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It may seem strange that, in an age (61) it was fashionable for ladies to (62) their hair styled, Mr. Budd should search for opportunities of making money. (63) recently a new "Ladies Hairdressing Department" had opened opposite. The result was an (64) stream of young ladies who hurried there to (65) appointments. Day after day, Mr. Budd watched them going in and (66) of the rival shop and hoped that some of them (67) come over to him; but they never did. And yet Mr. Budd knew that he was (68) better hairdresser. He had studied especially the art of hair-dyeing, and (69) made him quite angry to see the careless way in which his (70) did this particular branch of his work.
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[单项选择]Are the British people Europeans This may seem a strange question to Africans and Asians, who tend to think of all white men as Europeans. But the British, when they are in Britain, do not regard themselves as Europeans. The Europeans, to them, are those rather excitable foreigners from the other side of the English Channel, who have never learnt how to speak English. Europe is "the Continent"; a place full of interest for Britain tourists, but also the source of almost all the wars in which Britain has ever been involved. Thus, although geographically speaking Britain is a part of Europe, yet the fact that it is a separate island has made its people feel very, very insular. They feel, and in many ways are, different from the rest of Europe, and they sometimes annoy continental nations by failing to support them, or even to understand them, in time of need.
Where did the British people come from This is an extraordinary interesting question, since they are a mixture of many d
A. The British in Britain regard themselves as Europeans.
B. Chinese and Egyptian will think of white men as Europeans.
C. White men are Europeans in the eye of Americans and Asians.
D. Those who speak English are Europeans.
[填空题]Clattering keyboards may seem the white noise of the modern age, but they betray more information than unwary typists realize. Simply by analyzing audio recordings of keyboard clatter, computer scientists can now reconstruct an accurate transcript of what was typed--including passwords. (41) .
Such snooping is possible because each key produces a characteristic dick, shaped by its position on the keyboard, the vigor and hand position of the typist, and the type of keyboard used. But past attempts to decipher keyboard sounds were only modestly successful, requiring a training session in which the computer matched a known transcript to an audio recording of each key being struck. (42) . Furthermore, each new typist or keyboard required a fresh transcript and training session, limiting the method’s appeal to would-be hackers.
Now, in a blow to acoustic security, Doug Tygar and his colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, have published details o
