The Students

The Students′Learning Tasks

Task One

How to Beat On-line Credit-card Thieves The Internet has led to a huge increase in credit-card fraud. Y our card information could even be for sale in an illegal Web site.

Web sites offering cheap goods and services should be regarded with care .On-line shoppers who enter their credit-card information may never receive the goods they thought they bought .

The thieves then go shopping with your card number—or sell the information over the Internet.

Computers hackers have broken down security systems , raising questions about the safety of cardholder information . Several months ago , 25,000 customers of CD Universe , an on-line music retailer（批发商）, were not lucky .Their names,addresses,and credit-card numbers were posted on a Web site after the retailer refused to pay US 157,828 dollars to get the information .

Credit-card firms are now fighting against on-line fraud . Master card is working on plans for Web-only credit-card, with a lower credit limit .The card could be used only for shopping on-line.

However, there are a few simple steps you can take to keep from being cheated .

Ask about your credit-card firm’s on-line rules: Under British law,cardholders are responsible for the first US 78 dollars of any fraudulent spending.

And shop only at secure sites: Send your credit-card information only if the Web site offers advanced secure system.

If the security is in place, a letter will appear in bottom right-hand corner of your screen.The Web site address may also starts https: —the extra “s”stands for secure. If in doubt, give your credit-card information over the telephone.

Keep your password safe: Most on-line sites require a user name and password before placing an order.Treat your password with care.

Explain the words in bold in the passage in Chinese.

1、fraud

2、illegal

3、hacker

4、security

5、cardholder

6、cheated

7、advanced 8、password

Task Two

Changing habits

SONG Yinan, 16, used to hate drinking milk for breakfast. But the Taiyuan girl began drinking it because her mom, as well as many others, said that milk was good for her growing body. Besides, milk and bread made up a convenient diet that helped save her parents a lot of time after Song entered junior high and had to arrive at school early in the morning. Hence, Mengniu and Yili became her favorite brands of morning milk and yoghurt after dinner.

However, she has been forced to change her diet since the recent milk crisis. Many best-selling home milk brands such as Mengniu, Yili and Bright were discovered to contain melamine, which is usually used to make plastic. The bad milk products have sickened more than 53,000 babies and killed four.

“I shifted (转向) to rice porridge,” she said. “My mom has to get up at 5:50 am to prepare my breakfast and make sure that it cools down when I get up.”

Song has become addicted to milk, so she doesn’t quite enjoy her morning meal these days although she knows that it’s a tiring jo b for her working mom.

“I’ll turn back to Mengniu and Yili when they finally improve their products,” she said.

However, right now Song’s mom tries to adjust her eating habits by cooking different foods. Besides rice porridge, noodles, egg drop soup and soybean milk are prepared to diversify her breakfast.

“I’m considering buying a soybean grinder, but the prices of soybean grinders are scaling up thes e days,” complained her mother.

Beijing student Huang Shuang’s family has a grinder, and soybean milk has become a regular (通常的) recipe in the family during the weekends. From Monday to Friday, the 16-year-old has given up drinking Mengniu for Sanyuan, the only big brand that passed the quality test two weeks ago. The milk crisis has also warned her to develop a cautious habit when shopping for food.

“I have started to pay attention to when and where my purchases were made,” Huang said.

Find the following words or phrases from the passage.

1、从此

2、危机

3、三聚氰胺

4、使多样化

5、豆浆机

6、攀升