1、 The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casing gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the morning, when its timbers were saturated with dew, so that I fancied that by noon some sweet gum would exude from them.（  ） 单选题 2分

2、Looking you straight in the eye does not mean the person is telling the truth. Experienced liars often do this deliberately.（   ） 单选题 2分

3、Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but nothing could induce him to make any changes in his mode of life, or add anything superfluous to his bare necessities.（  ） 单选题 2分

4、H．D．Thoreau went to the woods because he wished to read books and practice resignation there.（ ） 判断题 2分

5、Thoreau advocate simplicity of life by suggesting one meal a day instead of three, and five dished at one time instead of a hundred.（ ） 判断题 2分

6、Giving Credit Where Credit Is Not Due 　　The big identity-theft bust last week was just a taste of what's to come. Here's how to protect your good name. HERE'S THE SCARY THING about the identity-theft ring that the feds cracked last week: there was nothing any of its estimated 40,000 victims could have done to prevent it from happening. This was an inside job, according to court documents. A lowly help-desk worker at Teledata Communications, a software firm that helps banks access credit reports online, allegedly stole passwords for those reports and sold them to a group of 20 thieves at $60 a pop. That allowed the gang to cherry-pick consumers with good credit and apply for all kinds of accounts in their names. Cost to the victims: $3 million and rising. 　　Even scarier is that this, the largest identity-theft bust to date, is just a drop in the bit bucket. More than 700,000 Americans have their credit hijacked every year. It's one of crime's biggest growth markets. A name, address and Social Security number--which can often be found on the Web--is all anybody needs to apply for a bogus line of credit. Credit companies make $1.3 trillion annually and lose less than 2% of that revenue to fraud, so there's little financial incentive for them to make the application process more secure. As it stands now, it's up to you to protect your identity. 　　The good news is that there are plenty of steps you can take. Most credit thieves are opportunists, not well-organized gangs. A lot of them go Dumpster diving for those millions of "pre-approved" credit-card mailings that go out every day. Others steal wallets and return them, taking only a Social Security number. Shredding your junk mail and leaving your Social Security card at home can save a lot of agony later. 　　But the most effective way to keep your identity clean is to check your credit reports once or twice a year. There are three major credit-report outfits: Equifax (at equifax.com), Trans-Union (www.transunion.com) and Experian (experian.com). All allow you to order reports online, which is a lot better than wading through voice-mail hell on their 800 lines. Of the three, I found TransUnion's website to be the cheapest and most comprehensive--laying out state-by-state prices, rights and tips for consumers in easy-to-read fashion. 　　If you're lucky enough to live in Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey or Vermont, you are entitled to one free report a year by law. Otherwise it's going to cost $8 to $14 each time. Avoid services that offer to monitor your reports year-round for about $70; that's $10 more than the going rate among thieves. If you think you're a victim of identity theft, you can ask for fraud alerts to be put on file at each of the three credit-report companies. You can also download a theft-report form at www.consumer.gov/idtheft, which, along with a local police report, should help when irate creditors come knocking. Just don't expect justice. That audacious help-desk worker was one of the fewer than 2% of identity thieves who are ever caught.　　 What is the trend of credit-theft crime?（  ） 单选题 2分

7、The expression “inside job” (Line 4, Paragraph 1) most probably means（ ）. 单选题 2分

8、The creditors can protect their identity in the following way except（ ). 单选题 2分

9、Why is it easy to have credit-theft?（ ） 单选题 2分

10、What is the best title of the text?（ ） 单选题 2分

11、Or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. 简答题 2分

12、I read one or two shallow books of travel in the intervals of my work, till that employment made me ashamed of myself, and I asked where it was then that I lived. 简答题 2分

13、The French word “renaissance” means rebirth. It was first used in 1855 by the historian Jules Michelet in his History of France, and then adopted by historians of culture, by art historians, and eventually by music historians, all of whom applied it to European culture during the 150 years spanning 1450-1600. The concept of rebirth was appropriate to this period of European history because of the renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman culture that began in Italy and then spread throughout Europe. Scholars and artists of this period wanted to restore the learning and ideals of the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome. To these scholars this meant a return to human. Fulfillment in life became a desirable goal, and expressing the entire range of human emotions and enjoying the pleasures of the senses were no longer frowned on. Artists and writers now turned to religious subject matter and sought to make their works understandable and appealing. These changes in outlook deeply affected the musical culture of the Renaissance period----how people thought about music as well as the way music was composed and experienced. They could see the architectural monuments, sculptures, plays, and poems that were being rediscovered, but they could not actually hear ancient music--- although they could read the writings of classical philosophers, poets, essayists, and music theorists that were becoming available in translation. They learned about the power of ancient music to move the listener and wondered why modern music did not have the same effect. For example, the influential religious leader Bernardino Cirillo expressed disappointment with the music of his time. He urged musicians to follow the example of the sculptors, painters, architects, and scholars who had rediscovered ancient art and literature. The musical Renaissance in Europe was more a general cultural movement and state of mind than a specific set of musical techniques. Furthermore, music changed so rapidly during this century and a half--- though at different rates in different countries---that we cannot define a single Renaissance style. According to the passage, why was Bemaradino Cirillo disappointed with the music of his time? 简答题 2分

14、Which of the following is mentioned in the passage as a reason for the absence of a single Renaissance musical style? 简答题 2分

15、What is t the “Renaissance” according to the passage? 简答题 2分

16、Thoreau thinks that the post-office is of great significance in his life, through which quite a lot of important communication are made. 简答题 2分