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Ero Carrera is watching the computer screen in a lab in California as he tracks a new computer virus slowly circling the globe, targeting cell phones. Working from the US office of the Finnish computer   21   firm, Carrera knows this virus could be the start of something big and   22  . He’s one of a couple of hundred “virus hunters” worldwide who guard computers and cell phones from   23  . That’s the job for these unlikely action heroes of the Internet age, where quick and curious minds are more important than strong   24  .

    Carrera works with Tzvetan Chaliavski to form the two-man team in California. Like that of other employees in the anti-virus companies in the world, their work is at the battle front of providing   25   from the damaging of computer virus, worms and Trojans. They break down software to discover a new virus and crack its code. Then they   26   and ship out a software update to customers. Roughly 300 new samples of viruses await the pair on a(n)  27   day.

    Carrera has created a mathematical formula(公式), to   28   easily the software structure of viruses. With it, he is better able to compare the many variants(變種) and families of malware(惡意軟件). To his   29  , Chaliavski, it doesn’t even matter why someone would create a virus. All that   30   is the hunt.

21. A. advertising          B. commercial                     C. printing                    D. security

22. A. admiring             B. exciting                    C. inviting                    D. threatening

23. A. attack                 B. bombing                  C. competition                     D. struggle

24. A. heads                  B. feelings                    C. muscles                    D. spirits

25. A. access                 B. contact                     C. measures                  D. protection

26. A. copy                   B. create                    C. delete                    D. download

27. A. average               B. original                    C. previous                   D. special

28. A. get off                B. make out                  C. pick up                    D. take in

29. A. assistant              B. manager                   C. partner                            D. secretary

30. A. ignores               B. matters                     C. overlooks                 D. rejects

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解析:

【解讀】本文主要向讀者說(shuō)明反計(jì)算機(jī)病毒專(zhuān)家們的工作。在文章中還特別提到一個(gè)叫Ero Carrera的，他熱愛(ài)他所從事的事業(yè)，用自己敏捷快速的頭腦，每天尋找病毒，破解病毒，向用戶(hù)提供相關(guān)的殺毒軟件，從而保護(hù)了廣大的用戶(hù)的計(jì)算機(jī)的安全。

21. D。根據(jù)上下文分析知道，Ero Carrera是為一家電腦安全公司服務(wù)。

22. D�？疾閯�(dòng)詞詞意辨析和語(yǔ)境的理解。從語(yǔ)境知道這里是說(shuō)病毒對(duì)計(jì)算機(jī)的威脅。

23. A�？疾槊�詞詞意辨析。Ero Carrera是病毒專(zhuān)家，專(zhuān)門(mén)保護(hù)用戶(hù)的計(jì)算機(jī)和手機(jī)免受病毒入侵的。

24. C�？疾檎Z(yǔ)境的理解。Ero Carrera這些病毒專(zhuān)家不像一些動(dòng)作英雄一樣有發(fā)達(dá)的肌肉，對(duì)于他們而言，重要的是機(jī)敏的頭腦。

25. D。從上下文知道，他們是在保護(hù)計(jì)算機(jī)免受電腦病毒侵襲的前沿陣地作戰(zhàn)。

26. B�？疾閯�(dòng)詞詞意辨析和語(yǔ)境的理解。表示他們不僅要找到計(jì)算機(jī)病毒，還要找到破解病毒的方法，編寫(xiě)成程序，供用戶(hù)下載使用。

27. A�？疾檎Z(yǔ)境的理解。從上下文知道，Ero Carrera和他的伙伴平均每天都要觀察300左右的計(jì)算機(jī)病毒。

28. B。考查動(dòng)詞詞組意思辨析和語(yǔ)境的理解。make out說(shuō)明, 設(shè)法應(yīng)付, 理解, 辨認(rèn)出。是說(shuō)Ero Carrera創(chuàng)造的數(shù)學(xué)公式可以輕松的辨別出計(jì)算機(jī)病毒。get off下來(lái), 脫下，動(dòng)身；pick up

撿起, 獲得, 使恢復(fù)精神, 加快, 看到；take in接受, ；吸收, 理解, 欺騙。

 29. C。根據(jù)上下文分析知道，這里是說(shuō)Ero Carrera的工作伙伴。

30. B�？疾檎Z(yǔ)境的理解。從文章整體理解，表示他們所做的是“搜尋”。