江苏英语等级考试pets3级历年真题卷（2）

根据下面资料，回答26-30题。

Passwords are everywhere in computer security. All too often, they are also ineffective. A good password has to be both easy to remember and hard to guess, but in practice people seem to pay at-tention to the former. Names of wives, husbands and children are popular. "12356" or "12345" are also common choices.

That predictability lets security researchers (and hackers) create dictionaries which list com-mon passwords, useful to those seeking to break in. But although researchers know that passwords are insecure, working out just how insecure has been difficult. Many studies have only small sam-ples to work on.

However, with the co-operation of Yahoo!, Joseph Bonneau of Cambridge University obtained the biggest sample to date--70 million passwords that came with useful data about their owners.

Mr Bonneau found some interesting variations. Older users had better passwords than young ones. People whose preferred language was Korean or German chose the most secure passwords;those who spoke Indonesian the least. Passwords designed to hide sensitive information such as credit-card numbers were only slightly more secure than those protecting less important things, like access to games. "Nag screens" that told users they had chosen a weak password made virtually no difference. And users whose accounts had been hacked in the past did not make more secure choices than those who had never been hacked.

But it is the broader analysis of the sample that is of most interest to security researchers. For, despite their differences, the 70 million users were still predictable enough that a generic password dictionary was effective against both the entire sample and any slice of it. Mr Bonnean is blunt:

"An attacker who can manage ten guesses per account will compromise around 1% of accounts. "And that is a worthwhile outcome for a hacker.

One obvious solution would be for sites to limit the number of guesses that can be made before access is blocked. Yet whereas the biggest sites, such as Google and Microsoft, do take such meas-ures, many do not. The reasons of their not doing so are various. So it′ s time for users to consider the alternatives to traditional passwords.

26[单选题] People tend to use passwords that are__________．

A.easy to remember

B.hard to figure out

C.random numbers

D.popular names

27[单选题] Researchers find it difficult to know how unsafe passwords are due to__________．

A.lack of research tools

B.lack of research funds

C.limited time of studies

D.limited size of samples

28[单选题] It is indicated in the text that__________．

A.Indonesians are sensitive to password security

B.young people tend to have secure passwords

C.nag screens help little in password security

D.passwords for credit cards are usually safe

29[单选题] The underlined word“compromise”in Para．5 most probably means__________．

A.comprise

B.compensate

C.endanger

D.encounter

30[单选题] The last paragraph of the text suggests that__________．

A.net users regulate their online behaviors

B.net users rely on themselves for security

C.big websites limit the number of guesses

D.big websites offer users convenient access

材料题

根据下面资料，回答31-35题。

John Lubbock, a British member of the Parliament, led to the first law to safeguard Britain′ s heritage--the Ancient Monuments Bill. How did it happen?

By the late 1800s more and more people were visiting Stonehenge for a day out. Now a World Heritage Site owned by the Crown, it was, at the time, privately owned and neglected.

But the visitors left behind rubbish and leftover food. It encouraged rats that made holes at the stones′ foundations, weakening them. One of the upright stones had already fallen over and one had broken in two. They also chipped pieces off the stones for souvenirs and carved pictures into them, says architectural critic Jonathan Glancey.

It was the same for other pre-historic remains, which were disappearing fast. Threats also in-cluded farmers and landowners as the ancient stones got in the way of working on the fields and were a free source of building materials.

Shocked and angry, Lubbock took up the fight. When he heard Britain′ s largest ancient stone circle at Avebury in Wiltshire was up for sale in 1871 he persuaded its owners to sell it to him and the stone circle was saved.

"Lubbock aroused national attention for ancient monuments, "says Glancey. "At the time places like Stonehenge were just seen as a collection of stones, ancient sites to get building materials. "

"Lubbock knew they were the roots of British identity. He did for heritage what Darwin did for natural history. "

But Lubbock couldn′t buy every threatened site. He knew laws were needed and tabled the Ancient Monuments Bill. It proposed government powers to take any pre-historic site under threat away from uncaring owners, a radical idea at the time.

For eight years he tried and failed to get the bill through parliament. Finally, in 1882, it was voted into law. It had, however, been watered down; people had to willingly give their ancient monuments to the government. But what it did do was plant the idea that the state could preserve Britain′ s heritage better than private owners.

Pressure started to be put on the owners of sites like Stonehenge to take better care of them.

31[单选题] According to the text，Stonehenge in the late l800s was__________．

A.a royal property

B.utterly neglected

C.legally protected

D.a public property

32[单选题] One stone in Stonehenge fell over because__________．

A.rats weakened its foundation

B.farmers cut it to build houses

C.visitors carved pictures into it

D.visitors chipped pieces off it

33[单选题] Lubbock proposed a bill to__________．

A.push people to learn history

B.ensure government function

C.enforce ancient site protection

D.push visitors to behave properly

34[单选题] When the bill was voted into law in 1882，it had been made less__________．

A.severe

B.biased

C.implicit

D.complex

35[单选题] This text is mainly about__________．

A.a famous British Parliament member

B.the value of ancient heritages in the UK

C.the history and protection of Stonehenge

D.the origin of the Ancient Monuments Bill