第十一篇 On the Net Friends Come and Go, Talking of...

　　The young woman was visibly 1 and clearly wmated to get something off her chest.

　　Whats up? I 2 .

　　ve just been defriended, she said.

　　Now defriended is a word 3 I am not familiar. I have been befriended 4 - and befriended - many people since arriving in Beijing.

　　But defriended?

　　It turns 5 this is a new word created by the Interact-savvy younger generation specifically in relation to the worldwide social networking phenomenon, Facebook.

　　Those who join can invite friends to become members of the site, 6 .

　　They can then share photographs, chat, swap messages and observations and perform a host of other mutually accessible applications.

　　Ive seen some peoples sites 7 hundreds of friends, all moments away down a fiber optic cable, providing they are logged on to their computers or hooked up to a high-spec cell phone.

　　It creates the possibility of befriendinganyone in the world who has online access. Currently, Facebook has 150 million users. That means theres a lot of friends out there.

　　The 8 is that you can be defriended - you can be denied access to the Face, book site someone who had previously invited to be his or her friend. And you can do it without the potential for instant recrimination.

　　Where once, in the school playground on child might have petulantly shouted 9 another, m not going to be your fried any more the same hurt and loss of face can be performed remotely with the chick of a button.

　　A 10 aspect of defriending is that, un like With other applications such as the what are you thinking about? posting a digital depository of the often dire, 11 , dull and desperate, no message is sent out alerting you or your contacts about the change m status. You only find out you have 12 when you try to visit a friend site, and you find you can no longer get in. the delay of the discovery is all too often doubly hurtful.

　　Just as bombs are dispatched impersonally 13 an unseen enemy in modem warfare, 14 relationships are blown out of the window with the same callous disregard, without the risk of any face-to-face comeback. One

　　second you arc there, 15 you are deleted.

　　詞匯：

　　savvy adj. 聰慧的，機智的

　　swap v. 交換

　　recrimination n. 反控告、反責

　　callous adj. 麻木的、無情的

　　petulantly adv. 暴躁地

　　fiber optic cable 光纜

　　depository n. 倉庫，儲藏所

　　練習：

　　1. A) satisfied B) friendly C) moved D) upset

　　2. A) complained B) explained C) inquired D) argued

　　3. A) with which B) in which C) which D) that

　　4. A) on B) by C) with D) in

　　5. A) about B) out C) around D) in

　　6. A) too B) either C) yet D) neither

　　7. A) exaggerating B) overstating C) boasting D) showing off

　　8. A) benefit B) advantage C) downside D) merit

　　9. A) at B) in C) on D) farward

　　10. A) neutral B) controversial C)astonishing D) remarkable

　　11. A) exciting B) dreary C) cheerful D) bright

　　12. A) been dumped B) dumped C) being dumped D) dumping

　　13. A) forward B) for C) into D) against

　　14. A) and B) since C) so D) but

　　15. A) the next B) the first C) the first D) a next

　　答案與題解：

　　1.D upset 是心煩的、苦惱的意思。根據上下文來看，被從好友名單上刪除之后，這種情緒是合理的。

　　2.C inquire 在這里表示打聽、詢問的意思。

　　3.A 關系代詞在定語從句作介詞賓語時，從句常由介詞 關系代詞的結構引導，從句中動詞詞組familiar with 中的介詞with 移到which 之前。

　　4.B by 與動詞的被動語態連用，表示行為的主體。

　　5.B turnout 表示結果是

　　6.A too 在這里表示也。yet、either 和neither 都用在否定句中。

　　7.C 如果boast 后面跟表示成就或者所有物的賓語時，表示以做過而自豪或者擁有的意思。exaggerate 和overstate 是夸張、夸大的意思，show 賣弄、夸耀的意思。

　　8.C 從上下文的意思來看，這句話說的是這種做法的負面影響，因此只有downside 這個詞符合題意。

　　9.A shout at 表示怒斥、大聲斥責的意思。

　　10.B 這句話說的是隨意刪除好友存在有爭議的一面，而其他三個選項各自表示中性的、令人驚訝的以及卓越的，都不符合作者的原意。

　　11.B dreary 表示沉悶的、枯燥的，與前后的dire 以及desperate 并列，另外三個選項都不符合句義。

　　12.A dump 表示拋棄、丟棄的意思。這句話的意思是，當你去一位朋友的網頁時，你才會發現你已經被他從好友名單上刪除了，因此應該用動詞的被動語態。

　　13.D against 在這里表示反抗、對抗的意思。

　　14.C 這兩個從句之間是因果關系，因此使用表示因果關系的連詞so。

　　15.A the next 省略了second，表示下一秒。

第十一篇 On the Net Friends Come and Go, Talking of...

　　The young woman was visibly 1 and clearly wmated to get something off her chest.

　　Whats up? I 2 .

　　ve just been defriended, she said.

　　Now defriended is a word 3 I am not familiar. I have been befriended 4 - and befriended - many people since arriving in Beijing.

　　But defriended?

　　It turns 5 this is a new word created by the Interact-savvy younger generation specifically in relation to the worldwide social networking phenomenon, Facebook.

　　Those who join can invite friends to become members of the site, 6 .

　　They can then share photographs, chat, swap messages and observations and perform a host of other mutually accessible applications.

　　Ive seen some peoples sites 7 hundreds of friends, all moments away down a fiber optic cable, providing they are logged on to their computers or hooked up to a high-spec cell phone.

　　It creates the possibility of befriendinganyone in the world who has online access. Currently, Facebook has 150 million users. That means theres a lot of friends out there.

　　The 8 is that you can be defriended - you can be denied access to the Face, book site someone who had previously invited to be his or her friend. And you can do it without the potential for instant recrimination.

　　Where once, in the school playground on child might have petulantly shouted 9 another, m not going to be your fried any more the same hurt and loss of face can be performed remotely with the chick of a button.

　　A 10 aspect of defriending is that, un like With other applications such as the what are you thinking about? posting a digital depository of the often dire, 11 , dull and desperate, no message is sent out alerting you or your contacts about the change m status. You only find out you have 12 when you try to visit a friend site, and you find you can no longer get in. the delay of the discovery is all too often doubly hurtful.

　　Just as bombs are dispatched impersonally 13 an unseen enemy in modem warfare, 14 relationships are blown out of the window with the same callous disregard, without the risk of any face-to-face comeback. One

　　second you arc there, 15 you are deleted.

　　詞匯：

　　savvy adj. 聰慧的，機智的

　　swap v. 交換

　　recrimination n. 反控告、反責

　　callous adj. 麻木的、無情的

　　petulantly adv. 暴躁地

　　fiber optic cable 光纜

　　depository n. 倉庫，儲藏所

　　練習：

　　1. A) satisfied B) friendly C) moved D) upset

　　2. A) complained B) explained C) inquired D) argued

　　3. A) with which B) in which C) which D) that

　　4. A) on B) by C) with D) in

　　5. A) about B) out C) around D) in

　　6. A) too B) either C) yet D) neither

　　7. A) exaggerating B) overstating C) boasting D) showing off

　　8. A) benefit B) advantage C) downside D) merit

　　9. A) at B) in C) on D) farward

　　10. A) neutral B) controversial C)astonishing D) remarkable

　　11. A) exciting B) dreary C) cheerful D) bright

　　12. A) been dumped B) dumped C) being dumped D) dumping

　　13. A) forward B) for C) into D) against

　　14. A) and B) since C) so D) but

　　15. A) the next B) the first C) the first D) a next

　　答案與題解：

　　1.D upset 是心煩的、苦惱的意思。根據上下文來看，被從好友名單上刪除之后，這種情緒是合理的。

　　2.C inquire 在這里表示打聽、詢問的意思。

　　3.A 關系代詞在定語從句作介詞賓語時，從句常由介詞 關系代詞的結構引導，從句中動詞詞組familiar with 中的介詞with 移到which 之前。

　　4.B by 與動詞的被動語態連用，表示行為的主體。

　　5.B turnout 表示結果是

　　6.A too 在這里表示也。yet、either 和neither 都用在否定句中。

　　7.C 如果boast 后面跟表示成就或者所有物的賓語時，表示以做過而自豪或者擁有的意思。exaggerate 和overstate 是夸張、夸大的意思，show 賣弄、夸耀的意思。

　　8.C 從上下文的意思來看，這句話說的是這種做法的負面影響，因此只有downside 這個詞符合題意。

　　9.A shout at 表示怒斥、大聲斥責的意思。

　　10.B 這句話說的是隨意刪除好友存在有爭議的一面，而其他三個選項各自表示中性的、令人驚訝的以及卓越的，都不符合作者的原意。

　　11.B dreary 表示沉悶的、枯燥的，與前后的dire 以及desperate 并列，另外三個選項都不符合句義。

　　12.A dump 表示拋棄、丟棄的意思。這句話的意思是，當你去一位朋友的網頁時，你才會發現你已經被他從好友名單上刪除了，因此應該用動詞的被動語態。

　　13.D against 在這里表示反抗、對抗的意思。

　　14.C 這兩個從句之間是因果關系，因此使用表示因果關系的連詞so。

　　15.A the next 省略了second，表示下一秒。