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(閣樓).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(協(xié)定書) 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
36. B。37.   C38.       A。39.   D。40.   B。41.   D。42.   D。43.    C。44.   B。45. D。46. D。47. A。

36. B。根據(jù)上下文，在那個(gè)時(shí)候，社交類網(wǎng)站的主流用戶幾乎都是“年輕人”。
37. C。根據(jù)句意，Weiss得知她的女兒在網(wǎng)站上擁有的是“賬戶”。
38. A。根據(jù)前文Weiss聯(lián)系上了女兒的朋友，“分享”他們的記憶；后面and并列的是現(xiàn)在分詞，因此選sharing。
39. D。根據(jù)下文，Weiss看到艾米曾經(jīng)對(duì)這么多人產(chǎn)生過(guò)積極的影響，這會(huì)讓她感覺(jué)“很好”。
40. B。介詞for在這里表示原因，“因?yàn)椋捎凇薄?br />41. D。根據(jù)上文可以知道，如果沒(méi)有登錄臉譜網(wǎng)，Weiss根本就不會(huì)得到這個(gè)線索，從下文可以得知，如果她動(dòng)作慢一點(diǎn)，也難以得到這個(gè)線索。
42. D。take down原意表示“拿下，取下”，文中表示“注銷”。
43.   C。根據(jù)全文的內(nèi)容，都是談到死去的人們?cè)诰W(wǎng)絡(luò)世界留下的痕跡，因此此處是指人們?cè)凇版I盤”上花的時(shí)間越來(lái)越多，塵封在閣樓之上，留給親人好友睹物思人的物件就越來(lái)越少。
44. B。網(wǎng)絡(luò)上面當(dāng)然是“虛擬”的身份。
45. D。根據(jù)下文來(lái)看，臉譜網(wǎng)意識(shí)到有必要針對(duì)離世的用戶制定一套新的操作規(guī)程，因此是“修改”了他們的服務(wù)條款。
46. D。根據(jù)下文可知，這個(gè)協(xié)議書是為了在弗吉尼亞理工大學(xué)校園槍擊案中“死去”的用戶。
47. A。弗吉尼亞理工大學(xué)校園槍擊案發(fā)生之后，學(xué)生們尋找各種方式回憶和“紀(jì)念”他們的同學(xué)。
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A. To limit the use of company cars.
B. To encourage governmental officials to use public transportation or ride bicycles.
C. To show that riding bicycles is good for health.
D. To show that he loves riding bicycles.
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A. to limit the use of private cars, improve public transport
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