In the last ten years, the Internet has opened up incredible amounts of information to ordinary citizens. But using the Internet can be like walking into a library where the books are all lying on the floor in piles. While tools like Google allow some structured search, much of the data from such searches is outdated or of questionable value. Some web enthusiasts have taken up the task of organizing information through a democratic means that only the Internet allows: an encyclopedia of the people, by the people, and completely free to copy and distribute.
This people’s encyclopedia’ of the Web (a free site called Wikipedia) has provided a unique solution by inviting individuals to participate in the process of rationalizing and updating web con- tent. At the heart of this movement are wikis, web sites that allow users to directly edit any web page with one click of the mouse.
Wikipedia (the largest example of these collaborative efforts) is a function
A. is accessible by all the passersby.
B. can be edited by everyone.
C. is run by ordinary people.
D. is built to the taste of common citizens.
It has been a hundred years since the last big one in California, the 1906 San Francisco earth quake, which helped give (1) to modem earthquake science. A century later, we have a highly successful (2) , called plate tectonics, that explains why 1906-type earthquakes happen--along with why continents drift, mountains rise, and volcanoes (3) the Pacific Rim. Plate tectonics may be one of the (4) triumphs of the human mind, geology’s (5) to biology’s theory of evolution. And yet scientists still can’t say when an earthquake will happen. They can’t even come (6) .
What scientists can do right now is make good maps of fault zones and (7) out which ones are probably due (8) a rupture. And they can make forecasts. A forecast might say that, over a certain number of years, there is a certain (9) of a certain magnitude earthquake in a (10) spot. And that you should fix your house to its
A. even if
B. as though
C. in general
D. so that
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