河南省洛阳第一高级中学2016-2017学年高一上学期12月月考试卷英语_高中英语试卷

河南省洛阳第一高级中学2016-2017学年高一上学期12月月考试卷英语

　　55.According to the passage，writing can help you a lot except________.

　　A.to increase your brain power

　　B.to improve the ability to remember

　　C.to develop your interest in study

　　D.to strengthen the understanding of a topic

　　56.If a writer writes something，it means that he or she________.

　　A.has understood it very well

　　B.needs to understand it better

　　C.wants to remember it in his or her mind

　　D.is testing his or her new ideas

　　57.The underlined sentence“you’re halfway there”in the fourth paragraph means that________.

　　A.you are already successful

　　B.there’s a long way for you to go to reach your goal

　　C.you are left wondering what to do

　　D.you have been on the way to success

　　A new generation addiction is quickly spreading all over the world. Weboholism ,a twentieth century disease, affects people from different ages. They surf the net, use email and speak in chat rooms. They spend many hours on the computer, and it becomes a compulsive habit. They cannotstop, and it affects their lives. Ten years ago, no one thought that using computers could become compulsive behavior that could affect the social and physical life of computer users. This obsessional behavior has affected teenagers and college students. They are likely to log on computers and spend long hours at different websites. They become hooked on computers and gradually their social and school life is affected by this situation.They spend all free time surfing and don't concentrate on homework,so this addiction influences their grades and success at school. Because they can find everything on the websites, they hang out there. Moreover, this addiction to websites influences their social life. They spend more time in front of computers than with their friends.The relation with their friends changes.The virtual life becomes more important than their real life.They have a new language that they speak in the chat rooms and it causes cultural changes in society. Because of the change in their behavior, they begin to isolate themselves from the society and live with their virtual friends. They share their emotions and feelings with friends who they have never met in their life. Although they feel confident on the computer, they are not confident with real live friends they have known all their life. It is a problem for the future. This addictive behavior is beginning to affect all the world.