Facebook means never having to say goodbye. The social media web site has earned a reputation for reconnecting old friends. Last week, a guy whom I hadn't seen since my bachelor party five years ago sent me a friend request. I accepted and waited for him to send me a greeting of some kind. He had sought me out, after all.

I learned from his profile that he was in a relationship and had a son. However, I'm pretty sure we won’t ever write wall-to-wall, let alone e-mail each other. But he'll remain a friend of online until one of us makes a point of removing the other from his official list.

My pool of friends consists of family members, college buddies, co-workers from past and present, and friends of friends. There are 35 in all. If I spent some time uploading old e-mail addresses, I'm confident that I could increase my friend count actually.

A person could make a mission out of reconnecting with childhood friends, former classmates, distant cousins, and those one would like to get to know better. And some people can even handle hundreds of on-screen relationships, keeping up with the daily happenings of their small army of companions. After all, there are worse fates than having too many friends.

Thanks to e-mail, the inability to schedule face-to-face meetings no longer means a friendship must come to a close. But even with e-mail, people will lose touch if one or both parties stop writing back. That's normal. People move from school to school, job to job, city to city. You never have to feel guilty for breaking away.

Every day, the masterminds of Web 2. 0 find new ways of making human communication easier. However, convenience can be a crutch. Some things shouldn't be simplified. When it comes to friendship, there can be no shortcuts.

1.According to Paragraph l, the web site is famous because _______.

  A. it has an interesting name of “Facebook”

  B. it helps people get in touch with old friends

  C. it can send people a greeting of some kind

  D. it reminds people of events in the past

2.From the second paragraph we can learn that the writer _______.

  A. would write to the friend quite often

  B. asked the friend to e-mail him

  C. did get some information about the friend

  D. would keep in touch with the friend forever

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

  A. There are 35 people in the author's list of friends right now.

  B. The author communicates with all the 35 friends by e-mails.

  C. The list of 35 friends doesn't include the old e-mail addresses.

  D. It is not difficult for the author to increase his friend count.

4.What does the author think of the convenience of communicating on line?

  A. The technology could not keep true friendship forever.

  B. The social web site of Facebook means nothing at all.

  C. There will be no ways of making real friends on line.

  D. People will not lose friends with the help of the Facebook.

单词拼写 (共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分5分)

1. If you warn me in a__________, I will have your order ready for you.

2. Only a m__________ of people support these new laws, while the most are against them.

3.Disneyland has many exciting rides, from giant s__________ ships to terrifying fee-fall drops.

4. I may be late, for I have one or two things to a__________ to.

5. She strongly s__________ that he was lying to her, but couldn’t find definite evidence.

6. She is a very s__________ teacher; as soon as a child does the slightest thing wrong she’s down on him like a ton of bricks.

7. What a__________ me most to the job is the chance to travel.

8. The police have issued a detailed d__________ of the missing child.

9. Jen burst out laughing the i__________ she walked in.

10. My father runs a paper company which imports raw m__________ from North America.

短文改错（共1小题，满分10分）

    I still cannot believe that I am taking up this prize that I won it last year. I have to remind constantly I am really in AD 3008. Worried about the journey, I was unsettled for a first few days. As a result, I suffered “time lag”. This is similar with the “jet lag” you get from flying, so it seems you keep getting flashbacks from your previously time period. So I was very nervous and certain at first. However, my friend and guide, Wang Ping, was very understood and gave me some green tablets which help a lot.

书面表达 (共1小题，满分12分)

我国正提倡建设“节约型社会”，下图为某校两个学期用水、用电、用纸的情况。请对其进行简要分析，以“How to build an economized society”为题，写一篇作文，谈谈自己的想法。

注意：

词数100左右，开头已经给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：

数据：statistics

How to build an economized society

Our government is aiming to build an economized society. It is everybody’s duty to work hard to achieve this goal including us students.

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—Excuse me, Dad, but I’m going to the club to meet my friends in the football team.

   —OK. ______

.---I’d like _______ information about the management of your hotel , please.

  --- Well, you could have __________word with the manager, who might help you.

After a heated discussion at the meeting, a new plan came ______ being, which would have a great effect ______ the culture life of the people.

The teacher was angry about his being late for class, but he behaved ______ nothing had happened.

Mr Smith, _________ of the ___________speech, started to read a novel.

Would you please keep silent? The weather report__________, and I want to listen.