different now but it has certainly encouraged writing and communication, which means a faster development of language change. There are a large number of words that either come from the Internet or have been given new meanings by the Internet."

8. According to the research, people often write e-mails in lower case to _____.

A. save time B. show kindness

C. make fun D. be different

9. The second paragraph mainly tells us _____.

A. the mistakes found in English e-mails

B. the side effects of the use of e-mail

C. the changes in English used in e-mails

D. the reason why people use e-mails

10. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Spelling mistakes are not allowed in today's e-mails.

B. The Internet develops new words as well as new meanings to some old words.

C. Weblish is only used in e-mails.

D. We cannot find Weblish in a dictionary at present.

11. According to the passage, John Simpson probably agrees that _____.

A. the use of e-mail stops the development of language

B. mistakes in e-mails are very important to English

C. everyone should learn to write e-mails in Weblish

D. the Internet has brought great changes to English

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　D

　　About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier; only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it's safer to be driven by a woman!

　　There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases, a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red ,orange and yellow are all shades of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the differences between green and blue. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shade of green-a strange world indeed.

Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called "cones". These help us to see in a bright light