美国联邦调查局破译苹果手机
美国联邦调查局破译苹果手机

The FBI announced on Monday that it had successfully hacked into an iPhone used by a gunman responsible for a mass shooting in California. The announcement left tech giant Apple Inc. wondering about the security of one of its key products. 
On December 2, 2015, Farook and Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people and wounded 22 others in San Bernardino, California. Farook and Malik were killed in a shootout with police a few hours after the attack. The next day, an FBI team found Farook’s iPhone 5c in the car parked outside the couple’s home in Redlands, California. When investigators turned on the device, it asked them to enter a four-digit pass code. The phone was set to erase all of its data after 10 incorrect guesses. Not even Apple, the company that made the phone, had the code. The FBI asked Apple to help them get access to the information stored in the phone.
In a statement, Apple CEO Tim Cook noted that people store “an incredible amount of personal information” on their iPhones. “That information,” he said, “needs to be protected from hackers and criminals who want to access it, steal it, and use it without our knowledge or permission … While we believe the FBI’s intentions are good, it would be wrong for the government to force us to build a backdoor into our products.”
On March 21, the FBI announced that an “outside party” had come forward with a possible way to break into the phone. Now, having confirmed that the code has been cracked, the FBI has dropped the legal battle with Apple. The agency is reviewing information on the device, but has not yet revealed(透露) whether there is anything useful stored on the phone. In response, Apple promised to increase the security of its products.
While the standoff between the FBI and Apple seems to have ended, it has sparked concern about the issue of security over privacy. “The FBI and Apple have a common goal here: to keep people safe and secure,” said Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology. “This is the FBI prioritizing an investigation over the interests of hundreds of millions of people worldwide.”

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1.What do we learn from the second paragraph?

A Farook and Malik ran away after the shot.

B Apple Inc. hacked into a terrorist’s iPhone.

C FBI team found Malik’s iPhone 5c in the car.

D The FBI didn’t break the code of iPhone 5c.

解析：选D。推理判断题。根据第二段的倒数后四句When investigators turned on the device, …The FBI asked Apple to help them get access to the information stored in the phone.可知，联邦调查局的调查人员试图开机时，要输入密码。所以联邦调查局要求苹果公司帮助他们破译手机密码，以获得存储在手机中的信息，故选D。

2.What's Tim Cook’s attitude toward the government's request of a backdoor into the iPhone?

A Active.

B Anxious.

C Proud.

D Unacceptable.

解析：选D。细节理解题。根据第三段最后一句While we believe the FBI’s intentions are good, it would be wrong for the government to force us to build a backdoor into our products.可知，蒂姆·库克认为政府迫使苹果公司为自己的产品建立一个可供入侵的后门的做法是错误、不可接受的，故选D。

3.What was the main reason for the FBI to stop the legal battle?

A The FBI’s cracking the Code.

B Apple’s creating a new version.

C The FBI’s showing how it cracked the Code.

D Apple’s creating a tool to hack into its products.

解析：选A。细节理解题。根据第四段的第二句Now, having confirmed that the code has been cracked, the FBI has dropped the legal battle with Apple.可知，随着已经确认密码破解,联邦调查局也放弃了与苹果公司之间的法律辩论，故选A。

4.It can be concluded from Hall’s words that the investigation carried out by the FBI is ________.

A guilty

B practical

C forgettable

D fundamental

解析：选A。细节理解题。根据第五段最后一句This is the FBI prioritizing an investigation over the interests of hundreds of millions of people worldwide.可知，Joseph Lorenzo Hall认为这是美国联邦调查局进行的一次凌驾于全世界数亿人的利益之上的调查，也就是说这次调查是“有过失的”，故选A。