单选题 People in some countries cannot use their native language for Web addresses. Neither can Chinese speakers, who have to rely on pinyin. But last Friday, ICANN, the Web"s governing body, approved the use of up to 16 languages for the new system. More will follow in the coming years.
The Internet is about to start using the 16 languages of the world. People will soon be able to use addresses in characters (字符) other than those of the Roman alphaber (字母表). The change will also allow the suffix (后缀) to be expressed in 16 other alphabets, including traditional and simplified Chinese characters.
But there are still some problems to work out. Experts have discussed what to do with characters that have several different meanings. This is particularly true of Chinese.
Most experts doubt the change will have a major effect on how the Internet it used. "There will be some competition between companies to obtain popular words for addresses."

单选题 For Web addresses, Chinese speakers now have to use ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】事实细节题。本题询问中国人目前登陆网址使用的语言是什么。定位到文章第一段第一、二句，提到中国人不能用母语作网址，只能借助于拼音，故正确答案为A(拼音)。选项B(使用符号)、选项C(使用数字)文中没有提到；D(使用字符)中的characters指的是ICANN组织批准网络使用16种语言之后的情况，不符合题目中的“目前”的条件。

单选题 The approval of the use of 16 languages by ICANN will allow web users to ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】细节推断题。本题询问ICANN批准16种网址语言给上网者带来的变化。定位到第二段第二句，提到人们很快就可以使用罗马字母以外的字符作为网址，故正确答案为选项D。其他选项文章中没有提到。

单选题 The new system will allow the suffix of a Web address to be expressed by ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】事实细节题。本题询问在新的系统中，网址后缀名可以以什么形式出现。定位到第二段第三句，提到后缀名可以以这16种语言的形式出现，故正确答案为C(汉字)。B(数字)和D(符号)在文中没有提到；由第一段第三句可知，只有使用经ICANN批准的16种语言的使用者才能使用其母语作为网址，故选项A(任何母语)不正确。

单选题 Which of the following is one of the problems in using the new system?

A、 Certain characters have several different meanings.
B、 Chinese is a truly difficult language to learn.
C、 People find it difficult to type their address in characters.
D、 Some experts think it is impossible to use Chinese characters.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】事实细节题。本题询问使用新系统可能出现的问题。定位到第三段，处理含有不同含义的字符是需要解决的问题，故正确答案为选项A(某些字符含有多种不同含义)。其他选项文中没有提到。

单选题 Many experts do not believe that ______.

A、 there are still some problems to work out
B、 there will be competition to get popular addresses
C、 companies are willing to change their web addresses
D、 the change will affect the use of the Internet greatly

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】细节推断题。本题询问专家的观点。定位到最后一段，很多专家怀疑这一变化是否会对人们使用互联网的方式产生重大影响，故正确答案为选项D。倒数第二段提到要使用新批准的16种语言作为网址还要解决一些问题，故A(仍有问题需要解决)是专家认可的问题；专家认为为获取网址的热门词汇，公司之间将会产生某些竞争，这表明公司重视取得使用热门词汇的网址，因此与题目中的do not believe不一致，故B也不正确。同时这并不说明企业愿意更改网址，故C(公司愿意更改网址)不正确。