Do you know about a series of books that say they are “for dummies”? These American self-help books have been translated into more than thirty-nine language including Chinese, Arabic, Russian, French, German, Greek and Spanish.

“Dummy” is a word for a stupid person. The dummies books are not really for stupid people. They are designed to show people how to do something they may never have tried before, like painting a house or learning a language. The books all say in a funny way that they are for dummies, such as World History for Dummies, Rabbits for Dummies, Chinese Cooking for Dummies, and Wedding Planning for Dummies. The first such book, Dos for Dummies, was published in 1991. It helped people learn how to use the DOS operating system for computers. Since then, more than one hundred fifty million dummies books have been sold.

The dummies. Com website explains the idea behind the books. It says that they show that people can be taught to do anything. First they can make fun of ideas that are difficult to understand. Then they show how the information can be interesting and easy. The publishers say that the books do not provide more information than necessary. They give readers just enough information to do what they want. They say that the dummies books give the best and easiest way to do something. And the books use simple and easy language.

These are more than one thousand different dummies books. A report in New York Times say that the top-selling dummies books are those that explain technology and personal finance.

The publishers say that the best-selling dummies books are those providing information many people need-like information about diseases books to help them. And there are even more dummies books to come. The publishers say that they publish about two hundred new dummies books every year.

Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

   A. Books for Dummies            B. The Easiest, the Best

   C. Self-Help Books               D. New Ideas behind the books

According to the dummies.com website, people can            with the help of dummies books.

   A. simple some personal things       B. do anything they want

   C. become expert in any field         D. learn any foreign language

The dummies books have been popular because               

   A. they provide just what is needed and are easy to understand

   B. they provide abundant information on the concerning subject

   C. people can learn to do anything with just one copy

   D. people can save lots of money through self-teaching

According to New York Times, we know that books on             sell best.

    A. technology and personal finance       B. opera and car repairing

    C. diseases and education               D. cooking and world history

What can we learn from the passage?

    A. The first dummies book was on Chinese cooking.

    B. The dummies books will continue to be popular

    C. Fifty million different dummies books have been published.

    D. The simple language was intended for child readers.

China’s Ministry of Culture has recommended 10 cyber games(网络游戏) that are suitable for minors to play as part of its drive to purify the on-line environment for the young.
The 10 cyber games were selected by the ministry’s on-line games censorship committee from scores of games recommended by the Chinese public.l
The games are all domestic products. They include five role playing games (RPG), four recreation and chess games, and one educational game, such as “Warring States Ⅱ Online,” “Rainbow Island Online,” and “Wonderlands of learning and games.”
These games have made their way into the final recommendation list because they are considered “healthy” and can “enhance intelligence,” according to the ministry.
The ministry hoped the list could serve a a guidance for parents to better direct their children in the winter vacation, which usually lasts nearly two months from January to February each year.
This was the third time for the ministry to publish recommended cyber games list. The previous two were made public respectively in January 2006 and August 2005 with a total of 25 games inlisted.
In the past few years, on- line games have become the favorite pastime of young people. However, it is argued that such social problems as game addiction, juvenile delinquency (青少年犯罪) and perversion among minors by on-line violence and pornography (色情) have come from an inadequately regulated Internet.
About 9.72 percent of Chinese netizens between the ages of 13 and 30 suffer Internet addiction, said a report issued last month by the China Youth Association for Network Development (CYAND).
According to the China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC), the main Internet watchdog, China had 210million Internet users at the end of 2007 and its online population is on course to become the world’s largest at the beginning of this year.
Net users between 18 and 30 accounted for 49.9percent of the total users. Although the CINIC did not give the figure of those below 18, teenagers and youths have obviously taken up more than half of the total number of net users. And the number of users under age 18 increased rapidly last year, the CINIC noted.
【小题1】What do you know about the 10cyber games ?

A.They are expected to help parents to better direct their children in the summer vacation.
B.They include five RPG, forty chess games and one educational game.
C.They are suitable for teenagers.
D.They are all foreign products.
【小题2】According to the passage, how many teenagers and youths become net users at the end of 2007?
A.Mor than 105 million.
B.Less than 105 million.
C.About 210 million.
D.104.79 million.
【小题3】What can be inferred from the passage?
A.A lot of Chinese netizens suffer Internet addition.
B.On-line games can cause a lot of social problems such as game addition, juvenile delinquency.
C.Parents sometimes have trouble in directing their children about on-line games.
D.The ministry has recommended 25 games till now.
【小题4】What’s the best title of the passage?
A.How to purify the on-line environment for the young.
B.10 “suitable” cyber games for teenagers.
C.The disadvantages of cyber games.
D.Chinese authority lists 10 “suitable” E-games for teenagers.

Anne Sewell Young was born on January 2, 1871, in the United States. She earned her bachelor’s degree in 1892 from Carleton College in Minnesota, where she also completed a master’s degree in 1897. She went on to earn a PhD (something very unusual for women in those days) from Columbia University in 1906.

Anne Sewell Young was the most famous of the early astronomy students at Carleton College, and one of the few professional women astronomers of her days. Carleton produced half a dozen professional women astronomers in the first 50 years of the course, but she was the only one whose name was recorded in the college’s “Who’s Who”(名人录)

Anne Sewell Young was a number of the AAVSO(美国变星观测者协会). She handed in over 6,500 observations over a 33-year period, and was also one of the first AAVSO Council members.

In 1881, Mt. Holyoke College set up the John Payson Williston Observatory (天文台), and in 1899 Young was named its director. In 1903, a library and a lecture room were added to the observatory building, and in 1907 astronomy was made a course in which one could major at the college, with Yong serving as Department Chair. She retired in 1936, and Alice Farnsworth succeeded her.

Young continued to work on astronomy, publishing her last paper in 1942. She died on August 15, 1961, in California.

68.   Put the following events in the correct order.

a.      Young graduated from Columbia University.

b.      Young served at Carleton College.

c.      Young served as Department Chair.

d.      Young publish her last paper.

A. b, a, c, d                 B. c, b, d, a

C. b, c, d, a                 D. b, d, a, c

69. From the passage we learn that Carleton College made great contribution to      .

A. “Who’s who”

B. astronomy

C. the AAVSO

D. Mt. Holyoke College

70. What is the author’s attitude toward Anne Sewell Young?

A. Negative       B. Neutral       C. positive.      D. We don’t know.

 

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