山东省泰安市宁阳一中2017-2018学年高二上学期阶段性考试二英语试卷_高中英语试卷

山东省泰安市宁阳一中2017-2018学年高二上学期阶段性考试二英语试卷

　　B. Objective.

　　C. Subjective.

　　D. Negative.

　　31. According to the passage, which of the following is true?

　　A. The early bird will catch the worm.

　　B. Morning types have a tendency to do some creative jobs.

　　C. Night owls usually do poorer in the examinations than larks.

　　D. President Obama and George W Bush are models of night owls.

　　Downloading music over the Internet is pretty common among high school and college students. However, when students download and share copyrighted music without permission, they are against the law.

　　A survey of young people’s music ownership has found that teenagers and college students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players．Half of those surveyed share all the music on their hard drive (硬盘), enabling others to copy hundreds of songs at any one time. Some students were found to have randomly linked their personal blogs to music sites, so as to allow free trial listening of copyrighted songs for blog visitors, or adopted some of the songs as the background music for their blogs. Such practices may be easy and free, but there are consequences.

　　Sandra Dowd, a student of Central Michigan University, was fined US$7,500 for downloading 501 files from Lime Wire, a peer-to-peer file sharing program. Sandra claimed that she was unaware that her downloads were illegal until she was contacted by authorities. Similarly, Mike Lewinski paid US$4,000 to settle a lawsuit（起诉）against him for copyright violation (违反). Mike expressed shock and couldn’t believe that this was happening to him. “I just wanted to save some money and I always thought the threat was just a scare tactic(战术).” “You know, everyone does it,” added Mike.