Your friends might be in Australia or maybe just down the road , but they are all just a few clicks (点击)away. Life has 21 for millions of tee
all just a few clicks (点击)away. Life has 21 for millions of teenagers across the world who now make friends online. 22 you use chat rooms, QQ, MSN or ICQ, you are 23 of a virtual community(虚拟社区).
“I rarely talk with my parents or grandparents, 24 I talk a lot with my old friends on QQ,” said Fox’s Shadow, the online nickname(网名)used by a Senior 2 girl in China. “Eighty per cent of my classmates use QQ 25 school.”
QQ is the biggest messaging 26 in China. A record 4 million people used it one Saturday night in October, 27 to Tencent, the company which developed QQ.
And Fox’s Shadow might well have been one of them. “I log in (登陆) on Friday nights, and Saturdays or Sundays when I feel 28 . I usually 29 about 10 hours chatting online every week,”she said. “But I rarely talk with 30 , especially boys or men.”
Even though she likes chatting, she is careful about making 31 with strangers online. “You don’t know 32 you’re talking to. You should 33 be careful about who you trust online.”
Many people would like to meet offline when they feel they have got to 34 someone very well. Fox’s Shadow once met one of her online friends face to face. It was a girl who was a comic fan like 35 and they went to a comic show together.
However, not all teenagers have been so 36 . At the beginning of this year, a 17-year-old girl was killed after meeting a friend she had found on QQ. The criminals weren’t 37 until last month.
A 16-year-old Beijing boy, known online as Bart Simon, dislikes QQ users. “I used to chat on QQ, but I found that most people were talking 38 ,” he said. Now he chats online in English, using MSN. But he spends little time chatting as he sees it as a 39 of time and money. “If you are really 40 to it, sometimes you just can’t concentrate in class,” he said.
21. A. improved B. become C. changed D. increased
22. A. Whether B. If C. When D. Unless
23. A. member B. part C. partner D. number
24. A. but B. while C. when D. still
25. A. before B. at C. after D. since
26. A. service B. product C. structure D. organization
27. A. granting B. depending C. considering D. according
28. A. sleepy B. tired C. bored D. busy
29. A. take B. cost C. pay D. spend
30. A. friends B. adults C. males D. strangers
31. A. relation B. touch C. contact D. friends
32. A. who B. that C. whose D. these
33. A. often B. usually C. sometimes D. always
34. A. know B. recognize C. tell D. judge
35. A. herself B. her C. anybody else D. everyone
36. A. good B. fortunate C. safely D. healthy
37. A. kept B. held C. caught D. killed
38. A. uselessness B. noise C. nonsense D. rubbish
39. A. short B. lack C. waste D. little
40. A. kept B. held C. addicted D. stuck
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