Module 5 Newspapers and Magazines
“阅读＋七选五＋完形”组合练——练题型
(限时：35分钟)
Ⅰ.阅读理解
(2016·东北三省三校第一次联考)The Internet is full of headlines that grab your attention with buzzwords (流行术语). But often when we click through, we find the content hardly delivers and it wastes our time. We close the page, feeling we've been cheated. These types of headlines are called “click bait”．
A headline on Business Insider reads：“This phrase will make you seem more polite”. First, when you click through, you find another headline：“Four words to seem more polite”. Then, on reading the article, you find it's actually an essay about sympathy. And what are the four words? They're “Wow, that sounds hard”. On some video websites, you might encounter headlines such as “Here's what happens when six puppies visited a campus”. It turns out that
it's just some uneventful dog footage (连续镜头)．
Nowadays, with the popularity of social media, many news outlets tweet (推送) click bait links to their stories. These tweets take advantage of the curiosity gap or attempt to draw the reader into a story using a question in the headline. These click bait headlines are so annoying that someone is attempting to save people's time by exposing news outlet click bait through social media. The Twitter account @ SavedYouAClick, run by Jake Beckman, is one such example.
Beckman's method is to grab tweets linking to a story and retweet them with a click­saving comment. For example, CNET tweeted “So iOS 8 appears to be jailbreakable but ...”， with a link to its coverage of Apple's product announcements. Beckman retweeted it with this comment attached: “...it hasn't been jailbroken yet.”
Since founding the account, Beckman's Twitter experiment has brought him more than 131,000 followers. Beckman said，“@ SavedYouAClick is just my way of trying to help the Internet be less terrible.” Asked about his goal, he said，“I'd love to see publishers think ab
out the experience of their readers first. I think there's an enormous opportunity for publishers to provide readers with informative updates that include links so you can click through and read more.”
语篇解读：本文是一篇议论文。当今网络上充满了吸引人们注意力的标题，但是它们往往存在“陷阱”，这对读者是一个欺骗，Jake Beckman呼吁出版商应该对读者负责。
1．The article on Business Insider turns out to be________.
A．useful suggestions on politeness
B．an essay about another topic
C．an article hard to understand
D．a link to a video website
解析：选B　细节理解题。根据第二段的第三句可知，当你读文章时，你会发现它实际上是一篇关于同情心的散文，因此选择B。
2．Why are readers often cheated by tricky headlines?
A．Social media has become more popular.
B．Readers have questions to be solved.
C．Such headlines are fairly attractive.
D．There're always stories behind them.
解析：选C　推理判断题。根据文章第一段的前两句可知，因特网上充满了吸引人们注意力的流行术语。由此可推知C项正确。
3．Beckman attached his comment to CNET's tweet to ______.
A．criticize CNET
B．save readers' time
C．advertise Apple's new product
D．tell readers something about iOS 8
解析：选B　细节理解题。根据文章第三段的第三句和第四段的第一句可知，B项正确。
4．In the last paragraph, Beckman appeals that ________.
A．publishers should be more responsible for the link
B．readers think about their needs before reading
uneventful
C．publishers provide more information for readers
D．people work together to make the Internet less terrible
解析：选A　细节理解题。根据文章最后一段的“I'd love to see publishers think about the experience of their readers first.”可知，出版商应该对链接更加负责，因此选择A。
Ⅱ.阅读七选五
(2016·山东省日照市校际联合检测)Everyone can benefit a lot from reading books. The follo
wing is about the various benefits of reading books.
__1__ Whenever you read something, you learn information that you otherwise wouldn't have known. It can be a fact about history or a theory you didn't know existed. If you want to learn new words, reading books is a great way to enlarge your vocabulary.
__2__ Similar to solving puzzles, reading books allows your mind to practice its processing skills. Going without books for too long will turn your mind into a whirl (混乱)．
One of the primary benefits of reading books is its ability to develop your critical thinking skills. __3__ Wherever you are faced with a similar problem in real life, your mind is able to put its mystery­solving skills to a test.
One of the great benefits of reading books is that the information in it can be accessed over and over again. For example, reading a cookbook allows you the luxury of reviewing the procedures whenever you need to. __4__ Don't even think about writing the information down because you may lose the paper you wrote down on sooner or later.
These are just some of the wonderful benefits of reading books. __5__ If you can't even go outside, you can download free e­books online and read them on your computer. That way, you can see how advantageous reading can be for yourself.