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Question

 Microblogging is popular just about everywhere in the world including China.

  Recently Yao Chen became the first microblogger in China to reach 9 mil?lion followers on sina. corn's blog. She is catching up with singer Justin Bieber(10 million followers) and Lady Gaga( 11 million followers) on Twitter.

  It would seem our interest in celebrities is endless. Worse yet we not on?ly admire entertainers and athletes but also model our behaviour on them by sending out our own micro messages. We think that we too celebrities* self -indulgently(放任自我地) post our daily activities and thoughts. It's as if our every word were gold.

  But in fact we don't really think about what we are posting. Even the tweets and micro messages of celebrities are rather shallow(浅薄的) .

  So why do we feel so good when we send out these short communications?

  Researchers at Princeton and Harvard Universities (Emily Pronin and Daniel Wegner) have found that short activities make us feel powerful and cre?ative.

  Speedy activities give us a happy feeling. So we keep on sending out our mi?cro messages regardless of the content and finally send out messages or photos that we regret.

  Let's look at an example. The NBA basketball "King" "King James" LeBron started tweeting in July of 2010，just before announcing that he would join the Miami Heat. He proudly tweeted for almost a year bragging(吹墟) how he would help the Heat win the championship. Me me me. I am the best. But he and his team fell short. In this case LeBron James has gone too far in "sharing". He has forgotten what it means to have dignity(尊严) and purpose in his personal and public lives.

  The Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote "The body is a house of many windows. There we all sit showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."

  Yes everyone wants to be loved. But keeping our private lives private is a good thing. We don't need fans to find meaning in our lives.

1.The author mentions Yao Chen in Paragraph 2 in order to      .

   A.show that Chinese celebrities can compete with international ones

   B.stress the influence of celebrities on microblogging

   C.encourage more people to take up microblogging

   D.suspect the popularity of microblogs

2.According to the article microblogging is popular because it      .

   A.lets people comment freely on others' microblogs

   B.makes people feel like celebrities themselves

   C.helps people share their daily activities and thoughts

   D.helps people get in touch with their favourite celebrities

3.The example o〖LeBron James is used to show that      .

   A.we should consider carefully what we post in microblogs

   B.athletes need not share their feelings with their fans

   C.everyone wants to get attention and be loved

   D.people need clearly to separate their private and public lives

4.The point of the article is to         .

   A.analyse the role of microblogging in life

   B.criticize the negative effects of microblogging

   C.show the silliness of indulging in microblogging

   D.point out why we need to be cautious in microblogging

Answer 1

[文章大意]文章介绍了微博现在很流行，并以姚晨和詹姆斯的微博为例，提醒人们在微博上发言和交流应当谨慎。

1.B推理判断题。根据第三段的"It would seem our inter?est in celebrities is endless."可知，公众对名人的兴趣是无穷无尽的。公众爱慕名人，并以他们为行为模范，所以第二段中提到姚晨微博的影响力是为下文做铺垫，说明名人对于微博活动的影响。

2.B细节理解题。微博并不是人们分享信息、想法和活动的唯一方式，但是它却能让人们感觉自己像名人一样重要，字字如金，所以微博才火了起来。

3.A推理判断题。由倒数第三段最后一句可知詹姆斯不管是在私下还是公众场合都没有保持住自己的尊严。故选A，即告诫人们要时刻注意自己的微博上的言论。

4.D主旨大意题。文章主要讲述的是人们在微博上发言和交流应当谨慎。