E-mail is one of the biggest threats（威胁）to your home computer. By understanding how E-mail works, and by taking some steps in how you deal with reading and writing messages, you can keep this threat out of your computer. When you exchange E-mail with someone else, the messages sent between you and that person pass through several computers before they reach their places. Imagine this conversation as it is taking place in an Internet“room”, a very, very big room. Anyone, or more exactly, any program can probably understand what is being said, because most Internet conversations are not hidden（隐藏）in any way. As a result, others may be listening in, capturing what you send, and using it for their own good.

 

    E-mail-borne viruses（病毒）often arrive in attractive, fantastic appearances, much like the beautiful ads we receive by way of traditional mail that is made to sell us something. By beautiful appearances, an infected（感染）E-mail message seems to be something we want to read from someone we know, not a mean virus ready to destroy or damage our computers.

    There are some steps that you can take to help you decide what to do with every E-mail message with an attachment（附件）that you receive. You should only read a message that passes all of these tests:

    1）The Know Test: Is the E-mail from someone that you know?

    2）The Received Test: Have you received E-mail from this sender before?

    3）The Expect Test: Were you waiting for E-mail with an attachment from this sender?

    4）The Meaning Test: Do the topic line of the E-mail massage and the name of the attachment both have meanings?

    5）The Virus Test: Is the E-mail infected?

1. Which of the following is the main idea of the first paragraph?

    A. We should not exchange our E-mail with someone else.

    B. It is dangerous to read and write E-mail message sat home.

    C. We should learn how E-mail works to take care of our computers.

    D. Our chats on computers are usually going on in a big Internet room.

2. What does the underlined word“capturing”probably mean?

    A. taking               B. hiding         C. receiving           D. destroying

3. As the Internet is open to anyone, we should ___________.

    A. not read and write messages in our home computers

    B. not allow nice advertisements to reach our computers

    C. stop our conversations while someone is listening in it

    D. be careful with the attractive E-mails sent by strangers

4. What is the passage mainly talking about?

A. The threats of E-mail.

B. The safety of home computers.

C. The E-mail-borne viruses.

D. The steps to receive E-mail messages

Daniel gets an e-mail one day. Due to some computer problems, he cannot read some of the words clearly. Complete the e-mail with’ more … than’, ‘fewer … than’, ‘less … than’, ‘like’, ‘alike’, ‘the same as’ and ‘different from’, You can use some of them more than once.

Dear Daniel

My name is Xu Dong. I am in Grade 8 in No. 1 Secondary School in Xishan. My hometown is ⁽¹⁾ ________ Beijing. It's a small town in Kunming. I’m in Kunming now, and I’m using my uncle's computer to write this e-mail to you.

I have five lessons every day so I have ⁽²⁾ ________ lessons ________ You. I have 1.5 hours for lunch. Although I have ⁽³⁾ ________ Time for lunch ________ you, I am not happy. I hope my life is ⁽⁴⁾ ________ yours. I want to go to a bigger school and read more books. My teachers tell me that I am ⁽⁵⁾ ________ others but I do not feel that way. I have to help my parents in the fields so I have ⁽⁶⁾ ________ time studying ________ children in the cities. Therefore, I probably spend ⁽⁷⁾ ________ time playing ________ you.

I wish I could join an after-school club ⁽⁸⁾ ________ you. I wish I could talk to a big brother or sister in a Helping Hands Club ⁽⁹⁾ ________ the new students in your school. I wish we were all ⁽¹⁰⁾ ________.

I can't check e-mails because I don't have a computer back home. Please write a letter t o me and send it to my school. Write soon!

Best wishes

Xu Dong

Here is an e-mail from Simon's e-friend Mike. Read it and try to find what Mike's problem is and then complete the exercises after it. Choose the correct answers.

　　Dear Simon

　　How are you recently? I've not received your letter for nearly a month. I hope everything goes well with you.

　　I have moved into a new house. But I don't feel happy about it. Because my parents have suddenly become very serious about cleaning. They want me to be very diligent about cleaning my room. I have to make the bed every day. I have to put all of my things away before l go to bed every evening.

　　When we lived in the old house, life was more relaxed and my parents weren't so strict about cleaning. I could leave all my books and toys all over the house. I was free at that time. I prefer my life in the old house.

　　My parents say that a clean house is a comfortable house. Do you agree with them?

　　Regards

　　Mike

1 Which word is the synonym of‘diligent’?

[　　]

A．hard-working　　　B．lazy

C．happy　　　　　　D．helpful

2 Mike prefers ________

[　　]

A．living in the new house.

B．living in the old house.

C．living with his grandparents.

D．cleaning his new house.

3 What can't Mike do in his new home?

[　　]

A．He can't play with the cat.

B．He can't watch TV.

C．He can't leave his things everywhere.

D．He can't chat with friends on the Internet.

4 Why do you think Mike's parents are strict about cleaning?

[　　]

A．Because they want to train Mike.

B．Because they often have guests come over their home.

C．Because they're doctors.

D．Because they think a clean home is more comfortable.

5 What does Mike think about the old house?

[　　]

A．It was very clean.

B．It was very small.

C．Life there was more relaxed.

D．Parents never cleaned the old house

Kathy is writing an e-mail to Nancy. Read what she writes and circle the correct answer to fill in the blanks.

(1)A.boring	B.sad	C.interesting	D.difficult
(2)A.dancing	B.driving	C.writing	D.Home Economics
(3)A.to	B.until	C.when	D.at
(4)A.classes	B.books	C.brother	D.cars
(5)A.find	B.finding	C.to find	D.finds
(6)A.interested	B.interesting	C.interest	D.interests
(7)A.a little	B.less	C.many	D.more