6、More Americans are Googling themselves-and many are checking out their friends, co-workers and romantic interests, too.

In a report Sunday, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said 47 percent of U. S. adult Internet users have looked for information about themselves through Google or another search engine.

That is more than twice the 22 percent of users who did in 2002, but Pew senior research specialist Mary Madden was surprised the growth wasn’t higher.

“Yes it’s doubled, but many Internet users have never done this simple act of plugging their name with search engines,” she said.

Americans under 50 and those with more education and income were more likely to self-Google because their jobs demand a certain online persona.

Meanwhile, Pew found that 53 percent of adult Internet users admit to looking up information about someone else, not including celebrities(名人).

Often, it’s to find someone they have lost touch with. But looking up information about friends, relatives, colleagues and neighbors also was common.

Although men and women equally searched for online information about themselves, women were slightly more likely to look up information about someone they are dating.

In many cases, the search is done to find someone’s contact information. But a third of those who have conducted searches on others have looked for public records, such as bankruptcies(破产) and divorce(离婚) proceedings. A similar number have searched for someone else’s photo.

Few Internet users say they Google themselves regularly―about three-quarters of self-searchers say they have done so only once or twice. And most who have done so consider what they find accurate.

Pew also found that teens were more likely than adults to restrict(限制) who can see their information at an online hangout(常去之处) like Facebook or News Corp’s MySpace.

 

72. The number of American adult Internet users      Mary Madden.

A. frightened                 B. pleased                            C. disappointed             D. annoyed

73. What does “they” refer to in the seventh paragraph?

A. Common people                                           B. Scientists

C. Adults                                                         D. 53percent adult Internet users.

74. How many people have checked others’ photos?

A. One-fifth                  B. One-fourth               C. One-third                 D. A half

75. What is the best title of the passage?

A. Learn to Google yourself                               B. Googling oneself is popular

C. A new performance online                             D. Don’t Google yourself online

5、Divorce is bad for environment

US researchers raised a new theory on Monday: divorce is bad for the environment.

The global trend toward higher divorce rates has created more households with fewet People,scientists at Michigan State University reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

More households means more houses,fuel and water are Heeded for them,the researchers wrote.“Globally,the number of households is increasing much faster than the number of people,”said co-author “Jack” Liu in a telephone interview. “Even in regions with declining population, we see substantial increase in the number of households. Divorce is the main reason for reducing the number of people in a household,” he said.

The average divorced person’s household is about 40 to 50 percent smaller than the average married person’s household, Liu said. But whether there are three or six people in a house ,the amount of fuel needed to heat them is about the same.

In the United States, divorced households used 73 billion kilowatt―hours of electricity and 2.850 trillion litres of water in 2005 that could have been saved if households had stayed the same size as when they were married.

I the United States and 11 other countries between 1998 and 2002, if divorced households had combined to have the same average household size as married households, there could have been 7.4 million fewer households.

The number of divorced households in those countries ranged from 40,000 in Costa Rica to almost 16 million in the United States around 2000. The number of rooms per person in divorced households was 33 percent to 95 percent greater than in married households.

“If you really want to get divorced, maybe you can remarry with somebody else, or live together with somebody else you like”, Liu said.

 

68. In America when the number of households is        , the number of people in a house is      .

A. increasing, decreasing                                          B. decreasing, increasing

C. increasing, increasing                                          D. decreasing, decreasing

69. What does the word “substantial” in the third paragraph mean?

A. Great                       B. Little                               C. Sudden                    D. Timely

70. How much electricity would have been saved without so many people to get divorced?

A. 7.4 million kilowatt-hours                              B. 16 million kilowatt-hours

C. 73 billion kilowatt-hours                                       D. about 30 billion kilowatt-hours

71. The last paragraph is the writer’s        for people.

A. advice               B. encouragement                 C. demand                    D. order

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