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It was two years ago today that the hunting ban came into force, supposedly ending centuries of tradition. However, the law has been an unmitigated failure—not that either side is shouting about it.
It was a nightmare vision that struck fear and loathing into the hearts of millions. When the hunting ban became law, it was said, 16,000 people would lose their jobs, thousands of hounds would be put down, rotting carcasses would litter the country side, hedgerows would disappear, riders would face on-the-spot fines, law-abiding people from doctors to barristers would be dragged from their horses and carted off to prison, while dog owners would be prosecuted if their mutt caught a rabbit.
These were just some of the claims as desperate countryside campaigners battled to save their sport in the lead-up to the hunting ban, which Labour rammed into law using the Parliament Act on November 18, 2004.
For many, the fears were real. O
A. the hunting has never been stopped but has instead flourished
B. the government has been short of hands to enforce the law
C. the law makers failed to see hunting as a long-time tradition
D. the ban aimed to protect the interests of the upper-class only
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It was two years ago today that the hunting ban came into force, supposedly ending centuries of tradition. However, the law has been an unmitigated failure—not that either side is shouting about it.
It was a nightmare vision that struck fear and loathing into the hearts of millions. When the hunting ban became law, it was said, 16,000 people would lose their jobs, thousands of hounds would be put down, rotting carcasses would litter the country side, hedgerows would disappear, riders would face on-the-spot fines, law-abiding people from doctors to barristers would be dragged from their horses and carted off to prison, while dog owners would be prosecuted if their mutt caught a rabbit.
These were just some of the claims as desperate countryside campaigners battled to save their sport in the lead-up to the hunting ban, which Labour rammed into law using the Parliament Act on November 18, 2004.
For many, the fears were real. O
A. lose their jobs
B. bring shame to their fellow people
C. have to kill their horses and dogs
D. face either fines or imprisonment
W: It was exactly two years ago today that we moved to this town. You started working on your degree, and I started working down at the lab.
M: It seems like only yesterday. I suppose that I’m so busy that I don’t even know how the time passes.
W: I’d expect the opposite. I mean the way you’ve been studying, working on experiments, and writing quotations. It might seem more like four years than two.
M: Haven’t you ever noticed how time seems to crawl when you have nothing to do But how time flies when you are busy with what you really like to do
W: That’s true. Those days when there’s not much to do at the lab don’t ever seem to end.
M: Just wait a little longer. As soon as I finish my degree we’ll open our own laboratory, Morrison and Morrison Biochemical Analysis.
Two decades ago only spies and systems administrators had to worry about passwords. But today you have to enter one even to do humdrum things like turning on your computer, downloading an album or buying a book online. No wonder many people use a single, simple password for everything.
Analysis of password databases, often stolen from websites, shows that the most common choices include "password", "123456" and "abc123". But using these, or any word that appears in a dictionary, is insecure. Even changing some letters to numbers ("e" to "3", "i" to "1" and so forth) does little to reduce the vulnerability of such passwords to an automated "dictionary attack", because these substitutions are so common. The fundamental problem is that secure passwords tend to be hard to remember, and memorable passwords tend to be insecure.
Weak passwords open the door to fraud, identity theft and breach
A. tremendous
B. little
C. common
D. obvious
| “Two centuries ago, Meriwether Lewis
and William Clark left St. Lois to explore the new lands acquired in the
Louisiana Purchase,” George W. Bush said, announcing his desire for a program to
send men and women to Mars. “They made that journey in the spirit of
discovery... America has ventured forth into space for the same
reasons.” Yet there are vital differences between Lewis and Clark’s expedition and a Mars mission. First, Lewis and Clark were headed to a place amenable to life; hundreds of thousands of people were already living there. Second, Lewis and Clark were certain to discover places and things of immediate value to the new nation. Third, the Lewis and Clark venture cost next to nothing by today’s standards. In 1989 NASA estimated that a people-to-Mars program would cost $ 400 billion, which inflates to $ 600 billion today A. Mars will not he disturbed until the technology is available. B. technological barriers for humans to go to Mars will be insurmountable. C. the expenditures to go to Mars will be too enormous. D. dreams are only dreams which can never be turned into reality. 我来回答: 提交
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