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請依下文回答第 18 題至第 20 題In China, the battle to control information is largely waged online. The Communist Party blocks most foreignsocial media, routinely censors dissenting views and punishes those who repeatedly speak out. It employs around 2mpeople to police the Internet and bombard users with positive messages about the regime. Yet criticism of the party stillbubbles up. Even as the authorities try to tighten controls, netizens devise new ways of airing their views more freely.Zhihu, a question-and-answer site on which people mostly ponder mundane topics such as fitness or films, hasemerged as a surprising springboard for political discussion.Internet users everywhere migrate between social-media platforms as preferences change. But in China a site’spopularity is determined as much by users’ pursuit of freedom as it is by their love of fashion. Weibo, a Twitter-likemicroblogging site, gained a colossal following after it was launched in 2009 (Twitter itself is blocked). Many usersrelished the opportunity to air sensitive views and link up with like-minded people. It has since been eclipsed by therise of WeChat, a messaging app which the authorities find less threatening, and so censor less.Zhihu, meaning “Do you know?” in classical Chinese, started in 2011 as a copycat of Quora, an American site. Itis now China’s most popular question-and-answer portal, with 100m monthly active users (compared with Weibo’s261m and WeChat’s 800m). It has evaded some of the strictures suffered by other forums because it is neither a newssite nor a means of exchanging salacious videos (a new preoccupation for regulators, who recently called for 24-hourmonitoring of live-streaming sites). Zhihu targets young urban professionals, who in China tend to be more willingthan others to comment on sensitive topics. In January Zhihu users expressed doubts about the reliability of a televisedconfession made by a bookseller from Hong Kong, Gui Minhai, who is being detained by Chinese police for sellinggossipy books about the country’s leaders.
【題組】18 According to the passage, who are more willing to comment on sensitive topics in China?
(A) Entrepreneurs.
(B) Party officials.
(C) College students.
(D) Young urban professionals.
參考答案
答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)