We use the Internet for many things: business, shopping, writing letters, talking to people, finding information, and so on. In recent years, a new kind of English has grown on the Internet. There’s no real word for it yet, so we’ll call it e-talk. People don’t like typing too much. To save time, they turn phrases (短语) into a few letters called acronyms(首字母缩略词). Acronyms are often used in chat rooms.
Some of them are:
BTW(by the way)     BRB (be right back)
LOL (laughing out loud) IMO (in my opinion)
People also use many abbreviations. They are shortened forms of words. Some common abbreviations are:
info (information)    puter (computer)    pic (picture)      sec (second)
We usually don’t see people when we communicate on the Net, so people have new ways to show feelings. Most people use their keyboards to draw “feeling”, such as:
: ) (happy)     :-( (sad) ;    : P (joking)   : O (surprised)
These days, many forums have picture feelings. For example:
happy          sad         angry        cool
There are even whole new words, like ‘newbie’ (someone who is new on a chat board or forum). When you write something bad about someone else, it’s called ‘flaming’ the person.
It takes time to get used to e-talk. Also, different groups in the Net have their own special ways of communicating. Newbies sometimes have to ask other people what they mean. As the Internet grows, e-talk will continue to grow and change.
【小题1】 Why do people type acronyms?
A.To show their feelings.
B.To make jokes.
C.Because people can type them quickly.
D.In this way, newbies won’t understand them.
【小题2】What does “My puter is not working well. :-( ” mean?
A.The person is happy about getting a new computer.
B.The person has to go away from their computer.
C.The person is angry at somebody.
D.The person is sad that his computer is having problems.
【小题3】If someone is angry, what may he type?
A.B.C.LOLD.BRB
【小题4】E-talk will probably_________.
A.keep changing
B.stay the same
C.be used by people on the telephone
D.be easy for newbies to understand
【小题5】People can do the following through the Internet except _________.
A. doing shopping                B. writing diaries
C. eating foods                   C. playing games
缺词填空 先通读下列短文,掌握其大意,然后根据短文内容和所给首字母,在空格内填入一个适当的词,使短文意思完整。所填单词在题后横线上必须完整写出(本大题共6分,每格0.5分)
Suppose you are reading a book. Suppose you suddenly close your eyes, can you still see the book? "Of course not." you will say. But can you tell why? You would p__【小题1】 say, "When I close my eyes, my e__【小题2】___ cannot get out of my eyes to get to the book." Many others might give an explanation(解释) very much like the above . But this explanation is w__【小题3】___.
You cannot see any object if light from that object doesn’t get into your eyes. Some of the things you see give off light of their own.
The sun, the star, a lighted lamp are examples that can be seen by their own light. S__【小题4】__ things are luminous(发光的). Most of the things you see are not giving off light of their own. They are simply reflecting(反射) light that falls on them from the sun or some other luminous bodies. The moon, for example, doesn't give off any light of i__【小题5】_ own. It's non-luminous. You see it because sunlight falls on it and some of it reflects in your d__【小题6】__. So moonlight is only second-hand sunlight.
When you look at a book, it sends to your eyes some of the light which falls on it, and you see the book. If light could be kept out from w__【小题7】__ you are, so that there would be no light for the book to reflect, then you could not see the book e__【小题8】__ with your eyes wide open.
Light travels so fast that the time it t___【小题9】__ from the book to your eyes is so s___【小题10】_ as if there was none at all. Light r___【小题11】__ us from the moon, which is about 380,000 kilometers away, in only a little more than a s__【小题12】__.

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