Facebook means never having to say goodbye. The social media website has earned a reputation for reconnecting old friends. Last week，a guy whom I hadn't seen since my bachelor party five years ago sent me a friend request. I accepted and waited for “Easy E” to send me a greeting of some kind. He had sought me out，after all.
I learned from his profile that he was in a relationship and had a son. However，I'm pretty sure we won't ever write wall-to-wall，let alone e­mail each other. But he'll remain a friend of online until one of us makes a point of removing the other from his official list.
My pool of friends consists of family members，college buddies，co­workers from past and  present，and friends of friends. There are 35 in all. If I spent some time uploading old e­mail addresses，I'm confident that I could increase my friend count actually.
A person could make a mission out of reconnecting with childhood friends，former  classmates，distant cousins, and those one would like to get to know better. And some people can even handle hundreds of on­screen relationships，keeping up with the daily happenings of  their small army of companions. After all，there are worse fates than having too many friends.
Thanks to e­mail，the inability to schedule face-to-face meetings no longer means a  friendship must come to a close. But even with e­mail，people will lose touch if one or both  parties stop writing back. That’s normal. People move from school to school，job to job，city to city. You never have to feel guilty for breaking away.
Every day，the masterminds of Web 2.0 find new ways of making human communication  easier. However，convenience can be a crutch(拐杖)．Some things shouldn't be simplified. When it comes to friendship，there can be no shortcuts.
小題1:According to Paragraph 1，the website is famous because ________.
A．it has an interesting name of “Facebook”
B．it helps people get in touch with old friends
C．it can send people a greeting of some kind
D．it reminds people of events in the past
小題2:From the second paragraph we can learn that the writer ________.
A．would write to the friend quite often
B．a(chǎn)sked the friend to e­mail him
C．did get some information about the friend
D．would keep in touch with the friend forever
小題3:Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A．There are 35 people in the author's list of friends right now.
B．The author communicates with all the 35 friends by e­mails.
C．The list of 35 friends doesn't include the old e­mail addresses.
D．It is not difficult for the author to increase his friend count.
小題4:What does the author think of the convenience of communicating online?
A．The technology could not keep true friendship forever.
B．The social website of Facebook means nothing at all.
C．There will be no ways of making real friends online.
D．People will not lose friends with the help of the Facebook.

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:A
網(wǎng)絡是人們的交流更加簡捷方便，而正是這種交流往往使真正的友誼不能長久。
小題1:B 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第一段第二句話可知，此網(wǎng)站贏得聲譽是因為幫助重新聯(lián)系老朋友。
小題2:C 推斷題。 根據(jù)第二段he was in a relationship and had a son我們可以推知，作者確實從網(wǎng)上得到了朋友的一些信息。
小題3:B 細節(jié)理解題。由第三段 My pool of friends consists of family members，college buddies，co­workers from past and  present，and friends of friends. There are 35 in all. 可知，作者提到了朋友、大學同學、同事、以及朋友的朋友共35人，但沒有提及都跟他們聯(lián)系。
小題4:A推理判斷題。有最后兩段特別是文章最后一句：Some things shouldn't be simplified. When it comes to friendship，there can be no shortcuts.
可知答案為A.
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