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　　But Farmer is very concerned about the need to alert the public to poor security and, so far,events have proved him right. SATAN has done more to alert people to the risks than causenew disorder. So is the Net becoming more secure? Far from it. In the early days, when youvisited a Web site your browser simply looked at the content. Now the Web is full of tinyprograms that automatically download when you look at a Web page, and run on your ownmachine. These programs could, if their authors wished, do all kinds of nasty things to yourcomputer.

　　At the same time, the Net is increasingly populated with spiders, worms, agents and othertypes of automated beasts designed to penetrate the sites and seek out and classifyinformation. All these make wonderful tools for antisocial people who want to invade weak sitesand cause damage.

　　But let’s look on the bright side. Given the lack of locks, the Internet is surely the world’sbiggest (almost) crime-free society. Maybe that is because hackers are fundamentally honest.Or that there currently isn’t much to steal. Or because vandalism ( 惡意破壞) isn’t much fununless you have a peculiar dislike for someone.

　　Whatever the reason, let’s enjoy it while we can. But expect it all to change, and security tobecome the number one issue, when the most influential inhabitants of the Net are sellingservices they want to be paid for.

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　　21. By saying “... owners of well over half of all World Wide Web sites have set uphome without fitting locks to their doors” (Lines 3-4, Para. 2), the author means that________.

　　A) those happy times appear still to be with us

　　B) there simply wasn’t any crime to worry about

　　C) many sites are not well-protected

　　D) hackers try out tricks on an Internet site without actually breaking in(C)

　　22. SATAN, a program designed by Dan Fanner can be used ________.

　　A) to investigate the security of Internet sites

　　B) to improve the security of the Internet system

　　C) to prevent hackers from breaking into websites

　　D) to download useful programs and information(A)

　　23. Fanner’s program has been criticized by the public because.

　　A) it causes damage to Net browsers

　　B) it can break into Internet sites

　　C) it can be used to cause disorder on all sites

　　D) it can be used by people with evil intent(D)

　　24. The author’s attitude toward SATAN is ________.

　　A) enthusiastic

　　B) critical

　　C) positive

　　D) indifferent(C)

　　25. The author suggests in the last paragraph that ________.

　　A) we should make full use of the Internet before security measures are strengthened

　　B) we should alert the most influential businessmen to the importance of security

　　C) influential businessmen should give priority to the improvement of Net security

　　D) net inhabitants should not let security measures affect their joy of surfing the Internet

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　　21. C 22. A 23. D 24. C 25. A

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　　I came away from my years of teaching on the college and university level with a convictionthat enactment (扮演角色), performance, dramatization are the most successful forms ofteaching. Students must be incorporated, made, so far as possible, an integral part of thelearning process. The notion that learning should have in it an element of inspired play wouldseem to the greater part of the academic establishment merely silly, but that isnonetheless the case. Of Ezekiel Cheever, the most famous schoolmaster of the MassachusettsBay Colony, his onetime student Cotton Mather wrote that he so planned his lessons that hispupils “came to work as though they came to play,” and Alfred North Whitehead, almost threehundred years later, noted that a teacher should make his/her students “glad they were there.”

　　Since, we are told, 80 to 90 percent of all instruction in the typical university is by the lecturemethod, we should give close attention to this form of education. There is, I think, much truthin Patricia Nelson Limerick’s observation that “lecturing is an unnatural act, an act for whichGod did not design humans. It is perfectly all right, now and then, for a human to be possessedby the urge to speak, and to speak while others remain silent. But to do this regularly, onehour and 15 minutes at a time... for one person to drag on while others sit in silence?... I donot believe that this is what the Creator... designed humans to do.”

　　The strange, almost incomprehensible fact is that many professors, just as they feel obliged towrite dully, believe that they should lecture dully. To show enthusiasm is to risk appearingunscientific, unobjective; it is to appeal to the students’ emotions rather than their intellect.Thus the ideal lecture is one filled with facts and read in an unchanged monotone.

　　The cult (推崇) of lecturing dully, like the cult of writing dully, goes back, of course, someyears. Edward Shils, professor of sociology, recalls the professors he encountered at theUniversity of Pennsylvania in his youth. They seemed “a priesthood, rather uneven in theirmerits but uniform in their bearing; they never referred to anything personal. Some read fromold lecture notes and then haltingly explained the thumb-worn last lines. Others lectured fromcards that had served for years, to judge by the worn edges... The teachers began on time,ended on time, and left the room without saying a word more to their students, very seldombeing detained by questioners... The classes were not large, yet there was no discussion. Noquestions were raised in class, and there were no office hours.”

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　　26. The author believes that a successful teacher should be able to ________.

　　A) make dramatization an important aspect of students’ learning

　　B) make inspired play an integral part of the learning process

　　C) improve students’ learning performance

　　D) make study just as easy as play(B)

　　27. The majority of university professors prefer the traditional way of lecturing in thebelief that ________.

　　A) it draws the close attention of the students

　　B) it conforms in a way to the design of the Creator

　　C) it presents course content in a scientific and objective manner

　　D) it helps students to comprehend abstract theories more easily(C)

　　28. What the author recommends in this passage is that ________.

　　A) college education should be improved through radical measures

　　B) more freedom of choice should be given to students in their studies

　　C) traditional college lectures should be replaced by dramatized performances

　　D) interaction should be encouraged in the process of teaching(D)

　　29. By saying “They seemed ‘a priesthood, rather uneven in their merits but uniformin their bearing...’” (Lines 3-4, Para. 4), the author means that ________.

　　A) professors are a group of professionals that differ in their academic ability but behave in thesame way

　　B) professors are like priests wearing the same kind of black gown but having different roles toplay

　　C) there is no fundamental difference between professors and priests though they differ intheir merits

　　D) professors at the University of Pennsylvania used to wear black suits which made them looklike priests(A)

　　30. Whose teaching method is particularly commended by the author?

　　A) Ezekiel Cheever’s.

　　B) Cotton Mather’s.

　　C) Alfred North Whitehead’s.

　　D) Patricia Nelson Limerick’s.

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　　26. B 27. C 28. D 29. A 30. A