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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 times spent surfing the net and watching TV were 2.73 hours and 1.29hours,
respectively.
Only 10.4 percent reported use the internet primarily to send and receive email; 65.9 percent read
online news; 62.2 quite often play games on-line. More and more people have taken an interest in the
entertainment opportunities online. Up to 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 web sites 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.
1. 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 internet.
C. There are more people using e-mail compared with those searching information on the internet.
D. There are more people using e-mail compared with those reading news on the internet.
2.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 internet for entertainment.
C. All of the people reported like to play games on-line.
D. Most of the people reported read online news.
3. The underlined word "exceeded" means _____ .
A. increased to
B. increased by
C. risen
D. decreased
