高考英语江苏专二轮复习专题限时检测（二十一）阅读理解C篇专练（二）Word含解析
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专题限时检测(二十一)阅读理解C篇专练(二)
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(2018·镇江高三一模)Most of us are already aware of the direct effect we have on our friends and family. But we rarely consider that everything we think, feel, do, or say can spread far beyond the people we know. Converly (相反地), our friends and family rve as conduits (渠道) for us to be influenced by hundreds or even thousands of other people. In a kind of social chain reaction, we can be deeply affected by events we do not witness that happen to people we do not know. As part of a social network, we go beyond ourlves, for good or ill, and become a part of something much larger.
Our connectedness carries with it fundamental implications (影响) for the way we understand the human condition. Social networks have value precily becau they can h
elp us to achieve what we could not achieve on our own. Yet, social-network effects are not always positive. Depression, obesity, financial panic, and violence also spread. Social networks, it turns out, tend to magnify (放大) whatever they are eded with.
Partly for this reason, social networks are creative. And what the networks create does not belong to any one individual — it is shared by all tho in the network. In this way, a social network is like a commonly owned forest: we all stand to benefit from it, but we also must work together to ensure it remains healthy and productive. While social networks are fundamentally and distinctively human, and can be en everywhere, they should not be taken for granted.
If you are happier or richer or healthier than others, it may have a lot to do with where you happen to be in the network, even if you cannot recognize your own location. And it may have a lot to do with the overall structure of the network, even if you cannot control that structure at all. And in some cas, the process feeds back to the network itlf. A person with many friends may become rich and then attract even more friends. This rich-get-rich
er dynamic means social networks can dramatically reinforce two different kinds of inequality in our society: situational inequality and positional inequality.
Lawmakers have not yet considered the conquences of positional inequality. Still, understanding the way we are connected is an esntial step in creating a more just society and in carrying out public policies affecting everything from public health to the economy. We might be better off vaccinating (接种疫苗) centrally located individuals rather than weak individuals. We might be better off helping interconnected groups of people to avoid criminal behavior rather than preventing or punishing crimes one at a time.
If we want to understand how society works, we need to fill in the missing links between
二十一条individuals. We need to understand how interconnections and interactions between people give ri to wholly new aspects of human experience that are not prent in the individuals themlves. If we do not understand social networks, we cannot hope to fully understand either ourlves or the world we inhabit.
语篇解读：本文是一篇议论文，主要论述了人际关系和社会网络的重要性。
1．What can be inferred from the first paragraph?
A．We can't be easily affected by strangers.
B．We are connected and form a social network.
香葱世界五百强企业C．We have negative effects on other social members.
什么是aspD．We will not make a difference in a specific group.
解析：选B推理判断题。根据第一段的内容，尤其是最后一句“As part of a social network, we go beyond ourlves, for good or ill, and become a part of something much larger.”可推知，人与人之间是相互联系、相互影响的，形成了一个社会网络。
2．Why is a social network like a commonly owned forest?
A．Becau it remains healthy and productive.
黄鹤楼资料B．Becau it tends to magnify negative things.
C．Becau it is creative and shared by people in the whole society.
D．Becau what it creates can be enjoyed by everyone in the network.
解析：选D细节理解题。根据第三段第二句“And what the networks create does not belong to any one individual — it is shared by all tho in the network.”可知，这种网络创造出来的产品并不属于任何个人，是整个网络里面的人所共享的。
3．We can learn from Paragraph 4 that ________.
A．whether we are richer depends on the number of friends we make
B．the wealth we posss has nothing to do with individual continuous efforts
C．sometimes our success may be largely due to our position in social networks
D．we won't succeed unless we fully control the overall structure of the network
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解析：选C推理判断题。由第四段第一句“If you are happier or richer or healthier than others, it may have a lot to do with where you happen to be in the network, even if you cannot recognize your own location.”可知，你的成功与你所处的社交网有很大的关系。
4．What's the author's purpo in writing the passage?
A．To introduce the characteristics of social networks.
B．To urge people to understand how our society works.
C．To show the significance of understanding social networks.
D．To explain the possible conquences of ignoring social networks.
