You can find all kinds of information in just                          

a few minutes on the Internet. It’s l__1____ going to a     1. __________

huge ____2____(图书馆) without having to walk around to      2. __________

find your books. Recently,  ___3____, many people            3. __________

have been d____4____ the dangers of the Internet.            4. __________

There have b___5____ reports in America about people         5. __________

trying to steal personal information for bad ___6____(目的).     6.___________         

Finding information ___7____the Net is easy. But not all     7. __________

information is good to ___8___(社会). For example, you       8. __________

can find such information as ___9___ to kill people.         9. __________

The problem will become more s___10___ in the future.        10.___________        

You can find all kinds of information in just                  
a few minutes on the Internet. It’s l__1____ going to a    1. __________
huge ____2____(图书馆) without having to walk around to     2. __________
find your books. Recently,  ___3____, many people           3. __________
have been d____4____ the dangers of the Internet.           4. __________
There have b___5____ reports in America about people        5. __________
trying to steal personal information for bad ___6____(目的).     6.___________         
Finding information ___7____the Net is easy. But not all    7. __________
information is good to ___8___(社会). For example, you      8. __________
can find such information as ___9___ to kill people.        9. __________
The problem will become more s___10___ in the future.       10.___________       

A massive earthquake and tsunamis killed 350 people in one Chilean coastal town, doubling the total death number on Sunday as the government tried to get aid to hungry survivors and stop looting(抢劫).

President Michelle Bachelet said at least 708 people had been killed and called for calm as people desperate for food and water looted stores in some areas worst hit by Saturday’s 8.8-magnitude quake, one of the world’s biggest in a century. The earthquake that shook Chile on Saturday morning was “50 times bigger than the one of Haiti.” The earthquake in Chile was far stronger than the one that struck Haiti last month - yet the death number in Haiti, a Caribbean nation, was much higher.

The reasons are simple. Chile is wealthier and infinitely better prepared, with strict building codes, robust emergency response and a long history of handling seismic catastrophes. No living Haitian had experienced a quake at home when the Jan. 12 disaster crumbled their poorly constructed buildings.

Television images showed houses washed away by swirling waters, cars tossed into shattered buildings and boats lifted into the streets in coastal towns including Pelluhue and Constitucion, where 350 deaths alone were reported.

“It’s an enormous disaster ... there’s a growing number of missing people,” Bachelet said, adding that food and medical aid was being sent to help the roughly 2 million people affected by the quake. Chile is making great efforts to deal with a formidable task caused by the earthquake how to provide temporary shelter for so many people.

A lack of water, food and fuel sharpened the hardship for the hundreds of thousands of people left homeless, and widespread disruption to the power supply threatened to hamper (妨碍) Chilean industry’s recovery. In the hard-hit city of Concepcion, about 310 miles south of Santiago, the government imposed a night-time curfew (宵禁令) in Concepcion and the Maule region on Sunday in a bid to stop looting.

Police used tear gas and water blast guns to disperse a crowd of looters carrying off food and electrical appliances from one supermarket in Concepcion. Television images showed people stuffing groceries and other goods into shopping trolleys. “People have gone days without eating,” said Orlando Salazar, one of the looters at the supermarket. “The only option is to come here and get stuff for ourselves.” On the second day of the most serious natural disaster to hit Chile in decades, rescuing survivors from the ruins had been quickly replaced by the hard challenge of helping them. People overseas have been deeply impressed by earthquake relief efforts by the Chilean government.

1. There are several reasons why the loss of lives in the Chile earthquake was comparatively low EXCEPT __________.

A. improvements had been made in the constructed buildings.

B. Chile is always well prepared for the coming earthquake.

C. large number of Chile residents had gone oat for a holiday.

D Chile has rich experience in dealing with this disaster.

2. The underlined word “formidable” in the fifth paragraph probably means ________.

A. difficult          B. glorious                       C. light                     D. original

3. According to the passage, what is the most pressing task in the earthquake-hit areas?

A. rescuing survivors

B. providing temporary shelter and food for the victims

C. burying dead bodies

D. clearing away the ruins

4. The author’s main purpose in writing the passage is to ____________.

A. call on international aid agencies to go to Chile to help.

B. tell us how to deal with the coming disaster.

C. show how the people of Chile rebuild their country after the big disaster.

D. tell us something about the enormous earthquake in Chile.

     A massive earthquake and tsunamis killed 350 people in one Chilean coastal town, doubling the total death number on Sunday as the government tried to get aid to hungry survivors and stop looting(抢劫).

President Michelle Bachelet said at least 708 people had been killed and called for calm as people desperate for food and water looted stores in some areas worst hit by Saturday’s 8.8-magnitude quake, one of the world’s biggest in a century. The earthquake that shook Chile on Saturday morning was “50 times bigger than the one of Haiti.” The earthquake in Chile was far stronger than the one that struck Haiti last month - yet the death number in Haiti, a Caribbean nation, was much higher.

The reasons are simple. Chile is wealthier and infinitely better prepared, with strict building codes, robust emergency response and a long history of handling seismic catastrophes. No living Haitian had experienced a quake at home when the Jan. 12 disaster crumbled their poorly constructed buildings.

Television images showed houses washed away by swirling waters, cars tossed into shattered buildings and boats lifted into the streets in coastal towns including Pelluhue and Constitucion, where 350 deaths alone were reported.

“It’s an enormous disaster ... there’s a growing number of missing people,” Bachelet said, adding that food and medical aid was being sent to help the roughly 2 million people affected by the quake. Chile is making great efforts to deal with a formidable task caused by the earthquake how to provide temporary shelter for so many people.

A lack of water, food and fuel sharpened the hardship for the hundreds of thousands of people left homeless, and widespread disruption to the power supply threatened to hamper (妨碍) Chilean industry’s recovery. In the hard-hit city of Concepcion, about 310 miles south of Santiago, the government imposed a night-time curfew (宵禁令) in Concepcion and the Maule region on Sunday in a bid to stop looting.

Police used tear gas and water blast guns to disperse a crowd of looters carrying off food and electrical appliances from one supermarket in Concepcion. Television images showed people stuffing groceries and other goods into shopping trolleys. “People have gone days without eating,” said Orlando Salazar, one of the looters at the supermarket. “The only option is to come here and get stuff for ourselves.” On the second day of the most serious natural disaster to hit Chile in decades, rescuing survivors from the ruins had been quickly replaced by the hard challenge of helping them. People overseas have been deeply impressed by earthquake relief efforts by the Chilean government.

1. There are several reasons why the loss of lives in the Chile earthquake was comparatively low EXCEPT __________.

A. improvements had been made in the constructed buildings.

     B. Chile is always well prepared for the coming earthquake.

     C. large number of Chile residents had gone oat for a holiday.

     D Chile has rich experience in dealing with this disaster.

2. The underlined word “formidable” in the fifth paragraph probably means ________.

     A. difficult           B. glorious                        C. light                      D. original

3. According to the passage, what is the most pressing task in the earthquake-hit areas?

     A. rescuing survivors

B. providing temporary shelter and food for the victims

     C. burying dead bodies

D. clearing away the ruins

4. The author’s main purpose in writing the passage is to ____________.

     A. call on international aid agencies to go to Chile to help.

     B. tell us how to deal with the coming disaster.

    C. show how the people of Chile rebuild their country after the big disaster.

D. tell us something about the enormous earthquake in Chile.

Shoplifting (入店行窃) is happening in stores or supermarkets throughout the world. However, shoplifting happens more in British stores, according to a recent research, by the UK-based Center for Retail Research.

Napoleon once considered Britain as "a nation of shopkeepers", to which so many people dreamed of traveling. Now it seems it is a nation of shoplifters. According to the research, Britain is the most light-fingered country in Europe, with nearly one in every two cases of shoplifting across the continent taking place in British stores. The report said there were nearly 566,000 reported cases of shoplifting in Britain out of a Europe-wide total of 1.27 million. The next worst countries in Europe, France and Germany, came well below Britain with only 188,000 and 167,000 cases, respectively. Switzerland lived up to its clean-living reputation, with just 10,198 recorded cases of shop theft, and it is the lowest in Europe.

"The only reason I can think of is the higher level of criminality in Britain," report author Joshua Bamfield said. But the blame for Britain's poor showing does not lie wholly at the doorstep of Britons, Bamfield said, but also with some organized foreign groups traveling in cities such as London. "There are traveling groups of thieves, many from places like Poland and Russia, that target large department stores," Bamfield said. "The problem is right across Europe ― the criminals have formed their own European Union."

Bamfield said one factor causing some mistakes on the statistics was also likely to be that retailers in Britain were more likely to record thefts compared to other nations, such as Greece. "It's a social phenomenon that could happen in any countries", said Bamfield, "The most important thing is how to prevent it rather than accusing of it too much."

68. By saying "a nation of shopkeepers". Napoleon probably meant that __.

A. Britain was a nation of shoplifters though it was rich then

B. Britain should have cared more about its agriculture

C. Britain's economy was experiencing a great development

D. Britain should take some measures to reduce the number of shops

69. According to the passage, in which country are we likely to feel safer when shopping?

A. Britain        B. Germany        C. France       D. Switzerland

70. From what Joshua Bamfield said, it can be inferred that __.

A. it's the highest level of criminality that caused Britain's social problem

B. Britain's social problem of shop theft came from varieties of sides

C. Britain's poor showing does not lie wholly at the doorstep of Britons

D. it's traveling groups of thieves that make up the majority of Britain's shoplifters

71. What's the main idea of this passage?

A. Protecting ourselves is important when shopping.

B. Shoplifting is becoming serious, especially in Britain.

C. Shoplifting does great harm to people across Europe.

D. Europe is suffering many traveling groups of thieves.