首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
(1) Because I married a photographer, once we had children, our holiday cards of course became vehicles for their cuteness and h
(1) Because I married a photographer, once we had children, our holiday cards of course became vehicles for their cuteness and h
admin
2018-05-14
44
问题
(1) Because I married a photographer, once we had children, our holiday cards of course became vehicles for their cuteness and his creativity. In 2000, baby number one’s chubby smiling face in a Santa hat was the cover image. In 2004, our now-four faces were ornaments on a tree. By 2006, we wore stocking caps and lay down in bed together with a thought bubble over our sleeping heads filled with cherries. Our best card was our last, in 2010. We dressed in extravagant holiday finery, gowns, jackets and bow-ties. We titled it:"Don We Now Our Gay Apparel. "
(2) That was two years ago. We mailed it out in envelopes, signed, sealed and delivered by the U. S. Postal Service and its analogues in distant lands. Good cheer and laughs in mailboxes all around! It’s been downhill ever since. By last year, we’d let our mailing list go to seed. We communicated with most of our friends online and no longer had street addresses for them.
(3) I didn’t know it then but my world, my social world, was changing. Today, my 1,500 Facebook friends—1,300 of whom I have never actually met—have already seen the best of the year’s haul of pictures of my kids. They also know where I’ve gone on vacation and sometimes, what I cooked for dinner or what I thought of a movie on a Saturday night in May. There’s little point to writing a Christmas update now, with boasts about grades and athletic skill, hospitalizations and holidays, and the dog’s accidents, when we have already posted these events and so much more of our trifles all year long. The urge to share has already been well satisfied.
(4) Likewise, as receivers, we already have real-time windows into the lives of people thousands of miles away. We already know exactly how they’ve fared in the past year, much more than could possibly be conveyed by any single Christmas card. If a child or grandchild has been born to a former colleague or high school friend living across the continent, not only did I see it within hours on Shutterfly or Instagram or Facebook, I might have seen him or her take his or her first steps on YouTube.
(5) Still, the demise of the Christmas photo card saddens me. It predicts the end of the U. S. Postal Service. It signals the day is near when writing on paper is non-existent. Finally, it is part of a decline of a certain quality of communication, one that involved delay and anticipation, forethought and reflection. Opening these cards, the satisfaction wasn’t just in the Peace on Earth greeting, but in the recognition that a distant friend or relative you hadn’t heard from in a year was still thinking about you, and maybe sharing news about major events of the past 12 months.
(6) We know each other so well now, perhaps too well. And yet, all the time logged into our computers has also taken us away from our nearest and dearest. Who can say they spent as much time looking into the eyes of family, friends and neighbors as into the colorful phone or laptop screen last year? This season, instead of sending cards, my winter holiday greeting at the end of 2012 will be this: after posting the obligatory seasonal wishes online on Christmas Eve, I will be clicking off the electronic messaging services, and trying to connect in person with my friends, neighbors and family members for a change.
What is NOT mentioned as the things my Facebook friends know about "me"?
选项
A、My friends in real life.
B、The place where I spent my holiday.
C、The dishes I cooked.
D、My idea about a movie.
答案
A
解析
细节题。文章第三段第二、三句提到,我在脸谱网上的1500位好友——其中有1300位实际上我从未见过——都已看过一堆我家孩子们这一年中最好的照片。他们还知道我曾去过哪里度假,以及有时我晚餐做了什么菜或者我对五月的某个周六晚上的电影有何观感。[A]“我在现实生活中的朋友”在文中并未提及,所以为正确答案。[B]“我度假的地方”、[C]“我做的菜”和[D]“我的电影观后感”均有所提及,故排除。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/yNxK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
A、Thedesignofthecover.B、Thewittywriting.C、Thecleverfeatures.D、Thelayout.A本题考查细节。由句(1)可知,女士喜欢该杂志风趣的文笔、巧妙的专题和版面设计,故排除
AHealthyMixofReading,WritingandTechnologyI.Aboutstudents’readingA.Childrencannot【T1】theInternetinformationwell
FamousUniversitiesManycountrieshaveexcellentuniversities./Thereare,however,fewworldfamousones./Theseunivers
PASSAGEONE
(1)Withincreasingprosperity,WesternEuropeanyouthishavingaflingthatiscreatingdistinctiveconsumerandculturalpatte
WhentheUnitedNationsandworldleadersmadeuniversalprimaryeducationoneoftheireightmillenniumdevelopmentgoals,more
ThemysteryoftheexpansionofseaicearoundAntarctica,atthesametimeasglobalwarmingismeltingswathsofArcticseaic
Consideringthatindustryanalystsclaimthathospitalpricecalculationsarearbitrary,weaskedhospitalsnationwideasimple
Consideringthatindustryanalystsclaimthathospitalpricecalculationsarearbitrary,weaskedhospitalsnationwideasimple
ConversationalSkills1.Skilltoaskquestionsa)Beawareofthehumannature:readinesstoanswerothers’questionsregardles
随机试题
近视眼,眼球的前后径过长,眼的折光能力______,平行光线聚焦于______。
如选择口服药物治疗,最大剂量为本病最常见的责任血管是
脂肪动员的关键酶是
患者,男性,27岁,因乏力、厌食、恶心就医,查体:肝大,血清ALT升高,诊断为乙型肝炎,进行住院治疗。患者入院后请你代买洗漱用具,人民币消毒应用
背景资料:某大型水利水电工程由政府投资兴建。项目法人委托某招标代理公司代理施工招标。招标代理公司依据有关规定确定该项目采用公开招标方式招标,招标公告在当地政府规定的招标信息网上发布。招标文件中规定:投标担保可采用投标保证金或投标保函方式担保。评标方法采用
投资者可以作为资本投入企业的是( )。
把下面六个图形分为两类,使得每一类图形都有各自的共同特征或规律,分类正确的一项是:
中国迈人老龄化社会,生育率低,人口结构老化,社保制度滞后已成为未来发展的一大隐患,以下属于我国人口老龄化加快的主要原因的有()。
根据下述材料,回答下面题。某研究者采用父母教养方式评价量表(EMBU)和学习动机量表调查了180名初中一年级学生。该研究者计算出每名学生在父母教养方式评价量表的9个维度上的得分并根据每名学生在9个维度上得分状况确定他们的家庭教养方式类型(专制型、
Astheplanecircledovertheairport,everyonesensedthatsomethingwaswrong.Theplanewasmovingunsteadilythroughtheair
最新回复
(
0
)