solution to laptop computer theft: a program that lets owners give their property a voice when it has
been taken.
The program allows users to display alerts on the missing computer"s screen and even to set a
spoken message. Tracking software for stolen laptops has been on the market for some time, but this
is thought to be the first that allows owners to_give_the_thief_a_piece_of_their_mind.
Owners must report their laptop missing by visiting a website, which sends a message to the model:
a red and yellow "lost or stolen" sign appears on its screen when it is started. Under the latest version
(版本)of the software, users can also send a spoken message.
The message can be set to reappear every 30 seconds, no matter how many times the thief closes it.
"One customer sent a message saying, "You are being tracked. I am right at your door."" said Carrie
Hafeman, chief executive of the company which produces the program, Retriever.
In the latest version, people can add a spoken message. For example, the laptop"s speaker will say
"Help, this laptop is reported lost or stolen. If you are not my owner, report me now."
The Retriever software package, which costs $29. 95 but has a free trial period, has the functions
of many security software programs. Owners can remotely switch to an alternative password if they
fear that the thief has also got hold of the access details.
If a thief accesses the Internet with the stolen laptop, Retriever will collect information on the Internet
service provider in use, so that the police can be alerted to its location.
Thousands of laptops are stolen every year from homes and offices, but with the use of laptops
increasing, the number stolen while their owners are out has been rising sharply.
Other security software allows users to erase data remotely or lock down the computer.
B. to express the owners" anger to the thief
C. to remind the thief of this conscience
D. to make the thief give up his mind
B. help recognize the lost laptop
C. lock down the computer remotely
D. send a spoken message
B. turn on the laptop by using the original password
C. operate the laptop by means of alternative password
D. erase the information kept in the stolen laptop
B. A new software provides a means to reduce laptop theft.
C. Retriever has helped to find thieves and lost computers.
D. A new program offers a communication platform with the thief.
you__1__lots of good times. __2__we should laugh during the happy times. But do you also laugh
during the__3__times?
Erma Bombeck is known for her humorous books, but she wrote one that__4__a more serious
topic:__5__in children. Erma talks with many children with cancer and learns__6__life lessons from
them. She learns, for instance, that cancer survivors know how to__7__.
She __8__the experience of 15yearold Jessica from Burlinton. Jessica"s leg was cut off at the knee
because of cancer. She was learning to__9__a prosthesis(假肢). Jessica tells about playing__10__. She
kicked the ball__11__and it flew off in one__12__while her artificial leg flew into another. She fell on
the__13__and laughed.
Jessica may not have laughed about her cancer, but she laughed about handling the__14__of it.
And her laughter helped her a deal.
There is the story of 17yearold Betsy. She __15__her way to the radiation room for her regular
radiation therapy(化疗). As __16__, she dropped her hospital gown and, wearing only her birthday
suit, __17__onto the table and waited. The extra people in the room were not the medical students she
had thought, but __18__painters giving an estimate on painting! Betsy laughed heartily about the
incident. And like Jessica, her__19__to laugh helped her to deal with one of the most difficult thing a
young person can endure-cancer.
Do you find plenty of__20__for laughter? You can…if you also find reasons to laugh during the
especially difficult times.
Survivors know how to laugh. If you can laugh even when the going is rough, you"ll make it. And
you"ll smile at the end.
| ( )1. A. lose ( )2. A. Of course ( )3. A. ordinary ( )4. A. connected ( )5. A. cancer ( )6. A. serious ( )7. A. cry ( )8. A. describes ( )9. A. put ( )10. A. basketball ( )11. A. gently ( )12. A. way ( )13. A. floor ( )14. A. cause ( )15. A. fought ( )16. A. common ( )17. A. climbed ( )18. A. also ( )19. A. strength ( )20. A. times | B. miss B. In addition B. difficult B. reported B. disability B. important B. shout B. learns B. have B. badminton B. hard B. method B. table B. result B. took B. often B. lay B. rather B. willingness B. places | C. experience C. At first C. pleasant C. referred C. illness C. careful C. laugh C. keeps C. wear C. volleyball C. slightly C. direction C. chair C. process C. made C. before C. jumped C. already C. ability C. days | D. laugh D. First of all D. usual D. covered D. laughter D. thoughtful D. face D. imagines D. make D. soccer D. straightly D. point D. bed D. end D. pushed D. usual D. sat D. almost D. confidence D. moments |
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| Habits are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly ， setting our brains on autopilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine. “Not choice ， but habit rules the unreflecting creatures ，”William Wordsworth said in the 19th century. In the everchanging 21st century ，even the word “habit” carries a negative meaning. So it seems contradictory to talk about habits in the same context as innovation ( 创新). But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits ,we create parallel paths ， and even entirely new brain cells ， that can jump our trains of thought onto new , innovative tracks. Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit ， we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact ，the more new things we try ， he more creative we become. But don"t bother trying to kill off old habits ；once those ruts of procedure are worn into the brain ， they"re there to stay. Instead ， the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads. “The first thing needed for innovation is attraction to wonder ,”says Dawna Markova , author of The Open Mind. “But we are taught instead to‘decide’， just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider’.” She adds， however， that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.” “All of us work through problems in ways of which we"re unaware,” she says. Researchers in the late 1960s discovered that humans are born with the ability to approach challenges in four primary ways： analytically， procedurally， collaboratively (合作地) and innovatively. At the end of adolescence， however， the brain shuts down half of that ability， preserving only those ways of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life. The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us use our innovative and collaborative ways of thought. “This breaks the major rule in the American belief system-that anyone can do anything，”explains M. J. Ryan,author of the 2006 book This Year I Will… and Ms. Markova"s business partner. “That"s a lie that we have preserved， and it fosters commonness. Knowing what you"re good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.”This is where developing new habits comes in. | |||
| 1．Brain researchers have discovered that______. | |||
| A．the forming of new habits can be guided B．the development of habits can be predicted C．the regulation of old habits can be transformed D．the track of new habits can be created unconsciously | |||
| 2．The underlined word“ruts”in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to________. | |||
| A．zones B．connections C．situations D．tracks | |||
| 3．Which of the following statements most probably agrees with Dawna Markova"s view？ | |||
| A．Decision makes no sense in choices. B．Curiosity makes creative minds active. C．Creative ideas are born of a relaxing mind. D．Formation of innovation comes from fantastic ideas. | |||
| 4．The purpose of the author writing this article is to persuade us________. | |||
| A．to give up our traditional habits deliberately B．to create and develop new habits consciously C．to resist the application of standardized testing D．to believe that old habits conflict with new habits | |||
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