That can be a good thing, with the Web serving as a kind of buffer zone (缓冲地带) for uncomfortable interaction. It’s easier to face rejection, there aren’t lulls in conversation or geographic boundaries-and social networking is like a window into the lives of potential mates. Say two people meet on Facebook, though a mutual friend, Immediately, they know whether the other person is single-without having to ask. ______ It’s all the details a person might encounter on a first or second date, without ever having to go on one. As David Yams, a recent graduate of Babson College, outside Boston, trots it: "Facebook has taken the potentially awkward first stages of flirting and getting to know someone into the comfort of your own home."A. it’s easier to approach each other, to talk casually, to get to know one another and feel out romantic potential without ever having to truly put themselves out there.B. "And you don’t even have to be on the computer to engage in it."C. They can see where that person grew up, their political interests, whether they’re "looking for a relationship" or only interested in "hooking up."D. As the thinking went, if you had to go to the Web to find a mate, or break up with one, it must have meant you weren’t capable of attracting anyone in the real world.E. Now a relationship may still begin by locking eyes across a crowded bar, but instead of asking for a phone number, the next step almost surely involves a Facebook friendship offer.F. David Hein zinger, a 24-year-old new-media specialist in New York, recently asked a girl he met at a happy hour to dinner,
Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. One of the most exciting races ever run is now in progress between doctors fighting malaria(疟疾)and mosquitoes. According to the most recent counts 225 million people a year suffer attacks of malaria and more than two million die. Public health workers around the world are doing all t11ev can to destroy malaria before the mosquitoes that pass on the disease become resistant to the poisons now used against them. It’s a race against time and against difficulties,with millions of lives in danger and the chances of winning not in man’s favour. Malaria,it is true,has been practically wiped out in thirteen countries. including the United States,and is under attack in many others. But it is equally true that in some parts of the world certain types of malaria-carrying mosquitoes have already learned to resist some of the sprays that formerly killed them. Other types of mosquitoes are not killed as quickly by present sprays as they once were. The World Health Organization is helping national governments to get rid of malaria before resistance among the mosquito population becomes so great that new poisons will have to be found to replace those in use at present. Most of the countries in the world have started,or are planning,campaigns against mosquitoes. If the race against resistance is won by man,it is possible that ten years from now dais old evil will have disappeared completely from the America,perhaps from the world. Malaria has been successfully got rid of in______.
A. all countries
B. some countries
C. no countries
D. most countries