历年高考试题分项解析之专题七选五1【2016·全国新课标 I】根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,选项中有两项为多余选项
Secret codes (密码)keep messages private
Banks, companies, and government agencies usesecret codes in doing business, especially when information is sent by computer
People have used secret codes for thousands of years
71 Code breaking never lags(落后) farbehind code making
The science of creating and reading coded messages is called cryptography
There are three main types of cryptography
72 For example, the first letters of“My elephant eatstoo many eels” Spell out the hidden message“Meet me
”73 You might represent each letter with a number, For example, Let’s number the letters of thealphabet, in order, from 1 to 26
If we substitute a number for each letter, the message“Meet me”would read “13 5 20 13 5
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