問題詳情
The use of emoticons, punctuation to depict a facial expression, is an essential part of the lexicon of theInternet. Even if you don’t use emoticons, you probably know what they are-little strings of characters, whenlooked at sideways, are like faces showing some emotion. For example, :-D means laughing, with eyes, a nose,and a capital D for a wide, happy mouth.All this is the result of a half-joking computer post put up by a faculty member at Carnegie MellonUniversity on September 19, 1982. Scott Fahlman noticed that some of the jokes being sent around CarnegieMellon’s computer network were being taken seriously by a few people on campus. Someone who didn’t get thejoke might be upset by an all-in-fun comment and send out an angry response. This wasted a lot of people’s time.Fahlman suggested the smiley as a solution. If you write something not to be taken seriously, he suggested, type :-)after it. Some people took up his suggestion and it became part of the Internet shorthand at CarnegieMellon. The popularity of smiley turned out to be much more than Fahlman expected. Within a few months, itsoon spread via messages to other universities and companies.No one really knows how many emoticons there are, but lists of 100 or so are common. The most popularones are actually turned into little pictures by word-processing or instant-messaging software. Forinstance, :-( meaning sadness or disappointment becomes / on your computer screen.
【題組】76 What is the main purpose of the passage?
(A)To convince the reader to use emoticons in electronic communication.
(B)To introduce the reader to the origin of the smiley.
(C)To provide a historical overview of the Internet development.
(D)To explain the various meanings of the smiley.
參考答案
答案：B
難度：適中0.666667
統計：A(6),B(16),C(2),D(0),E(0)