Section Ⅳ Using Language第一步 速读——了解文章主题和段落大意速读 P59教材课文，选择最佳答案The passage is mainly about ．A．how to make your phone call cheaperB．text messages and emoticonsC．how to read text messages and emoticonsD．how to shorten your text messages[答案] B第二步 细读——把控文章关键信息细读 P59教材课文，选择最佳答案1 ． Why do people prefer to use text messages instead of talking on the phones?A．They want to keep secret.B．They want to save money.C．They want to make jokes.D．They want to play word games.2．How can you shorten the words that you use?A．Take out any letters that you use.B．Take out unimportant letters(usually vowels)．C．Use numbers instead of words.D．Use words instead of numbers.3．From the passage, we know that ．A．it is easy to understand some short messages if you are a ChineseB．it is hard to understand the emoticons if you don't know EnglishC．the short messages cannot be made by ChineseD．short messages sometimes make us puzzled[答案] 1－3 BBD第三步 研读——能力升华 接轨高考根据 P59教材课文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式1 ． Taking (talk) on a mobile phone is expensive ， so a lot of people send text messages.Text messages are much 2.cheaper (cheap) than talking on a mobile phone.You can make it even cheaper 3.by shortening the words that you use.You can do this by taking out 4.unimportant (important) letters in the words and using numbers instead 5.of words.You can also avoid 6.using (use) punctuation like inverted commas.7.A series of symbols have been developed 8.to show (show) how mobile phone users feel.They 9.are called(call)emoticons and there are some 10.examples (example) below.Ⅰ.单词拼写 根据汉语或首字母提示，写出下列单词1．There are no reliable statistics...
