Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. acknowledgement       B. actually       C. commonly     D. confirm     E. conscious F. crack        G. eliminate     H. independent     I. log     J. shortcut     K. unimaginative

Why Your Password May Not Be As Safe As It Seems

Does “qaz2ws” strike you as a nice safe password? What about “adgimptw”? An analysis has found them to be among the passwords that are most 【小题1】 used, which of course means they are not secure at all.

When ten million passwords were leaked to the internet, they appeared to 【小题2】 that attempts by internet security experts to make us improve our password strength had been successful, even, in the specific case of the leaked passwords, they were also completely pointless.

While many of the passwords were still single words, such as “password”, there was also a clear attempt by many to make them harder to 【小题3】. The problem was that people seemed to do so in the same way.

“Users are becoming slightly more 【小题4】 of what makes a password strong,” explained WP Engine, an internet company that performed the analysis. “For instance, adding a number or two at the end of a text phrase. That makes it better, right?”

But 【小题5】 no. They found that almost half a million passwords did this—and in 20 per cent of those all people did was put the number “1” at the end.

Perhaps this is why some companies are now trying to move gradually beyond passwords. Yahoo! is giving users the option to associate their mobile phone with an account, and have a single use password texted to it each time they want to 【小题6】 on.

Although the service is voluntary, Dylan Casey, an executive at Yahoo!, said that it was “the first step to 【小题7】 passwords”. He said it was a(n) 【小题8】 that it was increasingly hard for people to remember all the passwords they had. “I don’t think we, as an industry, have done a good enough job of putting ourselves in the shoes of the people using our products,” he said.

It would certainly be a more sensible strategy than some people’s improving upon “password” by using “password” or tran5p053d numb3r5f0r13tt3r5.

“We are, for the most part, predictably 【小题9】 when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups”, said WP Engine, “We love taking a(n) 【小题10】   , and so do password cracker.”