Who says constant texting is just a bad habit? The teenager with the fastest thumbs in the country was crowned on Wednesday at the LG US National Texting Championship in New York City, winning ＄50,000 after a series of fierce texting battles.
16-year-old Austin Wiershke comes from Rhinelander, Wisconsin of the United States. He took home the top prize at the fifth annual texting event, beating 11 other competitors in the final, including last year’s champion Brianna Hendrickson from Brooklyn, New York.
Wiershke, who was wearing a gray shirt and having Justin Bieber’s hairstyle, sailed through each level of the competition by typing passages of text on a QWERTY keyboard rapidly without any mistaken. One special round even included being blindfolded(蒙眼) on the state to make up phrases by memory.
“I’m extremely nervous,” Wiershke said while waiting for the results after the final round. “I’m getting ready to hear Brianna’s name. When I heard my name was announced, I really couldn’t believe my ears.” After the announcement was made, confetti(五彩纸屑) dropped from the ceiling and Wiershke was met on the stage by the singer who said that she liked texting very much. She was Ashley Tisdale, a famous and beautiful singer, who awarded him his check.
In August, a film on Music Television called “Thumbs” took a behind-the –scenes look at the teenager’s life. It shows how he practiced texting to be the fastest. The film followed a series of young texting competitors, including Brianna Hendrickson, in the weeks leading up to this year’s LG US National Texting Championship. Besides showing the always –connected lifestyle of these teenagers nationwide, the mover also shows the studies, sports , dreams and friendships among these competitors.
【小题1】What is the main idea of this passage?

A．A teenager receiver $50,000.

B．Teenagers in the US make money by texting.

C．A teenager was named the fastest texter in the US.

D．The LG US National Texting Championship was held in New York City.

【小题2】 During the special round, competitors were required to text_____________.

A．among confetti

B．without using their eyes

C．using a special keyboard

D．extremely difficult words

【小题3】We can infer that Austin Wiershke_________.

A．wasn’t used to using the QWERTY keyboard

B．didn’t think Brianna Hendrickson would win this time

C．didn’t expect he would beat Brianna Hendrickson

D．was very confident when he was waiting for the result of the contest

【小题4】Through the film called “Thumb”, people can know____________.

A．the development of the LG US National Texting Championship

B．various parts of the competitors’ life

C．what happened to the competitors after the contest

D．the details of the texting contest

Who says constant texting is just a bad habit? The teenager with the fastest thumbs in the country was crowned on Wednesday at the LG US National Texting Championship in New York City, winning ＄50,000 after a series of fierce texting battles.

16-year-old Austin Wiershke comes from Rhinelander, Wisconsin of the United States. He took home the top prize at the fifth annual texting event, beating 11 other competitors in the final, including last year’s champion Brianna Hendrickson from Brooklyn, New York.

Wiershke, who was wearing a gray shirt and having Justin Bieber’s hairstyle, sailed through each level of the competition by typing passages of text on a QWERTY keyboard rapidly without any mistaken. One special round even included being blindfolded(蒙眼) on the state to make up phrases by memory.

“I’m extremely nervous,” Wiershke said while waiting for the results after the final round. “I’m getting ready to hear Brianna’s name. When I heard my name was announced, I really couldn’t believe my ears.” After the announcement was made, confetti(五彩纸屑) dropped from the ceiling and Wiershke was met on the stage by the singer who said that she liked texting very much. She was Ashley Tisdale, a famous and beautiful singer, who awarded him his check.

In August, a film on Music Television called “Thumbs” took a behind-the –scenes look at the teenager’s life. It shows how he practiced texting to be the fastest. The film followed a series of young texting competitors, including Brianna Hendrickson, in the weeks leading up to this year’s LG US National Texting Championship. Besides showing the always –connected lifestyle of these teenagers nationwide, the mover also shows the studies, sports , dreams and friendships among these competitors.

1.What is the main idea of this passage?

A．A teenager receiver $50,000.

B．Teenagers in the US make money by texting.

C．A teenager was named the fastest texter in the US.

D．The LG US National Texting Championship was held in New York City.

2. During the special round, competitors were required to text_____________.

A．among confetti

B．without using their eyes

C．using a special keyboard

D．extremely difficult words

3.We can infer that Austin Wiershke_________.

A．wasn’t used to using the QWERTY keyboard

B．didn’t think Brianna Hendrickson would win this time

C．didn’t expect he would beat Brianna Hendrickson

D．was very confident when he was waiting for the result of the contest

4.Through the film called “Thumb”, people can know____________.

A．the development of the LG US National Texting Championship

B．various parts of the competitors’ life

C．what happened to the competitors after the contest

D．the details of the texting contest

 

Before her 21-year-old daughter died in an accident in early 2007, Pam Weiss had never logged on to Facebook, a social-networking site. At that time, social-networking sites were used almost only by   36  . But she knew her daughter Amy Woolington, a UCLA student, had a(n)  37  , so in her sadness Weiss turned to Facebook to look for photos. She found what she was looking for and more. She was soon communicating with her daughter’s many friends,   38   memories through passages that her daughter had written. “It makes me feel   39   that Amy had a positive effect on so many people, and I wouldn’t have had a clue if it hadn’t been   40   Facebook,” says Weiss.And she wouldn’t have had a   41   if she had waited too long. She managed to copy most of her daughter’s profile in the three months before Facebook   42  .

Like a growing number of sad relatives, Weiss tapped into one of the most powerful treasures of memories available: a loved one’s online presence. As people spend more time at   43  , there’s less being stored away in dusty attics(阁楼).These pieces of our lives that we put online can feel as eternal as the Internet itself, but what happens to our   44   identity after we die?

Facebook   45   its policy a few months after Woolington died. “We first realized we needed a protocol(协定书) for  46  users after the Virginia Tech University shooting, when students were looking for ways to remember and   47   their classmates,” says Facebook spokeswoman Elizabeth Linder.

(  ) 36.   A. men    B. the youthful       C. women       D. students

(  ) 37.   A. status  B. post    C. account      D. memory

(  ) 38.   A. sharing      B. storing       C. accumulating     D. devoting

(  ) 39.   A. enthusiastic       B. upset   C. well    D. good

(  ) 40. A. with     B. for      C. on      D. of

(  ) 41.   A. blueprint    B. poet    C. picture       D. clue

(  ) 42.   A. took it up   B. took it on   C. took it over       D. took it down

(  ) 43. A. television     B. music  C. keyboard    D. sports

(  ) 44.   A. digital B. virtual C. real     D. false

(  ) 45. A. made    B. declared     C. fixed   D. changed

(  ) 46. A. dying   B. active  C. alive   D. dead

(  ) 47.   A. honor B. recognize   C. recall  D. observe