Ask just about any college student you know,and he is likely to tell you that he is a member of facebook.com.Many students say they check their e-mail.It’s so popular “facelooking”has become a verb  “Everywhere everyone is doing it,”college student Katie Silverman said,“It’s like everyone’s center of life.”

Facebook is an online social meeting place where students create profiles (简介)，share personal information, and meet other members. It is password protected and targeted to high school and college students;members must have an edu.email address to join.

Many students say it has changed their social lives, giving them an easy way to find and chat with classmates who share their interests.“Some people might be too shy to go to talk to someone they like in one of their classes,but on facebook it’s a lot easier to strike up a conversation,”said Rahul Vanjani.

The website was founded by two Harward University students who wanted to meet more of their classmates.It became so popular that the website is at 2,200 colleges and at 22,000 high schools.It says that it has 6 million active users,two—thirds of whom are on it every day.Many of the facebook members said their parents had no idea they were on it .“No way.My parents certainly don’t know about it,” said a college senior who asked us not to use his name.

To keep it popular,Facebook says it stops students posting improper information.Some students have paid the price.At Fisher College in Boston,two students were kicked out for using facebook.com to do something that is against the law.At North Carolina State University,four students were punished for posting photos about drinking.

1.The passage is mainly about____.

A.student’s idea about Facebook        

B.the development of Facebook

C.the popularity of Facebook with students 

D.the rules of Facebook

2.To become a member of Facebook,you must_____.

A.have an edu,e—mail dress 

B.have your own profile

C.be a high school student   

D.offer main personal information

3.By saying “Some students have paid the price”in the last paragraph,the author means more students_____.

A. will have to pay money for being on Facebook

B. always use Facebook to do something against the law

C.have been punished for doing some improper things on Facebook

D.often stop others from posting improper information on Facebook

4.We can learn about Facebook from the passage that______.

A.the information that students offer to Facebook is secret to others

B. Facebook is at more colleges that at high schools

C. 6 million active users of Facebook are on it every day

D.many students don’t want their parents to know they are facebooking

 

Some English words are made up of the same part and have different beginnings and different endings, such as import, export, report and transport. All these words, you can see, have the same "port", which come from the Latin word, meaning "to carry" or "to move" from one place to another. And according to the bit at the beginning, which we call the prefix the meaning changes. "Import" means "to carry in" or "to bring into a country", "export", "ex" means "out of", so this word means "to carry out of the country", "re" means "back", so the "report" means "to tell somebody, to bring back information to somebody", "transport", "trans" means "across" and it means "to carry across one place to another".

Let's look at the following words: supporter, reporter, importer and exporter. You can see that in this case these words are nouns which are made up of the verbs plus a suffix, thus meaning a person who completes the verb. So supporter means somebody who supports. A reporter is somebody who reports. Importer is somebody who imports and exporter is somebody who exports, and so on.

1. In the first sentence the word "part" means _______.

A. different beginnings and different endings

B. the same part that has several meanings

C. the root of the word

D. the same root that has different meanings

2.By adding a prefix or a suffix to a root, we can get a word which has _______.

A. the meaning of a Latin word             B. a different meaning

C. the meaning of "in" or "out of"       D. a lot of meanings

3.We can get a noun _______. [???:.COM]

A. just by adding "er" to verbs             B. by changing a prefix

C. only by adding "er" to a root        D. by adding a suffix to a verb

4.According to the passage, if we talk about a man of refinement, you may guess that he must be _______.

A. a man having good manners and education

B. a person who should be educated

C. somebody having bad manners

D. a person punished by somebody else

 

Googlefight is a simple service available on the Internet which offers you the chance to compare two different items and see how many hits they get on the Google search engine. The seemingly simple device has proved invaluable to users, especially to help win arguments.

 For example, imagine that you and your friends are arguing about who are the most popular music or movie stars, you can decide the argument by writing the names in the Googlefight boxes. Let’s say that you are arguing about Jackie Chan and Jet Li. You will quickly discover that Jet Li is mentioned 16 million times on Google pages, whereas Jackie Chan is mentioned a mere 12 million times! In this unscientific way, you can claim victory for one Star over another.

But teachers have come up with ways of using Googlefight which are much more useful from an academic point of view, particularly when it comes to studying languages. You can, for example, find out the frequency of two words with the same meaning, and deduce (推断) from the answers which one is more common. For example, let’s take the words “buy” and “purchase”, which mean the same thing (although “buy” is only a verb and “purchase” is both a verb and a noun). It is immediately clear from Googlefight that “buy” is much more commonly used, with a massive three and a half billion hits, compared to only one billion occurrences for the more formal word.

But the real value of Googlefight to the language learner is in determining which is the more common of two phrases. For example, “raining cats and dogs” is an old-fashioned English expression about the weather. Do English speakers still use it? Or are they more likely to say “pouring down”? Googlefight suggests the latter. “Pouring down” has 898,000 Google hits, whereas “raining cats and dogs” only has 326,000.

With phrases, it’s important to remember that you need to use quote marks to make the search more accurate. For example, if you type in the similar phrases “look after” and “take care of “ without quote marks, the second phrase seems to be more common, but with quote marks, the result is reversed.

1. What is Googlefight?

A. A fight between two people on Google.

B. A way to make sure you win an argument.

C. A website showing how many hits two different things have.

D. A list of all the websites on Google.

2. Language teachers find it useful because _______.

A. there are a lot of words on Googlefight

B. it can tell them which of the two words with the same meaning appears more often

C. some words mean the same thing

D. common words have a billion hits

3. What must you remember to do if you are checking phrases by Googlefight?

A. Make sure they mean be same thing.

B. Make sure they are different.

C. Remember to put quote marks round the phrase.

D. Don’t put quote marks round the phrase.

4. Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Googlefight is effective to determine the more common of two phrases.

B. Googlefight is a scientific way to decide an argument.

C. Quote marks can make the search more accurate.

D. Googlefight is invaluable to help win arguments.

 

Some English words are made up of the same part and have different beginnings and different endings, such as import, export, report and transport. All these words, you can see, have the same "port", which come from the Latin word, meaning "to carry" or "to move" from one place to another. And according to the bit at the beginning, which we call the prefix the meaning changes. "Import" means "to carry in" or "to bring into a country", "export", "ex" means "out of", so this word means "to carry out of the country", "re" means "back", so the "report" means "to tell somebody, to bring back information to somebody", "transport", "trans" means "across" and it means "to carry across one place to another".
Let's look at the following words: supporter, reporter, importer and exporter. You can see that in this case these words are nouns which are made up of the verbs plus a suffix, thus meaning a person who completes the verb. So supporter means somebody who supports. A reporter is somebody who reports. Importer is somebody who imports and exporter is somebody who exports, and so on.
【小题1】 In the first sentence the word "part" means _______.

A．different beginnings and different endings

B．the same part that has several meanings

C．the root of the word

D．the same root that has different meanings

【小题2】By adding a prefix or a suffix to a root, we can get a word which has _______.

A．the meaning of a Latin word	B．a different meaning
C．the meaning of "in" or "out of"	D．a lot of meanings

【小题3】We can get a noun _______.

A．just by adding "er" to verbs	B．by changing a prefix
C．only by adding "er" to a root	D．by adding a suffix to a verb

【小题4】According to the passage, if we talk about a man of refinement, you may guess that he must be _______.

A．a man having good manners and education

B．a person who should be educated

C．somebody having bad manners

D．a person punished by somebody else