Xu Jinglei most popular blogger in the world

    The weblogs by Chinese star Xu Jinglei is now the world’s most popular．With more than 50 million clicks，it tops the“Technorati”billboard，a leading weblog search engine．

  “I didn’t expect it to be so popular．So many dicks have encouraged me to keep writing．”said Xu，adding that her blog is mainly to introduce her films．

    Xu，an actress 一turned—director，became famous over seas,8when she won a best director award for Letter From An Unknown Woman(一个陌生女人的来信)in the 2004 San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain．

    She considers blog writing to be the most convenient and economic way of publicizing(宣扬)her films．   

    While busy shooting her latest movie Dream May Come(梦想照进现实)，which was released(发行)in China at the end of June，2006，she wrote about the filming process and her marketing plans into her blog．

    She even inserted in her blog links to film clicks posted on the wedsite of her film company．

    Begun in October，2005，Xu’s blog at blog．sina．com．cn／m∥xujinglei only took 112 days to break domestic(国内的)records with more than 10 million visits．

Since then，she has updated her blog every other day．But if she feels well，she sometimes posts two or three article in a day．

    Visitors leave thousands of message about each of her articles．

     A survey by baidu．com showed there were 16 million bloggers writing in Chinese in 2005，with a total of 36．82 million weblogs．Xu Jinglei was one of the first famous people．

1．From this passage We know that Xu Jinglei _________．

    A．is the most popular actress in the world．

    B．is a famous writer with many works．

    C．has made her blog the most popular in the world．

    D．is the director of The Banquet(夜宴)。

2．For what film did she win a best director award?

    A．Letter From An Unknown Woman．     B．Dream May Come

    C．Far From Home《我的美丽乡愁》．    D．Spring subway《开往春天的地铁》．

3．When was her latest movie Dream May Come released?

    A．In June，2004．B．In October，2005．C．In June，2006．D．In October,2006．

4．Which is her blog’s website?

    A．blog．Baidu．com. cn／m／xujinglei     B．b1og．Sohu．com．cn／m/xujinglei

    C．blog．Sina．com．cn／m／xujinglei       D．blog．Yahoo．com．cn／m／xujinglei

5．There were____million bloggers writting in Chinese in 2005．with a total of____    million web．blogs．

    A．16，50    B．16，36．82    C．112，36．82  D．50,10

Did you visit the Shanghai World Expo last summer? What impressed (给……留下印象)  you? 21st Century Kids invites four kids to talk about their experiences. They are back from the Expo. What did they bring us? Let’s see what they have to say.

I went to the SAIC-GM Pavilion (上汽集团通用汽车馆). I found my dream car there. It is a green car. Its name is “Leaf”. Chinese engineers made the car. Its roof is in the shape of a leaf. The roof takes in CO₂ and changes it intoelectricityfor the car.
The Japan Pavilion is full of high technology. The “Wonder Camera” is cool. It can find a smiling face in a crowd. When you’re smiling, it takes a photo of you. I want to invent something like that in the future.
My favorite pavilion is the Germany Pavilion. I watched the Energy Source show. Visitors made a ball swing back and forth (来回摇摆) by using only their voices. It’s amazing! Although we had waited for quite a long time before we entered the hall, I think it is well worth seeing with your own eyes.
I like painting, so my parents took me to the France Pavilion to see the famous paintings. But the French cooks caught my eye. I saw them cook. My mom told me that they are some of the best cooks in the world. The dish they cooked looked like a painting. So, being a cook is my second dream job.
【小题1】 The 21st Century Kids seems to be _____.

A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s disappointment,she said she would go. This   16   be the first time that his classmates and teacher   17   his mother and he felt ashamed of her   18  . Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a scar(疤痕)that   19  nearly the right side of her face. The boy never wanted to   20  why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were impressed by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother in spite of the scar, but the little boy was still  21 and hid himself from everyone,  22   a conversation between his mother and the teacher.
The teacher asked   23 ,“How did you get the scar on your face?”
The mother answered,“When my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was   24  afraid to go in because the fire was   25   ，so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked senseless but   26  , a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She touched（摸着） the   27  side of her face. “This scar will be  28 ,but to this day, I have never regretted what I did.”
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her mother in his arms and   29   a great sense of the sacrifice(牺牲)that his mother had made for him. He held her hand tightly for the   30  of the day.

There was a time when I thought my dad didn’t know how to be a good father. I couldn’t   16   him ever saying the words “I love you.” It seems to me his only purpose in life was to say “  17  ” to anywhere I wanted to go and anything I wanted to do, including getting a   18  . Some parents bought their kids cars when they got their driver’s licenses. Not my dad — he said that I’d have to get a job and buy my own.

So that is what I did. I got a job at a very nice restaurant and   19   every penny I could and when I had enough to buy my car, I did! The day I brought that car home, my dad was the first one I wanted to   20   it off to. “Look, dad, a car of my own. If you ever want a ride, you only need to pay me five dollars.” I offered with a smile.

“I see,” was all he said.

One day, there was something wrong with my father’s truck. So he needed a   21   to work. The sun wasn’t even up when we left the house,   22   it was already getting warm out. It was going to be a hot day. As my dad got out of my car, I   23  him, dressed in his work clothes, getting his   24   from the truck (车尾箱) of my car. Watching his sun-weathered face, and even from a distance I could tell there were  25   lines than I ever remembered being there before. I realized how hard my dad works for the family. My father is a cement finisher(水泥修整工).

Suddenly, it came up with me that he actually got down on his hands and knees to sweat over hot concrete(混凝土) to make a living for his family. And he did this day in and day out,   26 hot it got. Never, not once, had I heard him   27   about it. To him we were “worth” it. And never once did he ask us to pay for it.

When he closed the trunk, his tools set off to the side, he walked over to my window to   28   me five dollars. I rolled down the window and said “Good-bye, dad. Keep your five dollars. It’s my __29__. Don’t work too hard. I love you.”

His eyes met mine, then glanced away in the direction of his waiting tools, he   30   his throat(喉咙) and said, “Oh, and… me, too.”

1.A. like           B. remember         C. forget           D. care

2.A. Sorry        B. Yes              C. No                D. Well

3.A. car          B. friend           C. job                 D. present

4.A. spent        B. earned           C. kept               D. saved

5.A. take        B. put              C. turn                 D. show

6.A. ride         B. leave            C. trip                  D. hurry

7.A. as           B. although        C. but                   D. since

8.A. helped       B. followed        C. left                  D. watched

9.A. tools        B. clothes          C. luggage            D. bag

10.A. fewer        B. more           C. longer               D. less

11.A. whatever     B. whenever        C. wherever              D. however

12.A. talk         B. complain         C. ask                D. speak

13.A. hand         B. borrow           C. lend                  D. take

14.A. help         B. advice           C. treat              D. idea

15.A. cleaned      B. wiped            C. cleared             D. felt