A typical① Chinese Internet user is a young male who prefers instant messaging to e-mail, seldom makes online purchases② and favors news, music and games sites. According to a study, about two-thirds of survey participants③ use the Internet for news — often entertainment-related — or for online games. About half download music and movies.

They also tend to prefer instant messaging to e-mail, and they are depending on the Internet more frequently than before to communicate with others who have the same professions, hobbies and political interests. Online purchases still remain unpopular in China. Three-quarters of users surveyed have never bought anything over the Internet, and only 10 percent make purchases even once a month. Among those who do buy online, most pay for entertainment while others buy phone cards, or computer hardware or software.

“Many people don’t trust the quality of goods bought online,” Guo said Wednesday. “If they buy it in a store and don’t like it, they can easily bring it back.”

The survey was done in five major cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Changsha. Results do not necessarily project countrywide because Internet use in rural areas is lower than in cities. Guo describes the typical netizen④ in the five cities surveyed as young, male, richer and more highly educated. Males make up two-thirds of the Internet community, and more than 80 percent of users are under 24. Among people ages 25 to 29, 60 percent to 80 percent go online.

China has more than 100 million people online, second in the world to the United States.

Notes:

① typical  adj.  典型的

② purchase   n. / v.  购买

③ participant  n. 参与者

④ netizen  n. 网民

Choose the best answers according to the above:

A typical Chinese Internet user will be the one who _________.

        A. likes to send e-mails                 B. likes to buy goods online

        C. likes to pay for entertainment          D. likes the games sites

Online purchases still remain unpopular in China mainly because _________.

        A. it is more difficult for sales returns       

B. people haven’t computers

        C. people can’t have a look at the goods     

D. goods bought online are of low quality

Which of the following words fails to describe the typical netizens in the five cities?

        A. well educated     B. richer     C. female     D. young

According to the text, which of the following shows the right relation between online people and their ages?

        A.       B.

C.       D.

A. Gift giving proven to be valuable.

B. Memories from gift giving

C. Moments and events for gift giving

D. Various functions of gift giving

E. Gift giving as a wasteful practice

F. Gift giving as a two-way social activity

Gift Giving

61. __________

　　　 There are manyoccasions for giving gifts in modern industrialized societies: birthdays,naming ceremonies, weddings, anniversaries, New Year, It is common to givegifts on many of these celebrations in western cultures. In addition, specialevents, such as one’ s first day of school or graduation from university, oftenrequire gift fiving.

62. __________

　　　 What is happening whenwe give gifts? Most important, we are exchanging gifts. If someone gives me agift for my birthday, I know that I am usually expected to give one on his orher next birthday. A gift builds up or confirms a social obligation.

63. ___________

　　　 Gifts tighten personalrelationships and provide a means of communication between loved ones. Peoplesay that a gift lets the recipient know we are thinking of them, and that wewant to make the person “feel special.”We want people to feel wanted, to feelpart of our social or family group. We give presents to say “I’msorry.”Sometimes it is difficult for us to find a present that someone willlike. Sometimes we give things that we like or would feel comfortable with. Inall these cases, the gifts are sending out messages－oftenvery expressive ones.

64. ___________

　　　 People tend to talkabout presents in a fairly loving way. A woman whose mother had died years agodescribed the many gifts around her house. These were gifts that her mother hadgiven her over the years: “I appreciate these, and they mean something to me,”the woman said, “because I remember the occasions they were given on,and that they were from my mother, and the relationship we’ve had.” The giftsremain and keep the relationship alive in mind. This woman felt the same wayabout the gifts she gave to others. She hoped that the recipients would look athere gifts in years to come and remember her.

65. ___________

　　　 Emotions like thesesuggest that a positive spirit still lies behind gift giving. They prove thatthe anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was wrong to say that modern westerngift giving is highly wasteful. Studies in Canada and elsewhere have also shownthat this is not the case. Each gift is unique even if so many are given. Theemotional benefit for those who exchange gifts is the very reason for thetradition to continue.

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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　The idea of giving people some kind of document affording them safe passage through another country may go back as far as the Egyptian pharaohs (法老), who are thought to have issued their subjects (臣民) with cartouches (图形) bearing the ruler's name.

　　One of the first references to an English passport was in the reign (统治) of King Henry V, who, in an act (法案) of 1414, issued “Safe Conducts” (安全通行证), warning foreigners to allow his subjects to move around unmolested (不受骚扰的) within certain parameters(界限) of destination, time and purpose. In return, no Englishman would injure or rob a foreigner who carried one of Henry's Safe Conducts.

　　The number 13 has been linked to untimely death since Jesus was betrayed (背叛) by Judas, who was the thirteenth person at the Last Supper. This helps explain why 13 is considered particularly dire (terrible) in the dining room. One superstition (迷信) states that the last to sit at a table for 13 will die within a year.

　　Another version is that the first to rise from the table will perish (die). So strong was the belief in England and Scotland that groups of 13 would sometimes try to cheat the devil by sitting or rising simultaneously, so that no one would be first or last.

　　Friday the thirteenth is considered doubly disastrous because Jesus was crucified on Friday.

　　Non-Christians, however, don't necessarily view 13 as unlucky. “In the Middle east, odd numbers tend to be regarded as good,” says University of Toronto anthropology professor Janice Bobby. In Chinese culture, instead of fearing 13, people avoid any number containing a four because it has the same pronunciation as the word for death.

1．The passport first issued in England was to ________.

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A．show King Henry V's power

B．protect the foreigners traveling in England

C．make people travel safely at any time, for any purpose

D．make the travel safe for both Englishmen and foreigners

2．What can we infer from the passage but not stated?

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A．The 13^th floor in a building is considered more terrible than the 13^th to be seated in a dining room.

B．Almost all the peoples in the world have their own superstitions.

C．The purpose of the passport issued by the Egyptian pharaohs was to afford people safe

D．The usage of passports in England is more popular than in Egypt.

3．What does the underlined word probably mean?

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4．If you are a Christian, which day would you choose as your wedding day?

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