Perhaps you have heard a lot about the Internet, but what is it?The internet is many different networks around the world. A network is a group of computers put together.

Maybe that doesn’t sound interesting. But when we’ve joined the internet, there are lots and lots of things wecan do. We can have a lot of interest on the World Wide Web (WWW). We can use the Internet instead of a libraryto find all kinds of information for our homework. We can find information about our favorite sports or film starsand do shopping on the Internet. We can also send messages to other people by e-mail. It is much cheaper and quicker than calling our friends or sending a letter.

Thanks to the Internet, the world is becoming smaller and smaller. People can now work at

home with a computer in front, getting and sending the information they need. They can buy or sell whatever they want by the Internet. But do you know 98% of the information is in English? So what will English be like tomorrow?

1.The passage is mainly about _________________.

A．the Internet       B．information        C．computers         D．e-mail

2.The quickest and cheapest way for people to send massages to their friends is _________.

A．by post           B．by e-mail          C．by telephone       D．by TV

3.The Internet can not be used to ________________.

A．find information for our home work

B．get some information about our favorite sports stars

C．do some shopping

D．do our housework

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

A．The Internet is a big computer.

B．The Internet is lots of computer network

C．The Internet is very helpful.

D．People can work at home with the help of the Internet.

5.What does the writer try to tell us with the last two sentences?

A．The Internet is more and more popular.

B．All the information is in English.

C．English is important in using the Internet.

D．Every computer must join the Internet.

1.AROUND XICHANG can be watched _______ a week.

2.At the end of every month, you can get IN TOUCH in_______ all around Sichuan without paying.

3.If you want to get some information of music and travel, you can find something in _______.

4.If a foreign friend wants to get some news about Xichang, he can can_______.

5.This passage is perhaps _______.

Microblog(微博) is used by more and more people in China. Do you know what it is? Microblog makes the people around the world to know each other better. It helps people to find the information that they need easier, also to get some information about the world they did not know before.

?? Many famous people are using microblog now, including singers, TV hosts and artists. Yao Chen once became the queen of microblog because her microblog has over 1.3million followers; Li Yuchun sent a microblog and got 11760 comments(評論) within 24 hours; Cai Kangyong, who is a famous TV host and famous writer in Taiwan, has 15143 more followers within 24 hours.

?? Why is microblog so popular? The most important reason is that it is convenient(方便的). People need not use too much time to write the articles to express their feeling. They can write at most 140 words, and then send it through computers or mobile phones onto the microblog. They can use it anytime, anywhere.

?? Many of my friends use microblog to share what they see, hear and think in a sentence or a photo with others. Also, they can follow their friends’ or their favorite stars’ microblogs. Microblog is very hot now!

?? Have you microblog today ?

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，完成下列句子。

1.Microblog helps people to find ___________ that they need easier.

2.___________ is the queen of microblog.

3.Microblog is so ___________ that it’s becoming more and more popular.

4.People send their words through ______ or mobile phones onto the microblog.

5.We can use a microblog to _________ what we see, hear and think in a sentence or a photo.

根據(jù)對話內(nèi)容，從方框內(nèi)選擇詞的適當(dāng)形式填空，每空只能填一詞，每個詞只能用一次。