文档介绍：2015考研英语冲刺串讲讲义
(适合英语一及英语二)
陈正康博士编讲
Habits are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the fort of familiar routine. “Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd,” William Wordsworth said in the 19th century.
21. The view of Wordsworth about habit is claimed by being .
[A] casual
[B] familiar
[C]mechanical
[D] changeable
“The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of “The Open Mind” and an executive change consultant for Professional Thinking Partners. “But we are taught instead to ‘decide,’ just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider.’” She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”
24. Dawna Markova would most probably agree that .
[A] ideas are born of a relaxing mind
[B] innovativeness could be taught
[C] decisiveness derives from fantastic ideas
[D] curiosity activates creative minds
The current state of affaires may have been encouraged – though not justified – by the lack of legal penalty (in America, but not Europe) for data leakage. Until California recently passed a law, American firms did not have to tell anyone, even the victim, when data went astray. That may change fast: lots of proposed data-security legislation is now doing the rounds in Washington, . Meanwhile, the theft of information about some 40 million credit-card accounts in America, disclosed on June 17th, overshadowed a hugely important decision a day earlier by America’s Federal mission (FTC) that puts corporate America on notice that regulators will act if firms fail to provide adequate data security.
40. It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that .
[A] data leakage is more severe in Europe.
[B] FTC’s decision is essential to data security.
[C] California takes the lead in security legislation.
[D] legal penalty is a major solut