专题04 阅读理解（说明文）-备战2024年高考英语近两年名校联考模拟试题精选（上海专用）

专题04 阅读理解（说明文） （原卷版） 目录 1. 上海市育才中学2023-2024学年高三阶段检测 2. 上海市同济大学第一附属中学2023-2024学年高三试题 3. 上海市育才中学2023-2024学年高三期中调研 4. 上海交通大学附属中学2023-2024学年高三期中试题 5. 上海市2023届高考模拟英语试卷 6. 上海市复旦大学附属中学2023-2024学年高三期中试题 7. 上海市回民中学2023-2024学年高三期中试题 8. 上海市建平中学2023-2024学年高三期中试卷 9. 上海市上海中学2023-2024学年高三期中试题 1.【上海市育才中学2023-2024学年高三阶段检测】 Worth nearly $1trn, Facebook is the world’s sixth-most-valuable company. Its revenues have grown by 56% in the past year, and its share price by more than a quarter. Nearly 3bn people use its products every month. Why did such a successful company change its name as Meta? The likely official reason for the rebranding is that the firm has outgrown the social network that Mark Zuckerberg started 17 years ago in a Harvard dorm. Today it includes other social apps (Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger) and video hardware (Oculus, Portal). It has launched a digital wallet (Novi) and may yet offer a currency (Diem). Mr Zuckerberg expects people eventually to associate his firm more with the “metaverse”(元字宙), a virtual space for work, play and more, than with social media. Facebook wouldn’t be the first tech giant to do so. In 2015 Google set up Alphabet, a holding company for the search engine and its many side projects. Under this model, Facebook would become just another app within a wider family, though by far it has been the biggest earner. There is another possible motive for a makeover. For all its financial success, the Facebook brand has become tarnished. The social network is blamed for fueling everything from teenage anorexia(厌食症) to uprising at the US Capitol. Public trust in it is lower than in most tech giants, and falling. Although two years ago the firm started branding its apps as being “from Facebook”, its new smart glasses, which can record video and take phone calls, feature only the logo of its partner, Ray-Ban. A former employee revealed that Facebook was trying to cover up a drop in young American users. Mr Zuckerberg himself has been a reaso