Well, to pick up where we left off last time. I’m certain that you know all too well the dangers hiding on the World Wide Web. And whether it’s for schoolwork, entertainment, or just socializing with friends, the Internet will surely be a major part of your child’s life. So, it’s important to secure their online stays.
It’s not the easiest thing, but keeping open lines of communication is primary. Let them know they can share their online activities with you. Talk to them about their online presence as early as possible, ideally before they begin to use email, social media, or a smartphone. Discuss what they find interesting online and learning from them about popular websites and apps; this will create understanding and allow you to identify potential risks.
Next, monitor without spying. Most kids learn to understand boundaries, like respecting others’ personal space, or not opening the cookie jar without asking. Internet use is no different. It’s helpful for kids to have ground rules as to which websites they can visit,which apps they can use, and what they can share online. Remind them that if they feel uneasy with anything that occurs online, they need to alert an adult immediately.
How you handle your kids’ internet usage will depend in large part on their age. There are sites and browsing tools meant for younger kids, such as YouTube Kids,which aims to provide a safe online experience for children.Older kids may be allowed more freedom since they want to network and need to use the internet for information-gathering. But you can set boundaries that feel right for you. Just limit access appropriately.
Allowing your children to make good decisions online teaches them responsibility, shows that you trust them, and reminds them that rules may be tightened if they disobey them. Stay tuned.
1. What might be talked about last time?| A．The history of the World Wide Web. | B．How the Internet influences people. |
| C．The potential dangers of the Internet. | D．What information the Internet offers. |
| A．Never be narrow-minded. | B．Communicate effectively. |
| C．Share personal information. | D．Identify with your children. |
| A．Inform. | B．Reveal. | C．Look after. | D．Tell off. |
| A．What Is Hidden on the Net? | B．How to Make Online Stays? |
| C．Be a Smarter Internet User | D．Keep Your Kids Safe Online |
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【推荐1】Scientists have long thought about whether each animal species has a different language, much like different human languages that we cannot understand. Language experts agree on the fact that the way animals communicate through various calls which are not like human languages.
Animal calls are not considered as a language because the calls are limited to information related to food activities, warning about the presence of enemies and so on. They haven't the characteristics that all human languages have. That is because humans create new expressions every day by connecting different words. However, animal calls have unchanged meanings.
Anyway, animals do communicate. People who study humans believe that people speak with their whole bodies. To express a message, one does not always need words. Have you ever shared a private joke with your friends across the table？All you did was to give them a self-satisfied smile. Animals can communicate in much the same way as humans do. Although animals do not have the ability to speak words, they can use other methods, such as movements, calls and their sense of smell. In short, most of their communication is not related with speech.
If animals can make noises, why can't they talk？Humans and animals both have the necessary organs that produce sounds, such as lungs, throat, voice box, lips and tongue. However, human organs are fully developed, which makes it possible for us humans to speak.
1. What do we know about animal calls and human languages？ ________| A．Animal calls can express richer meanings. | B．Animal calls are made only in dangerous situations. |
| C．Human languages are more creative and changeable. | D．Both of them can express the same meanings. |
| A．movement | B．language | C．speech | D．writing |
| A．They don't need to communicate by speaking. |
| B．They haven't the necessary organs to produce sounds. |
| C．Their language-related organs aren't fully developed. |
| D．Their throats and lips are too wide to speak. |
| A．Why Can Humans Speak？ |
| B．Are Lungs Necessary to Speak？ |
| C．Why Humans Can't Understand Animal Calls？ |
| D．Are Animal Calls a Language Humans Don't Understand？ |
【推荐2】At the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Qatar, you may have noticed this strange scene at the beginning of each game. As the soccer players line up ready to walk onto the field they take the hand of a smiling and excited child next to them and walk out with them hand in hand.
The practice of sending children out with the players first took place from time to time throughout the 1990s. One child, also called a player escort, would accompany a team out at the beginning of an important game. From the year 2000 onwards, this custom started happening much more regularly. The 2000 Euro Championships was one of the first major soccer games where children were seen walking out with the players. But it was the 2002 FIFA World Cup where it really became popular. One of the most prominent ways this happened was by pairing up each player with a child as they walked out onto the soccer field. You can see it at the beginning of most important football games. From then on, it has become commonplace around the world for children to walk out with the players.
Ultimately soccer players walk out with a child because their club requires them to. It is in the interest of the soccer club to do this as it has potential benefits for both the child and the honor of the club. Soccer is a game that is loved by children throughout the world. Many would jump at the chance to have a taste of a real game in person. It’s also a chance for soccer club to make money. Most clubs have some sort of program where it’s possible to buy the experience of being a player escort. In England, it can be extremely expensive. A few years ago it was reported that some clubs were charging almost $800 per child to be a player escort!
1. Why did the writer mention the strange scene in the World Cup?| A．To draw readers’ interest. |
| B．To appreciate the children. |
| C．To show the charm of football players. |
| D．To stress the importance of the World Cup. |
| A．Its popularity. | B．Its successes. |
| C．Its hardships. | D．Its development. |
| A．Effective. | B．Noticeable. | C．Proper. | D．Difficult. |
| A．They can make much money. |
| B．They can gain great potential chance to be famous. |
| C．They are more likely to be chosen by their favorite clubs. |
| D．They are lucky enough to experience a real game by themselves. |
【推荐3】Take a quick tipple and you could find yourself speaking a second language more naturally, according to a new research. The foreign language skills of participants in the study were found to be improved after a drink of alcohol, which suggests the way alcohol can put us at ease outweighs the negative effects on our brain—at least for the first drink, anyway. The international team of researchers is warning against reading too much into their experiment, but it could reveal some interesting insights into the anxiety associated with speaking another language, and how alcohol can help us overcome it.
The study involved 50 native German speakers studying Dutch at a Dutch university, who had recently learned to speak, read, and write in the new language. Based on random selections, participants were either given alcohol or water as a control beverage. The amount of alcohol varied based on body size, but was the equivalent of just under a pint (460 milliliters) of 5 percent beer for a 70kg male. They then chatted to a researcher for five minutes, assessed by two native Dutch speakers who weren’t told whether alcohol had been consumed or not. Those people who had been given the alcoholic drink were given better ratings by the observers, especially for their pronunciation.
However, with only 50 people involved, we should be cautious of making too many generalizations on this study alone, but it’s an interesting pointer towards how a little bit of drink could grease the wheels as far as talking in a foreign language is concerned.
“One possible reason could be that, but more research is needed to test this. ” adds one of the team. “It is important to point out that participants in this study consumed a small amount of alcohol, however, higher levels of alcohol consumption might not have beneficial effects on our brain’s executive functioning, including our memory and our attention.
1. Which of the following caused alcohol drinkers to get better ratings in the experiment?| A．The skills of speaking a foreign language. | B．Alcohol’s role in improving one’s memory. |
| C．The anxiety-reducing effect of alcohol. | D．The brain’s executive function. |
| A．The former is heavier that the latter. |
| B．The former is of greater importance, benefit, or significance than the latter. |
| C．The former is lighter than the latter. |
| D．The former is of less importance, benefit, or significance than the latter. |
| A．The study hasn’t been carried out yet. | B．The size of participants is too small. |
| C．The study is not accountable and authoritative. | D．The process of the study is misguided. |
| A．Man needs a larger amount of alcohol than woman does to improve their oral speaking. |
| B．If you want to improve your pronunciation, you should drink as much as possible. |
| C．A right amount of alcohol will be helpful for language speaking. |
| D．Higher levels of alcohol consumption will have beneficial effects on the pronunciation of a foreign language. |
【推荐1】Americans do not believe their personal information is safe online, suggests findings from a new poll (民意调查). They are also not satisfied with the federal government’s efforts to protect such information.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and Meri Talk did the polling. It found that 64 percent of Americans say their social media activity is not secure. About as many have the same safety concerns about online information that shares their physical location. Half of Americans also believe their private text messages are not secure.
They are not just concerned. They want the federal government to do something about it. Almost 75 percent of Americans say they support creating laws for how companies can collect, use and share personal data.
A majority of those who took part in the poll said they have more trust in private companies than the federal government to address security and privacy issues. This comes even after years of hacks (黑客) of U. S. corporations that shared the personal information of millions of people around the world.
The poll answers showed that about 71 percent of Americans believe that individuals’ data privacy should be treated as a national security issue. But only 23 percent are satisfied with the federal government’s current efforts.
The law follows similar measures passed in California and Virginia, and gives people the right to find and delete personal information. Colorado’s law also permits people to choose out of having their data tracked and sold. Facebook and other companies opposed the bill.
The poll showed that protecting personal information online is “an area where people do see a direct role in government,” Benz said.
1. What percentage of Americans think their private text messages are not safe?| A．36 percent. | B．50 percent. | C．64 percent. | D．75 percent. |
| A．Creating laws for companies to deal with personal data. |
| B．Allowing personal data to be treated as a business issue. |
| C．Giving private companies more control over data privacy. |
| D．Trusting the federal government to fix the problem for them. |
| A．Themselves. | B．Social media platforms. | C．Private companies. | D．The federal government. |
| A．Americans are not safe online. | B．Americans are trying to protect themselves online. |
| C．Americans have little trust in the federal government. | D．Americans have little trust in online security. |
【推荐2】We seem to find out someone broke into a big company’s databases and left with millions of credit card numbers, passwords or other valuable information. Now a new kind of worry: someone could seize control of your wireless home network and steal your information from under your nose.
That’s the possibility raised by a couple of cyber security researchers from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. The problem, they say, is a weakness in the very protocol meant to make wi-fi secure. That protocol is called Wi-Fi Protected Access II, WPA2. And WPA2’s weakness could allow an attacker within physical range of your wi-fi network to make a copy of that network that they could then control. The researchers call their approach a key reinstallation attack, or KRACK.
It’s important to know that a KRACK attack remains a possibility for now. The scientists realized the threat while investigating wireless security. They’ll present this research on November 1st at the Computer and Communications Security (CCS) conference in Dallas and in December at the Black Hat Europe conference in London.
In their KRACK assumption, wireless devices would be fooled into connecting to the false network. And the attacker would be able to access all of the information that devices send and receive while connected to that network — even if that information has been coded. Android and Linux would be especially easy to attack because of how their encryption keys (密钥) are set.
One measure of protection against such an attack would be to make sure they you’ve installed the most up-to-date versions of your apps, browsers and wireless router software. Updated software is most likely to include the security patches (补丁) needed to avoid falling victim to a KRACK attack, because chances are that KRACK won’t remain simply a proof-of-concept for long.
1. How can the attacker take advantage of the WPA 2’s weakness?| A．By installing a key. | B．By approaching physical range. |
| C．By copying and controlling the network. | D．By controlling the Internet users. |
| A．The false network contributes little to such attack. |
| B．If coded, the information will be free from danger. |
| C．Android is easy to attack for lack of encryption keys. |
| D．All of the information might be accessible to the attacker. |
| A．Purchase the best-quality apps. | B．Install the latest relevant software. |
| C．Ignore the patches of the computers. | D．Keep the proof of KRACK long. |
| A．Sci-Tech Front. | B．Current Affairs. |
| C．Global Celebrities. | D．Financial Window. |
【推荐3】Some of us like to keep some things private — maybe we don’t want people knowing about our relationship, our age or where we live — because these details are personal. The problem is, everywhere we go online, we seem to leave a digital footprint.
On our social media accounts, we often present things like our opinions, connections and holiday photos. The issue is, how do we stop everybody seeing everything? Maybe we don’t want a stranger knowing our favourite type of coffee. And cookies — there was a time they were just something nice to eat. Now they seem to appear unexpectedly on websites. So how can you stay more private?
There are some steps you can take. First, on your social media accounts, check your privacy settings. Many social media sites allow everything to be seen by default (默认), and the responsibility is on you to set your boundaries. And limiting the amount you share isn’t only confined (局限于) to social media. There are many sites out there that help you to share documents — so a good tip may be to not put anything too private, like passwords, on there. One careless click may send it to the wrong person.
Finally, cookies are designed to improve your surfing experience by tracking and saving information about your visits to a site, helping to personalise your sessions. Deleting (删除) your using history may help, but there are certain apps which can block them if you don’t feel comfortable.
So, if you want to maintain your privacy online, maybe only share things you’d be happy with a stranger seeing — and if you don’t feel comfortable with cookies, you might decide to apply some tech to block them. If that’s not enough, just don’t accept them and visit another site — and why not have a yummy cookie to eat instead?
1. What is the article aimed at?| A．Reminding you to update information. |
| B．Advising you to maintain privacy online. |
| C．Encouraging you to live a simple digital life. |
| D．Warning you to delete social media accounts. |
| A．To increase the number of followers. |
| B．To block all the cookies from tracking. |
| C．To limit the amount of information shared. |
| D．To prevent strangers from viewing using history. |
| A．Disable some social media sites. |
| B．Share passwords with familiar ones. |
| C．Store documents on public sites. |
| D．Use suitable apps to block cookies. |
| A．Concerns for personal privacy. | B．Recommendation of private apps. |
| C．Suggestions for protecting privacy. | D．Application of high technologies. |
