Sandy wants to do more exercises about synonyms. Help her match the words in bold in the sentences with their synonyms. Put the correct letters in the blanks.

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　　The Internet is becoming important in our life. How much do you know about it?

　　What is the Internet?

　　The Internet is a large, worldwide collection(聚焦) of computers put together. The Internet is many different networks from all over the world. These networks are called the Internet. Once you have learned to use the Internet, you can have a lot of interest on the World Wide Web(网).

　　What is the World Wide Web?

　　The World Wide Web has been the most popular development of the Internet. The Web is like a big electronic(电子的) book with millions of pages. These pages are called homepages.

　　You can find information(信息) about almost anything in the world on these pages. For example, you can use the Internet instead of a library to find information for your homework. You can also find information about your favourite sport or film star, talk to your friends or even do some shopping on the pages. Most pages have words, pictures and even sound or music.

　　What is e-mail?

　　Electronic mail (e-mail) is a way of sending messages to other people. It's much quicker and cheaper than sending a letter.

　　If you want to use e-mail, you must have an e-mail address. This address must have letters and dots(点) and an ‘@’(meaning ‘at’). This is what an address looks like: emily @ star. net. Write a message, type(打字) in the person's e-mail address, then send the message across the Internet. People don't need to use stamps, envelopes or go to the post office since the invention of the Internet. Quick, easy and interesting－that's the Internet!

1．The Internet is ________.

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A．a big computer

B．a small group of computers

C．lots of computer networks

D．the World Wide Web

2．The World Wide Web is like ________.

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A．an electronic book

B．homepages

C．an electronic page

D．an interesting picture

3．What does “talk to your friends on the pages” mean? It means ________.

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A．you can talk to your friends face to face

B．you can type your words in the computer and then send them to your friends across the Internet

C．you talk to your friends through the same computer

D．you go to your friends' houses to talk to them

4．People like to use e-mail to send messages to their friends an family because ________.

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A．they don't have to pay any money

B．it's faster and cheaper

C．they don't need to have stamps, envelopes or addresses

D．sending e-mail is interesting

5．The “e” in e-mail means ________.

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　　Is it difficult for you to get up in the morning? Tom' bed sill solve（解决）your problem. Here is how it works.

　　The bed is connected to an alarm clock. First, the alarm clock rings. You have a few minutes to wake up. Next, a tape recorder in the bed plays soft music. The tape recorder in Tom's bed plays a recording of his girlfriend. She whispers（耳语）in a sweet voice,“Wake up, darling, please.”A few minutes later, Tom hears a recording of his boss. His boss shouts,“Wake up at once, or you'll be late.”

　　If you don't get up after the second recording, a mechanica（机械的）l“foot” in the bed will kick you in the head. The bed waits a few more minutes. What! You're still in bed! Slowly the top of the bed rises higher and higher. The foot of the bed goes lower and lower. Finally you slide（滑）off the bed and onto the floor You are out of bed and awake!

A．He will slide onto the floor.

B．A tape recorder will play a recording of his boss.

C．The bed will rise higher and higher.

A．Tom's company has made many such beds.

B．Tom's bed is only one made for a contest.

C．Tom needn't get up early now.

(5) The word“whisper”in the passage means ________.