Wednesday, January 7,2009

    A blacklist of 19 leading search engine portals (门户) and websites, including Google and Baidu, which “spread vulgar (lacking in good taste) content and harm the young people” has been published, the Chinese government said Monday.

    According to Xinhua News Agency, six central departments conducted a month – long campaign to clean up the Internet of unhealthy and vulgar materials.

“The government will continue to punish or even shut down those shameful Websites that refuse to connect their wrongdoing.” Gai Mangham, director of the State Council Information Office, said. “Immediate action is needed to clean up the Internet environment.”

The government demanded the web portals, a number of video sharing sites, including Sina, Sohu and NetEase, Google in Chinese and other websites to remove vulgar photos after due notice but they failed and continued providing links to these unhealthy sites.

    Google China’s spokeswoman Cui Jin, however, explained that “Google is neither the owner of those Websites nor does it spread (that) information intentionally. We have also adopted ‘safe search’ to block sites with such content automatically. ”

    Baidu, NetEase. com. Ine and SINA Corp., in web statements on Wednesday, admitted their guilt, and apologized for failing to control such contend. Google China, on the other hand, promised to cooperate with Internet users and society to help build a healthy Internet culture. “After we received notice from relevant government departments, we cleaned up links to vulgar content that could have harmful effects on Internet users,” it added.

53.What is the text mainly about?

       A.How the Chinese government manages the leading search engine portals.

       B.How the leading search engine portals react to to the government’s eroticism.

       C.What the government it trying to do ti clean up the Internet environment.

       D.What the leading search engine portals are doing to improve their service.

54.Which of the following is TRUE about Cai Mingzhao?

       A.He works for the Ministry of Public Security.

       B.He called on the shameful Web sites to correct their wrongdoing.

       C.he apologized for failing to clean up the Internet of unhealthy materials.

       D.He is working hard to make the definition of “spreading vulgar materials” clear.

55.According to the text, which company took the most positive attitude?

       A.Google China          B.NelEase. com. Inc. 

       C.SINA Corp.            D.Baidu

56.We can learn from the last paragraph that             .

      A.China’s Internet environment is getting better and better

       B.China still has a long way to go to build a cleaner Internet environment

       C.China has made laws to protect the environment of the Interned

       D.China has not realized the harm of illegal information from the Internet

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