Blogging is a pastime for many, even a livelihood for a few. For some, it becomes an obsession (使人痴迷的事物). Such bloggers often【B1

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问题     Blogging is a pastime for many, even a livelihood for a few. For some, it becomes an obsession (使人痴迷的事物). Such bloggers often【B1】______write several times daily and feel 【B2】______if they don’t keep up. As they spend more time leaning over their computers, they【B3】______ family, friends and jobs. They blog at home, at work and on the road. They blog openly or sometimes quietly so as not to call attention to their habit. The number of bloggers has grown quickly, thanks to sites like blogger.com, which makes it easy to set up a blog. Technorati, a blog-tracking service, has counted some 2.5 million blogs. Of course, most of those millions are【B4】______ or, at best, maintained infrequently. For many bloggers, the novelty soon【B5】______ and their persistence fades. Sometimes, too, the realization that no one is reading【B6】______. A few blogs have thousands of readers, but never have so many people written so much to be read by so few. By Jupiter Research’s【B7】______, only 4 percent of online users read blogs. Indeed, if a blog is compared to a conversation between a writer and readers, bloggers are having conversations largely with themselves. Perhaps a 【B8】______ small audience is a blessing. For it seems that the more popular a blog becomes, the more necessary some bloggers feel to post.
    Mr. Pierce is a regular blogger who lives in Hollywood and works in the【B9】______ industry. He said blogging began to feel like an addiction when he noticed that he would rather be with his computer than with his girlfriend "There is this seductive thing that happens, this kind of snowball-rolling-down-a-hill thing, where the sheer【B10】______ of several years’ posting becomes very keenly felt," he said. "And the absence of posting feels like—I don’t know, laziness or something."
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答案wears off

解析 此处and连接了两个并列分句,前一分句的主语是单数名词novelty,结合后一分句的谓语动词fades可知,此空需用动词的第三人称单数形式。wear off指“逐渐减弱,逐渐消失”。
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