Men and WomenDifferent

“people feel more comfortable with their mother language and this technology is a very useful tool to spur（激勵(lì)，策動）the use of the internet as it appeals（引起興趣） even to children and elderly people with no knowledge of english.”
a u.s. company called realnames had offered a similar keyword addressing service and once tried to take over netpia. but the deal failed and realnames stopped operations last year after microsoft corp. ended a partnership that made the service work with its explorer browser.
some analysts are pessimistic（悲觀的） about whether it can compete with search engines such as google, which is available in some 90 languages.
“i don’t expect many to register additional addresses. only some corporate（社團(tuán)的 公司的） clients （顧客）are likely to do so,” said park jong-min, an analyst at samsung securities.
“people are likely to prefer running search engines than trying keyword address in the first place when they are not sure whether such addresses exist or not.”
13. the new technology can make computer users________.
a. find web sites by search engines
b. find web sites by typing their native languages into the address bar of browser
c. create their own websites easier
d. run their computers much faster
14. if you want to use this new technology, you _______.
a. can get the service for free
b. must go to netpia’s database
c. mustn’t use search engines, especially google
d. must pay for the service
15. according to the passage which of the following statements is not true?
a. a u.s company—realnames once worked with microsoft corp.
b. the new technology will even make the elder people with no knowledge of english interested in the internet.
c. many people including the author are pessimistic about the new technology.
d. it’s not clear whether the new technology will take the place of search engine.
16. the best title of the passage should be________.
a. non-english search tool takes the web world wider
b. more and more people begin to use non-english search tool
c. non-english search tool takes the place of search engines
d. netpia defeats realnames 

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it is clear that women's roles have changed greatly in recent years. women have lost some of the control over small children that they formerly enjoyed as the “primary teacher”, for they are now competing with school teachers and the tv set, among other forces. women have also suffered a loss in their traditional economic role. the food crops women once produced have been replaced with imported（進(jìn)口的） food in many parts of micronesia today. locally grown, breadfruit and bananas have been replaced by rice, bread, and other foreign-bought foodstuffs（食品）.