Facebook is now used by 30 million people in the UK, about half the population.                                   

Joanna Shields, vice president of Facebook Europe, made the announcement this morning at a media conference in London.                                    

She said: "We can announce today that we have reached 30 million in the UK, which we are really excited about."                                

Globally, Facebook has more than 500 million registered users, a milestone it hit last summer. Last July, it also revealed that it had 26 million registered UK users. In the last eight months, it has attracted four million extra UK users, bringing the UK total to 30 million, while in January 2009, Facebook had only 150 million registered users.                                        

Last year, Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, said it was "almost a guarantee" that the site would hit one billion users. He explained: "If we succeed in innovating, there is a good chance of bringing this to a billion people...it will be interesting to see how it comes true."                  

    One third of women aged 18 to 34 check Facebook when they first wake up, before even going to the toilet, according to research. Twenty-one per cent of women aged between 18 to 34 check Facebook in the middle of the night, while 42 per cent of the same group think it is fine to post drunken photos of themselves onto the social network, a study by Oxygen Media found.    

Shields was speaking this morning at the Financial Times Digital Media and Broadcasting Conference about the power Facebook's referrals can bring to media sites, such as newspapers and TV services.  

She explained that the average Facebook user has 130 friends who they share links to media sites with on a regular basis. "Media companies which take advantage of that are really seeing the benefits", Shields said.            

Shields refused to say whether Facebook would develop its own mobile phone operating system and also said it was "silly" that Google had recently disabled the feature (特点) which allowed Google users to sync their contacts with Facebook friends.

1.What is Joanna Shields content with?   

A. the announcement                          B. media conference

C. fast growing registered users             D. the benefits of Facebook

2.How many registered users all over the world now? 

A. 26 million                                B. 30 million    

C. 150 million                               D. more than 500 million

3.Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, take a more          view about the future of Facebook.

A. negative             B. optimistic        C. cold            D. pessimistic   

4.What kind of people are more interested in Facebook according to the passage?  

A. teenagers                                 B. middle-aged people

C. old people                                D. young people

5.From the passage we know that         . 

A. Facebook would develop its own mobile phone operating system

B. Google didn't allow its users to sync their contacts with Facebook friends

C. Shields refused to admit the power Facebook's referrals could bring

D. Google was always silly

 

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Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they’re always coming in for criticism. Their critics seem to offend them because they have a talent for self-promotion and because they have so much money to throw around. ‘It’s unfair,’ they say, ‘that this entirely unproductive industry (if we can call it that) should absorb millions of pounds each year. It only goes to show how much profit the big companies are making. Why don’t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it’s the consumer who pays…’
The poor old consumer! He’d have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn’t create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods comes largely from the advertisements we read. Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc., from an advertisement.
Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading railway rules while waiting for a train? Would you like to read only closely printed columns of news in your daily paper? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a dull wall or a newspaper full of disasters.
We must not forget, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets. Newspapers, commercial radio and television companies could not survive without this source of revenue(收益). The fact that we pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcast programmes is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price!
Another thing we mustn’t forget is the ‘small ads.’ which are in virtually every newspaper and magazine. What a greatly useful service they perform for the community! Just about anything can be accomplished through these columns. For instance, you can find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the ‘hatch, match and dispatch’ column but by far the most fascinating section is the personal or ‘agony’ column（读者来信专栏）. No other item in a newspaper provides such entertaining reading or offers such a deep insight into human nature. It’s the best advertisement for advertising there is!

Topic	Advertising or not?
1  of criticism	having a talent for self-promotion   2  so much money making the price of goods   3
With ads	Consumer goods are not so   4 . People   5  a great deal of knowledge from ads. Ads provide us with some   6  to new products or remind us of the old ones. A cheerful, witty ad makes our life more   7  .
Without ads	Newspapers, commercial radio and television companies could hardly   8 . We pay   9  for our daily paper or cannot enjoy so many broadcast programmes. It will not be so   10   if people want to find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death.

 

When Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it was a revolution in communication．Over the last two decades a new means of spoken communication has emerged: the mobile phone．

The modern mobile phone is a more complex version of the two-way radio．Traditional two-way radio was a very limited means of communication．As soon as the users moved out of range of each other's broadcast area, the signal was lost．In the 1940s, researchers began experimenting with the idea of using a number of radio masts （天线杆）located around to pick up signals from two-way radios．A caller would always be within range of one of the masts; when he or she moved too far away from one mast, the next mast would pick up the signal．（Scientists referred to each mast's reception area as being a separate "cell"; this is why in．many countries mobile phones are called "cell phones"．）

The first real mobile telephone call was made in 1973 by Dr Martin Cooper．As soon as his invention was completed,, he tested it by calling another scientist to announce his success．Within a decade, mobile phones became available to the public．They have changed the way we do a lot of things．One powerful feature is the Short Message Service （SMS） or text message．It's the perfect communication method for the busy modern lifestyle．Going to be late? Send a text message! The text message has changed the way we write in English．The language construction became less strict．Traditional rules of grammar and spelling are much less important when you're sitting on the bus, hurriedly typing "Will B 15mm late-C U @ the bar．（I will be 15 minutes late to see you at the

bar．） Sorry!"．

Over the last few years mobiles have become more and more advanced．We have seen the instruction of cameras, global positioning system and Internet access．

Alexander Graham Bell would be surprised if he could see how far the science of telephone has progressed in less than 150 years．If he were around today, he might say: "That’s gr8（great）! But I'm busy rite now（I am very busy right now）．Will call U2nite（I will call you tonight．）．"

The writing style of the passage is a （an）___．

       A．narrative     B．description           C．essay D．review

The article is intended to__      _．

       A．warn people of the possible risks in using mobile phones

       B．inform readers of the history and benefits of mobile phones

       C．convince people of the uses of mobile phones

       D．predict the applications of mobile phones

What do you think of the writer according to the last paragraph．

       A．Humorous.      B．Ironic.      C．Kind.       D．Worried.

Once upon a time a man became a great archer(射手)．He asked the king to declare

him as the greatest archer of the country．The king was about to do so when an old

servant of the king said，“Wait，sir．I know an old man who lives in the forest．He is a

much greater archer．Let this young man go to him and learn from him for at least three

years．”

The man could not believe that there could be a greater archer than him，but he

went and found the old man and he was! For three years he learned from him．Then one

day, when he thought he had learned everything，the thought arose in him：“If I kill this

old man，then 1 will be the greatest archer．”

The old man had gone to cut wood and he was coming back carrying wood On his

shoulder．The young man hid behind a tree，waiting to kill him．He shot an arrow．The

old man took a small piece of wood and threw it．It struck the arrow and the arrow

turned back and wounded the young man very deeply．The old man came，took Out the

arrow and said。“I knew that some day or other you were going to do this．That’s  why

I have not taught you this secret．There is no need to kill me．My Master is still alive，

and I’m nothing before him．You must be with him for at least thirty years．And he is

very old, so go fast! Find the old man!”

1.The underlined word in the 1st paragraph is closest in meaning to“       ”

A．admire

B．advise

C．announce

D．admit

2.The young archer wanted to kill the old man in the

A．he had nothing more to learn from him

B．he could then become the greatest archer

C．the old man refused to teach him everything

D．the king’s old servant ordered him to do SO

3.The following pictures show what happened between the young archer and his

master．Which is the right order of the events?

A．1—2—3—4	B．4—3—2—1
C．4—2—3—1	D．4—2—1—3

4.What do you think would most probably happen next?

A．The young archer died from the wound soon after．

B．The king declared the young man the greatest archer．

C．The young archer found the old man’s master and killed him．

D．The young archer set off to look for the old man’ S master．

5.What lesson can you learn from the story?

A．There’s always someone better than you in this world．

B．You must never try to become better than your teacher．

C．The older a man is，the better archer he usually becomes．

D．Always use a piece of wood to protect yourself from an arrow．

 

 

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）

    从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

    On his way to the airport one afternoon，Phillip asked the driver to wait outside the bank while he collected some traveler’s checks．

    The plane was to  36  at 5：30．From the bank，there was still a  37  journey to the airport38  Phillip merely enjoyed the scene along the way．Shortly before arriving，he began  39  the things he would need for the  40 ：tickets，money，the address of his hotel，traveler’s checks…Just a moment! How about his passport? Phillip went through his pockets．He suddenly  41  that He must have left his passport  42  ．

    What could he do? It was now five past four and there would be too little 43 to return for the passport．This was the 44 time he was representing his company for an important meeting 45  the manager of a French company in Paris the following morning Without a passport he would be 46  to board the plane At that moment，the taxi  47  outside the air terminal(候机楼)．Phillip got 48 ，took his suitcase and paid the driver．He then  49 a good deal of confusion(混乱)in the building．A  50  could be heard over the loudspeaker，“We very much  51  that because of a twenty—four—hour strike(罢工)of the airport staff，all flights for the rest of today have had to be called off” Passengers are  52  to get in touch with their travel agents or with this terminal foron tomorrow’s flights．Phillip was very glad to hear that．He would let his company know about this  54 and，thank goodness．he would have the opportunity of calling at the bank the next morning to  55 his passport．

36．A．check in            B．1ead off           C．take off           D．go up

37．A．1ong              B．short              C．pleasant          D．rough

38．A．as                B．so                 C．but             D．because

39．A．buying            B．taking              C．putting          D．checking

40．A．plane             B．trip                C．company         D．flight

41．A．realized           B．promised           C．recognized        D．suggested

42．A．at home          B．at the bank         C．at the office       D．in the taxi

43．A．time             B．chance              C．possibility        D．use

44．A．golden           B．1ast                 C．only            D．first

45．A．in               B．to                   C．at              D．with

46．A．sad              B．unable               C．nervous         D．Difficult

47．A．stopped           B．ran                 C．went            D．opened

48．A．off              B．back                C．out              D．away

49．A．started           B．caught               C．noticed          D．1eft

50．A speech            B．signal                C．call             D．voice

51．A．apologize        B．announce             C．worry           D．regret

52．A．advised          B．forced               C．allowed          D．persuaded

53．A ideas              B． plans              C．information        D．time

54．A．person           B．situation             C．place            D airport

55．A．return            B．show               C．recover           D．change