Question

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 most about. I know this from personal experience.
E-mail makes it easy to work at home, which is 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 electronic 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 tire 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 you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only 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 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 off 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.
【小題1】The purpose of this passage is to ________.

A．explain how to use the Internet

B．describe the writer’s joy of keeping up with the latest technology

C．tell the merits(價值) and usefulness of the Internet

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

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

A．spend less time working	B．have more free time with his child
C．work at home on weekends	D．work at a speed comfortable to him

【小題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 one’s communication as personal as possible

C．pass on much more information than the later

D．get in touch with one’s friends faster than the later

【小題4】 The best title for this passage is ________.

A．Computer: New Technological Advances

B．Internet: New Tool to Maintain Good Friendship

C．Computers Have Made Life Easier

D．Internet: a Convenient Tool for Communication

Answer 1

【小題1】C
【小題2】B
【小題3】A
【小題4】D

解析試題分析：
【小題1】主旨大意題。文章在第一段就提出了文章的主旨，接下來的幾段都是對Email的便利的介紹，讓我們了解了互聯網的用途和使用價值，故答案選C。
【小題2】.細節題。由第二段的This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she’d been born before electronic mail became such a practical tool.可知答案選B。
【小題3】細節題。由第三段的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 tire of telling the story.和第四道段的第一句With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and address it to all the friends you think might be interested.可知答案選A。
【小題4】文章標題。第一段提出了文章的主題句：but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most about.再瀏覽文章中心句后的各段大意。注意出現的高頻詞，easy, convenience, an inexpensive way，說明了方便的特點—convenient。再縮略中心句，與選項匹配，翻譯同義詞，communication交往—stay in closer touch保持更緊密聯系，屬同意詞，確定為D項。
考點：文章是一篇說明性的文章。
點評：文章在第一段點出文章的主旨：新的科技使我們能夠更緊密地接觸我們最在乎的人和事物。在接下來的幾段都介紹了Email的便利，讓我們了解了互聯網的用途和使用價值。對于總分結構的文章，一定要提煉出文章的中心句，然后注意文章中出現的高頻率的詞匯，能更好地了解文章的中心。