

A. explain how to use the Internet

B. share the writer's joy of keeping up with the latest technology

C. tell the usefulness of the Internet

D. introduce the basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet

【2】 The use of E-mail has made it possible for the writer to ______ .

A. spend less time working

B. have more time to spend with his children

C. work, at home on all weekends

D. work at a speed comfortable to him

【3】 According to the writer, E-mail has an obvious advantage over the telephone because the former helps one ______ .

A. reach a group of people at one time conveniently

B. keep his communication as personal as possible

C. pass on much more information than the latter

D. get in touch with his friends faster than the latter

【4】 The best title for the passage is "______".

A. Computer—New Technological Advances

B. Internet—New Tool to Maintain Good Friendship

C. Computer—Have Made Life Easier

D. Internet—A Convenient Tool for Communication

Answer 1

【答案】【1】 C

【2】 B

【3】 A

【4】 D

【解析】【1】推理判断题。本文主要从节省在办公室的时间、与朋友联系更便捷且更省钱等方面，说明使用电子邮件的好处，这与C项的表达相吻合。

【2】细节理解题。根据第二段，可知作者的工作时间并没有少,但在办公室的时间少了，这样就有更多的时间陪孩子。

【3】细节理解题。根据第四段和第五段，可知Internet的好处就是可以一次编好信息，同时发给多个朋友，很方便。

【4】主旨大意题。纵观全文，可知主要论述了Internet成为交流的便利工具,所以D项正确。