48.What is the most popular communication tool today？(1) your answer
is QQ or MSN，I must say you are a bit old-fashioned. Today, a new form of communication "WeChat"，which (2) （own）a Chinese name Weixin, is becoming the most influential text and useful tool all over the world.
What advantages do WeChat have？First, WeChat is (3) relatively cheap way of communication；that is (4) （say），it uses network traffic instead of telephone fare. Next, we can know what is going on at any time. And we can have (5) （easy）access（通道）to information available than other messaging tools.
What roles does it play (6) our daily life？According to the latest report, the registered（登记的）users on WeChat platform has topped 200 million and
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expanded its business to overseas market. Can you imagine that a mobile phone "app" is so (7) （attract）that it reaches 200 million users within 8 months？WeChat itself has become the most popular mobile chat application in the world. A large number of people have become 'WeChat
alcoholic'，which means they keep
staring at the mobile phone all the time and can't live without (8) ．
However, while enjoying its great (9) （convenient），people should not ignore the danger of (10) （cheat），for information on WeChat is publicly known.
六、书面表达（本大题共2小题，共40.0分）
49.假如你是李华，最近你的美国朋友杰里（Jerry）来信说他的一个室友经常看电子
书到深夜，有时看到有趣的地方还发出笑声，导致他无法入睡，他很苦恼不知道该如何解决这个问题．请你给他写一封信，提出你的建议．
注意：1．词数80个左右；
2．开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数．
Dear Jerry,
Thank you for your trust in me. I understand you are feeling upset now. I'd like to offer you some advice.--------
I hope you'll find these ideas useful.
Yours,
Li Hua
50.阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要．
Human beings are smart.However, it seems that people are gradually losing their
smartness as smartphones become more and more important assistants in their lives,
reported news website Record Japan on
Oct.22．As we rely too much on technology instead of our brains, many people have lost three basic abilities, said the website.
The first skill many people have lost is remembering phone numbers.Because phone
numbers are stored in smartphone contacts, there is no need to dial a number or look at it again.And people may also have lost their sense of direction because navigation
（航行）apps can guide people anywhere they want to go.These apps can even find
shortest routes for you and avoid traffic jams.But the worst lost skills may be social
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ones,meaning that some people are becoming socially inept
（无能的）．People often bury themselves in their smart-phones.As we are too addicted to what's happening in the virtual（虚拟的）world,some of us have lost conversational（常规的）skills and sometimes can't even tell whether a person is happy or not.
In August,researchers at the University of California,Los Angeles,studied 51 students aged 11 and 12 who had over five hours' screen time every day.Their task was to tell the emotions of 48 pictures of faces that were happy, sad,angry,or scared.The children made an average of 14.02 mistakes at the beginning.But after a five-day camp without electronic devices
（设备），they made only 9.41 mistakes on average."If you're not practicing face-to-face communication, you could be losing important social skills," concluded professor Yalda Uhls from the research.
Luckily, people still have a chance to get these abilities back.You should try to keep your parents' number in mind for emergencies.You should also pay more attention to street signs and stores, which will help you to draw a mind map and prevent you from getting lost.And the easiest solution to social skill loss is to take a break from electronic devices because we are social creatures.We need device-free time.
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答案和解析
1.【答案】unlikely
【解析】答案：unlikely.be unlikely to不像会（不太可能），是固定搭配．故填unlikely. 然而，科学家们表示怀疑．他们说，水温这样低的湖泊不可能生存如此巨大的生物．
考查翻译填空，准确地理解句子、翻译句子，然后根据句意及提示确定所填单词词性，正确写出单词完成句子，使句意更通顺．
2.【答案】figure
【解析】答案：figure.不定冠词a后接单数可数名词．故填figure.
在水稻种植领域，中国科学家袁隆平是一位杰出人士．
考查翻译填空，准确地理解句子、翻译句子，然后根据句意及提示确定所填单词词性，正确写出单词完成句子，使句意更通顺．
3.【答案】Traditionally
【解析】答案：Traditionally.副词Traditionally修饰介词短语．故填Traditionally.
在中国传统上，当我们问候某人时，我们把左手放在右手上，微微躬身．
考查翻译填空，准确地理解句子、翻译句子，然后根据句意及提示确定所填单词词性，正确写出单词完成句子，使句意更通顺．
4.【答案】forecast
【解析】答案： forecast.情态动词can后接动词原形．故填 forecast.