2018高考英语复习试题：专题三第四讲 主旨大意题 课时作业含解析

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(2017·长春监测)Life in the Internet age is lonely—or is it? That’s what experts in human interaction are debating after a new Stanford University survey has been published.

According to the study, the more time people spend online, the less they can spare for real-life relationships with family and friends. The researchers asked 113 people about the Web’s influence on daily activities. 36% of those people are online for more than five hours a week. “As Internet use becomes more widespread, it will have an increasingly isolating(孤立的) effect on society，”says Robert Kraut, one of the researchers.

Scholars and Web lovers criticized the study for stretching its data to make the “isolating” point. While 13% of regular Web users admitted the loss of time with loved ones，60% reported watching less TV. The survey also shows that e-mail is the most popular online activity. If some of webheads(网虫) spend what was once passive TV time keeping company with friends via e-mails, “that’s a move toward greater connectedness，” says Paul Resnick，a professor at the University of Michigan.

This isn’t the first claim that the Web should be criticized. A 1998 report monitored 73 Pittsburgh-area families’ Internet use for a year. People who

used the Internet more “talked less to family members and reported being lonelier and more depressed，” says Robert Kraut.

“It’s true that there have been big declines in social connectedness over the past decades, but those declines began before the Internet was invented，” says Thomas Putnam.

As Amitay Etzioni says, the Internet gives us a different kind of social life—not better or worse than before, but just different.

[解题导语] 本文介绍了斯坦福大学的一项研究，即网络是否会导致社会孤立以及来自社会各界的讨论。

1．Who claimed that the Web had negative influence? A．Robert Kraut. C．Thomas Putnam.

B．Paul Resnick. D．Amitay Etzioni.

A 解析：细节理解题。根据第二段中的“As Internet use becomes more widespread, it will have an increasingly isolating(孤立的) effect on society，”says Robert Kraut, one of the researchers.可知，罗伯特·克劳特认为随着网络使用越来越广泛，网络会导致社会孤立效应。故选A项。

2．The underlined word “This” in Para.4 refers to ________． A．the study conducted by Stanford University B．the survey made by the University of Michigan C．the conclusion in a report written in 1998 D．the opinion expressed in Bowling Alone

A 解析：词义猜测题。画线词所在句句意为：这不是第一次有人称网络应

该受到批评。这仍然是罗伯特·克劳特的观点，也就是斯坦福大学开展的调查研究的结果。故选A项。

3．From the passage we learn that ________．

A．watching TV used to take time away from staying online B．36% of Web users spend more than five hours a week online C．the Web was blamed more than once for causing an isolating effect D．the Web has the same influence as the telephone and the television C 解析：推理判断题。根据文章第四段第一句This isn’t the first claim that the Web should be criticized.可知，因为网络使人们之间的联系减少，不止一次有人对此进行谴责。故选C项。

4．The passage mainly discusses ________． A．how we can make a better use of the Internet B．whether the Internet causes an isolating effect C．how declines in social connectedness appear D．what a different life the Internet brings to us

B 解析：主旨大意题。文章以一项调查研究入题，进行了关于网络是否会导致社会孤立效应的讨论。故选B项。

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(2017·广东佛山检测)The times are changing. On Thursday October 13th,

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