Blogs(博客)are the place where young people go to bare their souls, to vent(发泄), and even to gossip(造谣).
Many people enjoy the freedom in blogging.Some, however, find that putting one’s life online can have a price.Some students in America got suspensions(停学)because on their blogs they posted threatening words to their teachers.
Recent surveys found that nearly a fifth of teens who have access to the Web have their own blogs.And 38%of teens say they read other people’s blogs.By comparison, about a tenth of adults have their own blogs and a quartet say they read other people’s online journals.
With the development of the Internet, more and more people will be interested in blogging.
In another survey, 79%of teens agreed that people at their age aren’t careful enough when giving out information about themselves online.Besides, careless blogging can also influence blog viewers.When you are angry or frustrated(气馁), your blog is the first place you turn to.The words you post then may not be rational which you may regret later.To minimize the negative effect, change the permission setting and make such posts“private”so that only you can read them.
As long as you are careful of what you post, blogging is a great means of staying in touch with friends and showing one’s creative works.
(1)
According to the passage, Blogs are the place where people ________.
[ ]
A.
go online to have a chat
B.
go online to enjoy freedom
C.
go online to express themselves freely
D.
exchange their views online
(2)
The fact that some American students got suspensions is used to show that ________.
[ ]
A.
people should be careful of what they write
B.
people should not put their life online
C.
American students are limited in blogging
D.
Anyone can read your blog
(3)
The underlined word“rational”in the fifth paragraph probably means ________.
Our boat floated on, between walls of forest too thick to allow us a view of the land we were passing through, though we knew from the map that our river must from time to time be passing through chains of hills which crossed the jungle plains.Nowhere did we find a place where we could have landed:where the jungle did not actually spread right down into the river, banks of soft mud prevented us going ashore.In any case, what would we have sailed by landing?The country was full of snakes and other dangerous creatures, and the jungle was so thick that one would be able to advance only slowly, cutting one’s way with knives the whole way.So we stayed in the boat, hoping we reached the sea, a friendly fisherman would pick us up and take us to civilization.
We lived on fish, caught with home-made net of string(we had no hooks), and fruits and nuts we could pick up out of the water.As we had no fire, we had to eat everything, including the fish, raw I had never tasted raw fish before, and I must say I did not much enjoy the experience; perhaps sea fish which do not live in the mud are less tasteless.After eating my raw fish, I lay back and dreamed of such things as fried chicken and rice, and ice-cream.In the never-ending damp heat of the jungle, ice-cream was a particularly frequent dream.
As for water, there was a choice:we could drink the muddy river water, or die of thirst.We drank the water.Men who had just escaped what had appeared to be certain death lose all worries about such small things as diseases caused by dirty water.In fact, none of us suffered from any illness as a result.
One day we passed another village, but fortunately nobody saw us.We did not wish to risk being taken prisoners a second time:we might not be so lucky to escape in a stolen boat again.
(1)
What they could see in the boat was only ________.
[ ]
A.
high wall
B.
villagers from time to time
C.
vast land
D.
heavy woods
(2)
They couldn’t land because ________.
[ ]
A.
the mud on the shore was too soft
B.
the forest was too thick to let them go through
C.
they could not find the mark on the map
D.
they could not find anyone to lead them out of the forest
(3)
The passage infers that the forest was ________.
[ ]
A.
rich of fruits and animals to be served as food
B.
not very thick as they could advance slowly by cutting the branches
C.
full of various dangerous beings
D.
full of ancient trees
(4)
The most proper title for this passage might be ________.
[ ]
A.
Escape
B.
Scenes of a River
C.
How to Survive on a boat
D.
A New Experience
阅读理解:
Our boat floated on, between walls of forest too thick to allow us a view of the land we were passing through, though we knew from the map that our river must from time to time be passing through chains of hills which crossed the jungle plains.Nowhere did we find a place where we could have landed:where the jungle did not actually spread right down into the river, banks of soft mud prevented us going ashore.In any case, what would we have sailed by landing?The country was full of snakes and other dangerous creatures, and the jungle was so thick that one would be able to advance only slowly, cutting one’s way with knives the whole way.So we stayed in the boat, hoping we reached the sea, a friendly fisherman would pick us up and take us to civilization.
We lived on fish, caught with home-made net of string(we had no hooks), and fruits and nuts we could pick up out of the water.As we had no fire, we had to eat everything, including the fish, raw I had never tasted raw fish before, and I must say I did not much enjoy the experience; perhaps sea fish which do not live in the mud are less tasteless.After eating my raw fish, I lay back and dreamed of such things as fried chicken and rice, and ice-cream.In the never-ending damp heat of the jungle, ice-cream was a particularly frequent dream.
As for water, there was a choice:we could drink the muddy river water, or die of thirst.We drank the water.Men who had just escaped what had appeared to be certain death lose all worries about such small things as diseases caused by dirty water.In fact, none of us suffered from any illness as a result.
One day we passed another village, but fortunately nobody saw us.We did not wish to risk being taken prisoners a second time:we might not be so lucky to escape in a stolen boat again.
(1)
What they could see in the boat was only ________.
[ ]
A.
high wall
B.
villagers from time to time
C.
vast land
D.
heavy woods
(2)
They couldn’t land because ________.
[ ]
A.
the mud on the shore was too soft
B.
the forest was too thick to let them go through
C.
they could not find the mark on the map
D.
they could not find anyone to lead them out of the forest.
(3)
The passage infers that the forest was ________.
[ ]
A.
rich of fruits and animals to be served as food
B.
not very thick as they could advance slowly by cutting the branches
C.
full of various dangerous beings
D.
full of ancient trees
(4)
The most proper title for this passage might be ________.
[ ]
A.
Escape
B.
Scenes of a River
C.
How to Survive on a boat
D.
A New Experience
阅读理解。
Congratulations!You are Times person of the year!
Previous winners have included Adolf Hitler, Bill Gates and Ayatollah Khomeini.This year it is you.
Time magazine has named”You”as its”Person of the Year”in recognition of the way that ordinary internet users have revolutionized the media through blogs, file-sharing and websites such as Wikipedia, YouTube and MySpace.The magazine designed special cover——a white keyboard with a mirror for a computer screen where buyers can see their reflection——for the issue, reflecting the importance of user-generated(使用者自创)Internet content as a driving force in the modern world.
User-generated content on websites such as You Tube has proved the latest twist(转折)in the Internet revolution.You Tube has attracted millions of users and earned its founders $1.65 billion when it was bought by Google earlier this year.
Normally, the magazine describes its person of the year not necessarily as an honor, but as”the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and represented what was important about the year”.Mr.Stengel said in an interview that to select the”Person of the Year”is to look for someone who’s a symbol.
The magazine did cite(提名)26”People Who Mattered”, from North Korean leader Kim Jong II to Pope Benedict XVI(教皇本笃十六世)to the troika(三人组合)of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the past.And in 2005, the winners were Bill and Melinda Gates and rock star Bono, who were cited for their charitable(慈善的)work aimed at reducing global poverty and improving world health.It was not the first time that the magazine went away from naming an actual person for its”Person of the Year”.In 1966, the 25-and-under generation was cited; in 1975, American women were named; and in 1982, the computer was chosen.
(1)
“You”, the Time magazine“Person of the Year”of the year, refers to anyone ________.
[ ]
A.
who reads this updated magazine
B.
who surfs the Internet
C.
who knows the result of the selection
D.
who holds an important position
(2)
The fashionable character of the Internet revolution is ________.
[ ]
A.
to search information on the Internet
B.
to use the Internet to make money
C.
to be cited for“Person of the Year”
D.
to create content onto the Internet
(3)
The usual qualification of“Person of the Year”is that a person or persons must ________.
[ ]
A.
do the most good to the world in the year
B.
live up to the expectation of the world
C.
really affect the world the most in the year
D.
help the world move ahead in the year
(4)
Which of the following is true?
[ ]
A.
U.S.newly-elected President Obama is cited for“Person of the Year”.
B.
The couple of Gates were cited not for their contributions to the Internet.
C.
“Person of the Year”must be a prize of a person or a group.
D.
A pop star is unlikely to be cited for the“Person of the Year”.