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.
小題1:Which of the following is not true?
A.Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV.
B.There are more Chinese people using the internet for information compared with those reading news on the internet.
C.There are more people using e-mail compared with those searching information on the internet.
D.There are more people using e-mail compared with those reading news on the internet.
小題2:The survey shows that     .
A.Only 10.4% reported use the internet to send and receive email.
B.Less than half of the people use the internet for enter fain-ment.
C.All of the people reported like to play games on-line.
D.Most of the people reported read online news.
小題3:Which will you choose if you want to chat with your friends on the internet?
A.TVB.SinaC.telephoneD.QQ
小題4:The underlined word “exceeded” means        .
A.increased to B.increased byC.risenD.decreased

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:D
小題4:A

試題分析:本文主要介紹中國(guó)人現(xiàn)在花在上網(wǎng)的時(shí)間要比花在看電視上的時(shí)間多,上網(wǎng)人數(shù)已雄居世界第二位,大多數(shù)人上網(wǎng)的目的是獲取信息、閱讀新聞、收發(fā)郵件等。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題:依據(jù)第二段的調(diào)查數(shù)字,使用e-mail的約占63%,網(wǎng)上獲取信息約占79%,因此在網(wǎng)上獲取信息的人比使用e-mail的多,C錯(cuò)誤
小題2:排除題:A項(xiàng)應(yīng)為最初的上網(wǎng)意圖,B項(xiàng)應(yīng)為超過(guò)一半以上,C項(xiàng)應(yīng)為62.2%的人喜歡在網(wǎng)上玩游戲。從第二段的句子:55.1 percent to read news on the internet.可知選D
小題3:依據(jù)常識(shí)? QQ聊天軟件是目前流行最廣、最受廣大青少年所歡迎的網(wǎng)上交友、聊天工具。選D
小題4:猜詞題:從后面的句子:second to that of the United States.可知是 increased to為“增加到”, increased by為“增加了”,risen后應(yīng)加介詞, decrease為“減少”,選A
點(diǎn)評(píng):本文主要介紹中國(guó)人現(xiàn)在花在上網(wǎng)的時(shí)間要比花在看電視上的時(shí)間多。考查了各種題型,要求考生有較強(qiáng)的細(xì)節(jié)理解能力。做題時(shí)也可以結(jié)合自己的生活常識(shí)和經(jīng)驗(yàn),再通過(guò)邏輯推理和判斷。猜詞題關(guān)鍵是弄清前后文,從中找出有用的信息。
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