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ข้อที่ 18.
Directions: Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks.
Conversation: In a house
Mom: | Honey, can you come in here? |
Krittika: | Wait a second mom. I a online. ___12___. |
Mom: | Please hurry up, you've been online all day. |
Krittika: | ___13___ mom? |
Mom: | I want you to change your facebook profile picture. |
Krittika: | Why? It's my friends and l at the beach. |
Mom: | It is just a little too sexy. I just read this article in the paper about a study that shows too much Facebook use can cause narcissism. |
Krittika: | What is narcissism? |
Mom: | It is when people spend too much time being concerned about themselves and their images. |
Krittika: | What? How can Facebook do that? ___14___. Facebook is a great site for keeping up to date with your friends and you can play games. |
Mom: | What do you mean? You mean you are up-to-date about world issues and things like that? |
Krittika: | No, ___15___. We stay up to date about my friends' life events, new pictures and profile changes. That way we can know how our lives change each day. |
Mom: | That is what narcissism is. |
Krittika: | ___16___. It is just about being with my friends even when we are not together. |
Mom: | It becomes narcissism when you add a photo, or a comment and you wait and worry to see if other people will respond to your photo and comment. ___17___ if you are putting up photos to make you look sexy or cute. |
Krittika: | ___18___? |
Dad: | There is nothing wrong with looking attractive. But I don't want that to be your focus. I want you to be a confident young woman who believes in herself because she is a good person. Confidence based upon ___19___ is not real because that changes all the time. |
Krittika: | I like it that I look good though. |
Mom: | Your father is right. If your confidence is based upon your attractiveness when you are young. then what happens when you are in your 30s and older when ___20___. It is important to feel good about who you are as a person, not by what you look like or what other people think. |