第二节 :完形填空(共20小题,每小题1.5分,满分30分)

       For much of our life, my mother and I hated each other.I spent most of my childhood   36   with her – or trying to avoid her, as well as her bitterness, unhappiness and endless smoking.I learned how to defend myself with   37  designed to hurt her.In turn, she vowed (发誓) I would have a    38   who would feel the way about me that I felt about her.

       Many years later when my husband and I decided to have a child, I was   39   to have a girl.I couldn’t   40   the thought of a daughter who might not love me – or who would want to   41   from me.As soon as I became pregnant, I was convinced I was having a boy.In the delivery room, on my doctor putting my baby into my arms, I couldn’t wait to tell my mother I had a   42  , while “he” was a girl.At that moment, I couldn’t imagine wanting anyone but her.

       43  I couldn’t forget my mother’s teasing(耻笑的) vow, even after she died and I saw her in a more   44   light.As my daughter got older, whenever we argued, I worried we were   45   the same awful path that my mother and I had gone down.

       Last summer, my daughter   46   18, the same age when my mother threw me out of her apartment permanently. However, I was with her,   47   for her first year at college.When my husband and I dropped her off at her school in New York, I finally   48   to her my biggest fear that we would end up like me and my mother.“That will never happen.” she   49  me, kissing me goodbye.Six weeks later, my husband and I returned to the campus.I   50   myself arguing with my daughter about her dirty room, not using the library and her mistake of choosing the room near the bathroom.I couldn’t stop myself.And then   51   came: “You’re just like your mother,” my daughter screamed.“I hate you.” And then she   52_  away.

       I finally heard the words I had always dreaded.But maybe that was because I   53   them.I had always worried the bond I shared with my daughter would   54  .later that evening, we picked my daughter up to a restaurant.We ate in  55  .But when we separated, I hugged her.The next morning, she called telling she loved me.There wasn’t anything to be afraid of anymore.There was just a relationship we should work on with each other.

36.A.sharing     B.playing     C.communicating D.fighting

37.A.actions     B.activities   C.words       D.weapons

38.A.husband    B.friend       C.child     D.daughter

39.A.afraid       B.unlucky    C.uncertain  D.willing

40.A.have      B.bear      C.hold      D.afford

41.A.love      B.escape      C.hate       D.keep

42.A.daughter   B.son        C.baby      D.life

43.A.Furthermore    B.But   C.And      D.Or

44.A.bright       B.annoying  C.understanding   D.unfriendly

45.A.on         B.in          C.at          D.along

46.A.changed    B.seemed     C.went      D.turned

47.A.planning   B.aiming      C.working    D.accompanying

48.A.presented  B.told       C.admitted   D.informed

49.A.promised  B.pardoned  C.referred    D.reflected

50.A.wanted     B.asked     C.forced      D.found

51.A.it          B.she        C.they      D.that

52.A.walked    B.looked     C.gave        D.stormed

53.A.deserved   B.demanded C.equaled     D.appreciated

54.A.tear       B.break     C.crash     D.last

55.A.vain      B.general     C.silence      D.brief

People tend to think of computers as isolated machines, working away all by themselves. Some personal computers do without an outside link, like someone's secret cabin in the woods. But just as most of homes are tied to a community by streets, bus routes and electric lines, computers that exchange intelligence are part of a community local, national and even global network joined by telephone connections.

The computer network is a creation of the electric age, but it is based on old-fashioned trust. It cannot work without trust. A rogue (流氓) loose in a computer system called hacker is worse than a thief entering your house. He could go through anyone's electronic mail or add to, change or get rid of anything in the information stored in the computer's memory. He could even take control of the entire system by inserting his own instructions in the software that runs it. He could shut the computer down whenever he wished, and no one could stop him. Then he could program the computer to erase any sign of his ever having been there.

Hacking, our electronic-age term for computer break-in is more and more in the news, intelligent kids vandalizing(破坏)university records, even pranking (恶作剧) about in supposedly safeguarded systems. To those who understand how computer networks are increasingly regulating life in the late 20th century, these are not laughing matters. A potential for disaster is building: A dissatisfied former insurance-company employee wipes out information from some files; A student sends out a "virus", a secret and destructive command, over a national network. The virus copies itself at lightning speed, jamming the entire network thousands of academic, commercial and government computer systems. Such disastrous cases have already occurred. Now exists the possibility of terrorism by computer. Destroying a system responsible for air-traffic control at a busy airport, or knocking out the telephones of a major city, is a relatively easy way to spread panic. Yet neither business nor government has done enough to strengthen its defenses against attack. For one thing, such defenses are expensive; for another, they may interrupt communication, the main reason for using computers in the first place.

1. People usually regard computers as      __________.

A. part of a network            B. means of exchanging intelligence

C. personal machines disconnected from outside

D. a small cabin at the end of a street .

2. The writer mentions “ a thief ”in the second paragraph most probably to      .

A. show that a hacker is more dangerous than a thief

B. tell people that thieves like to steal computers nowadays

C. demand that a computer network should be set up against thieves

D. look into the case where hackers and thieves are the same people

3. According to the passage , a hacker may do all the damages below EXCEPT     .

A. attacking people’s e-mails .      B. destroying computer systems .

C. creating many electronic-age terms .      

D. entering into computer systems without being discovered

4. By saying “ Now exists the possibility of terrorism by computer ”(the underlined ) the writer means that      _______.

A. some employees may erase information from some files

B. students who send out a “ virus ”may do disastrous damages to thousands of computers

C. some people may spread fear in public by destroying computer systems

D. some terrorists are trying to contact each other using electronic mails

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