31. By saying“... owners of well over half of all World Wide Web sites have set up home without fitting locks to their doors”(Lines 2-3, Para. 2), the author means that .
[A] many sites are not well-protected
[B] those happy times appear still to be with us
[C] there simply wasn’t any crime to worry about
[D] hackers try out tricks on an Internet site without actually breaking in
32. SATAN, a program designed by Dan Fanner, can be used .
[A] to prevent hackers from breaking into websites [B] to download useful programs and information
[C] to improve the security of the Internet system [D] to investigate the security of Internet sites
33. Farmer’s program has been criticized by the public because .
[A] it can be used to cause disorder on all sites [B] it can be used by people with evil intent
[C] it causes damage to Net browsers [D] it can break into Internet sites
34. The author’s attitude toward SATAN is .
[A] critical [B] indifferent
[C] positive [D] enthusiastic
35. The author suggests in the last paragraph that .
[A] net inhabitants should not let security measures affect their joy of surfing the Internet
[B] we should make full use of the Internet before security measures are strengthened
[C] influential businessmen should give priority to the improvement of Net security
[D] we should alert the most influential businessmen to the importance of security
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Take the case of public education alone. The principal difficulty faced by the schools has been the tremendous increase in the number of pupils. This has been caused by the advance of the legal age for going into industry and the impossibility of finding a job even when the legal age has been reached. In view of the technological improvements in the last few years, business will require in he future proportionately fewer workers than ever before. The result will be still further raising of he legal age for going into employment, and still further difficulty in finding employment when that age has been attained. If we cannot put our children to work, we must put them in school.
We may also be quite confident that the present trend toward a shorter day and a shorter week will be maintained. We have developed and shall continue to have a new leisure class. Already the public agencies for adult education are swamped by the tide that has swept over them since the depression began. They will be little better off when it is over. Their support must come from the taxpayer.
It is surely too much to hope that these increases in the cost of public education can be borne by the local communities. They cannot care for the present restricted and inadequate system. The local communities have failed in their efforts to cope with unemployment. They cannot expect to cope with public education on the scale on which we must attempt it. The answer to the problem of unemployment has been Federal relief. The answer to the problem of public education may have to be much the same, and properly so. If there is one thing in which the citizens of all parts of the country have an interest, it is in the decent education of the citizens of all parts of the country. Our income tax now goes in part to keep our neighbors alive. It may have to go in part as well to make our neighbors intelligent. We are now attempting to preserve the present generation through Federal relief of the destitute(贫民). Only a people determined to ruin the next generation will refuse such Federal funds as public education may require. |
