Random ramblings from a guy who is too busy to have a Web site. On the bright side, you won't find any ads, pop-ups, hype, or any attempts to sell you anything at all. Furthermore, you won't find any pages divided into a hundred little boxes. And the text is so large, you don't need an electron microscope to read it. A refreshing break from reality.  Anyway, here's what I have so far as I gradually resurrect my poor neglected Web site.

PC Survival Camp

Being new to computers, or even just being a “casual user”, isn’t always fun. It's as though everybody on the planet assumes you already know all the buzzwords, and already possess all the skills necessary to use a computer.  Which is a really big assumption, when you consider that nobody was ever born knowing how to use a computer. The links below provide some quick mini-tutorials on all the skills and buzzwords that everyone else seems to assume you already know. Click on any link (underlined text) for a quick mini-lesson. Use the Back button at the bottom of any

page to work your way back to this page.

TechFear Camp	Jargon Camp	Internet Camp	Windows XP Camp
Wrong button!	Hardware	What is the Net?	Desktop
Crash the Internet!	Ports	What's Bandwidth?	Start menu
Erase everything!	KB, megabytes, etc.	What's Download?	Taskbar
Run out of space!	Software	What Web browser?	Quick Launch
Email privacy!	Toolbars	Getting around	Notifications
Viruses!		What e-Mail client?	Moving and Sizing
Hackers!		Death to pop-ups	Control Panel
			More...

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l I'm gradually bringing back some of my old HTML stuff here.

l If you have a question, Ask Alan

1.Who is the passage written for?

A．Everyone                             B．College students.

C．Anyone who wants to use a computer.       D．An expert on computers.

2.What’s the advantage of this web site?

A．It’s cheap.                           B．There are no ads.

C．It’s modern.                          D．It provides an electron microscope.

3.You can learn computer skills except_____.

A．Erase everything!   B．Software.          C．Flash .            D．Taskbar.

4.If you have problems, ask____ for help.

A．Coolnerds.com                         B．PC survival Camp

C．Alan                                 D．HTML Stuff

 

I have been using the Internet since I was five years old, when my dad first sat me down in front of a computer and connected me the World Wide Web.
I’ve always felt like a master of the Internet world. AOL Instant Messaging, MSN, Gmail, Facebook, Myspace -- I’ve got it all under control. I thought there was nothing more to it besides checking my e-mail and wasting my time, until I was introduced to electronic commerce(e-commerce): business on the Internet.
Some online businesses are run from one-room home offices. Others have hundreds of employees (雇员) across the world. Have you ever heard of Amazon.com, Yahoo.com?
My friends often said they got cheap textbooks off Amazon.com, or had a good deal (交易) on Steve Madden shoes that were on sale at SteveMaden.com. Unfortunately for me, I continued my “e-commerceless” Web-surfing, not knowing about all the deals I was missing out on.
That is, of course, until my sister finally sold the idea to me.
“Why are all these packages arriving in the mail for you, Katy?” I asked her one day. Strange envelopes (信封) had been put on our doorstep for weeks now, each one always addressed to my sister; and we all know little sisters should never be getting more mail than their elders!
“Oh, it’s the things I ordered online!” she answered. I watched speechlessly as she opened them. There was no way our parents were letting her spend that much money- online or off!
“How much did all of this coat?”
“Oh, only about $15 in all!” She said excitedly. “Everything on eBay is on sale! It’s a way better than going to the mall.”
I felt as if there had been a store right in my backyard that I had never walked into! That week, I ordered a used Spanish textbook for my summer course online for 10 percent of the publishing price. A few days later, I bought an iPod protector and a book or two via the wonderful eBay.com.
【小题1】From the first two paragraph we can conclude that the author        

A．had no experience using computers

B．had no idea of what e-commerce is

C．only used the Internet to check e-mail

D．thought surfing the Internet was a waste of time

【小题2】 The writer didn’t find out about e-commerce until       

A．he stopped web-surfing

B．he visited a store in his backyard

C．his sister explained the packages she got by mail

D．his friends told him about the online deals they made

【小题3】We can infer from the last paragraph that the author       .

A．never enjoyed shopping that much

B．loves the big store in her backyard

C．feels she is a true master of the Internet

D．has begun to enjoy online shopping

【小题4】What’s the purpose of the article?

A．To tell the readers how he begins online shopping.

B．To do business on the Internet.

C．To make an online shopping ad.

D．To advise people not to do online shopping

第二节 根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。(E 涂AB，F涂AC, G涂 AD)

— Hi, Mike. Haven’t seen you for ages! How are you doing?

— Can’t complain I’m busy with my experiments in the lab but after work I often play some sports.

—     61      

— Like tennis, running and golf.

— Golf? That’s also my favorite game.

— Oh, really?

—    62       

I usually play about once a month. What about you, Susan?

—I play every Sunday.

—Even when it rains?

—Yes, even when it rains. I never miss a game on Sunday.

—     63    

—The Country Club. Do you know it?

—     64   

—That’s great! So you know the place.

—Yes, of course. You’re going to play next Sunday, I suppose.

—Let me see…

—    65   

—Oh, I’d love to. What time shall we meet?

—Let’s meet at the clubhouse at 1:30 in the afternoon.

—Good. See you then.

A. For example?

B. How Often do you play it？

C. Who do you play for?

D. Like what?

E. we can play together.

F. Where do you go?

G. Yes, I was there once.

Electronic waste, or e-waste, refers to electronic products that are no longer usable. This can include TVs, cell phones and computers and other office electronics, electronic toys and videos machines. Today, the average turnover（更换）rate for a computer in the United States is every two years, according to the environmental group, Greenpeace.
The group's Dai Yun says e-waste is a global problem. "The electronic industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The high speed of growth in this industry means more and more electronic products are being wasted and thrown away. If no one decides to retrieve the old products and process them properly, the electronic waste will sweep over the earth like the huge wave behind me and pollute the Earth seriously."
Greenpeace works out that 20 to 50 million tons of e-waste are produced globally each year. The components（部件）in many electronic products contain harmful chemicals that pollute ground water and the environment.
At present , the U.S. has no federal law for the disposal (处理) of e-waste although a few states have e-waste recycling programs in place, but there is no law. The U.S. exports much of its e-waste to third world countries, such as India and China, where workers took apart computers for valuable parts, hoping to sell them for money. But harmful wastes expert, Dr. Bakul Rao, says that's a dangerous practice. "From now on, the recyclers are not very educated. All they know is they can retrieve copper or gold out of it. So, the easiest way to do that is leach (过滤) it out in an acid or burn it off to retrieve it. So, that's where they don't know how to deal with it, neither do they have any health systems in place. So, their exposure is more."
【小题1】What does the underlined word "retrieve" (paragraph 2) probably mean?

A．look into

B．take apart

C．get back

D．throw away

【小题2】What of the following statements is true according to the passage？

A．The U.S. has strict national laws for dealing with e-waste.

B．Third world countries import e-waste to get valuable parts, which is a safe and easy way to make money.

C．The way uneducated workers deal with old computers does great harm to the environment as well as to their own health.

D．More and more electronic waste is being wasted and thrown away mainly because of people's bad habits.

【小题3】 What is the purpose of writing the passage?

A．To attract more people's attention to e-waste.

B．To call on people not to throw away e-waste anywhere.

C．To tell people what e-waste is and how to deal with it well.

D．To warn people to break away from the electronic industry.

【小题4】The next paragraph probably concerns ___.

A．how to deal with e-waste properly

B．how to protect ourselves from harm by e-waste

C．How to slow down the development in the electronic industry

D．how to make full use of e-waste

I am an e-mail user. When I first started to use the e-mail system I used to read all my e-mail. I didn’t have much mail. I was very excited about receiving any e-mail. I gave my friends my e-mail address. Soon I had more mail than I wanted. Some of the mail was junk mail. I was worried. I didn’t want my mail to control me.
I’ve tried some methods to help me get control of my mail. First, I check my mail at the same time every day. Also I try to allow myself only 15-20 minutes every day to process my e-mail. This doesn’t always work, but I try. Sometimes I save the messages. Sometimes I just read them, maybe answer a few, and then delete them.
Sometimes I’m not at all interested in a message, so I don’t even open it. I delete it right away. This is very much the way I go through the mail that the postal service delivers to my home.
These methods are very simple. I have some friends who are very clever with computers. From time to time, they teach me new tricks for managing my e-mail. I’ve also learned to transfer some messages to a disk so they don’t fill up my mail files. Then I can read them later and maybe use them in my work. I’m still amazed at what e-mail can do for me! I’m still worried, however, about having too much to read.
【小题1】Which is the best title for this passage?

A．How I Go through my E-mail	B．How I Manage my E-mail
C．How I Transfer my E-mail	D．How I Use my E-mail System

【小题2】What does the writer suggest by “This is very much the way I go through the mail that the postal service delivers to my home.”

A．That he deals with the mail delivered by the post service almost in the same way.

B．That he receives more postal mail than e-mail.

C．That he likes e-mail much better than the mail delivered by the post service.

D．That he likes going through the mail delivered by the post service.

【小题3】Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Sometimes the writer checks his mail in the morning and sometimes in the evening.

B．The writer teaches his friends how to manage their e-mail.

C．The writer always spends less than 15 minutes processing his e-mail.

D．After giving his friends his e-mail address the writer had more e-mail than he wanted.

【小题4】In the first paragraph, the underlined phrase “junk mail” probably means      .

A．常规邮件

B．病毒邮件

C．垃圾邮件

D．商务邮件

【小题5】In the last paragraph, the underlined word “transfer” probably means      .

A．转换

B．改变

C．传递

D．转移