Unit 4 Pygmalion grammar课时作业

Ⅰ.课文缩写填空

　　Two students gave their speeches about the 1.advantages and disadvantages of Internet use at a debate.

　　One of them is in 2.favour of the Internet.In her view, the Internet has 3.positive effects on our lives.She offered us two explanations：the Internet is now the first 4.source people turn to when they need information.Besides, the Internet is also helpful for people to build social 5.bonds.What is more, the disabled can 6.correspond and communicate with others with the help of the Internet.

　　However, the other one doesn't think so. In his speech, he mainly 7.addressed the drawbacks of the Internet. On the one hand, the information provided by the Internet has not been 8.evaluated for accuracy. On the other hand, the Internet not only 9.affects people's private lives but also damages people's ability to live normal lives.So he advised that people should either 10.limit the use of it or learn how to handle the problems it caused.

Ⅱ.阅读理解

　　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 (可越狱的) 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."