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下面的短文有15处空白,请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。Car Thieves Could Be Stopped Remotely(遥远地) Speeding off(超速行驶) in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch. But he is in a nasty surprise. The car is fitted with a remote immobilizer(使车辆不能调动的装置), and a radio signal from a control center miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine (51) , he will not be able to start it again. For now, such devices (52) only available for fleets of trucks and specialist vehicles used on construction sites. But remote immobilization(使车辆不能调动) technology could soon start to trickle(慢慢地移动) down to ordinary cars, and (53) be available to ordinary cars in the UK (54) two months. The idea goes like this. A control box fitted to the car incorporates (55) iniature cellphone (移动电话,手机), a microprocessor and memory, and a GPS satellite positioning receiver. (56) the car is stolen, a coded cellphone signal will tell the unit to block the vehicles engine management system and prevent the engine (57) restarted. There are even plans for immobilizers (58) shut down vehicles on the move, though there are fears over the safety implications of such a system. In the UK, an array of technical fixes is already making (59) harder for car thieves. The pattern of vehicles crime has changed, says Martyn Randall of Thatcham, a security research organization based in Berkshire that is funded in part (60) the motor insurance industry. He says it would only take him a few minutes to (61) a novice(新手,初学者) how to steal a car using a bare minimum of tools. But only if the car is more than 10 years old. Modern cars are a far tougher (艰苦的) proposition (任务), as their engine management computer will not (62) them to start unless they receive a unique ID code beamed out by the ignition(点火) key. In the UK, technologies like this (63) achieve a 31 per cent drop in vehicle-related crime since 1997. But determined criminals are still managing to find other ways to steal cars. Often by getting hold of the owners keys in a burglary (夜窃行为;盗窃). In 2000, 12 per cent of vehicles stolen in the UK were taken using the owners keys double the previous years figure. Remote-controlled immobilization system would (64) a major new obstacle in the criminals way by making such thefts pointless. A group that includes Thatcham, the police, insurance companies and security technology firms have developed standards for a system that could go on the market sooner than the (65) expects.

A. off
B. on
C. at
D. of

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When we think about addiction to drugs or alcohol, we frequently focus on negative aspects, ignoring the pleasures that accompany drinking or drug-taking. (21) the essence of any serious addiction is a pursuit of pleasure, a search for a "high" that normal life does not (22) . It is only the inability to function (23) the addictive substance that is dismaying, the dependence of the organism upon a certain experience and a(n) (24) inability to function normally without it. Thus a person will take two or three (25) at the end of the day not merely for the pleasure drinking provides, but also because he "doesn’t feel (26) " without them. (27) does not merely pursue a pleasurable experience and need to (28) it in order to function normally. He needs to repeat it again and again. Something about that particular experience makes life without it (29) complete. Other potentially pleasurable experiences axe no longer possible, (30) under the spell of the addictive experience, his life is peculiarly (31) . The addict craves an experience and yet he is never really satisfied. The organism may be (32) sated, but soon it begins to crave again. Finally a serious addiction is (33) a harmless pursuit of pleasure by its distinctly destructive elements. A heroin addict, for instance, leads a (34) life: his increasing need for heroin in increasing doses prevents him from Working, from maintaining relationships, from developing in human ways. (35) an alcoholic’s life is narrowed and dehumanized by his dependence on alcohol.

A. except
B. without
C. with
D. besides

There are faults which age releases us from, and there are virtues which turn to vices with the lapse of years. The worst of these is thrift, which in early and middle life is wisdom and duty to practice for a provision against destitution. As time goes on this virtue is apt to turn into the ugliest, cruelest, shabbiest of the vices. Then the victim of it finds himself storing past all probable need of saying for himself or those next him, m the deprivation of the remoter kin of the race; In the earlier time when gain was symbolized by gold or silver, the miser had a sensual joy in the touch of his riches, in hearing the coins clink in their fall through his fingers, and in gloating upon their increase sensible m the hand and eye. Then the miser had his place among the great figures of misdoing; he was of a dramatic effect, like a murderer or a robber; and something of this bad distinction clung to him even when his coins had changed to paper currency, the clean, white notes of the only English bank, or the greenbacks of our innumerable banks of issue; but when the sense of riches had been transmuted to the balance in his favor at his banker’s, or the bonds in his drawer at the safety-deposit vault, all splendor had gone out of his vice. His bad eminence was gone, but he clung to the lust of gain which had ranked him with the picturesque wrong-doers, and which only ruin from without could save him from, unless he gave his remnant of strength to saving himself from it. Most aging men are sensible of all this, but few have the frankness of that aging man who once said that he who died rich died disgraced, and died the other day in the comparative poverty of fifty millions. The italicized expression "gloating upon" probably means ______.

A. thinking with slight guilt
B. seeing with much satisfaction
C. touching with great awe
D. hearing with little delight

下列哪种病毒不能单独致病

A. 甲型肝炎病毒
B. 乙型肝炎病毒
C. 丙型肝炎病毒
D. 丁型肝炎病毒
E. 戊型肝炎病毒

When we think about addiction to drugs or alcohol, we frequently focus on negative aspects, ignoring the pleasures that accompany drinking or drug-taking. (21) the essence of any serious addiction is a pursuit of pleasure, a search for a "high" that normal life does not (22) . It is only the inability to function (23) the addictive substance that is dismaying, the dependence of the organism upon a certain experience and a(n) (24) inability to function normally without it. Thus a person will take two or three (25) at the end of the day not merely for the pleasure drinking provides, but also because he "doesn’t feel (26) " without them. (27) does not merely pursue a pleasurable experience and need to (28) it in order to function normally. He needs to repeat it again and again. Something about that particular experience makes life without it (29) complete. Other potentially pleasurable experiences axe no longer possible, (30) under the spell of the addictive experience, his life is peculiarly (31) . The addict craves an experience and yet he is never really satisfied. The organism may be (32) sated, but soon it begins to crave again. Finally a serious addiction is (33) a harmless pursuit of pleasure by its distinctly destructive elements. A heroin addict, for instance, leads a (34) life: his increasing need for heroin in increasing doses prevents him from Working, from maintaining relationships, from developing in human ways. (35) an alcoholic’s life is narrowed and dehumanized by his dependence on alcohol.

A. distorted
B. rectified
C. exaggerated
D. improved

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