Period 1 Starting out destination; quit; previous; quest 答案Her destination is the gallery today. For the quest of art, she intended to quit school in the previous month. [思维训练] Ⅰ 完形填空 A “blogger” is a person who writes on an Internet website called a “blog”. The word “blog” is a __1__ way of saying “web log”， or “personal website”. Anyone can start a__2__， and they can write about anything they like. There are millions of blogs on the internet today. They__3__ news, ination and ideas for people who read them. They contain __4__ to other websites, and they provide a place for people to write their__5__and react to the ideas of others. A research company called Perseus has__6__ more than 3,000 web logs. It says that blogs are most__7__ with teenage girls. They use them to__8__ their friends know what is happening in their lives. The study__9__ says that more than 100,000 bloggers stopped taking part in the activity after a year. __10__，some people develop__11__ blogs to present political and other ideas.__12__，the Republican and Democratic parties in the southern state of Kentucky recently started their own blogs. And American companies are beginning to use blogs to advertise their__13__. At the same time, some longstanding blogs have__14__. Last week, blogging leader Dave Winer closed his free blog service “weblogs. com”. He said the site became too expensive to __15__. He started the blog four years ago, and thousands of people had__16__ on it. They were __17__that the site had been closed. One blog that is still going__18__ is called Rebeccas Pocket. Rebecca Blood created the website in 1999. She wrote about the history of blogs on the site. That__19__ led to a book called The Weblog Handbook. It has been__20__ into four languages so far. 篇章导读本文是一篇说明文。几年前的博客也像现在的微博一样，在年轻人中很受欢迎。
1．A.short B．long C．regular D．central 答案A 博客是web log的简称，short “短的”。故选A。
2．A.company B．expression C．experiment D．blog 答案D 句意任何人都可以写博客，故选D。
3．A.debate B．explore C．provide D．seek 答案C 此处指博客为人们提供了各种新闻、信息和观点，故选C。
4．A.issues B．links C．recovery D．guidance 答案B issues “话题”；
links “链接”；
recovery “恢复”；
guidance “向导”。此处指这些博客含有其他网站的链接，故选B。
5．A.reasons B．ideas C．faults D．choices 答案B 此处指这些博客给人们提供了写出他们观点的地方，故选B。
6．A.served B．reported C．studied D．attached 答案C 此处指这家研究公司调查研究了3,000个博客，故选C。
7．A.popular B．pleased C．bored D．careful 答案A be popular with “受的欢迎”，故选A。
8．A.ask B．order C．demand D．let 答案D ask “问”；
order “命令”；
demand “要求”；
let “让”。let sb. know “让某人知道”，故选D。
9．A.instead B．yet C．still D．also 答案D instead “相反”；
yet “然而”；
still “仍然”；
also “也”。该处指还发现超过10万名博主在一年后停止了使用博客，故选D。
10．A.Besides B．However C．In fact D．Therefore 答案B besides “除了以外还”；
however “然而”；
in fact “事实上”；
therefore “因而”。上文讲一些人用博客发表生活中的事情，这里讲另外一些人用博客发表自己的政治观点等一些严肃的话题，有转折的意味。故选B。
11．A.fierce B．relaxing C．serious D．humorous 答案C fierce “剧烈的”；
relaxing “放松的”；
serious “严肃的”；
humorous “幽默的”。根据空后的“present political and other ideas”可知政治等话题是“严肃的”。故选C。
12．A.For example B．In total C．In the end D．On the contrary 答案A for example “例如”；
in total “总计”；
in the end “最后”；
on the contrary “相反”。该句是对上文的情况举的一个事例，故选A。
13．A.products B．employees C．systems D．predictions 答