The globe is becoming smaller and smaller because of the Internet. On the one hand, people can not only correspond but also have conferences with their colleagues far away online. Students can also get accurate reference from educators, while customers can find abundant brands of clothes online to choose from. On the other hand, people may get bothered by diverse relevant sources. They have to comb through and classify them, evaluating and abandoning false information.
由于互联网,世界正变得越来越小。一方面人们不仅可以在网上和远方的同事通信,还可以开会。学生们也可以从教育家那里得到精准的征询,而顾客也可以在网上找到大量品牌的衣服以供选择。另一方面,人们会被各种各样的相关信息源搞得心烦。他们不得不对此认真浏览和分类,评估并摒弃虚假信息。
加餐练(一) 完形阅读组合练
Ⅰ.完形填空
I have two friends who love backpacking. They spent a lot of time in a part of New York State's Adirondack Mountains. It __1__ 46 mountains with a height of over 4,000 feet. The Adirondack Mountain Club gives __2__ recognition and an award to anyone who __3__ all 46 mountains. My two friends decided to go for this award.
Now what you have to understand is that __4__ many of the 46 mountains have wellmarked __5__ to their summits (山顶), others are not marked at all. You have to "bushwhack (在丛林中开路)" using a compass and a map.
My friends had climbed 45 of the mountains. They had just one __6__ - it was the most __7__, requiring bushwhacking. A hiking path led past the base of the mountain, but from that point they were on their own.
Early one morning they left their __8__ and walked five miles on the hiking path to the base of a chain of mountains. When they arrived, they __9__ that they had left their compass and map in the camp. Rather than __10__ the camp, they decided to bushwhack without the compass and map.
For hours they __11__ uphill experiencing the enduring heat, thick bushes, and black flies. __12__, in the late afternoon they found themselves at the __13__ of a mountain successfully. They were exhausted but __14__.
The feeling was shortlived, however. When they looked across the valley, they __15__ another higher mountain. They had climbed the __16__ one! It was too __17__ that weekend to correct their error. They had to __18__ another four months to climb the right mountain.