A. only in doing homework
B. only on sports or music
C. only in working for the public
D. on studies, sports or music and public work
1 One of the best things you can possibly do is to start your own club. It"s great fun especially
if you are the sort of person who feels there"s never anything to do during the school holidays.
The first thing you need to come up with is an idea for your club. 2 Pets, clothes, pop music or
dancing groups, sports, making things? The list is endless.
Next you need some friends to be in your club with you. 3 All you need is three or four other
people who are interested in the same thing as you.
4 You should all sit down somewhere together with lots of pieces of paper and write down
every name you can think up. That"ll keep you busy for ages.
At your first meeting you should make up a rule book. And the first rule should be no grown-ups
or little/big brothers or sisters! The best clubs are always secret!
Now you have just about everything you need, except membership cards. These are very important
and again you can speed a lot of time making them. 5 Why not leave some space for a photo of
yourself? That will make the membership card really look like it.
So there you are, get clubbing! Once you get started you"ll think of loads of more interesting things
to do!
A. That"s easy.
B. Enjoy your own club!
C. Invite a designer to join you.
D. What are you interest in?
E. Summer vacation is just around the corner.
F. Then you need to pick a name for your club.
G. Use a bright thick pen to make a special design.
I credit my typing skill to so many hours of chatting online. Unfortunately, as my typing speed
increased on the Internet, all grammatical rules went out of the window. You see instant messages
have their own shorthand language and grammar isn"t important, of which even a newbie (新手) is
aware. They can leave out articles, subjects (主语), pronouns, etc. They can misspell or "respell"
almost any word. They often ask "A/S/L" when they first chat. Abbreviations (缩写) and
capitalizations (大写) are particularly important. English-speaking instant messengers also refuse
to burden themselves with punctuation and capitalization.
After I came back China, I discovered not one but two instant messaging crazes. The first, which
brought back memories of my previous addiction to the computer, was QQ. I can see evidence that
the Chinese have the same kind of separate instant messaging language, even when they chat in
English. My first word in this language, for example, was "ft". This abbreviation for "faint" is used
whenever there is a need to express surprise. I also discovered that Chinese use the same kind of
abbreviation for a laugh. And there is an extraordinary number of smileys (表情符) to the "vomit"
and "army soldier" smileys. There is even a SARA smiley.
After QQ, there is another, perhaps more widespread messaging trend. You guessed it-cell phone
text messaging. I now understand how useful text messaging is and why it is so common. I admit that
I have been guilty of sending text messages while walking outside or sitting on the subway. Who
hasn"t ? No matter where I go, I see people on their cell phones, messaging. In fact, it"s rare to see
someone actually talking on their phone!
So it looks as if there is no escape from the instant messaging crazes, no matter where in the
world I go. And that"s plainly not going to change. In the end, though, I can"t complain: instant
messaging is quick, it"s cheap, it"s easy and it"s extremely fun too. And after all, everyone"s doing it.
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Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose(诊断) their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店). Some avoid doctors because of the high cost medical care(忧虑), especially if they lack health insurance(保险). Or they may stay because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, alcohol consumption(消耗) or couch(睡椅) potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative experiences in the past. But playing doctor can also be a deadly game. Every day, more than six million American thru to the Internet for medical answers-most of them aren"t nearly skeptical(怀疑的) enough of what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn"t look up "headache", and the chances of finding reliable and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as "high quality". Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warm that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate(错误的) and even dangerous information exists on the Internet. The problem is that most people don"t know the safe way to surf the web. "They use a search engine(工具) like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that"s risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative (有权威的), so it"s hard to know whether what you"re reading is reasonable or not," says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute. | |||
1. According to the text, an increasing number of American ________. | |||
A. are suffering from mental disorders B. turn to Internet pharmacies for help C. like to play deadly games with doctors D. are skeptical about surfing medical websites | |||
2. Some American stay away from doctors because they ________. | |||
A. find medical devices easy to operate B. prefer to be diagnosed online by doctors C. are afraid to face the truth of their health D. are afraid to misuse their health insurance | |||
3. According to the study of Brown Medical School, ________. | |||
A. more than 6 million American distrust doctors B. only 1/10 of medical websites aim to make a profit C. about 1/10 of the websites surveyed are of high quality D. 72% of health websites offer incomplete and faulty facts | |||
4. Which of the following is the author"s argument? | |||
A. It"s cheap to self-treat your own illnesses. B. It"s embarrassing to discuss your bad habits. C. It"s reasonable to put up a medical website. D. It"s dangerous to be your own doctor. | |||
5. Which of the following statement is TRUE? | |||
A. Because of health insurance, Americans like to see doctors. B. It"s fun for Americans to play doctors. C. Recent studies showed that the Internet was not in order. D. You can trust what you"re reading on the Internet. |