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Loren Gladstone of Toronto is 58, but thinking over how to bequeath (遗赠) his digital property(财产). Doing the paperwork after his parents' death was a challenge. “When my time comes, I wonder if my children will even know what paper is，” he says. As a software developer, his virtual property is both valuable and vital to his business. That reflects a problem. Online lives have increasing economic and emotional value. But testamentary (遗嘱) laws offer confusing and incomplete ways of bequeathing and inheriting (继承) them.
Digital property may include software, websites, downloaded content, online gaming identities, social-media accounts and even e-mails. In Britain alone holdings of digital music may be worth over ￡9 billion ($14 billion). A fifth of respondents to a Chinese local-newspaper survey said they had over 5，000 yuan($790) of digital property. And value does not lie only in money.“Anyone with kids under 14 years old probably has two prints of them and the rest are in online galleries，”says Nathan Lustig of Entrustet, a company that helps people manage digital property.
Service providers have different rules—and few state them clearly in their terms and conditions. Many give users a personal right to use an account, but nobody else, even after death. Facebook allows relatives to close an account or turn it into a memorial page. Gmail (run by Google) will provide copies of e-mails to an executor (遗嘱执行人). Music downloaded via iTunes is held under a license which can be abolished on death. Apple declined to comment on the record on this or other policies. All e-mail and data on its iCloud service are deleted on the death of the owner.
This has led to cases to court in America. In 2004 the family of Justin Ellsworth, an army man killed in Iraq, took Yahoo! to court in Michigan to get copies of his e-mails. This year, a court in Oregon ruled that another American mother whose son had died could use her dead son's password to enter his Facebook account for a short period. Now five American states have made laws giving executors control over the social-networking accounts of dead users.
But this raises the subject of privacy. Passing music on is one thing; not everyone may want their relatives to read their e-mails. Colin Pearson, a London-based lawyer, says access should come only with a clear provision in a will.
But laws, wills and password safes may be contrary to the providers' terms of service, especially when the executor is in one country and the data in another. Headaches for the living and lots of lovely work for lawyers.
1.Why does Loren begin to think over how to bequeath his digital property at the age of 58?
A. Because he is afraid his children don't know what paper is.
B. Because there's no complete law dealing with digital property.
C. Because his digital property is of great value and importance.
D. Because he is worried his children will be taken to court.
2.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Digital property is assessed in terms of nothing except money.
B. No laws in America have been made to deal with digital property.
C. The relatives may read the e－mail of the dead without permission.
D. Lawyers can make money through cases about digital property.
3.Facebook, Google and Apple have a similar rule that ________．
A. users are offered accounts used by nobody else except users themselves
B. relatives of the dead may close an account or use it at their own will
C. the executor may enter the e－mail and read it by themselves at any time
D. the data downloaded by the dead will be copied and then deleted from net
4.Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?
A. Digital Information B. Testamentary Laws
C. Deathless Data D. Vital Property
Summer in Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city, is the time for festivals．Between the end of July and the beginning of September, there are several different festivals which take place there．
The original Edinburgh International Festival started in 1947, and offered visitors a rich program of classical music, theatre, opera and dance．The same year the official festival began, and a handful of theatrical companies came to the festival without being invited and organized their own events, which grew into what is now called the Fringe Festival．
The term 'fringe' means something on the outside of the main event, but over the years, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has become the largest of all the festivals, and indeed the largest arts festival in the world!
The Fringe features performers and acts that are less traditional and more unusual than those in the International Festival, and includes a lot of stand-up comedy shows（即兴喜剧表演）, music and children's entertainment．The Edinburgh Fringe is regarded as an important place for up- and- coming stand-up comedians to perform at．
At the same time in Edinburgh there are various other festivals, such as the Jazz and Blues Festival, the Book Festival, the Film Festival, and even an Internet Festival! There is also a multicultural festival called Mela, which celebrates the diversity of people living in Edinburgh, in particular people with South Asian origins．
Edinburgh Castle is the site of one of the most splendid events - the Military Tattoo．A military tattoo has nothing to do with a tattoo（纹身） on your skin! It means a performance of military music, for example, by marching bands．In Scotland the military tattoo traditionally includes bagpipes（苏格兰风笛） and drums．This year the display will also include dancers, horses and motorbikes!
Though you have to pay to attend most of the events at the various festivals, there are several groups who organize large numbers of free events as well．
1．Which of the following statements about Edinburgh festivals is RIGHT?
A．Edinburgh International Festival is the oldest art festival in the world．
B．Only well-known performers are welcome to join in Edinburgh festivals,
C．Every summer different kinds of festivals take place in Edinburgh．
D．People have to pay to enjoy events of the festivals in Edinburgh．
2．The Military Tattoo is ___．
A．something on the skins to make people look different
B．a performance of military music by marching bands
C．a traditional performance of bagpipes, drums and so on
D．displayed in Edinburgh Castle every year for festivals
3．The underlined word "up- and- coming" in the fourth paragraph probably means ____．
A．being likely to be successful and popular
B．being likely to be a failure in the future
C．being likely to be accepted sooner or later
D．being likely to lose people's attention soon
4．What is best title of the passage?
A．Summer in Edinburgh B．Edinburgh Festivals
C．Edinburgh Castle D．Enjoy Edinburgh
PART FOUR WRITING
SECTION A
Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram by using the information from the passage.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Rest is critical to life and work and a positive attitude towards rest needs to be maintained, for enough rest is significant to our body and mind while a lack of adequate rest, as well as misleading attitudes to rest, will do great harm to our health.
Rest is vital to our ability to function at our best. Recent news stories report that scientists are learning surprising things about the importance of sleep. There is enough evidence suggesting that rest will refresh us, enabling our body and mind to work efficiently. Besides, rest is important for more than that; it is helpful in setting appropriate goals and deciding what goals to attain first. Those who are caught up in extremely busy lives lack the time to think about what they are doing and to make objective decisions, which blocks the maximization of their potential.
On the contrary, lack of adequate rest damages brain function, so much so that sleep experts have been able to measure drops in IQ in patients who are short of sleep. Other studies have presented a negative effect on body movements in sleep-wanting subjects. It should not, therefore, be a surprise that the California Highway Patrol has stated that sleep-wanting drivers are as great a threat to road safety as are drunk drivers.
However, rest is widely misunderstood by some people. Instead of sleep, they go to pubs and clubs and claim that this kind of entertaining is rest. For example, what they call social drinking or having a smoke with friends. Nowadays, the economy forces people to drink and gamble for the sake of the circles one moves in. This is what fools claim thoughtlessly that it’s restful. The truth is that rest means not using our labor both physically and mentally, even spiritually.
We need to rest correctly and sufficiently; otherwise, tiredness and illness will occur. Without sufficient rest, good work is impossible. Rest is critical; it is not an end in itself.
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