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Shami is a spy working for MI5, the British domestic security service. Recently he was interviewed by the BBC for the new TV documentary series, Modern Spies.
Shami isn’t his real name and in the interview his face was in shadow, so you couldn’t identify him, but he spoke about his job and what motivates him.
The interviewer asked Shami if he has any hesitation about spying on other people. “No, not at all,” replied Shami. “I know why I’m doing it. I’m trying to prevent something major occurring which could lead to loss of life. That’s my biggest motivation.”
Asked how he felt when he was doing a spying activity, Shami replied, “Excited. You feel a lot of pressure, but you understand the task in hand and how serious it is. You are thinking about potential dangers which might be a threat to yourself.” Shami admitted that his biggest fear was missing a vital piece of information, something that would go on to cause loss of life.
Shami said that there were some other intelligence officers working at MI5’s London headquarters. Spies like him are out on the ground while the others’ job is to analyze intelligence from a variety of different sources. He pointed out that vital pieces come from human sources or agents from within suspected terrorist organizations — a standard plot line in Hollywood movies, but he thought 007 was pure fantasy. “The key element of the James Bond myth is that we are some kind of illegal organization — that’s not the case. And I certainly wouldn’t be the kind of lone wolf in the films.”
 
32. ________ motivates Shami to carry out his job.
A. To spy on people B. To prevent loss of life
C. To analyze important information D. To get excitement from danger
33. It can be learned from the passage that ________.
A. Shami once missed some important information
B. Shami is rarely stressed out when doing a task
C. the film 007 was a reflection of Shami’s real life
D. MI5 is a legal organization
34. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means ________.
A. Shami never felt lonely because he could see films
B. Shami was not the leading actor in the film
C. Shami worked on a team rather than single-handedly
D. Shami needed the help of a wolf for his job
35. What can be the best title for the text?
A. A Real-Life Spy       B. Modern Spies
C. Spy Movies     D. Comparison on Spies
 
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Planking: a brief history
The rules are simple: you must lie face down, palms(手掌) flat against your sides, with your feet together and pointing at the ground. Points are awarded for an original location and for the number of onlookers and participants involved.    36    Without a photo, you’re just a person lying down. This is planking, described variously as a global participatory art project, a “meaningless internet craze”.
It began 14 years ago with a pair of bored kids. Gary Clarkson, then 15, and his friend Christian Langdon, 12, would perform the plank in public places, amusing one another and puzzling onlookers.    37    The game was a pointless way for the boys to pass the time. As Clarkson puts it: “It was just a really stupid, random thing to do.”
For its first 10 years planking spread very slowly, from Clarkson and Langdon to their friends at school and, after a while, on to other kids from the neighborhood.    38    Soon, they had a few thousand followers. Photographs of plankers came in from all over the world: American plankers on top of their televisions, British plankers in trees, and Europeans on country roads and steep riverbanks.
Then things got really interesting. A few days later, a mass gathering of plankers attracted more than 100 people. The planking in the photos posted to Facebook became riskier and stranger. One brave airport worker performed the plank in the engine fan of a jet plane.
   39    Some people have linked the practice to the 1995 video for the Radiohead song, “Just”. In the video, a man lies down on a busy London road and a crowd of strangers gather to try to understand and help him. He refuses to move, or to tell them why he's lying there. He tells them – but not us, the viewers – and all we see is that now the entire crowd is lying down on the pavement as well.    40    “People generally think you’re mad,” as creator Gary Clarkson puts it. “That’s sort of the point.”
A. You must, of course, have somebody take a photo.
B. Many people believe planking is a good way to pass the time.
C. At that time, it was known simply as the Lying Down Game.
D. We can read about planking all of the time on internet websites.
E. Whether the video is the inspiration or not, it helps us understand the spirit of planking.
F. Then, in 2007, when the pair created a Facebook group for their game, the pace accelerated.
G. It’s not clear – and Clarkson and Langdon don’t remember – where exactly the idea for planking came from. 高考英语模拟试题库  http://www.17xuexiba.com/yy/