广东财经大学804英语写作与翻译2020年考研初试真题
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广东财经大学硕士研究生入学考试试卷
考试年度：2020年 考试科目代码及名称：804-英语写作与翻译(自命题)
适用专业：050201 英语语言文学
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Part I Writing （100分）
（1）Summary Writing (1题，共40分)
Write a summary based on the following text. Your summary must be in a
continuous paragraph and contain 120—150 words.
The term “cyberspace”(网际空间) was coined by William Gibson, a science-
fiction writer. He first used it in a short story in 1982, and expanded on it a couple of
years later in a novel, “Neuromancer”, whose main character, Henry Dorsett Case, is
a troubled computer hacker and drug addict. In the book Mr Gibson describes
cyberspace as “a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate
operators.”
His literary creation turned out to be remarkably prescient. Cyberspace has
become a popular term, symbolic of the computing devices, networks, wireless links
and other infrastructure that bring the internet to billions of people around the world.
The myriad connections forged by these technologies have brought tremendous
benefits to everyone who uses the web to tap into humanity’s collective store of
knowledge every day.
But there is a darker side to this extraordinary invention. Data breaches are
becoming ever bigger and more common. Last year over 800m records were lost,
mainly through such attacks. Among the most prominent recent victims has been
Target, whose chief executive, Gregg Steinhafel, stood down from his job in May, a
few months after the giant American retailer revealed that online intruders had stolen
millions of digital records about its customers, including credit- and debit-card details.
Other well-known firms such as Adobe, a tech company, and eBay, an online
marketplace, have also been hit. The potential damage, though, extends well beyond
such commercial incursions. America’s president, Barack Obama, said in a White
House press release earlier this year that cyber-threats “pose one of the gravest
national-security dangers” the country is facing.
Securing cyberspace is hard because the architecture of the internet was designed
to promote connectivity, not security. Its founders focused on getting it to work and
did not worry much about threats because the network was affiliated with America’s
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欢迎报考广东财经大学硕士研究生，祝你考试成功！（第1页共3页）1广东财经大学硕士研究生入学考试试卷考试年度：2020年 考试科目代码及名称：804-英语写作与翻译(自命题)适用专业：050201英语语言文学［友情提醒：请在考点提供的专用答题纸上答题，答在本卷或草稿纸上无效！］PartIWriting（100分）（1）SummaryWriting(1题，共40分)Writeasummarybasedonthefollowingtext.Yoursummarymustbeinacontinuousparagraphandcontain120—150words.Theterm“cyberspace...
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