题目内容
A“blogger” is a person who writes on an Internet website called a “blog”. The word “blog” is a way of saying“web log”, or “personal website”. Anyone can start a , and they can write about anything they like.
There are millions of blogs on the internet today. They news, information and ideas for people who read them. They contain to other websites, and they provide a place for people to write their and react to the ideas of others.
A research company called Perseus has more than 3,000 web logs. It says that blogs are most with teenage girls. They use them to their friends know what is happening in their lives. The study says that more than 100,000 bloggers stopped taking part in the activity after a year.
, some people develop blogs to present political and other ideas. , the Republican and Democratic parties in the southern state of Kentucky recently started their own blogs. And American companies are beginning to use blogs to advertise their .
At the same time, some long-standing blogs have . Last week, blogging leader Dave Winer closed his free blog service “weblogs. com”. He said the site became too expensive to . He started the blog four years ago, and thousands of people had on it. They were that the site had been closed.
One blog that is still going is called Rebecca’s Pocket. Rebecca Blood created the website in 1999. She wrote about the history of blogs on the site. That led to a book called The Weblog Handbook. It has been into four languages so far.
1. A. shortB. longC. regularD. central
2. A. companyB. expressionC. experimentD. blog
3. A. debateB. exploreC. provideD. seek
4. A. issues B. linksC. recoveryD. guidance
5. A. reasonsB. ideasC. faultsD. choices
6. A. servedB. reportedC. studiedD. attached
7. A. popularB. pleasedC. boredD. careful
8.A. askB. orderC. demandD. let
9. A. insteadB. yetC. still D. also
10. A. BesidesB. HoweverC. In factD. Therefore
11.A. fierceB. relaxingC. seriousD. humorous
12. A. For exampleB. In totalC. In the endD. On the contrary
13. A. productsB. employeesC. systemsD. predictions
14. A. recognizedB. endedC. survivedD. happened
15. A. advertiseB. startC. continueD. close
16. A. writtenB. appearedC. workedD. taken
17. A. happyB. upsetC. excitedD. confident
18. A. devotedB. gentleC. weakD. strong
19. A. characterB. historyC. articleD. usage
20. A. dippedB. fooledC. mixedD. translated