Dear Reader，
Today I'm going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation. Sounds unusual: Why does one of the world's five most popular websites ask for financial support from its users?
Wikipedia is built differently from almost every other top 50.We have a small number of paid staff, just twenty­three. Wikipedia content is free to use by anyone for any purpose. Wikipedia is run by the non­profit Wikipedia Foundation, which I founded in 2003.
Wikipedia's driven by a global community (群體) of more than 150,000 volunteers, all devoted to sharing knowledge freely. More than 275 million people come to our website every month to access information, free of charge and free of advertising.
Your donation helps us in several ways. Most importantly, you will help us cover the increasing cost of managing global traffic to one of the most popular websites on the Internet. Funds also help us improve the software that runs Wikipedia, making it easier to search, easier to read, and easier to write for. We're bent on growing the free knowledge movement world­wide, by employing new volunteers, and building strategic (戰(zhàn)略的) partnerships with institutes of culture and learning.
Wikipedia is different. It's the largest encyclopedia (百科全書) in history, all written by volunteers.
Like a national park or a school, we don't believe advertising should have a place in Wikipedia. We want to keep it free and strong, but we need the support of thousands of people like you, for your donation will help keep Wikipedia free for the whole world.
Thank you!
Jimmy Wales
【小題1】In the letter, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikimedia Foundation tries to ________.

A．compare some top websites
B．explain how Wikipedia works
C．introduce a new website to the readers
D．a(chǎn)ppeal to Wikipedia users to make donations
【小題2】Which of the following is TRUE about Wikipedia?
A．Due to its less popularity, Wikipedia is no longer attractive to advertising at all.
B．Over 275 million people come to Wikipedia to access information for free weekly.
C．Wikipedia, the world's most popular website, is run by the Wikipedia Foundation.
D．Unlike others, Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia in history, is written by volunteers.
【小題3】From the letter we can know donations will help do the following for Wikipedia EXCEPT ________.
A．take on some new volunteers
B．develop an effective new software
C．a(chǎn)ccess free knowledge more easily
D．cover the increasing cost of management
【小題4】It can be inferred from the letter that ________.
A．Wikipedia aims to give free access to the sum of all human knowledge
B．those donating to Wikipedia will be eventually employed as its volunteers
C．most websites including Wikipedia rely on financial supports from its users
D．supported by Wikipedia Foundation, Wikipedia wants to be free from advertisements


【小題1】D
【小題2】D
【小題3】B
【小題4】A

解析試題分析：本文是一篇倡議信，本文主要向讀者介紹 Wikipedia 的情況，告知讀者 Wikipedia 是非盈利網(wǎng)站，但為了更新軟件，希望得到人們的捐助。
【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段Today I'm going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation.可知作者是呼吁維基百科的用戶捐款，選D
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)題:從第五段的句子：Wikipedia is different. It's the largest encyclopedia (百科全書) in history, all written by volunteers.可知和其他網(wǎng)站不同的是Wikipedia 是自愿者寫的，選D
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)題：從第四段的描述：Most importantly, you will help us cover the increasing cost of managing global traffic …Funds also help us improve the software that runs Wikipedia, making it easier to search, easier to read, and easier to write for. ….by employing new volunteers,可知捐贈(zèng)者可以幫助維基百科雇傭更多的志愿者，更自由的獲得知識(shí)，付越來(lái)越多的管理費(fèi)用。選B
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)題：從最后一段的句子：We want to keep it free and strong, but we need the support of thousands of people like you, for your donation will help keep Wikipedia free for the whole world.可知維基百科旨在讓人們可以自由獲得所有的人類的知識(shí)。選A
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