2024年4月12日发(作者：电脑开机速度变慢原因)

英语短文听力Julie Joins Facebook

Julie Joins Facebook朱莉加入facebook

Julie was sitting in bed late at night playing with her brand-

new smartphone. Earlier that week, she had been visited by her

children and grandchildren to celebrate her 70th birthday, and

had received the phone as a gift from her granddaughter Mary.

Julie had been widowed for five years now. Since she lived hours

away from the rest of the family, Mary thought the phone would

be a good way for them to keep in touch and take up some of

her time.

朱莉坐在床上玩着她的新智能手机。前不久，她的孩子和孙子们

来为她庆祝七十岁生日，还收到了她孙女玛丽的礼物。朱莉已经独自

生活五年了，因为她家人都在外面工作，她就会觉得手机是一个很好

东西，可以让他们保持联系，还可以打发一些时间。

Up until then, Julie had never really been interested in

catching up with modern technology, but finally owning her own

smartphone made her feel youthful, and she decided to join

Facebook since that was what she had noticed all the younger

people were doing. However, when making her profile page, she

was embarrassed to put up a picture of herself since she thought

she looked much too wrinkly and nobody would want to talk to

her. To remedy this, she downloaded a picture of a beautiful 20-

something year old from Google, posted it under her name, and

went to sleep.

在此之前，朱莉从来没有对的赶现代技术感兴趣过，但最后，她

有自己的智能手机后，她觉得变得更年轻了，所以她决定加入

facebook，因为这里可以看到所有的年轻人正在做什么。然而，她很

不好意思地把一张自己的照片上传到了主页，她觉得她看上去太老了，

没有人会想和她说话。为了弥补这一点，她从谷歌里下载了一张20岁

漂亮的照片，还粘贴上了她的名字，然后就去睡觉了。

The next morning, Julie woke up and enthusiastically logged

into Facebook in hopes that she would have one or two new

friends. She could not believe her eyes. Her inbox was full of

friend requests from dozens and dozens of young handsome

men that were complimenting her beauty and wanted to know

all about her. Julie decided to accept only the best-looking ones

and began chatting with them day and night, never letting them

know that they were actually talking to a grandma. The next time

Julie met up with Mary, she thanked her so much for the phone

and remarked, "I haven't felt so young and pretty in years!" Mary

was confused and asked, "Why?" Julie just gave a mischievous

smile and changed the topic.

第二天早上，朱莉醒来，登录到facebook，希望她能有一个或两

个新朋友。她不敢相信她的眼睛，她的收件箱里满满的几十个年轻英

俊的男人，都称赞她的美丽，想知道更多关于她的一切。她决定只接

受最好的看的人，和他们从早聊到晚，但她从来不让别人知道他们实

际上他们是在跟一个奶奶说话。朱莉和玛丽再次见面时，她非常感谢

她，并说：“几年来，我还没觉得这么年轻和漂亮！”玛丽很困惑，

问道：“为什么？”朱莉只是给了调皮的笑容然后换了个话题。