MANY of us enjoy doing it: you turn on the camera on your mobile phone and hold it at a high angle (角度), making your eyes look bigger and your cheekbones more marked out. You turn to your best side and click.
There it is – your selfie.
Over the past year, “selfie” has become a well-known term across the globe. This August the Oxford dictionary added the word to their online dictionary and defined it as: “A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.”
Today it’s not difficult to find social networking pages full of photos people have taken of themselves and their friends. And selfie culture has become especially related to young people. As many as 91 percent of teenagers have posted photos of themselves online, according to a recent survey by the US Pew Research Center.
So what are the reasons for the rise of selfie culture?
“The cult (狂熱) of the selfie celebrates regular people,” Pamela Rutledge, a professor at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, told Vogue magazine. “There are many more photographs available now of real people than models.”
Posting selfies also allows you to control your image online. “I like having the power to choose how I look, even if I’m making a funny face,” Samantha Barks, 19, a high school student in the US, told Vogue.
In addition to self-expression and documentation (記錄), selfies “allow for an close friendship for long-distance friends, because you can see each other’s faces every day”, wrote Casey Miller at The Huffington Post.
But US psychologist Jill Weber is concerned that selfies might lead to social problems. “There’s a danger that your self-esteem (自尊心) may start to be tied to the comments and ‘likes’ you get when you post a selfie, and they aren’t based on who you are – they’re based on what you look like,” Weber told Vogue. “When you get nothing or a negative response, your confidence can plummet.”
小題1:The first paragraph is intended to _________.
A．explain why selfie is popularB．describe how to make selfie
C．show the importance of selfieD．introduce the topic of selfie
小題2:How many reasons for the rise of selfie culture are mentioned in the passage?
A．TwoB．ThreeC．FourD．Five
小題3:What is Jill Weber’s opinion about selfies?
A．Comments on selfie are based on who you are.
B．Selfies have more disadvantages than advantages.
C．Others’ response to selfies might affect one’s self-esteem.
D．Selfies shouldn’t be encouraged for they lead to social problems.
小題4:The underlined word “plummet” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to __________.
A．go downB．calm downC．pick upD．build up

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:A

試題分析：文章主要講述的是“自拍”這個話題，很貼近日常生活。自拍已經(jīng)成為一種全球性的流行語，自拍照流傳于各種社交網(wǎng)站。自拍的狂熱主要有三方面的原因。在肯定自拍的同時，也有人擔心自拍照會影響到個人的自尊心。
小題1:把相機放到一個較高的角度，使眼睛看起來更大一些，顴骨更突出一點。第一段描述了自拍的過程，起到引入“自拍”這個話題的作用。第二段總結(jié)說，“這就是自拍”。
故選D。
小題2:根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段“In addition to self-expression and documentation (記錄), selfies “allow for an close friendship for long-distance friends”可知，自拍的流行，有三方面的原因。故選B。
小題3:根據(jù)最后一段“There’s a danger that your self-esteem (自尊心) may start to be tied to the comments and ‘likes’ you get when you post a selfie”可知，Jill Weber認為，他人對自拍照的回應和喜好會影響到照片本人的自尊心。故選C。
小題4:根據(jù)“When you get nothing or a negative response”可知，當無人關(guān)注或得到他人消極的評價時，你的自信心可能會下降。故選A。
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