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Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV, according to
results of a survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) published Thursday.
The survey, of citizens of five Chinese cities, found that 79 percent of interviewees use the
internet for information, and 55.1 percent to read news on the internet. About 63 percent of the
interviewees use e-mail. The average time spent surfing the net and watching TV was 2.73 hours
and l.29 hours respectively.
Only 10.4 percent reported use the internet primarily to send and receive email; 65.9 percentread online news; 62.2 quite often play games online. More and more people have taken an interest in the entertainment opportunities online. Up t0 56.5 percent of interviewees quite often download music, and 53.5 percent get entertainment messages from the internet.
Yet the survey found that television is still the dominant mass medium. Seventy-nine percent of interviewees choose to watch TV to get information, and another 75 percent take newspapers as
important as TV.
Five major websites in the Chinese language. namely Sina, Sohu, Netease. Baidu and Yahoo are still ranked top ones by web users, and those that voted for Sina as the best among them were 30.9 percent.
Authorized statistics showed that web users in China have already exceeded 100 million. second to that of the United States.
40. Which of the following is not true?
A. Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV.
B. There are more Chinese people using the internet for information compared with those reading news on the intemet.
C. There are more people using e-mail compared with those searching information on the intemet.
D. There are more people using e-mail compared with those reading news on the intemet.
41. The survey shows that      .
A. only 10.4% reported use the internet to send and receive email
B. less than half of the people use the intemet for entertainment
C. all of the people reported like to play games online
D. most of the people reported read online news
42. The underlined word "exceeded" means      .
A. increased to
B. increased by
C. risen
D. decreased
40．【答案】C。解析：细节题。根据第一段中的“Chinese people are now spending more time surfingthe net than watching TV”可知，A项正确。根据第二段中的“79 percent of interviewees use the internet forinformation，and 55.1 percent to read news on the interhet”可知，B项正确。根据第二段中的“79 percent ofinterviewees use the intemet for information…Abaut 63 percent of the interviewees use e-mail”可知，C项错误。根据第二段中的“55.1 percent to read news on the intemet. About 63 percent of the interviewees use e-mail"可知，D项正确。故本题选C。
41．【答案】D。解析：细节题。根据第三段中的“Only 10.4 percent reported use the intemet primarily tosend and receive email”可知．A项描述小准确。根据第三段中的“More and more people have taken an interestin the entertainment opponunities oniine.up t0 56.5 percent of interviewees quite often download music…”可知，B项错误。根据第三段中的“62.2 quite often play games online”可知，C项错误。根据第三段中的“65.9percent read online news”可知，D项正确。故本题选D。
42．【答案】A。解析：含义题。increase to“增加到”；increase by“增加了”；rlse“增加”，为不及物动词；decrease“减少”。定位到最后一段，官方统计数据显示，中国网民人数已超过1亿，仅次于美国。故本题选A。

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