Unit 4 Friends forever Understanding ideas 同步练习-2025-2026学年高中英语外研版必修第一册

Unit 4 Friends forever 

__________FOR A FRIEND?一键交友？

How would you __________if moving to a new town meant losing __________of your friends? What if the only way of getting news from faraway friends was __________letters that took ages to be __________? This was how things worked not very long ago. Thanks to advances in technology, how we make friends and __________with them has changed significantly.

__________, we can __________around the world and still stay in touch with the people that we want to remain friends with. Social media tools let us __________what our friends are up to and maintain __________. All you need is a wi-fi connection.

The digital age also enables us to find people who __________our interests, such as __________model cars or playing an unusual instrument. Whatever our __________, the Internet can connect us with others who also __________doing them, even if they live on the other side of the world.

But when you “friend” people __________, does this mean that they __________are your friends?

It __________. 

If people always exchange true __________information online, then yes, these friendships can be real and __________. But we need to keep in mind that what we see on social media is often not the whole truth about a __________.

On social media sites, people tend to __________only __________updates that make them appear happy and __________. But smiling photos can hide real problems. Remember the __________: on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. A __________person could be old; a woman could be a man; we could even be sharing our __________with criminals.

But this doesn’t mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater. Although __________has changed the way we acquire friends, the __________of friendship and our __________for friends remain the same. As Aristotle __________, no one would choose to live __________friends, even if he had all other __________.