题目

Reading comprehension Is true friendship dying away? Mark Vernon 1To anyone paying attention these days, it's clear that social media-whether Twitter, Facebook, Linked Inv any of the countless other modern-day water coolers- are changing the way we live. 2 Indeed, we might feel as if we are suddenly awash in friends. Yet right before our eyes, we're also changing the way we conduct relationships. Face-to-face chatting is giving way to texting and messageing;people even prefer these electronic exchanges to, for instance, simply talking on a phone. Smaller circles of friends are being partially eclipsed by Facebook acquaintances routinely numbered in the hundreds. Amidthese smaller trends, growing research suggests we could be entering a period of crisis for the entire concept of friendship. Where is all this leading modern-day society? Perhaps to a dark place, one where electronic etimulislowly replace the iovs of human contact 1/5 1. According to the author, the frequent use of social media in making friends gradually reduces the joy of human contact. A True B False

Reading comprehension Is true friendship dying away? Mark Vernon 1To anyone paying attention these days, it's clear that social media-whether Twitter, Facebook, Linked Inv any of the countless other modern-day water coolers- are changing the way we live. 2 Indeed, we might feel as if we are suddenly awash in friends. Yet right before our eyes, we're also changing the way we conduct relationships. Face-to-face chatting is giving way to texting and messageing;people even prefer these electronic exchanges to, for instance, simply talking on a phone. Smaller circles of friends are being partially eclipsed by Facebook acquaintances routinely numbered in the hundreds. Amidthese smaller trends, growing research suggests we could be entering a period of crisis for the entire concept of friendship. Where is all this leading modern-day society? Perhaps to a dark place, one where electronic etimulislowly replace the iovs of human contact 1/5 1. According to the author, the frequent use of social media in making friends gradually reduces the joy of human contact. A True B False

题目解答

答案

根据文章最后一句，“Perhaps to a dark place, one where electronic stimuli slowly replace the joys of human contact”表明，社交媒体的频繁使用可能逐渐取代人与人接触的快乐。题目中“frequent use of social media”与“electronic stimuli”对应，“reduces the joy of human contact”也与“replace the joys of human contact”一致。因此，题目陈述正确。 答案：A. 正确。

解析

考查要点：本题主要考查学生对文章细节的理解能力，需要结合原文关键句判断命题的正误。
解题核心：抓住文章最后一句的结论，明确社交媒体对人际关系的负面影响，理解“electronic stimuli”与“human contact”之间的对比关系。
关键点：“replace the joys of human contact”是解题的核心线索，需将题目中的“reduces the joy of human contact”与原文对应分析。

定位关键句

文章最后一句明确指出：“Perhaps to a dark place, one where electronic stimuli slowly replace the joys of human contact.”（或许我们会进入一个黑暗的世界，在那里电子刺激正逐渐取代人类接触的喜悦。）

对比题目与原文

  • 题目表述：社交媒体的频繁使用“reduces the joy of human contact”（减少人类接触的快乐）。
  • 原文表述：社交媒体导致“replace the joys of human contact”（取代人类接触的快乐）。
  • 对应关系：题目中的“frequent use of social media”对应原文中的“electronic stimuli”，“reduces”与“replace”均表示否定影响，二者语义一致。

结论

题目对原文的转述准确，因此答案为A. True。