1、 ______ the heart attack, Monica brought her doctor a bunch of flowers to express her thanks.
A.Surviving
B.To survive
C.Survived
D.Having survived
2、Everyone faces challenges in life. It’s a matter of __________ you learn to overcome them and use them to your advantage.
A.that B.what C.which D.how
3、There have been several new events _____ to the program.
A.add B.to add C.adding D.added
4、He is a teacher but his wife is a doctor, ________?
A.isn’t she B.isn’t it
C.aren’t they D.isn’t he
5、The medical staff of Leishenshan hospital in Wuhan at the hospital square on April 4, 2020.
A.majored B.mentioned C.motivated D.mourned
6、Such poets as Shakespeare ______ widely read; however, some _____ difficult to understand.
A. are; are B. is; is C. are; is D. is; are
7、Since living in the country is cheap ________ with that in big cities, my grandpa decided to spend the rest of his life in the country.
A.in combination B.in comparison C.in contact D.in connection
8、No child under 12 is allowed to go to the lake alone; any walk close to the lake ________by a parent.
A.must be accompanied
B.must accompany
C.can be accompanied
D.should accompany
9、I have made no ______ preparations for the coming exams.
A.accurate B.adequate C.urgent D.suitable
10、People ________ interest is exploring the relationship between art and science will enjoy Singapore’s ArtScience Museum.
A.Who
B.which
C.whom
D.whose
11、The boy made the same mistakes , which, of course, made his parents very angry.
A. more or less B. over and over again
C. sooner or later D. here and there
12、She used to be terribly shy,but a year abroad has completely ________ her.
A.transferred
B.transformed
C.conveyed
D.shifted
13、The train for Beijing_________ at seven o’clock in the evening. We still have some time.
A.leaves B.has left C.left D.would leave
14、A true gentleman won’t pretend to have those absurd manners which are necessary ______ we call the upper class.
A. who B. in which
C. in what D. which
15、When I first met her, “I’m Lucy,” she said, _______ her hand.
A.held out B.held back C.holding out D.holding back
16、The fact that she never apologized ____a lot about what kind of person she is.
A.says B.talks C.appears D.declares
17、Reading aloud in the morning is _______ to learning a foreign language.
A.benefit B.used C.beneficial D.habit
18、Neither believe nor reject anything because any other person has rejected or believed it. Which of the following differs from the statement in meaning?
A.Do not accept blindly other people’s likes or dislikes without careful independent thought.
B.One must think for oneself rather than simply seek agreement with others.
C.Don’t express your opinion hastily on anything others have commented on carefully.
D.We shouldn’t be influenced by others’ opinions easily while making our own judgement.
19、There are three girls in the room, ________ is Tom’s sister.
A.the tallest of which B.the tallest of whom
C.tallest of that D.tallest of which
20、Successful people always make _____ preparations for any potential setbacks.
A. final B. urgent
C. abrupt D. adequate
21、The mother saw her baby fall to the ground, ________ brought her heart to her mouth.
A.it B.and that C.and which D.that
22、 I want to tell you is the deep love and respect I have for my parents.
A.That
B.Which
C.Whether
D.What
23、_________ we don’t lose heart, we will find a way out.
A.As much as B.As well as C.So long as D.As far as
24、It took them about one month to________ how to start the equipment.
A. come out B. figure out
C. look out D. take out
25、This is the largest clock in the world, ______ the minute hand is six meters long.
A. of which B. whose C. which D. of that
26、When I was growing up, Oprah was my favorite imaginary auntie. She lived inside the TV and I looked forward to visiting her every day at 4 P.M. For one hour every Monday through Friday, I got to watch a Black woman command the airwaves and have control over the world. As a little black girl in a big White world, that was a powerful thing to witness—especially in a culture where girls like me seldom saw ourselves positively reflected in the media.
The kind of beauty celebrated around us had a way of making little black girls feel as if the bodies we were born into were somehow inferior. Apart from Auntie Oprah, the media’s portrayal of Black women was to a great extent limited in variety. Luckily, I had strong examples of women of color in my real life who watered the seeds that helped me believe I could dream beyond what I saw around me.
Fast-forward to two years ago, when I was appointed by longtime Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour to lead Teen Vogue. I thought I was just a girl getting her dream job. But then the headlines hit. Suddenly, I was a Black woman making history. At 29 I had become only the second Black person and the youngest ever to helm (掌舵) a Condé Nast magazine.
Shonda Rhimes, Hollywood supreme black screenwriter, coined the term “First. Only. Different.” Being an FOD in your filed comes with a responsibility and an opportunity to rewrite the rules, to redefine standards, to represent for your communities. In my new position, I had an opportunity to help ensure that little black girls would never doubt their value. I was able to help undo some of the damaging accounts by changing the pages of the magazine to make them more reflective of my world.
My first book, More Than Enough, is not a career guide, because I believe only you can write your own blueprint for success, but I do share some of the hard-earned lessons that I am still learning to live by. My book is not intended as self-help but a love letter to anyone who has ever felt overlooked, overwhelmed, underestimated and undervalued—and who still chose to overcome.
My story, as it’s played out so far, is for all my fellow people of color out there, standing proudly as First, Only and Different. I am writing with love to all those who know what it is to be the lone Black voice in the room, because my story is your story. Trust that you will find your own rhythm and carve out a space to succeed in your own lane. I am also speaking up for anyone in her dream job, facing the barriers no one talks about. When you exist in spaces that weren’t originally built for you, remember that sometimes, just being you is the revolution. And this is especially for the ones who are Next Up, those of you who are responsible for taking the same systems that my generation is now breaking down and building better ones.
As you continue crafting the life you want, I hope you will always bear in mind that it is the very things you underestimate about yourself that will help you to create your own magic. Find it. Use it. Trust it. We spend too much time telling ourselves that we are not enough. Not smart enough. Not beautiful enough. Not successful enough. Not young enough. Not old enough. I want to be the voice reminding you to say “Enough!” to all that. You are enough. You were born enough.
The world is waiting for you. Let’s go.
【1】The author adored Oprah mainly because of __________.
A.a new culture reflected in the TV
B.her positive image represented in the media
C.her absolute control of the program
D.the resemblance with the author’s favorite auntie
【2】Which of the following can best interpret the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2?
A.Black women tended to have rigid image in the media.
B.Little attention was paid to black women except Oprah.
C.There were too few TV hosts like Oprah to fight for equality.
D.Not enough TV programs were produced to display black women.
【3】The underlined word in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to “__________”.
A.made up
B.brought up
C.turned up
D.polished up
【4】By helming Teen Vogue, what was the author able to do?
A.Re-arrange all the pages she used to hate a lot.
B.Make herself as influential as Vogue editor-in-chief.
C.Totally remove prejudice against the minority groups.
D.Partly change the conventional impression of black girls.
【5】What is the focus of the author’s first book?
A.Carving out a blueprint for her followers.
B.Sharing hard-earned lessons with editors.
C.Salute to those fighting against discrimination.
D.Instructions on how to achieve career success.
【6】Which type of writing does the article belong to?
A.An address in a fierce debate.
B.Acknowledgements of a book.
C.A biography about a black girl.
D.Scripts of a TV programme.
27、 Mathematics is one of the most fearful subjects for many students. 【1】. As a result, they often lack confidence at school. Following are some techniques used by professional tutors to build up their confidence.
【2】
Some students may have a gap in their knowledge, which needs to be properly fulfilled. They often do not understand lessons because of the weak foundation. Professional math tutors begin with simple math concepts, allowing these students to make good progress and creating a positive impact on them.
Taking new approaches
Similar to solving math problems to arrive at the correct answer, some methods work for some but not for others. Therefore, professional math tutors ensure to assess the abilities of the young learners so that they can customize the approaches of learning according to the individuals' capability. 【3】. Moreover, it will help them to believe in their skills.
Giving space and time
Some students cannot rush through topics because they will miss out a lot. They can get stuck into a critical problem, and they might take a bit more time than others to learn a new method or lesson, which is completely fine. 【4】.
Removing math myths
Some students have a misconception that either they are good at math or they are not. Such perspective discourages the children from understanding math. Professional tutors ensure to drive off such myths from children's mind. 【5】, which will make them excellent in anything.
In a way, professional math tutors help the students build math confidence by overcoming math anxiety. In this way, the fear in math among young learners goes way and they are able to learn in an easier way.
A.Bridging the gap
B.Beginning from the basics
C.They help students in believing working hard
D.It will allow the students to learn more quickly and easily
E.They find it difficult to learn different mathematical methods
F.You should think out of the box to make solving difficult math problems
G.Professional tutors encourage such students to be patient and take time in learning
28、 Rules You Must Follow When Travelling with Friends
Traveling with friends can be an amazing experience. Here are some rules you should follow to make sure your next trip with friends goes as smoothly as possible.
Include at least one activity for everyone
Sure, you and your friends probably have some similar interests, but that's not always the case. 【1】. Have each person categorize activities/sights/etc into "must-see", “want to see" and “would go if we have time', and plan accordingly, making sure everyone gets to see at least some of their top attractions.
Be honest about personal requirements and preferences
【2】. Some like getting the bed closest to the bathroom, and others prefer sitting in the airplane's window seat. To deal with this, have a conversation about everything from allergies and hygiene (卫生) to consideration of time and space.
【3】.
When traveling with a group, you may want some alone time. 【4】. Communicating your whereabouts (行踪) saves your travel companions from having to play detective in the event no one can find you.
Swallow your pride
Traveling brings out the good, the bad, and the ugly in all of us, so there are some tense moments every now and then. 【5】. It's better to apologize quickly and most importantly, forgive and forget.
A.Don't disappear
B.Don't play detective when traveling
C.Everyone has personal preferences when traveling
D.Everyone should be able to have a particular time
E.That's fine, but make sure your friends know where you are
F.To keep everyone happy, go over travel plans ahead of time
G.When this happens, we've just got to learn to bite our tongue
29、President Bush got a firsthand look at the heavily damaged Pentagon complex (五角大楼), where a hijacked (被劫持的) American Airlines Flight 77 crashed and exploded on Tuesday morning. First lady Laura Bush, visited doctors, nurses and victims of the attack at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
“It makes me sad on the one hand,” the president told rescue workers. “It also makes me angry. Our country will, however, not be cowed by terrorists.”
Before the president's tour, firefighters had finally put out the fires and put a huge American flag near the broken wing of the building to welcome him. Rescue workers searching the remains of the damaged wing all but lost hope of finding any survivors. Officials now estimate the number of dead or missing in the Pentagon at 200.
“The deadly attacks, which were carried out yesterday against our country, were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war,” Bush said. “This will require our country to unite in determination and resolve (决心).”
【1】When did Bush pay his visit to Pentagon after the September 11 attacks?
A.On Monday.
B.On Tuesday.
C.On Wednesday.
D.On Thursday.
【2】What does the underlined word “cowed” in the second paragraph mean?
A.Frightened.
B.Attacked.
C.Worried.
D.Puzzled.
【3】This passage is ________.
A.an interview of president Bush on the spot
B.a review of Tuesday morning’s attack towards USA
C.a report on the president’s tour to Pentagon
D.an editorial (社论) of the terrorist attack
30、 I went to India for a 2-week vacation to visit my relatives. We stopped on a red light, and as always, there were a lot of activities outside the cars near the _______ . People walked in between the cars_________ newspaper, water and a number of kids looked for a bit of charity from the car owners. It' s a familiar ___________in most poor developing countries.
While we were_______for the red light to turn green, I noticed a man outside a couple of ___________ in front of ours trying to sell bottles of water. It's _________ unusual at first. He was a man in his 40s with relatively ___________clothes. But he walked around in a strange way. He kind of _________ his way around the spaces. He was blind.
Carrying a couple of water bottles on one hand, he _________ got to the outside of our car. Out of____________, my mum decided to buy one water bottle. As she gave the man the money, the light turned green. The cars behind sounded loudly and ____________ , trying to get ahead of traffic. Seeing this, my mum kindly told the man to ____________the change. However, with his superior sense of touch, he quickly ______________ his shirt pocket and threw the money at my mum's__________________ . It was the exact change. The cars behind us were really getting out of control ____________we decided to go on our way.
I____________and even cried when I got home. Here's a blind man, born in____________trying to sell water bottles on the streets to make ends meet. He ____________ our sympathy. Life hasn't been ______________ to him, yet he's giving it his best shot. I think that is what ______________ is all about, facing life bravely.
【1】A.signs B.crossroads C.stations D.theatrer
【2】A.giving B.buying C.selling D.throwing
【3】A.scene B.play C.position D.street
【4】A.watching B.asking C.waiting D.changing
【5】A.blocks B.crossings C.turns D.cars
【6】A.everything B.something C.anything D.nothing
【7】A.expensive B.fashionable C.ragged D.splendid
【8】A.pushed B.drove C.cleared D.felt
【9】A.eventually B.quickly C.frequently D.happily
【10】A.curiosity B.sympathy C.thirst D.politeness
【11】A.impatiently B.casually C.naturally D.carefully
【12】A.keep B.return C.borrow D.count
【13】A.searched for B.went through C.turned over D.looked for
【14】A.hand B.arm C.face D.lap
【15】A.still B.yet C.so D.but
【16】A.gave up B.set off C.held on D.broke down
【17】A.pain B.poverty C.sadness D.loneliness
【18】A.refused B.enjoyed C.doubted D.cheated
【19】A.rich B.unfair C.kind D.bad
【20】A.kindness B.courage C.experience D.challenge
31、 The spot of a red balloon in a tree was what first caught Randy Heiss’s _____on December 16,2018.He then walked toward it and found the balloon attached to a piece of_____.“Dayami,”it read on one side, in a child’s_______.Heiss flipped the paper over. It was a numbered list in Spanish. His Spanish isn’t very good, but he could__________it was a Christmas list.
He was charmed and wondered whether he could_____the child. About 20 miles to the southwest, just across the border, was the city of Nogales,Mexico.____the prevailing wind(常刮的风),he was pretty sure that’s where it came from.
Back home, Heiss’s wife who is fluent in Spanish_____the list. Heiss listened carefully: Dayami, ____a girl, had asked for a doll, a dollhouse, clothes and art supplies. Heiss then posted about his quest on Facebook,____photos, hoping someone might know the girl’s family.
A few days passed with no leads; Heiss worried that time was running out_____Christmas. On December 19,he decided to send a private Facebook message to Radio XENY in Nogales. The next morning, when he was still in bed, Heiss_____a message: The staff had_____Dayami, who indeed lived in Nogales and would be willing to arrange a get-together at the radio station.
Heiss and his wife rushed to_____everything on Dayami’s list. Then they drove for 45 minutes,____the border into Nogales. They finally met the very_____girl.“ Her eyes were wide open with wonder. Like,‘ Oh my gosh,this really did work!’ It was a beautiful experience,”Heiss said. “Quite healing for us.”
Heiss,61 , has lived in Bisbee, Arizona for more than three decades. Ten years ago, he and his wife_____their only child in an accident. They have even no grandchildren. Now they split their time between Nogales and Bisbee.
“Being around children at Christmastime has been_____in our lives,”Heiss said. “It’s been kind of a gaping hole in our Christmas experience. ”He has since reflected on what a miracle it was that he occasionally_____the balloon, let alone that he was able to meet Dayami and her family.
【1】A.hands B.breath C.attention D.imagination
【2】A.paper B.glass C.wood D.cloth
【3】A.steps B.voice C.eyes D.writing
【4】A.remember B.see C.hope D.promise
【5】A.find B.adopt C.teach D.challenge
【6】A.Amazed at B.Sponsored by C.Accustomed to D.Based on
【7】A.drafted B.polished C.translated D.finished
【8】A.eventually B.probably C.ever D.even
【9】A.downloading B.taking C.attaching D.analyzing
【10】A.before B.at C.after D.until
【11】A.searched for B.decided on C.subscribed to D.awoke to
【12】A.saved B.comforted C.located D.appointed
【13】A.consume B.buy C.produce D.exchange
【14】A.examining B.closing C.defending D.crossing
【15】A.frightened B.excited C.determined D.embarrassed
【16】A.left B.stopped C.lost D.disabled
【17】A.abused B.abnormal C.abstract D.absent
【18】A.blew B.released C.spotted D.decorated
32、 In our backyard there is a big pond with lots of trees and bushes. Both my grandparents were fond of our so-called garden.
One morning our new neighbor, an aggressively ambitious businessman, saw my grandfather _______two rare deodar tree saplings on both sides of our gate._______he said he had planted the same tree saplings in his garden. My grandfather gave his plants _______ adequate amount of water and didn't give them full _______, while our neighbor interested in better _______looked after them too well. His plants were much_______and greener.
Normally in summer, we have fierce thunderstorms. _______ the extreme damage, these storms also bring a welcome sudden_______ from the terribly hot climate. After a thunderstorm, we came out to _______ the damage to our garden and saw the neighbor in his garden, too, but looked__________as his plants had been uprooted. Ours were standing__________ on the ground. Surprised to see this, he came up to us and said with embarrassment," My trees __________ from the roots while yours didn't. Why?”
My grandfather said, "You gave your plants more attention, water and manure(肥料),__________ they didn't need to work for anything. I gave mine just an adequate amount, letting their roots do the__________; thus their roots went deeper and became stronger. "Our neighbor nodded in__________ Hearing the words, I realized that anything easily given can be taken away much more easily and we will not understand the hard work it takes to earn those things.
【1】A.moving B.purchasing C.delivering D.planting
【2】A.By the way B.By coincidence C.On the contrary D.In contrast
【3】A.extremely B.instantly C.barely D.negatively
【4】A.force B.amount C.review D.attention
【5】A.requirements B.returns C.education D.access
【6】A.drier B.rarer C.fuller D.wilder
【7】A.Instead of B.Regardless of C.But for D.Apart from
【8】A.addition B.relief C.protection D.awareness
【9】A.infer B.control C.prevent D.inspect
【10】A.tired B.upset C.bored D.ashamed
【11】A.firmly B.widely C.fairly D.flexibly
【12】A.came off B.put off C.took off D.showed off
【13】A.So B.if C.though D.unless
【14】A.majority B.opposite C.sort D.rest
【15】A.total B.detail C.approval D.turn
33、It was my first year of work as a doctor. That time was filled with frightening, uncomfortable _______ but the present one was the _______.
A woman in her early twenties had been _______ to theatre (手术室) after a traffic accident. She had suffered _______ injuries and the surgeons had been unable to save her life. After the consultant told her parents the news, I _______ them for some time as they were _______ quietly.
When I came out of the room, the consultant was standing outside. “I think it would be nice if it came from you,” he said. “What?” I asked.
“About organ donation,” he replied. I _______ hard. Surely, it felt extremely awkward and _______ to have this conversation while they were in deep sorrow. But the problem with organ donation is that every minute _______.
I opened the door and sat opposite them, ________ that I was only going to make things worse for them.
“It’s what she’d have wanted,” the mother said before I had even finished. The father ________. Although I had imagined they might ________ for me bringing up such a sensitive ________ in their moment of sadness, in fact they seemed pleased.
“She was always so ________,” her father added.
As the consultant and I left them, it ________ me that I’d been wrong in ________ it would be an awkward conversation. Nothing could take away the ________ of having lost their daughter. Yet this last, final act had ________ them and helped them feel that the ________ of their daughter lived on in this act of generosity.
________, it was one of the most heart-warming conversations I have ever had.
【1】
A.adventures
B.arrangements
C.possibilities
D.experiences
【2】
A.best
B.latest
C.worst
D.saddest
【3】
A.introduced
B.removed
C.rushed
D.forced
【4】
A.slight
B.severe
C.curable
D.common
【5】
A.accompanied
B.watched
C.promised
D.approached
【6】
A.praying
B.whispering
C.sighing
D.sobbing
【7】
A.listened
B.objected
C.ignored
D.swallowed
【8】
A.ill-timed
B.absent-minded
C.black-hearted
D.old-fashioned
【9】
A.connects
B.counts
C.passes
D.struggles
【10】
A.surprised
B.convinced
C.excited
D.confused
【11】
A.recalled
B.nodded
C.denied
D.continued
【12】
A.bite their tongue
B.make the ends meet
C.hit the ceiling
D.rock the boat
【13】
A.subject
B.trade
C.accident
D.trouble
【14】
A.generous
B.pleased
C.optimistic
D.special
【15】
A.went against
B.relied on
C.occurred to
D.responded to
【16】
A.complaining
B.thinking
C.explaining
D.pretending
【17】
A.regret
B.mistake
C.pain
D.concern
【18】
A.failed
B.freed
C.rescued
D.comforted
【19】
A.spirit
B.image
C.smile
D.decision
【20】
A.Finally
B.Importantly
C.Occasionally
D.Unexpectedly
34、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
On a broiling afternoon when the men were away at work and all the women napped, I moved through majestic depths of silences, silences so immense I could hear the corn 【1】. Under these silences there was a / an orchestra of natural music playing notes no city child would ever hear. A certain cackle from the henhouse meant we had gained an egg. The creak of a porch swing told of a momentary breeze blowing across my grandmother’s yard. As I 【2】 along a mossy bank to surprise a frog, a 【3】splash told me the quarry had spotted me and slipped into the stream. Wandering among the sleeping houses, I learned that tin roofs crackle under the power of the sun, and when I tired and came back to my grandmother’s house, I padded into her dark cool living room, lay 【4】 on the floor, and listened to the hypnotic beat of her pendulum clock on the wall ticking the meaningless hours away.
I was enjoying the luxuries of a rustic nineteenth-century boyhood, but for the women Morrisonville life had few 【5】. Their lives were hard, endless, dirty labor.
For baths, laundry, and dishwashing, they hauled buckets of water from a spring at the foot of a hill. To heat it, they chopped kindling to fire their wood stoves. They boiled laundry in tubs, scrubbed it on washboards until knuckles were 【6】, and wrung it out by hand. Ironing was a business of lifting heavy metal weights heated on the stove top.
They scrubbed floors on hands and knees, thrashed rugs with carpet beaters, killed and plucked their own chickens, baked bread and parties, grew and conned their won vegetables, patched the family’s clothing on treadle-operated sewing machines, 【7】before the men to start the stove for breakfast and pack lunch pails, polished the chimneys of kerosene lamps, and even found time to tend the flowers that grew around every house. By the end of a summer day a Morrisonville woman had toiled like a serf.
At sundown the men drifted back from the fields exhausted and 【8】. They scrubbed themselves in enamel basins and, when supper was eaten, climbed up onto the porch to watch the night arrive. Presently the women 【9】 them, and the twilight music of Morrisonville began.
The swing creaking , rocking chairs 【10】 on the porch planks, voices murmuring approval of the sagacity of Uncle Irvey as he quietly observed for probably the ten-thousandth time in his life, “A man works from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done.”
35、Directions: Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Tablets are really useful devices, but their big screens always make them a burden to carry around without a bag. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a phone with the powers of a tablet that could be folded up and fit 【1】 into the hand?
Now something like a tablet-shaped but fold-able phone is about to become 【2】. In February, South Korean electronics company Samsung and China’s Huawei both unveiled fold-able phones Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X 【3】. Mobile phone use has entered the “fold-able future”, The Verge noted.
The technology could change our lives in significant ways. These devices, due to their 【4】 screens, give us the larger screens we want. Meanwhile, they still fit easily into the pocket. As USA Today noted, they’re “the 【5】 of a small tablets and smart-phone, all in a single device”.
The technology could 【6】 other devices too. For example, we could make TVs that stick to walls like posters, or fold up easily to hide away in drawers. In crowded modem cities, they will help us to 【7】 available space.
In a keynote address, Samsung’s senior vice president of mobile product marketing, Justin Denison, called the fold-able screen “the 【8】 for the smart-phone of tomorrow.” “It’s a balank canvas for us to do something beautiful together,” he said.
So is there nothing to stand in the way of the fold-able future?
According to tech news website Android authority, the necessary displays were difficult to produce. In 2012, nine out of every to OLED screens produced were 【9】. Today, that 10 percent rate has been improved to between 50 and 90 percent. However, at present these fold-able devices are expensive. For example, the price of Huawei Mate X is 17,500 RMB. That’s a price that may 【10】 the majority of people.
But if the fold-able device isn’t going to change the world overnight, there is no doubt that it is coming.
Patrick Moor-head, an industry analyst told The Verge, “Few are debating if fold-able or roll-able mobile displays are the future of smart-phones; the only question is when and by whom.”
36、Directions: Complete the following sentences by using the proper form of the words or expressions given in the frame. Each one can only be used once.
Why your Password May Not Be As Safe As It Seems? Does “qaz2ws” strike you as a nice safe password? What about “adgjmptw”? An analysis has found them to be among the passwords that are most 【1】 used, which of course means they are not secure at all.
When ten million passwords were leaked on to the internet,they appeared to 【2】that attempts by internet security experts to make us improve our password strength had been successful, even if, in the specific case of the leaked passwords, they are also completely pointless.
While many of the passwords were still single words, such as “password”,there was also a clear attempt by many to make them harder to【3】. The problem was that people seemed to do so in the same way.
“Users are becoming slightly more 【4】what makes a password strong,” explained WP Engine, an internet company that performed the analysis. “For instance, adding a number or two at the end of a text phrase. That makes it better, right?”
But 【5】no. They found that almost half a million passwords did this and in 20 percent of those all people did was put the number “1” at the end.
Perhaps this is why some companies are now trying to move gradually beyond passwords. Yahoo! is giving users the option to 【6】 their mobile phone with an account, having a single use passwords texted to it each time they want to log on.
Although the serviced is voluntary, Dylan Casey an executive at Yahoo!,said that it was “the first step to【7】passwords”. He said it was a(n)【8】that it was increasingly hard for people to remember all the passwords they had. “I don’t think we, as an industry, have done a good enough job of putting ourselves in the shoes of the people using our products,” he said.
It would certainly be a more sensible strategy than same people’s improving upon “password” by using “password” or,“tran5p053d numb3r5 f0r 133tr3r5”.
“We are, for the most part,predictably【9】when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups” said WP Engine. “We love taking a(n) 【10】, and so do password crackers.
37、阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Smell the flowers before you go to sleep and you may just end up with rosy dreams. Have a whiff of rotten(腐烂的)eggs during the night and your dreams may be【1】(pleasant). So says researcher Dr. Boris Stuck, 【2】invited sleeping volunteers to a rose vs. rotten egg test in the University Hospital Mannheim in Germany. The subjects didn’t dream about roses【3】eggs, but rather he found that what they smelt affected the emotions of【4】(they) dreams.
And if you think【5】(smell) have a say in dreams, wait for what TV tells us. A UK study reveals that people exposed【6】black-and-white film and TV in their youth are to have monochromic(单色的)dreams throughout their life more【7】(probable). Eva Murzyn from the University of Dundee tested two age groups— one half 【8】(age) over 55 and【9】other half under 25.
The result? Under 5% of the dreams of the under-25s were in black and white. 【10】(watch)color TV in childhood seems to be the reason why.
38、假定你是李华,你的英国笔友Eric希望参加你校组织的古筝兴趣班。请根据以下要点,用英语给他回一封电子邮件。
1. 古筝兴趣班成立的宗旨;
2. 古筝兴趣班的每周活动安排;
3. 愿意提供帮助。
注意: 1、词数100左右;
2、可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3、开头语已为你写好,不计入总词数。 参考词汇:兴趣班 Interest Class
Dear Eric,
How’s everything going?
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Yours,
Li Hua
39、假定你是学生会主席李华,你校近期将举办一场关于抗疫英雄事迹的讲座。请你以学生会的名义用英语写一则100词左右的书面通知。内容要求如下:
1. 时间及地点 2.活动内容 3.注意事项
提示词:COVID-19 新冠病毒
此外,可适当增加细节。
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40、假定你是李华,本周末你市体育馆内将举行一场中国国际太极表演赛。你校国际交换生Jack对中国武术很感兴趣,你特发邮件向他介绍相关信息,内容包括:
1.表演的时间和地点;2.表演的内容;3.表达希望。
注意:1.词数80左右:2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
参考词汇:功夫Kung Fu;太极Tai Chi
41、假定你是李华,你校英文周刊本周讨论的话题是“高中生在学校该不该用智能手机”。请你写篇短文,说明你的观点。请从以下两个观点中选择一个:
1. 高中生应该在学校使用智能手机;
2. 高中生不应该在学校使用智能手机。
注意:1. 词数80左右
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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