Better think twice before choosing a password for email, online bank or shopping. Simple passwords are easy to be stolen.
A password is like a key to your home. If someone steals it, he'll get chances to steal something else. We use passwords everywhere in our life. We are so used to passwords that we don't pay any attention to them until we lose or forget one.
A study of 28，000 passwords recently stolen from a popular website showed that people often do the easy thing. It found that 16% took a first name as a password. Another 14% used the easiest keyboard combinations such as “12345678” or QWERTY. 5% of the stolen passwords were names of television shows or stars popular with young people. 3% of the passwords expressed feelings like “I don't care，” “Whatever，” “I love you，” or their opposite, “I hate you.”
Robert Graham, who did the study, advises people to choose a password that is longer than eight characters with one capital letter and one symbol.
Of course, safe passwords don't mean those hard to remember. Forgetting your password is sometimes a big headache for you. Maybe, the perfect password is easy for you and hard for others.
The underlined word “password” in Paragraph 1 means________．
| A．标志 | B．护照 | C．密码 | D．口诀 |
About 40% passwords are easily stolen because the users are______．
| A．busy | B．lazy | C．stupid | D．careful |
Which of the following passwords is considered the safest?
| A．ZXCVBN. | B．password56. | C．wy64#0Mv. | D．I hate you. |
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Rocket to Space was written by _________.
| A．Diego Ramirez | B．Kitty Wolfe | C．Sam Mcgee | D．We don’t know |
Pet Companies cost _________ before.
| A．$15 | B．$39.95 | C．$12.50 | D．$30 |
The space ship was in space for __________.
| A．two days | B．two months | C．one week | D．two weeks |
Which book can tell you something about the South Pole?
| A．Rocket to Space. | B．Pet Companies. |
| C．Icy Journey. | D．Handiwork Make. |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Handiwork Make can teach you how to do the housework. |
| B．Rocket to Space is about astronauts’ life in space. |
| C．Pet Companies tells the prices of dogs. |
| D．Icy Journey is the cheapest of the four books. |
It was just three degrees above zero. “That’s cold,” thought Jane as she got ready to deliver her morning papers. Jane had 50 customers, and on cold mornings when she couldn’t ride her bicycle, it took her more than an hour to make her rounds.
As she collected her papers and put them into a big canvas bag, Jane regretted that she hadn’t finished her math homework the night before. There was still time. She’d hurry with the papers and finish the math before breakfast.
Less than an hour later, Jane was nearly finished. She had only five customers to go. She could then head for home to complete her math while her room fixed breakfast. As she rounded the corner, she saw a car in the middle of the street. It was Mr. Zimmerman, the elder man, who walked with a walking stick. His car was out of gas.
“I’d like to help Mr. Zimmerman,” thought Jane, “but if I do, I won’t have time to do my homework.” She hated to think what Mr. Roberts would say if she hadn’t completed her papers.
“It’s his own fault for running out of gas,” Jane talked to herself. “The station is only a half mile down the street. Surely Mr. Zimmerman can walk that far, even on a cold morning like this --- can’t he? ” As she walked down the street, Jane wondered what to do.Jane delivers her paper______.
| A．before she goes to school |
| B．on cold morning |
| C．with the help of Mr. Zimmerman’s car |
| D．on the way to school |
Mr. Zimmerman was old and_______.
| A．couldn’t drive well |
| B．would have nobody to help him |
| C．was not rich enough to buy gas |
| D．was not able to walk a long way |
We know from the reading that______.
| A．Jane couldn’t find any time to finish her homework |
| B．it took about an hour for Jane to send the papers |
| C．Jane would have her breakfast in the school |
| D．Jane likes to deliver papers on cold mornings |
The reading doesn’t say but we can infer(推断) that_____.
| A．Jane bought the gas for Mr. Zimmerman |
| B．usually Jane delivers papers by bike |
| C．Mr. Robert doesn’t like Jane at school |
| D．Mr. Zimmerman had to leave the car for Jane |
Open today’s newspaper. What do you see? Ads! Look through a magazine. More Ads! Turn on TV, still more ads! Everywhere you look, someone has something to tell.
Here are some ways ads get us to buy.
Some ads use famous people. Stars are paid to sell a product. Think about it. Do they really know about medicine? Do they know about soft drink? These people may be famous. But they may not know about what they are selling.
Some ads make you think you’re getting the word of an expert. They say, “Doctor said.” A man in a white coat comes on TV. He looks nice. “I use bright and white,” He says. This man looks like a doctor. But he is an actor. He has been paid to sell this product.
Does soap have anything to do with a pretty child? Not much. But ads may show their product with something nice such as the sun, the flowers and so on. Such an ad is about feelings rather than facts.
Ads are full of strong words, and words like “new” and “improved” have power. They can help a produce sell. The soap may be called “Spring Rain”. A car may be called “Tiger”. Strong words work on our feelings.
Some ads make promise. But can they keep them? No.
Some ads use our fear of being too late. “Buy now!” They say, “Selling ends soon.” Check to see if this is true. Don’t hurry. Take time to think.
All ads hope we will buy something, do something, or think in a certain way. Know what ads are doing. Ask questions to yourself. Don’t let their words and pictures fool you.Some stars appear in the ads because_________.
| A．they know every product well |
| B．they are famous |
| C．they are all experts |
| D．they all like white coats |
According to the passage, we know that “Spring Rain” is the name of ______.
| A．a kind of soap | B．a kind of car |
| C．a kind of medicine | D．a kind flower |
The writer thinks the words and the pictures in the ads________.
| A．tell us a story | B．always make us strong |
| C．sometimes fool us | D．keep promises |
Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you will find the whole world smiles to you.
While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?
One day it is fine. Just before you want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the concert that the nature offers you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest.
Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t be avoided. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is what we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.”
Attitude decided everything. With an optimistic(乐观) attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.People sometimes complain_______.
| A．the sky is always dark |
| B．their studies are successful |
| C．they see the world with their heart |
| D．life is tiring |
If there is a timely rain, ______.
| A．you want to go out |
| B．you can listen to the concert |
| C．crops in the fields will grow better |
| D．farmers can’t have a good harvest |
When we face failure, we _________.
| A．must be confident in ourselves |
| B．shouldn’t be afraid of it |
| C．shouldn’t give up hope |
| D．All of the above |
Many believe that life has smiled on Yang Mi: at the age of 4, she got her first TV drama（剧）role; at 16, she became a model for a fashion magazine; at 18, she went to her dream college — Beijing Film Academy (学院).
Last year, the 24-year-old actress played bad girl Luo Qingchuan in the time-traveling TV drama, Palace. The drama became a big success and made Yang very famous. The number of her micro blog followers soared from several thousand to more than 3 million overnight.
Could she be any luckier? Yang doesn’t think luck had anything to do with her success. She paved her way all by herself. “Every chance comes from the efforts I’ve made,” said Yang. People now think she’s very hard-working.
She doesn’t forget the time when people gave her the cold shoulder. Some treated her with little respect. They didn’t want to help her in her time of need. “I have to thank them because they gave me the drive to prove myself,” she said. That’s why she is eager to help others when they are in need.
In May, Yang became the ambassador (大使) for the Climate Group. She calls on people to join the Million-Miracle (百万奇迹) project and plant trees on China’s dry land. Together we’ll fight the bad weather!
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。What happened to Yang Mi when she was sixteen years old?
| A．She got her first drama role. | B．She played a bad girlin Palace. |
| C．She became a fashion model. | D．She went to a film college. |
The underlined word “soared” in Paragraph 2 can be replaced(代替)by ________.
| A．fell | B．increased | C．stayed | D．disappeared |
Why did Yang Mi succeed in life?
| A．Because she caught every chance luckily. |
| B．Because she often helped workers to pave the road. |
| C．Because she put more efforts into her work. |
| D．Because she wrote her micro blog to attract fans. |
If Yang Mi meets an actress in need of help, she will _________.
| A．show her a cold shoulder | B．treat her impolitely |
| C．criticize her seriously | D．give her a hand |
The last paragraph is mainly about_________.
| A．what Yang has done for the Climate Group | B．the Million-Miracle project |
| C．planting trees on China’s dry land | D．Yang’s courage to fight the bad weather |
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