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【題目】 When you write a text message or an email, you might put a smiling face or other pictures at the end to make the message more fun. These pictures are emojis. The first emojis were on Japanese mobile phones in the 1990s. Later, they were used on Apple’s iPhone and Android phones. Now they are everywhere!

Before emojis, there were emoticons. The word is a mixture(混合) of emotion(感情) and icon(圖標). Emoticons are made of the signs you can find on your keyboard, for example:-) for a smiley or @};---for a rose. The first use of :-)was in 1982 and it was called “joke marker”. Emoji is a Japanese word which means pictograph: e(picture) +moji (character). Emojis are real pictures, for example，or.There are 1851emojis that can be used on mobile phones and other devices. There are all kinds of emojis, from faces and weather to things in the kitchen and animal.

In England, we have a saying: A picture paints a thousand words. For many people, an emoji is like a punctuation mark(標點). It’s like the tone of voice when we speak on the phone, or hand movements(gestures) used in conversation. Emojis are also changing the way we write. The more we use emojis, the less we use slang(俚語), such as LOL or OMG.

When someone speaks and looks serious, we try to look serious, too, and when someone smiles, we smile as well. This is how we show empathy(同感) and make friends(and enemies!). But when we’re online, we can’t see the person’s face and there’s no emotion. The invention of emojis changed that! Scientists in Australia have discovered that when we look at a smiley face online, the same parts of the brain start working as when we look at a real smiley face. Our mood changes, and we try to change our face to match the emoji. This is something we learn as we get older. Our brains have developed this ability over the last two or three years. This means that emojis have created a new brain pattern(模式)in us!

【1】Where does the writer of this passage possibly come from?

A.AustraliaB.JapaneseC.AmericaD.Britain

【2】What is NOT true about Paragraph 3?

A.Some slang is used less often because of emojis.

B.We no more need words.

C.An Emoji adds emotions to our messages.

D.An Emoji makes people feel face to face.

【3】What is (=￣ω￣=) according to the passage?

A.an emojiB.a pictureC.an emoticonD.a sound

【4】What can we learn from the passage?

A.Emojis will make our words disappear.

B.Emojis have greatly influenced us in many ways.

C.We don’t need to speak to others or meet others any more.

D.Scientists are worried about this invention of emojis.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】C

【4】B

【解析】

本文是一篇說明文。文章主要講了表情符號的發(fā)展及影響。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)In England, we have a saying: A picture paints a thousand words.在英國，我們有一句諺語:一幅畫能描繪千言萬語可知作者來自英國，故選D。

【2】推理判斷題。通過文字“The more we use emojis, the less we use slang(俚語), ”判斷A正確。閱讀最后一段可以知道表情符號為我們的信息增加了情感。判斷C正確。從文中“Scientists in Australia have discovered that when…”判斷表情符號可以讓人感覺到面對面。所以D正確。根據(jù)In England, we have a saying: A picture paints a thousand words.可知在英國,我們有一 句諺語:一幅畫能描繪千言萬語，而不是我們不再需要話語，故選B。

【3】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Before emojis, there were emoticons. The word is a mixture(混合) of emotion(感情) and icon (圖標). Emoticons are made of the signs you can find on your keyboard可知emoticons是由鍵盤上的符號組成的,而Emojis are real pictures , emojis指的是真正的圖片,故選C。

【4】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)This means that emojis have created a new brain pattern(模式)in us!可知這意味著表情符號在我們大腦中創(chuàng)造了一個新的模式! 即表情符號已經(jīng)在許多方面影響了我們，故選B。