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I read yesterday (yes, on a blog) that there are now blogging competitions!! I can’t believe it. A man in England won $2,000 for writing the best blog. There’s even a list of the best Chinese bloggers! I’ve read a few of them- before they were famous, I might add. I suppose that one blog can be better than another. It can be better written, more interesting, funnier, and I suppose that blogs are there to be read and judged (点评) by other people. If they’re not good, they’re not read. And they’re not just personal feelings. If they were, they’d be called diaries. Have locks, and be hidden under beds. So I’m OK with this whole competition thing. I just can’t believe I didn’t win!
This has got me thinking about why I’m writing this blog. I’m not doing it to win a competition (or I wasn’t when I started …) and I’m not doing it to show all my personal feelings – I do that in my diary. So, why am I a blogger?
To tell the truth, the first time I heard the word blog I thought it was a new word for a toilet. But I love learning new words so I used my knowledge and found out that a blog was a personal website and the word blog came from the words web log. Now a log is a type of diary kept by sailors (水手), and web, well, we all know that it has nothing to do with catching flies and everything to do with the Internet. Web log… weblog… blog…. Being a writer I loved the idea of getting my views (观点)onto the Internet where anyone could read them, and no editors (编辑) could get their hands on them!
So my first reason for blogging: I’m a writer. I want people to read what I write (un-edited!). And I love writing about anything I choose. I can write about saving the environment or complain about how the people in front of me in the cinema always seem to have big heads. And sometimes I pour out my heart too.
My second reason is that it’s relaxing. I don’t have to do research and write an article. I can let my thoughts go on as long as I like.
Third reason? To keep in touch. I’m terrible on the phone and all my friends around the world read my blog (or they say they do …). Every now and then, I even upload a photo so they remember what I look like.
Is there a fourth reason? There probably is but now it’s time for dinner. Tomorrow I might even tell you what I ate.
1. The writer thinks a good blog is one that _____________.
A. can let his thought go freely
B. wins a blogging competition
C. helps people keep in touch
D. is read by large numbers of people
2. The writer loves writing blogs mainly because __________.
A. his writing about feeling can be shown anywhere
B. his writing would never be edited by others
C. he enjoys writing something about big events
D. he finds himself terrible on the phone
3. There’re __________reasons in the passage to explain why the writer is a blogger.
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
4. This passage is _________.
A. a blog about blogging B. a diary about blogging
C. a view on blogging D. a judgement on blogging
查看习题详情和答案>>Many bloggers are teens who’ve been logging (进入) onto sites to talk about anything in their lives. Many of today’s teenagers are not afraid to openly discuss everything in their lives. Teens complain about parents and homework. They share diaries, post songs from the latest bands and show pictures of theirs. They write their own poems (诗), say something about their girlfriends or boyfriends and complain to each other or offer support. But mostly they just write down what they do every day.
However, many parents are afraid of these young bloggers. Parents see the kids talking about how they got drunk (喝醉的) last weekend and how they don’t like studying. They are using language that is surprising to their parents. Besides hearing from their friends, teen bloggers also get messages from strangers. Most of the time, it’s older men asking to meet teenage girls. “These strange men are dangerous for my kids. They sometimes teach my kids bad words,” said Cara Cabral, a mother of two.
Many teens and young adults know it’s not safe to use blogs on the Internet. They know they are putting information about themselves in a place they can be seen by anyone. But teens are unlikely to give up these new communication tools that have become a way of life for many of them.
Are you a blogger? What do you think of the blog?
小题1:The word “it” means ___________ in the first paragraph “People talk about it often”.
| A．the Internet | B．the blog | C．the website | D．talking on line |
| A．complain about parents and homework |
| B．share diaries and show pictures of theirs |
| C．offer support to each other |
| D．write down what they do every day |
| A．A blogger’s information about himself can be seen by anyone on the Internet. |
| B．Most of today’s teenagers aren’t afraid to openly discuss everything in their lives. |
| C．Teenagers are willing to try to give up blogging. |
| D．Many teens know it’s not safe to use the blog on the Internet. |
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he might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog(博客).
Differences between a blog and a diary
Usually, a person thinks of his diary as a book full of secrets. He does not want to share. But in the
blog, anyone can read what he writes.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go onto the Internet to read her blog. She writes about swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry exam. When I was her age, I wrote about the same
things, but only in my diary. Then, after I finished .writing, I would put my diary in a secret place because
I was worried that my sister might read it!
Problems with blogging
The biggest problem with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend
and wrote something bad about her in my diary, she would never know. However, if my sister wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might read her blog and get angry.
Because we do not always think about things carefully before we write about our days, it is easy to hurt
others' feeling in a biog. So we have to be very careful about what we write.
Keeping in touch with friends
Blogging has both good and bad points, of course. People choose to blog because they know that
their friends will read what they write.
If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary "Nobody cares about me," no one would know about
it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would quickly reply and
tell her how much they like her. Blogs help people keep in touch with(保持联系)their friends and know
what the people around them are doing.
Blogs are a very good way to write about daily life, if people are careful about what they write.
However, I still like writing better in my diary!
A. Blogs can be read by others while diaries only by writers themselves.
B. Blogs are used by young people while diaries are kept by old people.
C. Blogs are always good while diaries are sometimes bad for writers.
D. Blogs are a good way to write about life while diaries about other things.
2. It is easy to hurt others' feeling in blogs, because people _______.
A. usually write about their daily life there
B. only write something bad about others there
C. don't always think carefully before writing there
D. play jokes there on each other and care about them
3. What is the biggest problem with blogging?
A. Help people keep in touch with their friends.
B. Your friends will quickly reply to your biog.
C. Someone may read your blog and get angry with you.
D. Anyone can read what you write.
4. We can learn from the passage that _______.
A. the writer will choose to blog so that others can keep in touch with him
B. the writer would rather keep diaries than write in a blog
C. the writer has never blogged because he hates blogging
D. the writer doesn't like his sister's writing in a blog
5. In this passage, the writer thinks that the blogs are_______.
A. a good way to write their daily life if they want.
B. a bad way to write their daily life if they don't care about what they want to write.
C. an easy way to get their friends annoyed.
D. a hard way to make friends.
It's cool, it's hot, and everyone is doing it. People talk about it often, and friends tell other friends how
good they look. Sound like a fashion? It's actually another trend (倾向): "blog". What's a blog? A blog is
a personal online diary. The word "blogger" means a person who writes diaries online.
Many of today's teenagers are not afraid to openly discuss everything in their lives. Teens complain
about parents and homework. They share diaries, post songs from the latest bands and show pictures of
theirs. They write their own poems, say something about their girlfriends or boyfriends and complain to
each other or offer support. But mostly they just write down what they do every day. However, many
parents are afraid of these young bloggers. Parents see the kids talking about how they got drunk last
weekend and how they don't like studying. Besides hearing from their friends, teen bloggers also get
messages from strangers. Most of the time, it's older men asking to meet teenage girls. "These strange men
are dangerous for my kids." said a mother.
Many teens know it's not safe to use blogs on the Internet. They know they are putting information
about themselves in a place they can be seen by anyone. But teens are unlikely to give up these new
communication tools that have become a way of life for many of them.
1. A blogger is a person _____.
A. who writes diaries online
B. who posts songs from the latest bands
C. who got drunk last weekend
D. who teaches kids bad words
2. According to this passage, teen bloggers mostly _____.
A. complain about parents and homework
B. share diaries and show pictures of theirs
C. offer support to each other
D. write down what they do every day
3. Parents think it's dangerous for their kids to use blogs because _____.
A. their kids use a special language
B. their kids talk about how they study
C. teen bloggers get messages from strangers
D. their kids talk about their classmates
4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. It's easy for teenagers to give up blogging.
B. Teenagers aren't afraid to openly discuss everything in their lives.
C. A blogger's information about himself can be seen by many persons.
D. Many teens know it's not safe to use the blog on the Internet.