Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV, according to results of a survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) published Thursday.
The survey, of citizens of five Chinese cities, found that 79 percent of interviewees use the internet for information, and 55.1 percent to read news on the internet. About 63 percent of the interviewees use e-mail. The average times spent surfing the net and watching TV were 2.73 hours and 1.29hours, respectively.
Only 10.4 percent reported use the internet primarily to send and receive email; 65.9 percent read online news; 62.2 quite often play games on-line. More and more people have taken an interest in the entertainment opportunities online. Up to 56.5 percent of interviewees quite often download music, and 53.5 percent get entertainment messages from the internet.
Yet the survey found that television is still the dominant mass medium. Seventy-nine percent of interviewees choose to watch TV to get information, and another 75 percent take newspapers as important as TV.
Five major web sites in the Chinese language, namely Sina, Sohu, Netease, Baidu and Yahoo are still ranked top ones by web users, and those that voted for Sina as the best among them were 30.9 percent.
Authorized statistics showed that web users in China have already exceeded 100 million, second to that of the United States.
1.Which of the following is not true?
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A．Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV. |
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B．There are more Chinese people using the internet for information compared with those reading news on the internet. |
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C．There are more people using e-mail compared with those searching information on the internet. |
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D．There are more people using e-mail compared with those reading news on the internet. |
2.The survey shows that .
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A．Only 10.4% reported use the internet to send and receive email. |
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B．Less than half of the people use the internet for enter fain-ment. |
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C．All of the people reported like to play games on-line. |
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D．Most of the people reported read online news. |
3.Which will you choose if you want to chat with your friends on the internet?
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A．TV |
B．Sina |
C．telephone |
D．QQ |
4.The underlined word “exceeded” means .
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A．increased to |
B．increased by |
C．risen |
D．decreased |
The British people are famous for being quite reserved(保守的). We are known around the world for having the biggest "personal 1 "? the distance between us and the person we are 2 to. I have 3 been more aware of this than over the last month, since I arrived in China. Getting used to Chinese colleagues 4 close by me and even placing their hands on my arm is proving quite 5 . My natural British reaction is to 6 back and move away, even though I realize it is a friendly gesture by the Chinese person.
I have 7 many people holding hands or putting their arms around each other as they walk along the streets of Beijing. This would rarely be seen in the UK , even between very close friends.
And 8 at someone in Britain is considered very 9 . But here, I find myself being stared at often. It 10 me long to realize this was not rude in China, but a 11 of curiosity.
I visited Datong last week, where the local people are 12 used to Westerners. An elderly woman couldn't believe her 13 when she saw me. And 14 feel offended(使不舒服) by her staring at me, I was 15 to see her smile back when I said "Nihao."
When I visited one of Datong's middle schools to talk about English Weekly, the students asked me to 16 their copies of the newspaper. And one girl at the Yungang Grottoes asked to have her picture taken with me. I 17 like a celebrity(名人)!
I have 18 over the last month how true it is that the British are very 19 . We can learn a lot about 20 from China's culture and habits. And I am learning more every day.
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Please go and _____________________ a good meal. We shall have the honor of Mr. White’s saying for supper.
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A．prepare for |
B．prepare |
C．get ready for |
D．have |
As you can see, the number of cars on our roads _____________ rising these days.
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A．was keeping |
B．keep |
C．keeps |
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I don’t like the place. The house is __________ to live in；besides, the surrounding is not satisfying.
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B．uncomfortable |
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Mr. Briggs got a job with an insurance company(保险公司) after he left school and went around visiting people in their homes to sell them life insurance. One day, after he had been working for the company for about a year, the insurance manager sent for him and said, “Mr. Briggs, I have been looking at your record as a salesman with our company, and there is one thing that surprises me about it. Why have you been selling insurance only to people over 95 years old, and why have you been giving them such generous（宽厚的）conditions? You’ll ruin our company if you go on like that.”
“Oh, no, sir,” answered Mr. Briggs at once, “Before I started work, I looked at the figures(数字) for deaths in this country during the past ten years, and I can tell you that few people die at the age of 95.”
1.Before he worked in an insurance company, what was Mr.
Briggs?
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A．He was a worker. |
B．He was an official. |
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C．He was a student. |
D．He was a businessman. |
2.The word “ruin” in the first paragraph means .
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A．lose |
B．break |
C．leave |
D．destroy |
3.As a salesman with the company, Mr. Brigs .
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A．visited people to ask them to work with him |
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B．called on people to make them join the company |
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C．saw old people in order to help them |
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D．visited many people so as to offer insurance |
4.What was it that surprised the manager?
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A．Mr. Briggs sold life insurance only to 95 people. |
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B．Mr. Briggs sold insurance only to people of more than 95. |
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C．Mr. Briggs had ruined the insurance company. |
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D．Mr. Briggs gave people generous conditions. |
5.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
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A．Mr. Briggs had studied the figures for deaths for several years. |
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B．Mr. Briggs began to look at the figures after he started work. |
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C．A great number of very old people die every year. |
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D．The number of the very old people who died every year is |
small.
