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四、阅读理解(共2篇10小题;每小题2分，满分20分)

Passage 3

Most people don't think about backing up their computer until they experience the dread of a hard drive crash. It's only then that the sad reality of a life's worth of photos, music,spreadsheets, contacts, and other files disappearing in an instant truly sinks in.

Denis Gorbachev of CloudBerry Lab recommends the "3-2-1 backup strategy in whichyou keep three copies of each important file: two of them on different external hard drives,stored in different locations, and one in the cloud"

Here's a real-life example of how often you need to back up your computer from Jimmy,a wedding photographer at PixelLicious. He uses the 3-2-1 strategy to ensure his client's specialmemories are both in the cloud and on external hard drives so that they never get lost. "Beforeleaving a wedding reception, I immediately pull one of the two memory cards from my cameraand store it in my wallet. A backup of the images will (literally) follow me wherever I go!" saysJimmy. "Then, as soon as I get home, a copy of the files will be transferred to my desktop sothat before the sun rises again, I already have three copies of my client's images." After being edited, copies of the final images are immediately uploaded onto his cloud storage, whileduplicate sets are transferred to external hard drives, one of which is stored in a bank's safetydeposit box. Having multiple backups provides peace of mind.

Your first computer backup may be a tedious affair as all of your downloaded music,photos, and files get copied onto external hard drives and up to a cloud. But that initial time and effort will save you from the dread of losing it all in a crash. From there, the ongoing backupprocess will become streamlined as additional files get copied to drives and backed up through automated methods.

27. According to the "3-2-1 backup strategy", how many copies of files do we need to keep?

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28. What do we know about Jimmy?

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29. Where does Jimmy keep his client's images after editing them?

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30. How might people feel when they back up their files for the first time?

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31. Translate: "Most people don't think about backing up their computer until they experience the dread of a hard drive crash.'

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Passage 4

Many people in China don't like to spend a lot of time outdoors in the hottest months ofthe year, when temperatures can become very high. But Britain, which doesn't get many sunnydays, has a different attitude toward summer.

Most Britons adore sunshine, and we spend as much time as we can outdoors on sunny

days.

In Britain, a series of two or more days at 25°C and over is usually called a "heat wave",and the whole country seems to become excited if such weather is reported. News reports andsocial media become filled with talks about the upcoming heat and sunshine.

Indeed, British newspaper Metro recently wrote, "A spell of beautiful weather is about tohit us, bringing temperatures up to 30°C (Hooray!)." Britons like to take advantage of goodweather-it brings us together.

For example, adults will drink beer outside pubs, young people will play soccer in the parkwith their friends, and the smell of barbecue smoke will fill the air, as people throw gardenparties with friends and relatives.

But although British summers are generally mild, they can also be unpredictable. Quiteoften, a short period of sunshine is followed by days of cold air and heavy rain.

Young people usually put up with bad weather, but adults tend to moan about it. Some ofthem even blame the rain on weather forecasters.

But good weather can cause a lot of drama too. During heat waves-whose temperaturesusually don't get higher than 25°C-people often complain that it is "too hot", and some evendemand to leave work early.

The Trades Union Congress, an English and Welsh workers' union, is even trying tointroduce a rule that forbids employers from making their employees work when thetemperature outside is over 30°C. Just imagine that rule in Asia-every business would beempty in the summer

Still, even if Britain cannot boast of the perfect climate, it's always a lovely place to travelto in the summer. And if you're lucky enough to visit on a summer day, you'll see Britons atour best coming together to relax and enjoy ourselves.

32. What do most Britons adore?

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33. According to the passage, what does a "heat wave" in the United Kingdom refer to?

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34. How will most British people feel if there is "a heat wave"?

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35. What will the trades union do if the weather gets higher than 30°C?

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36. Translate: "Still, even if Britain cannot boast of the perfect climate, it's always a lovely place to travel to in the summer."

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