2019年12月英语六级长篇阅读练习题(4)
Section B
Directions： In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.
You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. Facebook Moms
A． Kimberly Gervaise, a stay-at-home mother of three in Little Silver, N.J., joined Facebook five years ago and only posts every couple of months, mostly sharing photos from special events, like birthdays. She has 393 friends, and wishes some of them would tuck it in (收敛) a bit. \little annoyed about people who feel the need to post a
picture of a straight-A report card--and there are many,\says. \but I find it annoying.\
B． Gervaise says more and more mothers are using
Facebook as a platform to boast about their lives, their kids, their parenting techniques. And that's making it harder and harder for morns like her to log on without getting slapped in the face. Bragging about your kids is nothing new, but before Facebook, the Compare & Contrast game was mostly
played at the playground or the preschool parking lot. Morns would stand around discreetly scrutinizing kids to see who
was hitting milestones faster or slower than their own children. Now it's going on all day, every day, in a vast electronic sandbox.
C． Facebook morns are constantly bombarded with updates about their friends' kids and their accomplishments. Daily, hourly even. According to Edison Research's Moms and Media 2013 report, 57% of morns on Facebook are over 35--these women are the first generation to have raised their children entirely in the Facebook era. They started out single, gossiping and posting party photos and flirting, and now
they're changing diapers, worrying about peanut allergies and diligently navigating the sometimes treacherous mommy waters. And if they're active on Facebook, they're learning in front of a huge, rapt audience.
D． Mothers are heavy Facebook users. Edison's 2013 research reveals that 7 out of 10 moms have a profile, and there are more than 1,000 mommy groups, public and private. These groups range in size from hundreds of members to tens of thousands, and they are discussing everything from potty training to gaming that private- school admissions test. E.Of all the members on Facebook, moms check in the
most(an average of 5.1 times a day, according to Edison), and they keep coming back, even if they are being battered with subtle--and sometimes not so subtle--\
smarter/healthier/happier than yours\who barely gets her kids' shoes on before hustling them off to school, posts that portray the perfect family can stir up guilt or even self-loathing( 自我厌恶 ). \draw pictures with children? Who has time to clean up the
giant mess?\in San Francisco. \like a lazy person.\
F.The great time-killer is now a massive ego-killer, and even a mommy-blogger with a huge following feels
vulnerable.\Melton, who had a New York Times best- seller with Carry On, Warrior.\， career, family, social life, house, etc., as soon as I log on to
Facebook and peek into others' lives, I immediately feel that unease caused by comparison.\
G. This is turning many rooms off. \me crazy when my son was younger was moms posting about how well their baby slept,\was a pretty poor sleeper, and we spent so much of that first year utterly exhausted. So to be honest, when I would see a post gloating, ' X slept for six hours straight last night! ' I would immediately hide that person for a while because it would irritate me.\one from Falls Church, Va., is so fired of playing the game. \sick of everyone's presentation of perfection.\
H. There is nothing in the Facebook rules that requires complete honesty and total disclosure, and it is human nature to portray the best version of one's life. From carefully presenting our vacation pictures to sharing perfectly posed first-day-of-school photos, all of us, not just moms, try to portray a problem-free, fun-filled, blissful life. And that can be pretty annoying if you've just spent the morning
2019年12月英语六级长篇阅读练习题(4)
