There are new and exciting ways to use the Internet to learn English while you are on - line. The Internet uses a lot of multimedia elements (多媒体原理），like words, sounds, pictures, animations and video. This is perfect for studying a language because you've got to see, hear, and repeat things as much as you like. Learning over the Internet is also funny because you can be a part of conversa??tions happening all around the globe ！ Special Internet sites are designed for people learning English， just like yourself. These sites use multimedia to help you learn and are a great way to meet other peo??ple around the world. This is Cyber English.

On the Internet, English is the major language. As a result, it is now more important than ever to  be able to understand English when you serve the web. It is not always easy，though. The English can be difficult or have a lot of cultural information that you have never seen ！

One site for students studying English and their teachers is Englishtown. At http://www. english- town. com, you will find a community ( group) of people interested in learning English. There are several buildings in the virtual (虚拟的）town where you can play games, chat with friends, ask and get answers about cultural questions, and find an international penfriend who shares your interests. There are extra resources to help you learn，such as multimedia CD - ROM and books for language learning and translation. You can also have daily and monthly English lessons delivered to your own  e - mail address. There is even an on - line school where you can take English classes over Lhe Inter??net. Englishtown is the perfect place to prefect for a trip to England or the United States ！ Would you like to become part of a virtual community(虚拟社区）of English sfH-aktrs ： Surfing the web is not only funny but can also help improve your English ！ Try out >ome of tlv, web sites listed below and see how students all over the world are learning English on line.

Cyber English probably means"  ".

A. learning English on Internet

B. teaching yourself English

C. the history of English

D. English broadcast on TV or over the radio

English on - line interests a lot of people because     .

A. only in this way one can learn the language well

B. people don’ t have to pay

C. the learners can have a face to face study of courses with the teachers

D. it makes learning easier and more interesting

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. English is the only useful language on the Internet.

B. The Internet can provide people with the cultural information they need.

C. At http://www. Englishtown. com, people can study and play.

D. One can find a pen-friend on http://www.Englishtown. com.

The underlined word “ surfing" probably means       .

A. setting up   B. going over  C. researching D. inventing

The omitted (省略）part of the passage might  .

A. show us some of the web sites on which sell books

B. tell us how to use the Internet

C. tell us where to get the CD - ROMS we need

D. show us some of the web sites on which English is taught

THERE are many different Londons, and they appeal to people with many different passions: museum lovers, theatergoers, opera buffs (爱好者，迷；热心人), devotees of royalty, students of history, people who like to walk in the rain. But richest of all, perhaps, is the London for book lovers.

Because the city is the star and the backdrop of so much great literature, it is possible to believe you know it very well — how it looks, how it feels — without ever leaving your home country, or indeed your home. But it is better to visit, if only for the joy of seeing the landscape of your imagination come to life. How breathtaking to happen upon Pudding Lane, where a bakery accident led to the Great Fire of 1666, after reading Pepys’s account in his diaries. Or to wander along Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes once fictionally solved the unsolvable. Walk across London Bridge and gaze down, toward Southwark Bridge: this is the stretch of the Thames where Dickens’s sinister characters dredged up corpses in “Our Mutual Friend.”

The city is not so foggy as it was in 1952, when Margery Allingham published “The Tiger in the Smoke,” or as socially stratified as it when Marianne Dashwood waited in “Sense and Sensibility” for a suitor who never called; or as greedy as it was in the thrusting 1980s of Martin Amis’s “Money.” But it is all of those Londons, an accrual of different descriptions and eras. It is a city made for description — reread the first passages of “Bleak House,” also on the subject of fog, for a moody introduction — and one that so respects its authors that it buried a number of the best ones in style, in Westminster Abbey.

There are plenty of organized literary-themed tours around the city, easily found on the Internet. Or you can wander characteristically on your own, which is more fun. If you take the Tube or the bus, make sure to carry a book.  

6. What can we infer from the first paragraph?

A. Most people of London like visiting museums.

B. No Londoners go to cinemas to see the films.

C. A majority of Londoners are book lovers.

D. All the Londoners like to walk in the rain.

7. What information can you get from Pepy’s diaries?

A. Great Fire of 1666 caused by an accident in a bakery.

B. Sherlock Holmes once lived in Baker Street.

C. London Bridge is next to Baker Street.

D. “Our Mutual Friend” is one of Dickens’s works.

8. Who is Sherlock Holmes?

A. A book lover.            B. A character of Dickens’s novel: “Our Mutual Friend”.

C. A detective.              D. A person who set the Great Fire of 1666.

9. In which book can’t you find the description about the fog in London?

A. “The Tiger in the Smoke”        B. “Sense and Sensibility”

C. “Money”                                       D. “Our Mutual Friend”

10. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Most kinds of tours around London may be found on the Internet.

B. You must be shown around London by a guide.

C. There are many kinds of literary-themed activities including tours.

D. You’d better take a book when you travel in London.

There are two basic ways to see growth: one as a product, the other as a process. People have generally viewed personal growth as an external （外在的） result or a product that can easily be identified and measured. The worker who gets a rise, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language—all these examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts.

   By contrast （对照）,the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since it is a journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way. The process is not the road itself, but the attitudes, feelings people have, and their caution or courage, as they meet with new experiences and unexpected difficulties. In this process, the journey never really ends；There are always new ways to experience the world, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept.

   In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to face the unknown, and to accept the possibility that they may “fail” at first. How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being is necessary for our ability to grow. Do we see ourselves as quick and curious? If so, we tend to take more chances and be more open to unfamiliar experiences. Do we think we’re shy and indecisive? Then our sense of fear can cause us to hesitate, to move slowly, and we think we are slow to adapt （适应） change or that we’re not smart enough to deal with a new challenge. Then we are likely to take a more passive role or not try at all.

These feelings of insecurity （不安全） and self?doubt are both unavoidable and necessary if we are to change and grow. If we protect ourselves too much, then we stop growing. We become trapped inside a shell of our own making.

1.In the author’s eye, one who views personal growth as a process would ______.

A. succeed in climbing up the social ladder

B. grow up from his own achievements

C. face difficulties and take up challenges

D. aim high and reach his goal each time

2. Which of the following can be viewed as the process of personal growing? 

A. Our manager was always willing to accept new challenges.

B. Jane won the first prize in the speech competition.

C.J erry picked up French during his stay in Paris.

D. Father’s salary rose from 5000 to 7000.

 3.For personal growth, the author is in favor of all the following EXCEPT ______.

A. being curious about more changes 

B. being quick in self-adaptation

C. having an open mind to new experiences

D. staying away from failures and challenges

4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? 

A. It is not so easy to measure personal growth.

B. To try and fail on the new road facing the unknown is unavoidable.

C. There are only two ways to see a person’s growth.

D. If you are too shy to take any risks in life, you cannot grow up.

5. The best title for this passage should be ______. 

A. Facing New Challenges

B. Growth—Product or Process

C. Two Basic Ways of Growth

D. Overcoming Internal Fears

There are little cars that may some day take the place of today’s automobiles(汽车). If everyone drives such a little car in the future, there will be less pollution in the air, there will be more parking space in cities, and the streets will be less crowded. The space now for one car of the usual size can hold at least three such little cars.

The little cars will cost much less to own and to drive. Driving will be safer, too, as these little cars can go only 65 kilometers an hour.

The cars of the future will be fine for going around the city, but they will not be useful for going far away. If the car is powered by electricity, it will have two batteries—one battery for the motor and the other for the horn (喇叭), signals (信号灯), etc. Little cars which are powered by gas will go 45 kilometers before needing to stop for more gas.

If big cars are still used along with the small ones, two sets of roads will be needed to set up in the future. Some roads will be used for the big, fast cars, and other roads will be needed for the small, slower ones.

1. What’s the advantage (优势) of the small cars?

  A. There won’t be so much pollution and the small cars won’t be so expensive as the big ones.

  B. It will be safer to drive these small cars.

  C. There will be more space for cars to park.

  D. All of the above.

2. Two sets of roads are necessary in the future in order to      .

  A. prevent car accidents

B. make the city more beautiful

  C. let small cars run fast

D. limit the speed of the cars

3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

  A. A car of the usual size now is three times as big as the small car.

  B. The small car with a speed of 65 kilometers an hour is much more useless than a car of the usual size.

  C. the little car will be safer but cost more.

  D. The little car will need more gas.

4. The best title for this passage should be      .

  A. Big Cars and Small Cars

  B. How to Drive Small Cars

  C. Cars for Tomorrow

  D. Cars for Everyone

“There are no real friends or enemies in the business world”. This saying may have been on the minds of bosses at China’s main online video providers, Youku.com Inc and Tudou Holdings Ltd, when the one-time rivals（对手）agreed to merge (合并) on March 12. The deal will create the country’s largest company in the online video industry, Youku Tudou Inc.
Three months ago, the two companies were involved in a copyright dispute. On December 12, Tudou charged Youku.com with illegally airing the entertainment series, Kangxi is coming. Tudou was the only company which had rights to the series. In response, Youku filed a lawsuit（诉讼） against Tudou, claiming the company was broadcasting more than 50 Youku-owned TV series.
According to analysts, the deal came out of the market battle between the two companies. Each spent so much money buying licensed content that they ended up in the red last year. “Funding pressures are the main reason for the deal,” said Shi Jialong, a Hong Kong-based analyst with CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. “After the merger, there might be a fall in copyright purchase prices, which is good for the industry in the short term.”
The new company will face competition from Web portals(门户网站) providing similar services. Youku owned 21.8 percent of Chin’s online video market in the last quarter of last year and Tudou 13.7 percent, but Sohu.com followed close on the heels with 13.3 percent, according to domestic research company Analysys International.
Some analysts do not feel the deal will secure the market for Youku Tudou. Shi Yu, CEO of media company KU6, said the merger was unlikely to have a “one plus one more than two” effect. In his opinion, video-hosting sites need to find new ways of generation profit to succeed in the market.
【小题1】The main reason for Youku.com Inc and Tudou Holdings Ltd to merge is that           .