from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the Passwords are a pain in the ass. They’re either easy to ___26____or hare to remember, and when breaches (破坏) ___27___you have to come up with a whole new one . So people are trying to do away with passwords altogether, and so far fingerprint scanners are doing the job nicely. Still, fingerprints alone are not ___28____. Online security has become___29___important, forcing service providers to come up with better measures such as two-factor authentication (验证) to ___30____user information. Companies are turning to other parts of our bodies to find biometric (生物计量的) ___31___that are up to the task, and our faces and eyes are at the top of the list. Although facial and eye-based recognition appear gimmicky for now, they may soon become as prevalent and popular as fingerprint scanners. That pairing could root out passwords and clunky text-message two-factor____32___altogether, making it a completely biometric process. The popularity , prevalence and convenience of fingerprint scanning means it is here to stay, and by no means are face and eye recognition meant to ___33____it. Choudhury sees the newer method as a complement to fingerprints, providing a more convenient second-factor authentication as opposed to entering a text code sent to your phone. While the tech we have right now may not be fast or secure enough to be truly convenient and helpful, we’re getting close. Using the adoption of fingerprint scanners as a ___34___,Choudhury estimated we are about five years away from iris (虹膜 ) scanners and face detection becoming ___35___.Until then ,we’ll have to deal with changing our crappy passwords every so often and hope we don’t forget them.