首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Someday a stranger will read your e-mail without your permission or scan the Website you’ve visited. Or perhaps someone will cas
Someday a stranger will read your e-mail without your permission or scan the Website you’ve visited. Or perhaps someone will cas
admin
2016-01-10
56
问题
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 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 spouse, a girl friend, 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 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 crumbs(碎屑)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 an overwhelming pessimism 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 fraction of Americans change any behaviors in an effort to preserve their privacy. Few people turn down a discount at tollbooths(收费站)to avoid using the EZ-Pass system that can track automobile movements. And few turn down supermarket loyalty cards. Privacy economist Alessandro Acauisti 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(优惠券).
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.
According to the passage, privacy is like health in that ______.
选项
A、people will make every effort to keep it
B、its importance is rarely understood
C、it is something that can easily be lost
D、people don’t cherish it until they lose it
答案
D
解析
细节题。本题是关于隐私与健康的相似之处,从而定位到末段。末段提到,隐私就像健康,当你拥有时并不会注意到,而当你失去时,才会后悔当初没有为保护它而做些什么。故D项为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/c5sZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Verysoon,unimaginablypowerfultechnologieswillremakeourlives.Thiscouldhavedangerousconsequences,especiallybecause
NomatterhowlargeornotabletheU.S.travelindustryisormaybecome,itwillalwaysbeamemberofabroaderworldsociety.
Theguyinthenextcubicleisyammeringawayonthephone.Acrosstheroom,someonebeginscursingloudlyatajammedcopymach
TheGreatRecessionhaddevastatingeffectsacrosstheU.S.andfewplaceswereashardhitasArizona.Thestatewasboomingon
In1960,EthiopianmarathonerAbebeBikilaearnedanOlympicgoldmedalwithoutwearinganyshoes.ButbarefeetontheOlympic
Let’sbefrank:collegecanbetough.Accordingtoa2007studybytheAmericanCollegeHealthAssociation,43percentofstuden
Eveninthecurrenteconomicgloom,bankershavebeenreluctanttopartwithonemassiveallowanceoftheirjobs—thelavishbonu
Inthelastfewweeks,ahandfuloftopbusinessschoolshavereportedsingle-digit,andinsomecasesdouble-digit,declinesin
Inthelastfewweeks,ahandfuloftopbusinessschoolshavereportedsingle-digit,andinsomecasesdouble-digit,declinesin
Wemaintainthatingeneralafocusonpositiveinformationbenefitswell-being.However,thereareprobablyconditionswhenac
随机试题
通信机房拆除旧设备时应先拆除()。
根据《会计人员继续教育暂行规定》,会计人员继续教育的形式包括接受培训和自学两种,会计人员每年参加继续教育的时间最少应为()。
期货价格的特点是()
【2015下】材料:小学数学教材中有这样一个问题:一个服装厂计划做660套衣服,已经做了5天,平均每天做75套。剩下的要3天做完,平均每天要做多少套?为了让学生积极参与,孙老师把题目改编为:“六一”儿童节要到了,我们三年级要参加表演,需要演出服装160
Readingaloudandsilentreadingaretwodifferenttypesofreadingpractice.Eachhasafunctionintheteachingofreadingand
下列关于行政处罚中“一事不再罚原则”的表述,正确的是()。
中共中央在遵义会议上确定的负责军事行动的三人组中,其中不包括()。
A、 B、 C、 B
A、Hedidn’tthinkitwasveryspecial.B、Hedidn’tthinkitwasinexpensive.C、Hedidn’tthinkitwasnecessary.D、Hedidn’tthi
A、Ahouse.B、Agarden.C、Apark.D、Afarm.D信息推断题。岛屿形成后,科学家在岛上建起了房子以便观察这个小小的世界,科学家是来工作而不是来玩的,所以可排除A,B,C而选D。
最新回复
(
0
)