A new generation addiction is quickly spreading all over the world. Weboholism, a twentieth century disease, affects people from different ages. They surf the net, use e-mail and speak in chat rooms. They spend many hours on the computer, and it becomes a compulsive habit. They cannot stop, and it affects their lives.

Ten years ago, no one thought that using computers could become compulsive behavior that could affect the social and physical life of computer users. This obsessional behavior has affected teenagers and college students. They are likely to log on computers and spend long hours at different websites.

They become hooked on computers and gradually their social and school life is affected by this situation. They spend all free time surfing and don't concentrate on homework, so this addiction influences their grades and success at school. Because they can find everything on the websites, they hang out there. Moreover, this addiction to websites influences their social life.

They spend more time in front of computers than with their friends. The relation with their friend’s changes. The virtual life becomes more important than their real life. They have a new language that they speak in the chat rooms and it causes cultural changes in society.

Because of the change in their behavior, they begin to isolate themselves from the society and live with their virtual friends. They share their emotions and feelings with friends who they have never met in their life. Although they feel confident on the computer, they are not confident with real live friends they have known all their life. It is a problem for the future. This addictive behavior is beginning to affect all the world.

61. The main idea of the passage is about_________.

   A. the cause of weboholism                    B. the advantage of weboholism

   C. the popularity of weboholism              D. the influence of weboholism

62. The underlined word “obsessional” in the second paragraph most probably means “______”.

   A. attractive             B. addictive              C. professional         D. potential

63. We can infer from the passage that________.

   A. weboholism has the greatest effect on teenagers

   B. students can hardly balance real and virtual life

   C. people are addicted to games on the Internet

   D. virtual life is more vivid and attractive anyway

64. Which of the following is NOT true of weboholism?

   A. It contributes to the development of the web.

   B. The chat room language may change social culture.

   C. The problem will be getting more and more serious later.

   D. People addicted to the web often become inactive in real life.

65. The author’s attitude towards weboholism is that of being________.

   A. optimistic            B. positive           C. appositive            D. acceptable 

The wild cats in the state of Gujarat often get into villages near forests in search of food, say officials, adding that this results in attacks on people. But rather than use methods such as live bait(誘惑物) like goats tied to trees to lure the leopards, which then fall into large pits dug by guards, officials say they have found a safer method to trap the cats.

“The moos of a cow, bleating of a goat from the phone has proved effective to trap leopards,” said D. Vasani, a senior forest official in Gujarat. “This trick works.” Vasani said forest guards have downloaded the sounds of over a dozen animals as ring tones on their mobiles which they attach to speakers and fix behind a cage. They then play the ring tone continuously for up to two hours until the curious leopard appears and moves into the cage looking for its easy meal.

At least five leopards have so far been lured from villages since the new ring tone method was introduced three months ago. The cats have all been released back into forest areas.

Wildlife activists welcomed the new initiative saying that previous methods of trapping the cats using pits often resulted in the animals getting injured.

56. What can be the best title of the passage?

A. Cell Phones to Hunt Animals

B. Practical Uses of Cell Phones

C. Wildlife and New Technology

D. Phone ring tones to Catch Leopards

57. Forest guards in India try to catch leopards mainly because ______.

A. leopards attack villagers

B. they want leopard fur

C. leopards attack animals

D. they have new ring tones

58. According to the wildlife activists, the new method is _______.

A. appreciated because it benefits leopards

B. not good because it may injure animals

C. effective because ring tones work

D. not safer than the former one

59. We can learn from the passage except that ______.

A. forest guards don’t mean to hurt the leopards

B. forest guards no longer use pits to trap leopards

C. forest guards used goats to attract leopards

D. recorded animal sounds are used to lure leopards

60. What will be needed to trap the leopards using the new method?

① cell phones    ②animals     ③ sounds of animals    ④ cages     ⑤large pits

A. ①②③④       B. ②③⑤             C. ①④⑤            D. ①③④

While watching the Olympics the other night, I came across an incredible sight. The  36  was swimming and started with only three men. For one reason or another, two of them had a  37   start, so they were disqualified. That would have been difficult enough, not having anyone to   38   against.

I watched the man   39   off the blocks and knew immediately that something was wrong. Now I'm not an expert   40   but I do know a good dive  41   a poor one, and this was not exactly medal   42  . I listened to the crowd begin to   43   this poor man that was clearly having a   44   time. Finally he made his turn to start back. It was   45  . He made a few desperate strokes (劃水) and you could tell he was exhausted.

But in those few   46   strokes, the crowd had changed. No longer were they laughing, but beginning to   47  . Some even began to   48   things like, “Come on, you can do it!” and he   49   finished his race. The crowd went   50  . Even though he recorded one of the   51   times in Olympic history, this man gave more heart than any of the other   52  .

In a competition where athletes remove their silver medals, feeling they have   53   been cheated out of gold, or when they act so   54   in front of their competitors, it is nice to watch an underdog(敗者), a man that gave his all―knowing that he had no chance, but competed because of his   55   and the spirit of the games.

―So you have met Maria?

―Yes, it was last week         we attended Jack’s party.

       A. where                 B. when               C. that                    D. why

With proper measures, the economy in China is beginning to _______ again.

    A. rise up         B. hold on             C. pick up          D. take on

 We __________ here at lunch time; we were delayed at the airport, though.

A. could be      B. should be            C. must have been    D. would have been

A lack of ______ of cultural differences to local customs can create problems.

       A. existence         B. revolution            C. awareness               D. evidence

―Excuse me, I wonder if you can help. I ______ my ID card.

―But where did you lose it?

A. have lost            B. lost                  C. had lost                  D. lose

An offer of a reward has caused many students in our school _______ actively in the competition.

A. participate                    B. participated            C. participating               D. to participate

It's a mistake to think of Florida only ________ its tourist attractions.

A. in addition to     B. by way of       C. in terms of          D. by means of