【推荐1】根据上下文语境，选择合适的单词填入空白处，每个单词仅使用一次，每个方框里有一个是多余的单词。

A. adapt to       B. stir up        C. are dying out       D. makes out       E. search for       F. be aware of

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is concerned about the many species of plants and animals that     1     around the world. The WWF wants more people to     2     the problem. So they will stop hurting wildlife and     3     solutions. Very few people in modern society actually intend to harm animals. Most people do not realize that many animal species can’t     4     the changes brought about by modern civilization. It is for this reason that the WWF constantly puts up information to    5    public interest in the welfare of the planet.

【推荐3】Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Like many people acting on the desire to eat healthy and local, Acropolis resident Eduardo Jimenez decided to plant a garden in his backyard. He ploughed the soil, he planted the seeds, and he even set up a fence to keep out the deer. Eduardo did everything right. Or so it seems. However, when     1     time has come, he has not one tomato, bean, or leaf of lettuce to show for his hard work. How did this happen? The answer comes in the form of a small, brown, particularly smelly insect: the stink bug.

Unlike their picky cousins, stink bugs feed on some 300 species of plants, including figs, blueberries, corn, and kiwi fruits as well as soybeans, peas, and weeds. Although they do little damage to the plant itself, they make the fruits and vegetables     2    . For this reason, stink bugs pose the most serious threat to the big agriculturalists and macro farm operators. Macro farmers have more     3     in their produce, and therefore have more to lose. While hobbyists like Eduardo are left to face the disappointment of an unsuccessful garden, macro farmers are forced to live with the loss of entire tracts of cash crops—a fact that has left many     4     able to clothe their children or put food on the table.

Last season alone, several New Jersey pepper farmers saw 75% of their crops damaged. Pennsylvania lost half of its peach population, and, according to the US Apple Association, apple farmers in the mid-Atlantic states lost $37 million. This year could be worse. As a result of this     5     in the supply of fresh fruits and vegetables, shoppers have seen     6    —sometimes quite dramatic—in prices at the grocery store. Prices of apples in Maryland are up 8%. In the north-Atlantic states, prices for peppers shot up an astonishing 14%. Not only are these items becoming more expensive, but they are also getting harder to find. Last week, Marge Jenkins of Athens, Georgia reported having to check three different stores before encountering a decent batch of peas. And this, she assures us, is a regular       7    . Accidentally brought from Asia, the stink bug has no natural     8     in America, and thus its population is rising sharply. Reported sightings of stink bugs are becoming increasingly numerous, as the dried, brown, trapezoidal(不规则四边形) shells of the dead bugs are everywhere in some areas. This has farmers and scientists alike     9     their heads in search of a remedy. Hope, they believe, may lie with an Asian parasitic wasp(黄蜂), which helpfully lays its eggs inside stink bug eggs.

The larvae(幼虫) of the wasp consume the stink bug from the inside. But the     10     of such a solution is still several years away, as scientists must first determine if it is safe for the wasp to be introduced into America. Until then, some farmers are resorting to homemade traps. Others have even contemplated the use of peacocks and praying mantises, which, they imagine, will gulp down the little stinkers.

【推荐1】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. acknowledgement       B. actually       C. commonly     D. confirm     E. conscious F. crack        G. eliminate     H. independent     I. log     J. shortcut     K. unimaginative

Why Your Password May Not Be As Safe As It Seems

Does “qaz2ws” strike you as a nice safe password? What about “adgimptw”? An analysis has found them to be among the passwords that are most     1     used, which of course means they are not secure at all.

When ten million passwords were leaked to the internet, they appeared to     2     that attempts by internet security experts to make us improve our password strength had been successful, even, in the specific case of the leaked passwords, they were also completely pointless.

While many of the passwords were still single words, such as “password”, there was also a clear attempt by many to make them harder to     3    . The problem was that people seemed to do so in the same way.

“Users are becoming slightly more     4     of what makes a password strong,” explained WP Engine, an internet company that performed the analysis. “For instance, adding a number or two at the end of a text phrase. That makes it better, right?”

But     5     no. They found that almost half a million passwords did this—and in 20 per cent of those all people did was put the number “1” at the end.

Perhaps this is why some companies are now trying to move gradually beyond passwords. Yahoo! is giving users the option to associate their mobile phone with an account, and have a single use password texted to it each time they want to     6     on.

Although the service is voluntary, Dylan Casey, an executive at Yahoo!, said that it was “the first step to     7     passwords”. He said it was a(n)     8     that it was increasingly hard for people to remember all the passwords they had. “I don’t think we, as an industry, have done a good enough job of putting ourselves in the shoes of the people using our products,” he said.

It would certainly be a more sensible strategy than some people’s improving upon “password” by using “password” or tran5p053d numb3r5f0r13tt3r5.

“We are, for the most part, predictably     9     when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups”, said WP Engine, “We love taking a(n)     10       , and so do password cracker.”