阅读理解

　　Blogging has become something of a big thing in the last few years．Just like the Internet was 10 years ago, blogging is popular with an underground culture that is doing it for love and passion．

　　Blogging is a way of collecting links to webpages and sharing thoughts and ideas with people online．Blogs are basically online journals or diaries which are created for sharing information and ideas．

　　Dominic, a fifth-grade student, writes：“The blogs give us a chance to communicate between ourselves and inspire us to write more．When we publish on our blog, people across the entire world can respond by using the‘comments’link．In this way, they can ask questions or simply tell us what they like．We can then know if people like what we write and this indicates to us where we can improve．By reading these comments, we can discover our weaknesses and our strengths．Blogging is an opportunity to exchange our points of view with the rest of the world rather than just people in our immediate environment．”

　　Blogging is sweeping the Internet．A recent report noted that at least three million Americans have created blogs, with similar numbers being seen worldwide．

　　Two years ago, Andrew Sullivan decided to set up a Web page himself and used“Blogger．com”to publish some daily musings(冥想)to a readership(读者人数)of a few hundred．He worked hard at the blog for months for no financial reward．But the result is that he is now reaching almost a quarter of a million readers a month and making a profit．

　　Think about it for a minute：Why not build an online presence with your daily musings and then tell your first book through print-on-demand(POD)technology direct from your Web site? Why should writers go to newspapers and magazines to get an essay published when they can simply write it themselves, change it into a PDF file, and charge a few bucks per download?

　　This, at least, is the idea：a publishing revolution more profound than anything since the printing press．“Blogger．com”could be to words what Napster was to music－except this time, it’ll really work．

　　We often think of the future．We often wonder what the world will be like in a hundred years’ time．

　　Think of space, perhaps a permanent(永久性的、长期的)station on the moon will have been set up．Perhaps people will be able to visit the moon as tourists．Cheap rockets for space travel will have been developed, permitting long journeys throughout the solar system．When that time comes, people will be taking vacations in space and visiting other planets．Great progress will have been made in medicine, too．Perhaps a cure will have been discovered for the most terrible of all diseases－cancer．Pollution is a problem we must solve．In a hundred years’ time it will have been controlled．

　　All the world will have been developed－even Antarctica．There will be large cities in Antarctica．We already have supersonic(超音速的)flight, but in a hundred years’ time, we will have supersonic land travel as well．

　　We will have used up most of the earth’s land to build our cities, so floating cities will have been built．The Japanese already have plans for cities of this kind．And there will be cities under the sea．The first of these will have been completed．

阅读理解

　　We often think of future．We often wonder what the world would be like in a hundred years' time．

　　Think of space, perhaps a permanent(永久的)station on the moon will have been set up．Perhaps people will be able to visit the moon as tourists．Cheap rockets for space travel will have been developed, permitting long journeys throughout the solar system(太阳系)．When that time comes, people will be taking holidays in space and visiting other planets．Great progress will have been discovered for the most terrible of all diseases－cancer．Pollution is a problem we must solve．In a hundred years' time it will have been controlled．

　　All the world will have been developed－even Antarctica．There will be large cities in Antarctica．We already have supersonic(超音速的)flight, but in a hundred years' time we will have supersonic land travel as well．

　　We will have used up most of earth's land to build our cities, so floating cities will have been built．The Japanese already have plans for cities of this kind．And there will be cities under the sea．The first of these will have been completed．

阅读理解

　　Blogging has become something of a big thing in the last few years．Just like the Internet was 10 years ago, blogging is popular with an under- ground culture, that is doing it for love and passion．

　　Blogging is a way of collecting links to webpages and sharing thoughts and ideas with people online．

　　Blogs are basically online journals or diaries which are created for sharing information and ideas．

　　Dominic, a fifth-grade student, writes："The blogs give us a chance to communicate between ourselves and inspire us to write more．When we publish on our blog, people across the entire world can respond by using the 'comments' link．In this way, they can ask questions or simply tell us what they like．We can then know if people like what we write and this indicates to us where we can improve．By reading these comments, we can discover our weaknesses and our strengths．Blogging is an opportunity to exchange our points of view with the rest of the world rather than just people in our immediate environment．"

　　Blogging is sweeping the Internet．A recent report noted that at least three million Americans have created blogs, with similar numbers being seen around the rest of the world．

　　Two years ago, Andrew Sullivan decided to set up a Web page himself and used "Blogger．com” to publish some daily musings(冥想)to a　readership of a few hundred．He worked hard at the blog for months for no financial reward．But result is that he is now reaching almost a quarter of a million readers a month and making a profit．

　　Think about it for a minute：Why not build an online presence with your daily musings and then tell your first book through print-on-demand(POD)technology directly from your Web site? Why should writers go to newspapers and magazines to get an essay published when they can simply write it themselves, change it into a PDF file, and charge a few bucks per download?

　　This, at least, is the idea; a publishing revolution more profound than anything since the printing press．"Blogger．com" could be to words what Napster was to music－except this time, it'll really work．