Women consistently lie on social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter to make their lives appear more exciting, a survey has found.

Researchers found that at least one in four women exaggerated or distorted what they are doing on social media once a month. The survey of 2000 women found they mostly pretended to be out on the town, when in fact they are home alone, and embellished about an exotic holiday or their job.

The most common reasons for women to write “fibs” included worrying their lives would seem “boring”, jealousy at seeing other people’s more exciting posts and wanting to impress their friends and acquaintances.

Psychologists suggested that as people attempt to “stay connected” on social media, they can in fact “paradoxically” be left “more isolated”. They also said that the “more we try to make our lives seem perfect, the less perfect we feel”.

According to the OnePoll survey, one third of women surveyed admitted to “dishonesty” on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter at some stage.

Almost one in four admitted to lying or exaggerating about key aspects of their life online between one and three times a month while almost one in 10 said they lied more than once a week.

Nearly 30 percent of women lied about “doing something when I am home alone”, almost a quarter overstated their alcohol consumption while one in five were not truthful about their holiday activities or their jobs. Almost one in five women even lied about their “relationship status”.

“We work very hard presenting ourselves to the world online, pretending and attempting to be happy all the time which is exhausting and ultimately unfulfilling,” said Dr Michael Sinclair, a leading British consultant psychologist.

“Omitting the less desirable imperfections of our lives from the conversations with our `friends` online leads to less opportunity to feel empathized with(与…产生共鸣), resulting in a greater sense of disconnection from others.”

The survey was commissioned by Pencourage, a new anonymous “diary-style” social media website.

小题1:Which of the words below is closest in meaning to the underlined word “fibs” in Para 3?

A．life experiences

B．short stories

C．careful thoughts

D．insignificant lies小题2:A woman tends to tell a lie online when she__________.

A．hopes to make more friends

B．envies other people’s exciting life

C．feels lonely at home

D．gets tired of the boring life小题3:A woman might pretend to be happier online than she actually is by __________.

A．avoiding conversations with friends

B．describing her holiday activities

C．leaving out the imperfections in life

D．overstating her trouble at work小题4:According to Dr Michael Sinclair, constantly lying online may __________.

A．eventually make one’s life more exciting

B．actually lead to a sense of isolation

C．really improve one’s sense of happiness

D．scarcely have any influence on relationships

阅读理解

      You wake up in the morning,the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been

looking forward to for a long time.Then the telephone rings,you say hello,and the drama starts.The person on the other end has a depressing (令人沮丧的) tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his

morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to.Are you still in a wonderful mood?Impossible!

      Communicating with negative people can wash out your happiness.It may not change what you think,

but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time.

      Life brings ups and downs,but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to

offer.They only feel glad when they make others feel bad.No wonder they can hardly win others' pity or

respect.

      When you communicate with positive people,your spirit stays happy and therefore more positive things are attracted.When the dagger (匕首) of a negative person is put in you,you have the heavy feeling that all

in all,brings you down.

      Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people.This could be a coworker,or a relative.In this case,say what needs to be said as little as possible.Sometimes it feels good to let out your anger back to the negative person,but all this does is to lower you to that same negative level and they

won't feel ashamed of themselves about that.

      Negativity often affects happiness without even being realized.The negative words of another at the

start of the day can cling to (附着) you throughout the rest of your day,which makes you feel bad and

steals your happiness.Life is too short to feel negative.Stay positive and avoid negativity as much as

possible.

1．The purpose of the first paragraph is to________.

A．make a comparison  

B．offer an evidence

C．introduce a topic  

D．describe a daily scene

2．How can negative people have effect on us?

A．By influencing our emotion.

B．By telling us the nature of life.

C．By changing our way of thinking.

D．By comparing their attitude to life with ours.

3．Some negative people base their happiness on________.

A．other people's pity for them

B．making other people unhappy

C．building up a positive attitude

D．other people's respect for them

4．According to the passage,to reduce negative people's influence on us,we are advised________.

A．to change negative people's attitude to life

B．to show our dissatisfaction to negative people

C．to make negative people feel ashamed of themselves

D．to communicate with negative people as little as possible