Wikipedia：TheOnlineKnow-It-All

Ifyouwanttofindoutapieceofinformationaboutanything，thebestplacetosearchforitisWikipedia．Thename"Wikipedia"isfromtheHawaiianwordwiki，meaning"quick"．Thisonlineencyclopedia（百科全书）iswrittenbythousandsofpeoplearoundtheworld．AnyonewithInternetaccesscanwrite，addormakechangestoWikipediaarticlesifheorshefindsitincorrectornotwellwritten．Inthisway，peoplewhoknowalotaboutacertainsubjectcanwriteaboutiteveniftheyarenotuniversityprofessors．ButcontributionscannotdamageWikipediabecausemanyexperiencededitorsarewatchingpagesandtechies（技术专家）canwriteeditingprogramstokeeptrackoforcorrectbadedits．Wheretherearedisagreementsonhowtopresentfacts，editorsworktogethertoarriveatanarticlethatfairlyrepresentscurrentexpertopiniononthesubject．

Wikipediaisquitedifferentfrompaper-basedreferencesourcesinimportantways．Unlikeprintedencyclopedias，itiscontinuallycreatedandupdated，witharticlesonhistoriceventsappearingwithinminutes，ratherthanmonthsoryears．

What'smore，Wikipediaincludesarticleswritteninabout285languages．ThisfactmakesitoneofthefewwebsitesontheInternetthataretrulyinternational．Itwasstartedin2001byLarrySangerandJimmyWales，asafreeonlineEnglish-languageencyclopediaproject．Sinceitscreation，ithasgrownrapidlyintooneofthelargestreferencewebsites，attractingnearly500 millionuniquevisitorsmonthly．Therearemorethan77，000 activecontributorsworkingonmorethan22，000，000 articlesindifferent languages．Asoftoday，thereare4，396，866 articlesinEnglish．

So，ifyouarelookingforsomeinformation，whynottryWikipedia？It'sfree，multilingual，andinformative．

13．Accordingtothepassage，whatisWikipedia？___

A．Afreewebsiteencyclopedia．

B．Acomputergame．

C．Afreeencyclopediainbookform．

D．Anonlineuniversity．

14．Fromthepassageweknowthat___

A．Wikipediaonlychargesusersasmallfee

B．Wikipediacatchesawideaudience

C．incorrecteditionsmightdogreatharmtoWikipedia

D．itwilltakel