4. 现在乘坐动车组从北京到上海只需10小时。

  It __________________________________to Shanghai from Beijing on a Bullet Train.

3. 有些路标太小，司机根本看不到。

  Some road signs ______________ drivers ____________________________.

2. 在公共场所，我们最好不要大声喧哗。

  __________________________________________talk loudly in public places.

1. 在交通高峰时段，有时开车没有骑车快。

  Sometimes driving a car is ____________________________riding a bike in the rush hours.

58. This passage is _________.

  A. a blog about blogging                    B. a diary about blogging

  C. a view on blogging                        D. a judgement on blogging

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57. There’re __________reasons in the passage to explain why the writer is a blogger.

  A. 2                     B. 3                     C. 4                     D. 5

56. The writer loves writing blogs mainly because __________.

  A. his writing about feeling can be shown anywhere

  B. his writing would never be edited by others

  C. he enjoys writing something about big events

  D. he finds himself terrible on the phone

55. The writer thinks a good blog is one that _____________.

  A. can let his thought go freely

  B. wins a blogging competition

  C. helps people keep in touch

  D. is read by large numbers of people

54. From the passage we learn that ___________.

  A. we should go to see a doctor right away when we feel injured

  B. we can return to sports as soon as we get medical treatment

  C. stopping whatever sport has caused injuries is necessary

  D. using protective equipments keeps you away from injuries

（C）

I read yesterday (yes, on a blog) that there are now blogging competitions!! I can’t believe it. A man in England won $2,000 for writing the best blog. There’s even a list of the best Chinese bloggers! I’ve read a few of them- before they were famous, I might add. I suppose that one blog can be better than another. It can be better written, more interesting, funnier, and I suppose that blogs are there to be read and judged (点评) by other people. If they’re not good, they’re not read. And they’re not just personal feelings. If they were, they’d be called diaries. Have locks, and be hidden under beds. So I’m OK with this whole competition thing. I just can’t believe I didn’t win!

This has got me thinking about why I’m writing this blog. I’m not doing it to win a competition (or I wasn’t when I started …) and I’m not doing it to show all my personal feelings ? I do that in my diary. So, why am I a blogger?

To tell the truth, the first time I heard the word blog I thought it was a new word for a toilet. But I love learning new words so I used my knowledge and found out that a blog was a personal website and the word blog came from the words web log. Now a log is a type of diary kept by sailors (水手), and web, well, we all know that it has nothing to do with catching flies and everything to do with the Internet. Web log… weblog… blog…. Being a writer I loved the idea of getting my views (观点)onto the Internet where anyone could read them, and no editors (编辑) could get their hands on them!

So my first reason for blogging: I’m a writer. I want people to read what I write (un-edited!). And I love writing about anything I choose. I can write about saving the environment or complain about how the people in front of me in the cinema always seem to have big heads. And sometimes I pour out my heart too.

My second reason is that it’s relaxing. I don’t have to do research and write an article. I can let my thoughts go on as long as I like.

Third reason? To keep in touch. I’m terrible on the phone and all my friends around the world read my blog (or they say they do …). Every now and then, I even upload a photo so they remember what I look like.

Is there a fourth reason? There probably is but now it’s time for dinner. Tomorrow I might even tell you what I ate.