Did you know that a new weblog is being created each second? Many of these bloggers are teenagers. While their parents wrote in a diary to express their emotions, or shared their interests by spending time with friends, teens are now using blogs instead. In fact, in the US, one in every five school-aged teens has a blog. Most of these are just chatter, some are funny or clever, but a few have become Internet success.
For example, Chloe Spencer’s blog ‘Neopets Fanatic’ gets around 300,000 hits per month. When Chloe was 15, she started the blog out of her strong liking for Neopets, a kind of pet website. One reason her blog has so many visitors is because she gives instructions and tips for the popular pet site.
Then there is Tavi Gevinson’s blog ‘Style Rookie’. It is said to get 1.5 million hits per month. Tavi, who started her blog when she was just 12, puts up her photos of her own clothes online as well as designers’ collections. Tavi’s blog has caught on because she knows a lot about style for someone so young, and she is not afraid to try out unusual clothes or see things in a different way.
Blogs like these are interesting, but they only become really popular after better-known websites link to them or they get noticed by the media(传媒). For example, Tavi’s blog became an overnight(一夜之间) success after being written about in The New York Times. Popular blogs can even earn money, usually from advertisements that companies pay to put up on the bloggers’ sites.
So for some, blogging is just a recreation(消遣), but for others, it can become a source of income and even a full-time job!
1. Teens nowadays ________ than their parents did.
A. have more ways of communication
B. share their feelings more
C. write in diaries more often
D. make more friends
2. In line 4, the underlined word ‘chatter’ means talk about ________ topics.
A. funny B. clever C. serious D. unimportant
3.Chloe Spencer and Tavi Gevinson are both ________.
A. pet lovers B. teenage bloggers
C. interested in fashion D. keen on taking photos
4. From the passage we know that Chloe Spencer is a person who ________.
A. visits many websites B. loves pets
C. is easy to get angry D. rarely gives opinions
5. According to paragraph 4, Tavi Gevinson’s blog ________.
A. is not well-known yet
B. is written every night
C. became popular very quickly
D. got a lot of money from advertising
6.The best title for the passage might be ________.
A. How to be good teen bloggers
B. How teen bloggers attract the media
C. Keeping diaries or writing blogs
D. Teen bloggers mean business
Rewrite the following sentences as required（根据所给要求，改写下列句子。62-67题,每空格限填一词。68题注意句首大写) (共14分)
1. Steve Jobs has changed the way people live. (改为反意疑问句)
Steve Jobs has changed the way people live, _________ _________?
2. The model on the stage had a very excellent figure. (改为感叹问)
_________ _________ excellent figure the model on the stage had!
3. Black tea was invented in China during the Ming Dynasty. (对划线部分提问)
_________ _________ black tea invented in China?
4.The policeman came up and asked the lady, “What’s wrong with you?” (改为宾语从句)
The policeman came up and asked the lady _________ _________ wrong with her.
5.Can’t you feel how much your parents love you? (保持句意基本不变)
Can’t you feel how much your parents _________ _________ you?
6. The choir of deaf people can also enjoy music. (改为被动语态)
Music can also _________ _________ by the choir of deaf people.
7. terrible, me , something, to, that day, happened (连词成句)
___________________________________________________.
Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms（用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成下列句子，每空格限填一词) (共8分)
1.Three ___________ shared 2013 Nobel Medicine Prize. (winner)
2.Wellington, New Zealand is the ___________ capital city to greet the beginning of a new day. (one)
3.We live in a world where a lot of things happen around ___________. (we)
4.How I wish the heavy haze(霾) could ___________ in our city! (appear)
5.On your computer at home or work, make a note to “call friends” ___________. (regular)
6.How far does your ___________ go back? (memorize)
7.Thank you so much for coming. Have a ___________ drive home. (safely)
8.Only by working hard can we ___________ in doing everything. (success)
A. responsible B. later C. actually
D. shocked E. amazing
One morning in 2006, the staff at another American high school were 1. to find a pink car on the roof. The car even had question marks painted all over it! The staff believed that many students must have worked together to complete this.
The American trick in 2006 was 2. a copy of British trick in 1958. That year, at the University of Cambridge, a car appeared on the roof of a building that was five storeys high. It caused a lot of trouble for police and firefighters as they had to cut the car into pieces to get it down. They couldn’t find out who was 3. , and the trick made headlines around the world. It was only fifty years 4. that the students in the case proved who they were and how they played the excellent trick.
Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once (将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次)
A. strange B. tradition C. allowed
D. turned over E. turned out
A good trick doesn’t leave lasting damage and always makes people laugh. It can even amaze them with its creativity. Some schools and universities have a long 1. of students playing good tricks. These tricks sometimes include school buildings and cars.
The California Institute of Technology, a university in the US, has a special day on which students are 2. to play big tricks. One time, a group of students took apart a car, moved the parts into a student’s room and then put the car back together next to the bed.
It was a quiet evening at an American high school. Going home, the headmaster got into his car and started the engine. It’s quite 3. that the wheels turned, but the car didn’t move! It _4. that some students had found a way to lift the car up so that its tires were just above the ground.
– ______
– The same to you.
A. Happy birthday! B. Have a nice weekend!
C. Congratulations! D. See you!
