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

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各个小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

I got out of the train station with my father. A woman came to him and said that her  31  had been stolen. She asked if he could  32  her some money to go back home. My father gave her what she asked for and told her not to  33  paying it back. I was shocked. How could my father be so  34 ? It was clear that she was telling a lie, staying at the station all day long  35  money.

“She was lying!” I shouted.“ 36  did you give her anything? ”

My father looked at me. He was a bit  37  . “And what would you like me to do?” he said. “Should I tell  38  that I am a college professor and I can see through her scam(诡计)?” I did not understand him at all, and then he told me something that I have  39  forgotten. “First, she would not do this  40  she did not need the money. Second, I made her day, because now she thinks that she is  41  than me. It is more important to her than the money, but I do not  42  this.”

A week later, we were at the same  43  , and the same woman came to my father with the same story. “Not this time,” my father told her. “In your business, you  44  learn to recognize people. Try another story  45  me next week.”

31. A. money                B. bicycle                     C. phone               D. child

32. A. borrow               B. keep                         C. lend                  D. pay

33. A. give up         B. worry about             C. hurry up       D. turn off

34. A. clever          B. friendly                    C. strict          D. silly

35. A. asking for       B. dealing with             C. fighting for        D. picking out

36. A. What                  B. When             C. Why                 D. How

37. A. angry                  B. happy                       C. sad                   D. shy

38. A. them                   B. her                           C. you                   D. me

39. A. seldom                B. often                        C. never                D. usually

40. A. unless                 B. until                         C. while                D. if

41. A. smarter               B. younger           C. taller                 D. better

42. A. close                  B. mind                        C. enter                 D. hear

43. A. stop                    B. hospital                    C. station               D. school

44. A. should                B. can               C. may                  D. would 

45. A. of                       B. in                C. on                     D. at

阅读短文,根据短文内容及首字母提示,在空白处填入一个适当的单词。

After years of experience, Brenda was faced with a challenge in Sunday School. However, she just didn’t know how to (71) d______ with it in a good way. She had never been asked to teach a child quite like Cindy!

Cindy, you see, was different. She came from a broken home. And although she was really (72) c_____, she thought she was so bad that she could not be successful. In fact, Cindy needed care, and most of all, Cindy needed love! There just had to be a way of (73) h_____ her. Day after day, Brenda would pray for Cindy, yet Sunday would come and go and she saw little, if any change.

Then one day Brenda asked Cindy (74) i____ she could play a role in a Christmas program the children were planning to do. Cindy’s answer was, “Don’t you think you can find someone (75) b_____ than me?”

“Better than you?” came Brenda’s reply. “What makes you think there is anyone better than you?”   

“Well, I’ve never been asked to do anything before (76) b______ I’m not good. I won’t get the part right and the everyone will be mad at me for messing up (弄糟) their program.” came Cindy’s answer.

“Oh, Cindy,” said Brenda in a gentle voice. “I am so (77) s______ that you think that, but you are so wrong. Don’t you realize how clever you are?”

“No,” came a reply in a (78) l_____ voice because Cindy was now in tears.

“But Cindy, in my eyes, you are special and you can also do something well like (79) o_____,” Brenda said.

“Really? Do you think so really? Thank you, Miss Brenda! (80) N_____ has believed in me like you. Then I’ll have a try,” said Cindy as she received a hug from her teacher for the first time!