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Downloading music over the Internet is pretty common among high school and college students. However, when students download and share copyrighted music without permission, they are against the law.

A survey of young people’s music ownership has found that teenagers and college students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players. Half of those surveyed share all the music on their hard drive, enabling others to copy hundreds of songs at any one time. Some students were found to have randomly linked their personal blogs to music sites, so as to allow free trial listening of copyrighted songs for blog visitors, or adopted some of the songs as the background music for their blogs. Such practices may be easy and free, but there are consequences.

Sandra Dowd, a student of Central Michigan University, was fined US$7,500 for downloading 501 files from LimeWire, a peer-to-peer file sharing program. Sandra claimed that she was unaware that her downloads were illegal until she was contacted by authorities. Similarly, Mike Lewinski paid US$4,000 to settle a lawsuit（起诉）against him for copyright violation（违反）. Mike expressed shock and couldn’t believe that this was happening to him. “I just wanted to save some money and I always thought the threat was just a scare tactic（战术）.” “You know, everyone does it,” added Mike.

The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), the organization that files lawsuits against illegal downloaders, states that suing （控告）students was by no means their first choice. Unfortunately, without the threat of consequences, students are just not changing their behavior. Education alone is not enough to stop the extraordinary growth of the illegal downloading practice.

64.   Why is it common for students to download copyrighted music?

A. They don’t think that they will be caught.

B. They want their friends to know that they are smart.

C. They think it is a good way to make some extra money.

D. They are against copyright protection over Internet music.

65.   What does Mike mean by saying that “the threat was just a scare tactic”?

A. One should not be afraid of threats.

B. A lawsuit will result from the threat.

C. It is unfair to scare people with a threat.

D. No serious consequence will follow the threat.

66.   What is RIAA’s attitude towards students’ illegal downloading behaviour?

A. They believe that education will help greatly in protecting copyrights.

B. They profit from the fines illegal downloaders pay for copyright violations.

C. They like to sue students for downloading music illegally from the Internet.

D. They think that illegal downloading behavior needs tough measures to correct.

67.   What’s the best title for this passage?

A. Copyright Violators, Beware!     

B. How to Get Free Music Online!

C. A Survey of Students’ Downloading Habits

D. get rid of Illegal Music Download? Impossible!

【小题1】A

【小题2】D

【小题3】D

【小题4】A

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I’m a senior high school student, named Li Hua. Now many students
have iPods and think it’s a fashion to use it. Using an iPod , we can listen
to music, downloading a lot of learning materials and read them on the
screen. Apparently, it is helpful to our study, specially to our English listening.
Some students, however, take their iPods to the classroom and listen to
music with earphones, which make the teacher and other students greatly
annoyed. What’s worse, some of them even waste the precious time in class
playing video games.
In my opinion, as students, we shall make good use of iPod to
help achieve academic successes. Classroom is a place for students to
study, and therefore concentration awfully needed for us to learn  
our lessons. Furthermore, the school should make a rule to guide the
students to use iPods in a proper way.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua

The Internet is not perfect. There are many problems with it. The Internet is not organized. There is no one in charge of the Internet. It is sometimes difficult to find what you are looking for. It is also easy to get the wrong information on the “Net”. Some businessmen cheat people on the Internet. Internet thieves can steal credit card numbers. Some advertisers send spam to e-mail boxes. E-mail boxes are often filled with these unwanted advertisements. Illegal(不合法的) businesses can operate on the Internet. These businesses sell X-rated materials, cigarettes and alcohol to teenagers.

The Internet has websites with information about making bombs, breaking the law and terrorism. Criminals（罪犯） can fool people, especially children, in chat rooms. They can spread poisonous（有毒的） information and attack new members.

The Internet is the greatest advance in communication since human appeared. But it can also be like a dark road in a dangerous part of town. Parents need to set parental controls on their children when they use the Internet. This will keep some of the bad material away from their children. The Internet can be dangerous to computers, too. Some people who have bad intentions enjoy causing problems for other people they don’t even know. They create computer viruses（病毒）. A computer can get virus by downloading a program that has a virus in it. Some virus come by e-mail.

A virus can destroy the data a person has saved in computer files. A virus can cause a computer to crash（崩溃）. A virus can also reproduce（复制） itself! It can send copies of itself to everyone on a person’s e-mail address list. Then these people’s will have the same problems and can’t work normally!

1.The underlined word “spam” in the third paragraph means ___________

A．letters                                B．products

C．useless information                      D．poisonous information

2.Why can illegal businesses operate on the Internet?

A．Because there is no one in charge of the Internet.

B．Because some people like to buy banned products on the Internet.

C．Because X-rated materials, cigarettes, alcohol and so on can be sold well on the Internet.

D．Because people who operate businesses on the Internet are criminals.

3.Parental controls are needed when children use the Internet because________

A．children can’t use the computers well

B．children may damage the computers

C．the Internet is always unsafe for the children

D．poisonous information may have a bad effect on children

4.The harm of a computer virus is that___________

A．it can change the saved data in computer

B．it can reproduce the computer

C．it can make the computer operate ill

D．it can destroy the saved files and the computer itself

5.We can infer from the passage that the key to solving the problems with the Internet is____________

A．to improve the computers                B．to improve people’s moral （道德）level

C．to order people not to use the Internet       D．to find a medicine to kill computer viruses

 

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Yes you can earn money online without any investment or without anytime limit. I have many useful easy methods for earning easy money while we all spend our useful time on the Internet by surfing, chatting, downloading and other work. There is no need to stop any other work. We can earn with or without our daily routine. Here I tell you the complete method for online earning.

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Earn money with “Bux. to”. You can earn money through “Bux.to” by clicking on ads on “Bux. to” site. First you need to open an account at “Bux. to”.

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How you make money

You view websites in 30 seconds through the “Surf Ads” page. Once the 30 seconds is up, you’ll either get a green tick(对号) sign or a red “x”. The green tick sign means you’ve earned $0.01and the “x” means you have not earned money for the visit. You’ll get red x’s when you have more than one websites from the “Surf Ads” page open. When this happens, you get no credit.

Earnings example

You click 10 ads per day =$0.10

20 referrals(转送) click 10 ads per day =$2.00

Your daily earnings =$2.10

Your weekly earnings =$14.70

Your monthly earnings =$63.00

How to get paid

If you have at least $10.00 accumulated, you can click on your account balance within your states area and it will meet your request. At present, it only makes payments through “AlertPay”. It will soon be using other methods of payment.

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1.What is the author’s purpose of writing this passage?

A．To tell an interesting story.

B．To introduce a surprising way to earn money.

C．To solve a puzzling problem.

D．To present an exciting research.

2.You can earn money by ________.

A．chatting online                         B．advertising some products

C．clicking on advertisement                 D．choosing green ticks or x’s

3.The underlined word “accumulated” can be replaced by “_________”.

A．wasted           B．spent             C．lost              D．gathered

4.What can we know from the passage?

A．You’ll earn $0.10 if you click 1 ad.

B．You’ll get many green ticks if you have many websites open.

C．You can get your payments through AlertPay.

D．Your AlertPay account is not for free.

 

In the early 1990s,the word” Internet” was strange to most people. But today, Internet has become a useful tool for people all over the world. Maybe Internet has been the greatest invention in the field of communication in the history of mankind（人类）.

Communicating with others on the Internet is much faster. We can chat with a person who is sitting in the other part of the world. We can e-mail our friends and they can read the e-mails within a minute. Giving all kinds of information is probably the biggest advantage of the Internet. We can use search engines to find the information we need. Just type in a keyword or keywords and the search engine will give us a list of suitable websites to look at.

We can enjoy a lot on the Internet by downloading games, visiting chat rooms or surfing （浏览）websites. There are some games for free. We can meet new and interesting people in the chat now. We can also listen to music and see films.

Now ,there is a lot of service on the Internet such as online banking ,job finding and ticket buying. We can also do shopping and find nearly all kinds of goods. Sometimes we can find something that is quite good but very cheap.

1.How many main advantages of the Internet are talked about in the        passage?

A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Five.

D．Six.

2.What fact doesn’t the passage provide?

A．We can find almost anything we want to know on the Internet.

B．Some games on the Internet are free.

C．We can buy most things we need on the Internet.

D．Goods on the Internet are more expensive than those in real shops.

3.Which title best gives the main idea of the passage?

A．Online Shopping

B．Exchanging Information on the Internet

C．The Advantages of the Internet

D．Surfing the Websites on the Internet

 

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