Millions of people are now using what are called“peer-to-peer”networks. Basically, you link your computer to other computers all across the country, mostly so you can give something in exchange for music for free.“But here's the problem,”“Early Show”Consumer Correspondent Susan Koeppen says as part of the broadcast's series, “Somebody's Watching You”: thieves are using the same networks, and they're not interested in music-they're seeking access to your financial information.

  Beth Pope learned the hard way. When she put peer-to-peer software on her computer, she had one goal in mind: increasing her music library.“I thought I could get access to other people's music folders and they could have access to my music folders,”she says,“and that was about it. I didn't think it went any further than that.”

   Are Your Medical Records Watched? That is, until she was contacted by the Secret Service-with shocking news-someone had stolen personal information from her computer-using the very software she used to trade music. With the help of David Dunn, a member of the Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force, Koeppen decided to see what personal information she could find using a peer-to-peer network.

  Thieves typically seek documents such as credit reports, tax returns, or the federal financial student aid application, Dunn says.“Obviously,”says Dunn,“we aren't going to download it, because it's someone's personal information. I'm sure that, whoever (this file sharer) is didn't want her (student aid application) confirmation number available online for somebody to download.”Pope says she's done using peer-to-peer.“I've gotten all of that off my computer, ”she says.“I pay for music now. It's the best way to do it. There's no way that I would ever do that again.”

   The trade group for file sharing software companies says they are working on better systems to prevent the misuse of the peer-to-peer networks. Still, Koeppen urges that people, for instance, delete Lime Wire from their computers, or make sure they have the latest version, which should have updated security features.

Thieves are trying to get access to your computer in order to      .

  A. find your personal information

  B. see how your computer is working

  C. talk with you

  D. help you with your system

Why did Beth Pope use peer-to-peer software?

  A. Because she wanted others to use her information.

  B. Because she wanted to try it.

  C. Because she wanted to increase her music library.

  D. Because she wanted to get others' financial information.

Susan Koeppen tried to       .

  A. warn the readers of dangers of sharing music files with others.

  B. warn the readers not to share music files with others.

  C. tell us a true and funny story

  D. advertise the peer-to-peer networks.

From the passage we get to know       .

  A. we shouldn't believe others.

  B. computers make our life easy and comfortable.

  C. softwares help us to share music with others

  D. everything has two sides, the good side and the bad one

Every afternoon hundreds of thousands of youth fill Internet cafes, switch on a game console (游戏机), or otherwise sit down to enter fantasy worlds. I’m talking about video games. These games can be fun and exciting, but we need to look out when this pastime becomes an addiction.

Games are often quite exciting and dramatic, but they generally aren’t very intellectual. We don’t learn as much from them as we would only reading a book. Spending too much time playing them can take away our study time. We need to remember that we are students first. Nothing should ever get in the way of proper studying.

Video games can also be a bad effect on younger children who may be watching. Many video games are violent and the object in most of them is to kill the other player(s). This does not send the right message to the children who need to be told that violence is not acceptable and need to be taught how to deal with situations maturely. Even if we do need to sit down and play a violent video game, we need to make sure that it is not affect the younger people around us.

Playing a computer game in our spare time is not a bad thing. Games can be a great way to relax after studying, to connect to our friends, or just to help our creativity. However, games should not become the focus of our life. We need to make sure that laying games never interferes with our studies and that we aren’t thinking about them all day. If we ever find ourselves playing them too much, we need to break the addiction. If that happens, we need to step away from the computer or television screen and learn to spend our time more productively.  

The writer mainly tells the readers __________.

to play computer games every afternoon

not to play computer games too much

not to affect other people while playing games

to spend more time studying

The writer thinks about computer games all of the following except _________.

A. exciting           B. dramatic           C. intellectual          D. violent

Computer games may have bad effect on younger children because __________.

these children often stay in Internet cafes all day long

children often forget to do their lessons

computer games are often violent

children don’t have enough money to play computer games

The writer advises computer game players ________.

not to affect younger people around

not to play violent games

never to enter Internet cafes

to teach younger children how to play computer games

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
As sixth graders, kids were separating into groups, but I wasn’t sure where I belonged.
Our teacher gave us a task called "secret friends" for the coming week.We were supposed to do nice things   1  our friends without letting them know who was doing it.We could leave   2  notes or cards either on their desks or in their backpacks.Before doing the task, with our eyes closed, from a basket, we   3  a name of a classmate who we were to secretly befriend over the next five days.
Soon, the task was turned into a competition of giving    4  instead of notes.Everyone was getting cool presents except me.My friend    5   what the teacher had told us without a fault.I received nothing but hand-made cards with nice words about me.
On the last morning, I finally got a package.When I   6  it, the girls around all   7 .It was perfumed powder, an "old lady" gift.My face went red.
I tried to forget about the   8  gift, but when the same girls   9  it again during the break in the bathroom, I joined in, "How stupid! My grandmother wouldn’t  10  want it." The girls laughed at my   11  and filed (排着队走)out of the bathroom.Washing my hands, I let the water run through my fingers _12_  I thought about my words.It wasn’t   13  like me to say things like that.
"I’m your secret friend." It was Rochelle." I’ m sorry about the gift," she __1to me, tears streaming down her face.
From a poor family, she was a   15  at school for those with rich parents.Yet she just took all the16  and the horrible treatment silently.
I was sick to my stomach as my   17  words ran through my mind.She had heard everything.How could I have been so cruel?
Later I learned she had felt bad all week about not being able to leave me any cool present and her mum had given up her only luxury(奢侈品).
And I had   18 everything for her.
I told her that I had only said those things to try to   19  .
"We aren’t that different from each other, are we?" She smiled   20 .Her simple words, spoken from her heart, found their way straight into mine.

【小题1】
A.forB.behindC.throughD.like
【小题2】
A.convincingB.remindingC.rewardingD.encouraging
【小题3】
A.drewB.draggedC.foundD.picked
【小题4】
A.chancesB.helpC.hopeD.gifts
【小题5】
A.learned B.copiedC.followedD.discovered
【小题6】
A.discoveredB.openedC. graspedD.held
【小题7】
A.blamedB.shoutedC.laughedD.commented
【小题8】
A.specialB.valuableC.worryingD.embarrassing
【小题9】
A.mentionedB.sawC.showedD.suggested
【小题10】
A.justB.everC.evenD.only
【小题11】
A.remarksB.feelingC.sufferingD.expression
【小题12】
A.ifB.asC.sinceD.because
【小题13】
A.exactly B.perfectlyC.normallyD.necessarily
【小题14】
A.wavedB.cameC.pointedD.whispered
【小题15】
A.goalB.targetC.centreD.wonder
【小题16】
A.challengeB.puzzleC.teasingD.ignoring
【小题17】
A.powerfulB.hurtfulC.tenseD.scary
【小题18】
A.ruinedB.stolenC.changedD.disturbed
【小题19】
A.turn offB.show offC.get inD.fit in
【小题20】
A.optimisticallyB.understandingly C.persuasively D.honestly

Standing in the driveway, I watched my grown children drive off into the distance. I looked down the road until I could no longer see their 36 _____ .

“They live too far away from me,” I said to myself. “When did they 37 _____ and become parents of small children? 38 _____ that be me?”

I slipped back inside the house and just walked through the rooms for no reason 39  _____.1 was just missing them already and looking for 40 _____ of their having been here. There were pillows on the floor and a few stuffed (填充)animals 41 _____ around where the children had been playing.

I walked into the 42 _____ and there on the back of the sink was a bottle brush that had been left behind. “Ah,even Tessa left something behind,” I 43  _____ Well, I suppose she had help 44 _____ she was just four months old.

As I walked around the house, I picked up a few more 45 _____ on the floor — Tegan’S tooth, a pie pan, and the inside of a turkey fryer.

ttHmmm, things left behind ...’’I thought to myself. It seems there is one thing left behind on every 46 _____ . Memories are always left behind, I reasoned, and what a(n) 47 _____ thing good memories are to us. I thought how each item left behind 48 _____ me of the person it belonged to and the story 49 _____ it.

Memories happen even if we aren’t 50 _____ of it. The stressful and difficult moments often become memories that we 51 _____ later with laughter and joy. The memories of past hurts, bitterness, and anger, 52 . should be left behind 53  _____These are the things that we should never 54 _____ until the next time they come, mail back, or bring with us to 55_____next visit.

As Elizabeth Stone said, “To have a child is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

1.A. smiles         B. vehicles         C. pains     D. bicycles

2.A. drop out    B. break away   C. set off   D. grow up

3.A. Wouldn’t    B. Shouldn’t       C. Can’t     D. Needn’t

4.A. in particular        B. with anger     C. with joy          D. in return

5.A. signals        B. atmosphere  C. signs      D. information

6.A. lying  B. jumping         C. moving D. looking

7.A. house         B. distance         C. kitchen D. driveway

8.A. announced         B. explained      C. complained   D. replied

9.A. when B. unless   C. until      D. since

10.A. toys B. items     C. memories      D. treasures

11.A. table         B. course  C. occasion        D. comer

12.A. funny       B. private  C. ordinary        D. precious

13.A. reminded         B. informed       C. warned D. convinced

14.A. promoting        B. surrounding  C. acknowledging      D. exposing

15.A. proud       B.ashamed         C. aware   D. afraid

16.A. attach importance to        B. throw doubt on     C. look forward to     D. look back upon

17.A. besides    B.therefore       C. otherwise      D. though

18.A. partly       B. sometimes    C. forever D. unwillingly

19.A. present    B. keep     C. overlook        D. experience

20.A. our  B. their      C. its D. your

 

When you are little, it’s not hard to believe you can change the world. I remember my enthusiasm when, at the age of 12, I addressed(向……演讲) the people at the Rio Earth Summit. “ I am only a child,” I told them.” Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this world would be. At school you teach us not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not to be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do. You grown-ups say you love us, but I challenge you, please, to make your actions reflect your words.”

I spoke for six minutes and received a standing ovation. Some of the people even cried. I thought that maybe I had reached some of them, that my speech might actually spur(刺激)action. Now, ten years from Rio, after I’ve sat through many more conferences, I’m not sure what has been achieved. My confidence in the people in power and in the power of an individual’s voice to reach them has been deeply shaken.

When I was little, the world was simple. But as a young adult, I’m learning that as we have to make choices—educa-tion, career, lifestyle—life gets more and more complicated. We are beginning to feel pressure to produce and be successful. We are taught that economic growth is progress, but we aren’t taught how to seek a happy, healthy way of living. And we are learning that what we wanted for the future when we were 12 was idealistic and naive(天真的).

Today I’m no longer a child, but I’m worried about what kind of environment my children will grow up in. I know change is possible, because I am changing, still figuring out what I think. I am still deciding how to live my life. The challenges are great, but if we accept individual responsibility and make choices, we will rise to the challenges, and we will become part of the positive tide of the change. I hope this goal will be met through our common efforts. Thank you all.

1.The purpose of what the speaker said at the age of 12 was to      .

A.end poverty and make schools beautiful

B.find environmental answers and show off

    C.focus people’s attention on some social problems

D.find a wonderful place and clean it up

2.What does the underlined word “ovation”in the second paragraph refer to?

A.A long period of laughing.            B.A cold and unfriendly welcome.

C.An expression used for greeting.

D.Great applause or cheering.

3.The information in the text is presented mainly through       .

A.question and answer     B.a personal lecture

C.cause and effect         D.listing steps in a process

4.Which of the following best describes the speaker?

A.He is an experienced educator.

B.He is an impolite man.

    C.He is a man of great worries.

D.He is a man of social responsibility.

 

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