Passage Three This week some big Internet sites were so busy that they stopped working. Hackers or people who break into other people’s computers did it. Experts think programs called Tribal Village or Trinoo were used. The programs worked like time bombs. The hackers put software on other people’s computers. The people do not even know. The software just sits and waits until the hacker starts it. When the hacker wants, all the computers call the same web site. This week Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, CNN, Buy, eTrade and zNet were called. The costs are growing. These web sites make money from advertising. People go to the web sites for information and news. If the web site is not working, they will go to other sites. Yahoo got many calls. It was like 104-million people dialing in at once. The website AntiOnline put the software on its site. They hope someone will make a fix. The only way to stop the hackers is to stop them from getting into computers. Now it is easy to
A. computers are hard to reach
B. everyone has their computers locked
C. computers are not very secure
D. companies ask them to do it
Passage Three This week some big Internet sites were so busy that they stopped working. Hackers or people who break into other people’s computers did it. Experts think programs called Tribal Village or Trinoo were used. The programs worked like time bombs. The hackers put software on other people’s computers. The people do not even know. The software just sits and waits until the hacker starts it. When the hacker wants, all the computers call the same web site. This week Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, CNN, Buy, eTrade and zNet were called. The costs are growing. These web sites make money from advertising. People go to the web sites for information and news. If the web site is not working, they will go to other sites. Yahoo got many calls. It was like 104-million people dialing in at once. The website AntiOnline put the software on its site. They hope someone will make a fix. The only way to stop the hackers is to stop them from getting into computers. Now it is easy to
A. made by the hackers and put on computers
B. not found by the experts
C. prepackaged and found on many computers
D. hard to find
Passage Four
Internet-addicted job seekers may be partly the cause of the fact that it is taking the unemployed 23 % longer to find a new position than it took during the last recession (经济萧条), when the "benefits" of online job searching were unavailable. "A growing number of unemployed Americans waste time browsing (济览) the estimated 4,000 to 5,000 online job sites, filling them with resumes, and then waiting for replies. It is common for long-time jobless ness," argues Professor John A. Challenger. Although the Internet has the potential to be very useful for job seekers and it has become the primary tool for many, Challenger believes that it should be considered secondary to the traditional technique of meeting would-be employers in person.
In addition to slowing job search efforts, the Internet is making the hiring process longer for the employer. In a survey of 5,000 hiring managers by an online resume site, 72 % said that a majorit
A. draw more job seekers to the websites
B. get rid of some unrelated resumes
C. serve as a bridge between the job seekers and the employers
D. provide the job seekers with more chances to visit the employers in person
Passage Four Internet-addicted job seekers may be partly the cause of the fact that it is taking the unemployed 23 % longer to find a new position than it took during the last recession (经济萧条), when the "benefits" of online job searching were unavailable. "A growing number of unemployed Americans waste time browsing (济览) the estimated 4,000 to 5,000 online job sites, filling them with resumes, and then waiting for replies. It is common for long-time jobless ness," argues Professor John A. Challenger. Although the Internet has the potential to be very useful for job seekers and it has become the primary tool for many, Challenger believes that it should be considered secondary to the traditional technique of meeting would-be employers in person. In addition to slowing job search efforts, the Internet is making the hiring process longer for the employer. In a survey of 5,000 hiring managers by an online resume site, 72 % said that a majority of the resumes
A. draw more job seekers to the websites
B. get rid of some unrelated resumes
C. serve as a bridge between the job seekers and the employers
D. provide the job seekers with more chances to visit the employers in person
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