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1、stepbystep3000第三册unit12答案及原文A Flying pod evolution automobiles predecessorsTravel on land water and snow fly portable wing.Fishing or hunting 15 kilometers stay still 30-horsepower motor 160 kilometers 80 450 kilometersMarketing campaign back light aircraftBA golf course named Fox Hollow, which has

2、won an award for its relatively low impact on environment and sustainable wildlife. Golf courses and the environment have historically been at odds. Its hard to reconcile the careful grooming and excessive water needed for greens and fairways with conservation and natural habitats. One case in point

3、, Lakewoods Fox Hollow Golf Course had its construction temporarily halted so some killdeer eggs can hatch. A pair of retail hawks were also born during the construction of Fox Hollow. However, the golf course has recently won an award for its relatively low impact an sustained wildlife. The Golf Co

4、urse Superintendents of America say Lakewoods 27-hole Fox Hollow course blends well with Bear Creek Lakes grasslands, and the land still hosts foxes, deer, great horned owls, blue herons, coyotes, and other wildlife. Only three Environmental Steward Awards are given out each year, so Lakewook offici

5、als are pretty excited about helping set the standard for golf courses with a soft touch. C:C1: F F T F TC2: 1999 old school friends 2005 12 million School college university a list of the members personal profile other peoples details Lives about yourself your self-esteem School reunions childhood

6、sweethearts relationships Have you ever wondered what your old schoolmates are doing now? well, plenty of people in Britain do. One of the most successful Internet ventures in Britain has shown how popular, and how lucrative, nostalgia can be. The website Friends Reunited was started for fun in 1999

7、 by a couple who were interested to know what their old school friends were doing. The project snowballed and by 2005, the site had 12 million members. One extraordinary fact is that Friends Reunited has never advertised, its success is entirely due to word-of-mouth. You can search for a school, col

8、lege or university and find a list of the members who were there in any year. You can also post a personal profile showing what you are doing now, and read other peoples details. Steve Pankhurst, one of the founders of the site, thinks that one of the reasons for its success is that some people like

9、 to be anonymous. On Friends Reunited, you can snoop on other peoples lives without giving away anything about yourself if you dont want to. Its also an opportunity to bolster your self-esteem by showing off to everyone just how successful and happy you are now, even if you werent while you were at

10、school. Friends Reunited has also led to many successful school reunions, and people meeting up with each other after many years. In particular, many people use the site to look up their childhood sweethearts and many couples have actually rekindled relationships after contacting each other through

11、the site. There have even been Friends Reunited weddings and babies, and Friends Reunited now has a new site called Friends Reunited Dating especially for people who are looking for love. The company has also launched other sites, such as Genes Reunited, which helps people to find long-lost relative

12、s and build their family tress online. So, whether you want to be nosy, contact old friends, organize a school reunion, find your first love, or simply show off you success, Friends Reunited is the site to visit. D Beware hackers!1. 75%2. Juveniles, usually in their late teens to early twenties3. Th

13、ey do it as a challenge.4. A former hacker, now a security consultant5. To fight the holes in the firewall - the protection device between different security systems6. Because they can bring expertise that only hackers understand, a holistic perception of computer systems7. Because they are so in-de

14、pth within a system.8. 90% or 95% effectiveness is better than not having anything at all.9. A good security policy will protect you from an employment level up to a system administration level.Tapescript:H - Holmes T - Teresa B - BevanH: Lets talk about how widespread the problem is. Many people th

15、ink the number of companies or government agencies whose security is breached is small. Is that the case or not?T: No, I think anybody who has information online . its gonna be a huge concern for anybody. Mostly because if youve got information on these websites, anybody can actually get into them.

16、The thing that you need to know is how to be careful. Its kind of like think of it as a security system in a building, lets say. If you have a security guard in the front, youre protected in that area. You need to do that all around the entire circle, lets say, to make sure that your entire informat

17、ion on these websites is completely protected.H: I . I read a statistic that said that something like 75 percent of companies online have been hacked, whether they know it or not. Is. is that . Thats huge.T: That is huge. And, in fact, it can be minor to major. Most of them are usually on the minor

18、scale - that being, some information getting in. And at this point in time, a lot of experts are saying that the hackers that are going into these sites are juveniles, usually in their late teens to early twenties. And most times, theyre really just doing things as a challenge, as a way to get in, b

19、ecause its something that they can do.H: Now, Mathew Bevan, whos a . whos a former hacker, who became a security consultant. Now . now, tell us about that. This happens a lot?T: This . right now, this is happening a lot. Mostly because these hackers that are young, juvenile children, or teens, as we

20、 have said, really know the industry. They know the computer so well, even more so than a lot of the security, you know, computer systems that are already in place. Theyve really become kind of an asset, or they could be a consultant, as . as Mathew is, because they really know how theyve got into t

21、hem. And these are the people that a lot of corporations can actually use, because what theyre doing is theyre fighting the holes in the firewalls which are the protection device between the different security systems -and theyre really kinda getting into the loopholes or the niches there. By doing

22、that this is great information that companies can use, because they may know, Okay, that . part of that . our website is not, you know, protected.H. You were a hacker. And how important is that for you in your current job, which is as a consultant for companies who fear hackers?B. Well, in my curren

23、t job, what I can do is bring expertise that perhaps only hackers will actually understand. Its kind of a perception of computer systems, sort of a holistic overview. And sometimes you get people who come from perhaps a sales background, and they move into IT in a company, or, you know, they., they

24、may just be programmers. turned security experts. Im not diminishing the expertise that they have, but sometimes there are very tiny things that they can overlook, just because theyre so in-depth within a system.H: So, on that same issue then, are you often surprised when you go in and speak with th

25、e companies? Are you surprised at how little some of them know about the dangers?B: Quite horrified. Just recently when I was out in Singapore, there was a . a company which had just been hacked. Their website had been changed - mentioning no names - but they told me that they werent going to instal

26、l a firewall because they didnt work. And I thought, well, at least something like a 90- 95 percent effectiveness of keeping people out surely is better than not having anything in there. I tried my best to explain to them, but sometimes these words fall on deaf ears.H. The question is, what is the

27、best way to convince non-technical managers of the importance to invest in effective information security technologies?B: One of the good ways that you can do is, obviously, what people do is show them statistics. Now people get blinded by statistics, and they can be manipulated to a certain advanta

28、ge. However, just show people maybe a trawl around the Internet: show them some of the hacker sites, some of the security sites which are available. Show them exactly the information that you can find and how its pertinent to your own company. Security management isnt just about what hardware and so

29、ftware you have installed. Its all about policy management as well. If you have a good security policy covering all aspects of your company, then this will protect you from employment level up to, obviously, a system administration level.Questions:1. How many companies online have been hacked?2. Who

30、 are the hackers usually?3. Why do they want to be hackers?4. Who is Mathew Bevan?5. What do the hackers do actually?6. Why would companies employ hackers to be their security consultants7. Why cant programmers be good security consultants?8. Why is it still necessary to install a firewall though it

31、 may not always work?9. Why is policy management so important to security management? E. Housing ProblemsA husband and a wife are discussing the demolition of some old buildings to make room for the erection of office blocks in an area where there is an acute shortage of housing.Wife: Its an absolut

32、e scandal. My friend Mrs Standley says that at least twenty people have already written to the council to complain.Husband: To complain about what ?Wife: Havent you heard ? The gas company are thinking of pulling down all those old houses in Salt Lane and selling the land to a property company to build office blocks. And the council are doing absolutely nothing about it.Husband: Well, those old houses are in pretty bad condition. Wife: Thats not the point. The point is its not