题目内容：

A “blogger” is a person who writes on an Internet website called a “blog”(博客). The word “blog” is a_______way of saying “web log”, or “personal website”. Anyone can start a _______, and they can write about anything they like.

There are millions of blogs on the internet today. They_______ news, information and ideas for people who read them. They contain _______ to other websites, and they provide a place for people to write their _______ and react to the ideas of others.

A research company called Perseus has _______ more than 3,000 web logs. It says that blogs are most _______ with teenage girls. They use them to _______ their friends know what is happening in their lives. The study_______ says that more than 100,000 bloggers stopped taking part in the activity after a year. ________, some people develop ______________blogs to present political and other ideas. ________, the Republican and Democratic parties(政党) in the southern state of Kentucky recently started their own blogs. And American companies are beginning to use blogs to advertise their ________.

At the same time, some long-standing blogs have ________. Last week, blogging leader Dave Winer closed his free blog service “weblogs. com”. He said the site became too expensive to ________. He started the blog four years ago, and thousands of people had ________ on it. They were ________ that the site had been closed.

One blog that is still going ________ is called Rebecca’s Pocket. Rebecca Blood created the website in 1999. She wrote about the history of blogs on the site. That ________ led to a book called The Weblog Handbook. It has been ________into four languages so far.

1.A. long    B. short    C. regular    D. central

2.A. company    B. expression    C. blog    D. experiment

3.A. provide    B. explore    C. debate    D. seek

4.A. issues    B. guidance    C. recovery    D. links

5.A. reasons    B. faults    C. ideas    D. choices

6.A. studied    B. reported    C. served    D. attached

7.A. pleased    B. popular    C. bored    D. careful

8.A. ask    B. let    C. demand    D. order

9.A. instead    B. yet    C. also    D. still

10.A. Besides    B. Therefore    C. In fact    D. However

11.A. serious    B. relaxing    C. fierce    D. humorous

12.A. In the end    B. In total    C. For example    D. On the contrary

13.A. employees    B. products    C. systems    D. predictions

14.A. recognized    B. happened    C. survived    D. ended

15.A. advertise    B. start    C. close    D. continue

16.A. appeared    B. written    C. worked    D. taken

17.A. upset    B. happy    C. excited    D. confident

18.A. devoted    B. gentle    C. strong    D. weak

19.A. character    B. history    C. usage    D. article

20.A. dipped    B. fooled    C. translated    D. mixed