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[单项选择]Plato asked "What is man" and St Augustine asked "Who am I" A new breed of criminals has a novel answer: "I am you!" Although impostors have existed for ages, the growing frequency and cost of identity theft is worrisome. Around 10m Americans are victims annually, and it is the leading consumer-fraud complaint over the past five years. The cost to businesses was almost ＄ 50 billion, and to consumers ＄ 5 billion, in 2002, the most recent year that America’s Federal Trade Commission collected figures.
After two recent, big privacy disasters, people and politicians are calling for action. In February, ChoicePoint, a large data-collection agency, began sending out letters warning 145,000 Americans that it had wrongly provided fraudsters with their personal details, including Social Security numbers. Around 750 people have already spotted fraudulent activity. And on February 25th, Bank of America revealed that it lost data tapes that contain personal information on over 1m government
A. ChoicePoint is an agency that is responsible for the information leakage.
B. ChoicePoint is an agency where Social Security numbers are kept.
C. Personal information is most unsafe with Bank of America.
D. The loss of data tapes in Bank of America is a case of identity theft.
[单项选择]Passage 2
If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago, we should probably have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and had written in it an account of what we did each day, we should be able to give an answer to the question.
It is the same on history. Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them. Sometimes men did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country, but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war. Sometimes there was never any written record at all because people of that time and place did not know how to write. For example, we know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4,000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them. But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write.
Sometimes, of course, even if the people cannot writ
A. "Remembered history", compared with written history, is less reliable.
B. Written records of the past plays an important role in learning human history.
C. A written account of our daily activities helps us to answer some questions.
D. Where there are no written records, there is no history.
[单项选择]Passage 2
If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago, we should probably have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and had written in it an account of what we did each day, we should be able to give an answer to the question.
It is the same in history. Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them. Sometimes men did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country, but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war. Sometimes there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write. For example, we know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4,000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them. But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write.
Sometimes, of course, even if the people cannot write, they
A. “Remembered history”, compared with written history, is less reliable.
B. Written records of the past plays a most important role in our learning of the human history.
C. A written account of our daily activities helps us to be able to answer any questions.
D. Where there are no written records, there is no history.
[单项选择]My mother asked me what ______ for my birthday.
A. do I want
B. I wanted
C. I want
[单项选择]Asked what job they would take if they could have any, people unleash their imaginations and dream of exotic places, powerful positions or work that involves alcohol and a paycheck at the same time. Or so you’d think.
None of those appeals to Lori Miller who, as a lead word processor, has to do things that don’t seem so dreamy, which include proofreading, spell checking and formatting. But she loves it. "I like and respect nearly all my co-workers, and most of them feel the same way about me," she says. "Just a few things would make it a little better," she says, including a shorter commute and the return of some great people who used to work there. And one more thing: She’d appreciate if everyone would put their dishes in the dishwasher.
It’s not a lot to ask for and, it turns out, a surprising number of people dreaming up their dream job don’t ask for much. One could attribute it to lack of imagination, setting the bar low or "anchoring," the term referring to the place peo
A. many people don’t ask for much about their dream job.
B. most Americans are not satisfied with their jobs.
C. Lori Miller is totally satisfied with her current job.
D. Lori Miller is not satisfied with her current job at all.
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"Can I see my baby" asked the happy new mother. When the baby was in her arms, she couldn’t believe her eyes. The baby was born without ears.
Time proved that the baby’s hearing was perfect though he had no ears. He got on well with his classmates. But one day, he said to his mother, tears in his eyes, "A big boy called me a freak."
The boy’s father asked the family doctor, "Could nothing be done"
"I believe I could graft on a pair of outer ears if they could be gotten," the doctor said. They tried to find a person who would be helpful for the young man.
One day, his father said to the son, "You’re going to the hospital, son. Mother and I have found someone who will donate the ears you need. But we must keep it a secret who the person is."
The operation was a great success, and a new person appeared. His cleverness and hard work made him a very successful perso
A. Because she liked her thick, brown hair.
B. Because her work didn’t allow her to do that.
C. Because the hair was good for her health.
D. Because she wanted to keep the fact a secret.
[单项选择]When asked to explain what has happened, John was totally at a loss for words.
A. 要求约翰对发生过的事情进行解释时，他讲的话让人完全摸不着头脑。
B. 让约翰解释发生过的事情时，约翰完全不知道说什么好。
C. 由于约翰完全不知道发生过什么事，所以他就让别人解释给他听。
D. 约翰自己要求要解释发生过的事情，到头来却又一句话也不肯说。
[单项选择]The chemistry teacher asked the pupils what water was ______ of.
A. consisted
B. compounded
C. composed
D. conceived
