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 Keeping healthy, with easy access to affordable medical care, is still a dream for many people,     with medicine price rising ________.

A. firmly                 B. narrowly           C. sharply            D. neatly

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It was the perfect weather for leaf watching, and my housemate Julie and I meant to spend the weekend with our friends in the North Georgia Mountains.

“Don’t you want to come along?” Julie asked her 15-year-old son, Mark. “Enjoy the leaves by yourselves,” he told her. “I’ll be fine staying home by myself.”

Julie and I drove there in my car after work on Friday. On Saturday morning we hiked along the mountainside and enjoyed the beautiful colors. All of a sudden, I had terrible feeling. “Go home,” a voice seemed to urge me. I couldn’t explain it, but I didn’t want to be there anymore. I just wanted to go home. “Carol, calm down. You’re being silly,” Julie said. But the urge just got stronger.

“I’ve got to leave,” I said. “If you want to stay, you can get a ride back with anyone else tomorrow.”

Julie stood up. “No, I’ll go with you,” she said. We almost didn’t talk during the two-hour trip back. I felt very guilty.

Finally, we reached home. The lights were on in the house, but something was strange. The windows seemed to be fogged up. Julie opened the door and smoke poured out. “Mark!” she shouted. “Mark!” We rushed inside and found him asleep on the sofa. Shaking him awake, Julie grabbed him. I grabbed the source of the smoke—a pillow too close to the fireplace. I then took it outside and threw water on it. Mark had built a fire to keep warm, and some ember(灰烬) had flown out. The whole house could have gone up if we hadn’t gotten there just then!

Title

The Sixth Sense

Theme

The sixth sense helped to (76)_______a big fire

Planning to watch leaves

Once the writer and her housemate Julie planned to (77)_______ leaves at weekend with their friends in the North Georgia Mountains.

Julie asked her son Mark, 15, to go (78)______ but he refused and wanted to stay at home.

Watching the (79)______

The (80)______ drove her car there after work on Friday with Julie in it.

On the morning of Saturday, they enjoyed the beautiful colors of the leaves along the mountainside.

(81)______ the sixth sense

●  (82)______, a terrible feeling urged the writer to go home.

●  Julie asked the writer to calm down but she just wanted to go home.

●  Then, they went home together, keeping (83)______.

Preventing a fire

When they got home, they found smoke in their house.

They opened the door and smoke immediately poured out.

They rushed in and found Mark sleeping on the sofa.

They learned Mark had lit a fire to keep warm and some ashes flew out.

Without their timely (84)______, the house would have been (85)______ down.

 

Lawmakers in the United States have expanded an investigation into the use of location-tracking systems on mobile devices. The action follows recent reports about the storing of information on the Apple iPhone. Some people consider location tracking to be a threat to personal privacy and security.

    Allan Friedman, the research director, says, “All wireless companies do some location tracking as part of their networks. This information is usually stored by the companies, not the devices, and there are laws to protect it. Law enforcement(执法) agencies, for example, have to have a fairly high standard before it can access that data. And the phone company is also prohibited from selling that information.

    Now, two researchers report that location tracking information is being stored directly on Apple devices. They said Apple’s newest operating systems gather global positioning system and timestamp information. The information is stored on the device in a file that is also uploaded (上传) to any computer that the device is connected to. The researchers say the information is available to anyone who has access to the device or computer.

Allan Friedman says, “This raises additional concerns. There’s the idea that because it’s on my phone and on my computer, rogue applications(恶意程序) that I pay for or that I’m tricked into downloading may be able to access this data and somehow misuse it.”

Apple says it is “not tracking the location of your iPhone”. It is simply keeping a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cellphone towers near the user’s location. This information is meant to help the iPhone quickly find its location when needed.

Letters have been sent to some of the leading mobile device developers, including Apple and Google. The letters asked for more information about their location tracking systems. Allan Friedman calls this an important start to strengthening privacy laws. He says, “There aren’t strong controls over things like location information, what they are doing with it, how long they are keeping it. And perhaps the most important question is, is my location data with other facts about me?”

1.Why did American lawmakers investigate the use of location-tracking systems on cell-phones?

A.Because the systems can store users’ information

B.Because many users have suffered loss after using them.

C.Because it is thought to threaten users’ privacy.

D.Because many reporters have shown the problem of the systems.

2. Allan Friedman believes that ________.

A.wireless companies focus on personal privacy.

B.people are forbidden to get access to private data at will

C.phone companies may sell private information secretly

D.customers may ask wireless companies to locate their tracking

3. What do we know from Paragraph 3?

    A.  Location tracking information is stored online.

B.Apple’s newest operating systems collect all kinds of information.

C.Location tracking information may be uploaded to any iPhone.

D.Apple’s newest operating systems may reveal the private information of users.

4.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A.Apple denies that it tracks the location of users.

B.The researchers may misunderstand the Apple’s systems.[来源:Z,xx,k.Com]

C.The global positioning system is to blame for rogue applications.

D.The iPhone can quickly find its location by using its user’s information.

 

I began working in journalism(新闻工作)when I was eight. It was my mother’s idea. She wanted me to “make something” of myself, and decided I had better start young if I was to have any chance of keeping up with the competition.

With my load of magazines I headed toward Belleville Avenue. The crowds were there. There were two gas stations on the corner of Belleville and Union. For several hours I made myself highly visible, making sure everyone could see me and the heavy black letters on the bag that said THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. When it was suppertime, I walked back home.

“ How many did you sell, my boy?” my mother asked.

“ None.”

“ Where did you go?”

“ The corner of Belleville and Union Avenues.”

“ What did you do?”

“ Stood on the corner waiting for somebody to buy a Saturday Evening Post.”

“ You just stood there?”

“ Didn’t sell a single one.”

“ My God, Russell!”

Uncle Allen put in, “ Well, I’ve decided to take the Post.” I handed him a copy and he paid me a nickle(五分镍币). It was the first nickle I earned.

Afterwards my mother taught me how to be a salesman. I would have to ring doorbells, address adults with self-confidence(自信), and persuade them by saying that no one, no matter how poor, could afford to be without the Saturday Evening Post in the home.

One day, I told my mother I’d changed my mind. I didn’t want to make a success in the magazine business.

“ If you think you can change your mind like this,” she replied, “ you’ll become a good-for-nothing.” She insisted that, as soon as school was over, I should start ringing doorbells, selling magazines. Whenever I said no, she would scold me.

My mother and I had fought this battle almost as long as I could remember. My mother, dissatisfied with my father’s plain workman’s life, determined that I would not grow up like him and his people. But never did she expect that, forty years later, such a successful journalist as me would go back to her husband’s people for true life and love.

1.Why did the boy start his job young?

  A. He wanted to be famous in the future.

  B. The job was quite easy for him.

  C. His mother had high hopes for him.

  D. The competiton for the job was fierce.

2.From the dialogue between the boy and his mother, we learn that the mother was _______.

  A. excited B. interested     C. ashamed    D. disappointed

3.What did the mother do when the boy wanted to give up?

  A. She forced him to continue.       B. She punished him.

  C. She gave him some money.       D. She changed her plan.

4. What does the underlined phrase “this battle”(last paragraph) refer to?

  A. The war between the boy’s parents.

  B. The arguing between the boy and his mother.

  C. The quarrel between the boy and his customers.

  D. The fight between the boy and his father.

5. What is the text mainly about?

  A. The early life of a journalist.

  B. The early success of a journalist.

  C. The happy childhood of the writer.

  D. The important role of the writer in his family.

 

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