Someday a stranger will read your e-mail without your permission or scan the websites you’ve visited. Or perhaps someone will casually glance through your credit card purchases or cell phone bills to find out your shopping preferences or calling habits.

In fact, it’s likely some of these things have already happened to you. Who would watch you without your permission? It might be a spouse, a girlfriend（配偶）, a marketing company, a boss, a cop or a criminal, Whoever it is, they will see you in a way you never intended to be seen -- the 21st century equivalent of being caught naked.

Psychologists tell us boundaries are healthy, that it’s important to reveal yourself to friends, family and lovers in stages, at appropriate times. But few boundaries remain. The digital bread crumbs （面包屑）you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to reconstruct who you are, where you are and what you like. In some cases, a simple Google search can reveal（泄露）what you think. Like it or not, increasingly we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret.

The key question is: Does that matter?

For many Americans, the answer apparently is "no."

When opinion polls ask Americans about privacy, most say they are concerned about losing it A survey found an overwhelming pessimism（悲觀）about privacy, with 60 percent of respondents saying they feel their privacy is "slipping away, and that bothers me."

But people say one thing and do another. Only a tiny fraction of Americans change any behaviors in an effort to preserve their privacy. Few people turn down a discount at tollbooths （收費處）to avoid using the EZ-Pass system that can track automobile movements. And few turn down supermarket loyalty cards. Privacy economist Alessandro Acquisti has run a series of tests that reveal people will surrender personal information like Social Security numbers just to get their hands on a pitiful 50-cents-off coupon (優(yōu)惠券).

But privacy does matter -- at least sometimes. It’s like health: When you have it, you don’t notice it. Only when it’s gone do you wish you’d done more to protect it.

What would psychologists advise on the relationships between friends?

A．Friends should open their hearts to each other.

    B．There should be a distance even between friends

   C．Friends should always be faithful to each other.

   D．There should be fewer disputes between friends.

Why does the author say "we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret" ?

   A．Modern society has finally evolved into an open society.

   B．People leave traces around when using modern technology.

   C．There are always people who are curious about others’ affairs.

   D．Many search engines profit by revealing people’s identities.

What do most Americans do with regard to privacy protections?

    A．They change behaviors that might disclose their identity.

   B．They use various loyalty cards for business transactions.

   C．They rely more and more on electronic devices.

   D．They talk a lot but hardly do anything about it.

According to the passage, privacy is like health in that ______.

   A．people will make every effort to keep it

   B．its importance is rarely understood

   C．it is something that can easily be lost

   D．people don’t cherish it until they lose it

Would you please keep silent? The weather report         and I want to listen.

    A．is broadcast     B．is being broadcast  

    C．has been broadcast   D．had been broadcast

After a second thought, Jean       a better method to deal with the problem.

A．put up with        B．came up with   C．a(chǎn)dded up to     D．made up for

At a meeting, a well-known speaker lifted up a bill of 20 dollars before starting his speech.

Facing 200 people, he asked, “Who wants this 20-dollar bill?” A great many hands were put up. Then he continued to say, “I intended to give it to any one of you, but allow me to do a thing before giving it to you.” Suddenly he crumpled （揉）it into a round mass. Then he asked, “Who wants it? ” Still some hands were lifted up.

He asked again, “Well, how could it be if I do it like this?” he threw the bill onto the ground, stepped on it and twisted it. As he picked it up, the bill had become not only dirty but wrinkled.

“Who still wants it?” Still a few people put up their hands.

“My dear friends, you have had a meaningful class. No matter how I treated this bill, you still want it, because it is worth 20 dollars. On your life road, you may be knocked down（擊垮） or even broken into pieces by your determination or unfavorable situations. We may feel ourselves worth nothing, but, my darling, remember that whatever happens in the future, you should never lose your value（價值） in the God’s heart. You’re particular ---- never forget it.”

How many times did the speaker ask the people whether they wanted the bill?

A. Once             B. Twice             C. Three times         D. Four times

The underlined word “wrinkled” in the third paragraph probably means ________.

A. broken     B. having small lines or folds in it       C. flat      D. having holes on it

The speaker did this test in order to _____________.

A. tell the audience that one should never lose one’s own value

B. tell the audience that God values money most

C. test if some of the audience were extremely interested in money

D. play a trick on the audience

What would the speaker probably talk about next?

A. How money can make people crazy.   B. How to avoid being knocked down in one’s life.

C. How to keep one’s value of life.       D. How to give a meaningful class

Green-space facilities are contributing to an important extent to the quality of the urban environment. Fortunately it is no longer necessary that every lecture or every book about this subject has to start with the proof of this idea. At present it is generally accepted, although more as a self-evident statement than on the base of a closely-reasoned scientific proof. The recognition of the importance of green-spaces in the urban environment is a first step on the right way; this does not mean, however, that enough details are known about the functions of greenspaces in towns and about the way in which the inhabitants (居民) are using these spaces.

The theoretical separation of living, working, traffic and recreation which for many years has been used in town-and-country planning, has in my opinion resulted in disproportionate (不成比例的) attention for forms of recreation far from home, whereas (但是）there was relatively little attention for improvement of recreative possibilities in the direct neighborhood of the home. We have come to the conclusion that this is not right, because an important part of the time which we do not pass in sleeping or working, is used for activities at and around home. So it is obivous that recreation in the open air has to begin at the street door of the house. The urban environment has to offer as many recreation activities as possible, and the design of these has to be such that more obligatory (強制性的) activities can also have a recreative aspect.

The very best standard of living is nothing if it is not possible to take a pleasant walk in the district, if the children cannot be allowed to play in the streets, because the risks of traffic are too great, if during shopping you can nowhere find a spot of enjoying for a moment the nice weather, in short, if you only feel yourself at home after the street door of your house is closed after you.

According to the author, the importance of greenspaces in the urban environment _______.

A. is still unknown                     B. is being closely studied

C. is usually neglected                 D. has been fully recognized

The theoretical separation of living, working, traffic and recreation has led to _______.

A. the disproportion of recreation facilities in the neighborhood

B. all of the recreation facilities far from home

C. relatively little attention for recreative possibilities

D. the improvement of recreative possibilities in the neighborhood

The author suggests that the recreative possibilities of greenspaces should be provided _______.

A. in special areas                     B. in the suburbs

C. in the neighbourhood of the house        D. in gardens and parks

The author says “more obligatory activities can also have a recreative aspect” to _______.

A. suggest that obligatory activities don’t need to serious

B. show that recreation activities are very important

C. show how recreation activities have spread wildly

D. suggest how to offer recreation activities around home

Why would someone only feel himself at home according to the last paragraph?

A. One lives the very best standard of living.

B. There are too many distractions outside his home.

C. There are few recreations around his house.

D. One needs the street door of his house to be opened always.

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世界上越來越多的人對體育感興趣，在我國，足球，排球，籃球，乒乓球等都是大家喜愛的體育運動。每天清晨或傍晚，你都會看到人們在公園或空地上參加各種體育鍛煉或跳舞。

每個人都知道體育運動有利于身體健康，并能培養(yǎng)性格，使我們把工作和學(xué)習(xí)做得更好，讓我們來參加體育鍛煉吧

    Now more and more people in the world are becoming interested in sports_____________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Only by _______ your attention _______ what you are learning can you learn it well.

   A. concentrate; on      B. pay; on     C. concentrating; on       D. paying; on

---Your job _______ open for your return.

    --- Thanks.

   A. will keep     B. will be kept     C. had kept         D. had been kept

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BEUING (Associated Press 美聯(lián)社) —China has a growing middle class, a tradition of expecting education and 21 million new babies every year. Selling educational toys should be easy.

    While China may be the world’s biggest toy maker, many of the best are exported. Department stores here do not have enough toys of high quality. It is said that the demand for educational toys is low.

A US company, Baby Care, is trying to change that with a new way to sell toys in China.

    Baby Care works basically together with doctors in Beijing hospitals.  People who join the company’s "mother club" can get lectures and newsletters on baby and child development at no extra cost, if they agree to spend 18 dollars a month on the company’s educational toys and child-care books.

"We want to build a seven year relationship with those people," said Matthew J. Estes, Baby Care’s president. "It starts during pregnancy (孕期), when the anxiety and needs are highest." Baby Care works on a one-to-one basis. Doctors, nurses, and teachers paid by Baby Care advise parents and explain toys that are designed for children at each stage of development to age six.

Baby Care opened its first store in China last June in a shopping center in central Beijing and another near Beijing Zoo. It plans to have 80 stores in China within six years.

It is a new model for China and develops a market in young children’s education and health that no other companies are in.

What do the first two paragraphs mainly tell us?

A. Educational toys and foreign toy markets.

  B. Problems with China’s toy market and education.

  C. Reasons for pushing sales of educational toys in China.

  D. Baby population and various kinds of toys made in China.

Which of the following is a fact according to the passage?

  A. Club members buy Baby Care products for free child care advice.

  B. Doctors in Beijing help in making Baby Care products.

  C. Parents are encouraged to pay $ 18 for club activities.

  D. Baby Care trains Chinese doctors at no extra cost.

Baby Care is developing its business in China by ___________.

A. opening stores in Beijing hospitals

B. offering 18 month courses on child care

C. setting up children’s education centers

D. forming close relationships with parents

Which of the following would be the most suitable title for the passage?

  A. Mother’s Club in China.               B. Baby Care and Doctors.

  C. American Company Model.            D. Educational Toys in China.

---What do you remember Alexander Graham Bell as?

  --- ______ inventor of ______ telephone.

A. an; /            B. the; a       C. the; the     D. /; the