Someday a stranger will read your e-mail without your permission or scan the website you’ve visited or perhaps someone will casually glance through your credit card purchases or cell phone bills to find out your shopping calling habits
In fact, it’s likely that some of these things have already happened to you. Who would watch you without your permission? It might be a spouse, 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.
Psychologists tell us boundaries are healthy, that it’s important to reveal yourself partly to friends, family and lovers at appropriate times. But few boundaries remain. The digital bread crumbs you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to know 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. 60 percent of respondents say they feel their privacy is “slipping away, and that bothers me”.
But people say one thing and do another. Only a small number of Americans change any behavior in an effort to preserve their privacy. Few people turn down a discount at tollbooths to avoid using the EZ-Pass system that can track automobile movements. Privacy economist Acquisti has run a series of tests that reveal people will give up personal information like social security numbers just to get their hands on a 50-cents-off coupon. 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．Friends should open their hearts to each other.
B．Friends should always be faithful to each other.
C．There should be a distance even between friends.
D．There should be fewer arguments between friends.
小題2:Why does the author say “we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret”?
A．Modern society has finally developed into an open society.
B．People leave traces around when using modern technology.
C．There are always people who are curious about others’ affairs.
D．Many search engines profit by revealing people’s identities.
小題3:According to the passage, privacy is like health in that _____.
A．people will make every effort to keep it
B．its importance is hardly understood
C．It is something that can easily be lost
D．people don’t value it until they lose it
小題4:What would be the best title for the passage?
A．Value your health.
B．Treasure your privacy.
C．Boundaries are important between friends.
D．The information age has its own shortcomings.

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:B

試題分析：這篇材料講的是信息時(shí)代的隱私保護(hù)問(wèn)題，大體可以分成兩個(gè)部分，前三段是信息時(shí)代隱私遭到泄露的現(xiàn)狀，后面幾段講的是人們保護(hù)隱私的現(xiàn)實(shí)情況。
小題1:這是細(xì)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(kāi)心扉是重要的，但必須是在適當(dāng)?shù)臅r(shí)候，故選C。
小題2:這是細(xì)節(jié)理解題。A的說(shuō)法非常空泛，也很武斷，第三段的內(nèi)容僅僅是人們進(jìn)行電腦等操作會(huì)泄露信息，把這種個(gè)別現(xiàn)象上升為社會(huì)變革顯然不合適，也不是作者的意圖。
B的說(shuō)法符合文意，modern technology應(yīng)該就是指文中的digital bread和Google。
C的說(shuō)法來(lái)源于for strangers to reconstruct who you are這一句，這句話透露出的信息僅僅是陌生人獲得個(gè)人隱私更加容易，至于是否總會(huì)有人對(duì)別人的事情感興趣則沒(méi)有提到。
D的說(shuō)法照應(yīng)文中有關(guān)Google的內(nèi)容，但文中沒(méi)有提到搜索引擎獲利問(wèn)題，可以排除D。故選B。
小題3:這是細(xì)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(guān)系的，至少是某些時(shí)候。它就像健康，在你擁有它時(shí)，你注意不到它。只有當(dāng)它離你而去時(shí)你才想要是更注意地保護(hù)過(guò)它就好了。”這段話無(wú)論從句法結(jié)構(gòu)還是詞匯難度上都很容易，也沒(méi)有出現(xiàn)體現(xiàn)獨(dú)特英語(yǔ)思維的比喻等修辭，所以理解起來(lái)較為輕松，故選D。
小題4:這是標(biāo)題歸納題。根據(jù)從文章的開(kāi)頭和結(jié)尾可知，要重視隱私，故選B。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：文章標(biāo)題是文章的點(diǎn)睛之筆。標(biāo)題歸納題在英語(yǔ)閱讀理解題中屬深層理解題，它要求考生在通讀全文的基礎(chǔ)上，準(zhǔn)確把握文章大意及作者的寫(xiě)作意圖。一般說(shuō)來(lái)，標(biāo)題應(yīng)該具有概括性、針對(duì)性、簡(jiǎn)潔性三個(gè)突出特點(diǎn)。其中概括性，是指標(biāo)題應(yīng)最大程度地覆蓋全文，囊括文章的主要內(nèi)容，體現(xiàn)文章的主題；針對(duì)性，是指標(biāo)題的含義要直接指向文章的主要特點(diǎn)；而簡(jiǎn)潔性，則是指標(biāo)題應(yīng)言簡(jiǎn)意賅，能吸引讀者的注意力，并喚起讀者對(duì)文章的閱讀興趣等。
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He says they thought they were successful on Wednesday when they got the whales into deep water——but were saddened on Thursday to find that they had swum back ashore. He says the condition of the whales had significantly become worse.
As well as the 33 whales that were shot，36 had died naturally since Monday and 17 were successfully refloated. 13 remain unknown.
小題1:The last sister was dragged by the bus because______________.
A．she stood too close to the bus when getting off
B．the bus driver stopped the bus suddenly
C．something was wrong with the bus door
D．her backpack was stuck in the closed door
小題2:It can be inferred from the first news that______________．
A．three sisters were dragged about 900 feet by a school bus
B．the driver stopped the bus immediately he realized his mistake
C．two children were hurt and sent to hospital
D．a(chǎn) boy was hurt when the bus started suddenly
小題3:How many whales were trapped ashore in total?
A．33.B．36.C．99.D．13.
小題4:The 33 refloated whales returned ashore on______________.
A．MondayB．TuesdayC．WednesdayD．Thursday

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