There is no place like home―as long as it is far enough away, it seems.

Britain has become a nation of nomads（流浪者），with nearly half of us living more than 100 miles from the town or village where we grew up, research shows.

The trend is being fuelled by the Internet, better communications and property wealth.

People who move away fit into four separate categories―Sheep, Hens, Cows or Pigs.

Sheep are people who change home for economic and emotional peace. Hens are home and environment care-seekers. Cows are career or work shifters, while pigs are people caught up in grand parental support. It is far from the common believed idea of Coronation Streets, where close-knit generations of the same family live within a few streets of each other throughout their lives. Less. Than 20 percent of people now live in the town where they were born. Instead, young adults move away to find work, get married or seek adventure.

Many use the Internet to work from a home which need not be within easy traveling distance of their workplace.

Also joining the moving crowd are older people who either move to be near grandchildren or retire to new homes.

One in ten of those who do make away makes a complete break, and now lives 500 miles or more from where they grew up.

Women are likely to leave as men, a sign of independence that would not have excited in the 1950s and 60s.

People in the North-East, North-West, Yorkshire and Scotland are the most likely to live in the community where they were born, the study found.

67．According to the research in the passage, British people tend to ________.

A．become more independent whenever they graduate or grow up

B．live or work far away from where they were born or grew up

C．live near their own homes

D．become more close to each other

68．Which of the following is not a reason for the trend mentioned in the text? _________.

A．The wide use of Internet            B．Improved communications

C．People becoming richer             D．More job opportunities

69．Who are not likely to move away from home? ___________.

A．Older people                     B．Women

C．People in Scotland             D．Young people

70．Which of the following can be regarded as a Cow? __________.

A．A person who changes job often

B．A person who leaves home because of family trouble

C．A person who retires to a new home

D．A person who breaks away from his home

British society is considered to be divided into three main groups of classes―the Upper Class, the Middle Class, and the Lower or Working Class. This is known as the Class system and it is important to know something about it if you want to understand British people and society. Most British people grow up with a deep knowledge and understanding of the class system even if they are not very conscious（意識到）of it. Most people know which class they belong to by the way they speak, their clothes, their interests or even the type of food they eat.

Social class is not only about behavior and attitudes. For example, although many upper class people are rich and may own a lot of land, having a lot of money does not make a person upper class. It is also important to come from a particular kind of family, have friends who are considered suitable, have been to a certain type of private school and speak with the right kind of accent. There are people who are poor but who do not think of themselves as working class, because their family background, education, political opinions, etc. are different from those of most working-class people. Many people do not like the class system but it is impossible to pretend that these differences do not exist or that British people do not sometimes form opinions in this way.

63．According to the passage, you cannot judge an Englishman’s social class by _________.

A．where he was born              B．the way he speaks

C．the clothes he wears             D．the interests he has

64．If an Englishman has much money, __________.

A．he belongs to the middle class

B．he must be a member of the upper class

C．he is not likely to be from the upper class

D．he may buy an upper class title with the money

65．What does the second paragraph mainly discuss? ________.

A．Many rich people do not belong to the upper class

B．Today many British people do not like the class system

C．Many poor people do not consider themselves as lower class

D．An Englishman’s social class is determined by many factors（因素）

66．According to the passage, the idea of the class system in Britain _________.

A．exists only in the mind of  foreigners       B．is deeply rooted in the British people

C．is now under severe attack                     D．is regarded as a long system

Computer hackers（黑客）have now got their hands on mobile phones. A phone virus（病毒）program can  36  your phone do things you have no control over, computer security experts  37 .

It might  38  the White House or the police, or forward your personal address book to a marketing company.

Or it could simply eat into the phone’s operating software, turning it  39  and erasing your personal information.

Similar viruses have already made mobile phone owners  40  in Japan and Europe.

Mr Hypponen, chief technical officer of a computer security in Fin-land said a virus “can get your  41  and send them somewhere else. And it can record your  42 .”

Mobiles are now able to surf the net, send e-mails and  43  software. So they are easy  44  for the same hackers who have sent viruses to computers over the past decade.

“It’s technically  45  now,” said Stephen Trilling, director of re-search at anti-virus  46 .

“If the phone is connected to the  47 , it cant be used to transmit threats and  48  just as any computer can. ”

In Japan, if you opened a certain e-mail message  49  your mobile, it would cause the phone to repeatedly  50  the national emergency number.

So phone operators had to  51  emergency calls until the  52  was removed.

In Europe, mobile’s short message service,  53 ,SMS, has been used to send codes that could damage  54.

Mobile users can  55  virus, of course, by sticking to their traditional phones without Web links, some experts said.

The scientist is always enthusiastic ________trying new ideas.

A．with           B．a(chǎn)bout          C．for            D．to

――Hi, Tracy; how are you doing?

――I’m tired out, for I ______my living room all day.

A．painted                        B．had painted

C．have painted                D．have been painting

By the time you arrive at school, the headmaster _________for Japan to attend an important meeting.

A．will leave         B．leaves          C．will have left        D．left

To our surprise, the well dressed young lady ________to be a thief.

A．found out         B．burst out      C．put out         D．turned out

――How do you deal with the disagreement between the shop and the customers?

――The key _______the problem is to meet the demand ________by the customers.

A．to solving; made              B．to solving; making

C．to solve; made                D．to solve; making