Question

Someday a stranger will read your e-mail without your permission or scan the websites you’ve visited. Or perhaps someone will casually glance through your credit card purchases or cell phone bills to find out your shopping preferences or calling habits.
In fact, it’s likely some of these things have already happened to you. Who would watch you without your permission? It might be a husband or wife, a girlfriend, a marketing company, a boss, a cop or a criminal. Whoever it is, they will see you in a way you never intended to be seen—the 21st century equivalent (相等物) of being caught naked.
Psychologists tell us boundaries are healthy, that it’s important to reveal yourself to friends, family and lovers in stages, at appropriate times. But few boundaries remain. The digital bread pieces you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to reconstruct who you are, where you are and what you like. In some cases, a simple Google search can reveal what you think. Like it or not, increasingly we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret.
The key question is Does that matter?
For many Americans, the answer apparently is “no.”
When opinion polls ask Americans about privacy, most say they are concerned about losing it. A survey found a serious depression about privacy, with 60 percent of respondents saying they feel their privacy is “slipping away, and that bothers me.”
But people say one thing and do another. Only a tiny part of Americans change any behaviors in an effort to preserve their privacy. Few people turn down a discount at tollbooths (收費站) to avoid using the EZ-Pass system that can track automobile movements. And few turn down supermarket loyalty cards. Privacy economist Alessanfro Acquisti has run a series of tests that reveal people will surrender personal information like Social Security numbers just to get their hands on a pitiful 50-cents-off coupon (優(yōu)惠券).
But privacy does matter—at least sometimes. It’s like health when you have it, you don’t notice it. Only when it’s gone do you wish you’d done more to protect it.
【小題1】What would psychologists advise on the relationships between friends?

A．There should be a distance even between friends.

B．Friends should always be faithful to each other.

C．Friends should open their hearts to each other.

D．There should be fewer disagreements between friends.

【小題2】 Why does the author say “we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret”?

A．People leave tracks around when using modern technology.

B．Modern society has finally developed into an open society.

C．There are always people who are curious about others’ affairs.

D．Many search engines profit by revealing people’s identities.

【小題3】What do most Americans do about privacy protection?

A．They change behaviors that might disclose their identity.

B．They talk a lot but hardly do anything about it.

C．They rely more and more on electronic devices.

D．They use various loyalty cards for business deals.

【小題4】According to the passage, privacy is like health because __________.

A．people don’t treasure it until they lose it

B．its importance is rarely understood

C．it is something that can easily be lost

D．people will make every effort to keep it

Answer 1

【小題1】A
【小題2】A
【小題3】B
【小題4】A

解析試題分析：這篇材料講的是信息時代的隱私保護問題，大體可以分成兩個部分，前三段是信息時代隱私遭到泄露的現(xiàn)狀，后面幾段講的是人們保護隱私的現(xiàn)實情況。
【小題1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Psychologists tell us boundaries are healthy, that it’s important to reveal yourself partly to friends, family and lovers at appropriate times.向朋友敞開心扉是重要的，但必須是在適當?shù)臅r候，朋友應該是有距離的，故選A。
【小題2】細節(jié)理解題。從第三段的句子：The digital bread pieces you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to reconstruct who you are, where you are and what you like.可知現(xiàn)在的人們沒有秘密是因為使用現(xiàn)代科技就會留下痕跡。 選A。
【小題3】細節(jié)題：從倒數(shù)第二段的句子：But people say one thing and do another. Only a tiny part of Americans change any behaviors in an effort to preserve their privacy.可知美國人對于隱私的問題談的多，做的少，選B。
【小題4】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)But privacy does matter- at least sometimes. It’s like health; when you have it, you don’t notice it. Only when it’s gone do you wish you’d done more to protect it——直譯為：“隱私是有關系的，至少是某些時候。它就像健康，在你擁有它時，你注意不到它。只有當它離你而去時你才想要是更注意地保護過它就好了�！边@段話無論從句法結構還是詞匯難度上都很容易，也沒有出現(xiàn)體現(xiàn)獨特英語思維的比喻等修辭，所以理解起來較為輕松，故選A
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