Loren Gladstone of Toronto is 58, but thinking over how to bequeath (遺贈) his digital property(財產(chǎn)). Doing the paperwork after his parents' death was a challenge. “When my time comes, I wonder if my children will even know what paper is，” he says. As a software developer, his virtual property is both valuable and vital to his business. That reflects a problem. Online lives have increasing economic and emotional value. But testamentary (遺囑) laws offer confusing and incomplete ways of bequeathing and inheriting (繼承) them.
Digital property may include software, websites, downloaded content, online gaming identities, social-media accounts and even e-mails. In Britain alone holdings of digital music may be worth over ￡9 billion ($14 billion). A fifth of respondents to a Chinese local-newspaper survey said they had over 5，000 yuan($790) of digital property. And value does not lie only in money.“Anyone with kids under 14 years old probably has two prints of them and the rest are in online galleries，”says Nathan Lustig of Entrustet, a company that helps people manage digital property.
Service providers have different rules—and few state them clearly in their terms and conditions. Many give users a personal right to use an account, but nobody else, even after death. Facebook allows relatives to close an account or turn it into a memorial page. Gmail (run by Google) will provide copies of e-mails to an executor (遺囑執(zhí)行人). Music downloaded via iTunes is held under a license which can be abolished on death. Apple declined to comment on the record on this or other policies. All e-mail and data on its iCloud service are deleted on the death of the owner.
This has led to cases to court in America. In 2004 the family of Justin Ellsworth, an army man killed in Iraq, took Yahoo! to court in Michigan to get copies of his e-mails. This year, a court in Oregon ruled that another American mother whose son had died could use her dead son's password to enter his Facebook account for a short period. Now five American states have made laws giving executors control over the social-networking accounts of dead users.
But this raises the subject of privacy. Passing music on is one thing; not everyone may want their relatives to read their e-mails. Colin Pearson, a London-based lawyer, says access should come only with a clear provision in a will.
But laws, wills and password safes may be contrary to the providers' terms of service, especially when the executor is in one country and the data in another. Headaches for the living and lots of lovely work for lawyers.
小題1:Why does Loren begin to think over how to bequeath his digital property at the age of 58?
A．Because he is afraid his children don't know what paper is.
B．Because there's no complete law dealing with digital property.
C．Because his digital property is of great value and importance.
D．Because he is worried his children will be taken to court.
小題2:Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A．Digital property is assessed in terms of nothing except money.
B．No laws in America have been made to deal with digital property.
C．The relatives may read the e－mail of the dead without permission.
D．Lawyers can make money through cases about digital property.
小題3:Facebook, Google and Apple have a similar rule that ________．
A．users are offered accounts used by nobody else except users themselves
B．relatives of the dead may close an account or use it at their own will
C．the executor may enter the e－mail and read it by themselves at any time
D．the data downloaded by the dead will be copied and then deleted from net
小題4:Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?
A．Digital InformationB．Testamentary Laws
C．Deathless DataD．Vital Property

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:A
小題4:C

試題分析：文章大意：文章通過Loren.在58歲的時候考慮遺贈他的電子財產(chǎn)的問題，介紹電子財產(chǎn)的問題，很多人在網(wǎng)站的賬戶有很多的財產(chǎn)，但是死后怎么處理這些遺產(chǎn)還沒有完善的法律。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第一段的句子：Online lives have increasing economic and emotional value. But testamentary (遺囑) laws offer confusing and incomplete ways of bequeathing and inheriting (繼承) them 可知Loren.在58歲的時候考慮遺贈他的電子財產(chǎn)的問題，是因?yàn)楝F(xiàn)行關(guān)于電子財產(chǎn)的法律還不完善。選B
小題2:推理題：從最后一段的句子：Headaches for the living and lots of lovely work for lawyers.
可知對很多活著的人還說，電子財產(chǎn)問題是讓人頭疼的，而對于律師來說是很可愛的工作，也就是說律師會通過電子財產(chǎn)的案子掙很多錢。選D
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第三段的句子：Many give users a personal right to use an account, but nobody else, even after death. 可知Facebook, Google and Apple 都有規(guī)定，除了用戶本人其他人不能使用賬戶。選A
小題4:主旨題：文章介紹現(xiàn)在頗受關(guān)注的電子版權(quán)遺產(chǎn)問題，用戶在死后，留下大量的電子財產(chǎn)，如果處理它們是個問題，所以是不死的數(shù)據(jù)。選C
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