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1、考研英语（二）分类模拟题12Reading ComprehensionIn the villages of the English countryside there are still people who remember the good old days when no one bothered to lock their doors. There simply wasnt any crime to worry about.Amazingly, these happy times appear still to be with us in the worlds biggest comm
2、unity. A new study by Dan Farmer, a gifted programmer, using an automated investigative program of his own called SATAN, shows that the owners of well over half of all World Wide Web sites have set up home without fitting locks to their doors.SATAN can try out a variety of well-known hacking tricks
3、on an Internet site without actually breaking in. Farmer has made the program publicly available, amid much criticism. A person with evil intent could use it to hunt down sites that are easy to burgle.But Farmer is very concerned about the need to alert the public to poor security and, so far, event
4、s have proved him right. SATAN has done more to alert people to the risks than cause new disorder.So is the Net becoming more secure? Far from it. In the early days, when you visited a Web site your browser simply looked at the content. Now the Web is full of tiny programs that automatically downloa
5、d when you look at a Web page, and run on your own machine. These programs could, if their authors wished, do all kinds of nasty things to your computer.At the same time, the Net is increasingly populated with spiders, worms, agents and other types of automated beasts designed to penetrate the sites
6、 and seek out and classify information. All these make wonderful tools for antisocial people who want to invade weak sites and cause damage.But lets look on the bright side. Given the lack of locks, the Internet is surely the worlds biggest (almost) crime-free society. Maybe that is because hackers
7、are fundamentally honest. Or that there currently isnt much to steal. Or because vandalism isnt much fun unless you have a peculiar dislike for someone.Whatever the reason, lets enjoy it while we can. But expect it all to change, and security to become the number one issue, when the most influential
8、 inhabitants of the Net are selling services they want to be paid for.1. By saying .owners of well over half of all World Wide Web sites have set up home without fitting locks to their doors (Lines 3-4, Para.2), the author means thatA. those happy times appear still to be with usB. there simply wasn
9、t any crime to worry aboutC. many sites are not well-protectedD. hackers try out tricks on an Internet site without actually breaking in答案-c口 木-2. SATAN, a program designed by Dan Fanner can be used.A. to investigate the security of Internet sitesB. to improve the security of the Internet systemC. t
10、o prevent hackers from breaking into websitesD. to download useful programs and information答案-A口木-H3. Fanners program has been criticized by the public because.A. it causes damage to Net browsersB. it can break into Internet sitesC. it can be used to cause disorder on all sitesD. it can be used by p
11、eople with evil intent答案：D4. The authors attitude toward SATAN is.A. enthusiasticC.positiveB. critical.indifferent答案-c口 木-解答作者态度题。根据题干信号词“authors attitude towards SATAN回文定位时需要在第二至第四段中寻找表示主 观态度的表达：形容词、情态动词、主观感受词等。5. The author suggests in the last paragraph that.A. we should make full use of the Inte
12、rnet before security measures are strengthenedB. we should alert the most influential businessmen to the importance of securityC. influential businessmen should give priority to the improvement of Net securityD. net inhabitants should not let security measures affect their joy of surfing the Interne
13、t 答案-c口 木-解答作者态度题。根据题干信号词“last paragraph可回文定位到尾段。但是缺乏有价值的信号词,故需要将各选项逐 一回文定位,进行判断。I came away from my years of teaching on the college and university level with a conviction that enactment, performance, dramatization are the most successful forms of teaching. Students must be incorporated, made, so f
14、ar as possible, an integral part of the learning process. The notion that learning should have in it an element of inspired play would seem to the greater part of the academic establishment merely silly, but that is nonetheless the case. Of Ezekiel Cheever, the most famous schoolmaster of the Massac
15、husetts Bay Colony, his onetime student Cotton Mather wrote that he so planned his lessons that his pupils came to work as though they came to play, and Alfred North Whitehead, almost three hundred years later, noted that a teacher should make his/her students glad they were there.Since, we are told
16、, 80 to 90 percent of all instruction in the typical university is by the lecture method, we should give close attention to this form of education. There is, I think, much truth in Patricia Nelson Limericks observation that lecturing is an unnatural act, an act for which God did not design humans. It is perfectly all right, now and then, for a human to be possessed by t
