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Most of us would shy away from making purchases in a foreign country if we didn’t know the exchange rate. Yet, if privacy is the

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问题     Most of us would shy away from making purchases in a foreign country if we didn’t know the exchange rate. Yet, if privacy is the true currency of the Internet, as many argue, millions of us are doing that very thing every day. Meanwhile, Internet giants amend their privacy policies in ways that allow them to harvest and sell even more of our personal data. While privacy campaigners protest, users generally vote with their clicks and carry on regardless.
    So should we conclude the Internet generation is happy to trade its privacy for free or cheaper Web services? Not according to Nicola Jentzsch of the German Institute of Research in Berlin, and colleagues, who last week published research showing that most people prefer to protect their personal data when given a choice and that a significant proportion are willing to pay extra to do so.
    The researchers directed 443 students to a website offering tickets for a real movie showing, sold by two different vendors(商贩). Although the tickets were subsidized, the volunteers, who were able to purchase one, two, or no tickets, had to pay most of the cost themselves.
    When both vendors offered tickets at the same price but only one required customers to enter their cell phone number, the more privacy-friendly vendor got 83% of sales. When participants were offered the same choice, but with an additional charge of 50 euro cents from the privacy-friendly cinema, its market share fell to 31% .
    " It turns out that when you are good on privacy you can charge more and make a greater profit," says Alessandro Acquisti of the University of Cambridge, one of the authors of the study, published by the European Network and Information Security Agency.
    " What people say in surveys is that they care about privacy, but what they actually do is spend their time constantly updating their status on Facebook," says Acquisti. " This has led some to conclude that people no longer care about privacy. This new data, along with similar work we have done in the U. S. , shows this is not the case, and that the desire for privacy is not dead after all. "
What does Nicola Jentzsch say about the Internet generation?
选项 A、They are more likely to trade their privacy for free Web services.
B、They are willing to pay extra to protect their personal data.
C、Most of them will protect their privacy when given a choice.
D、Most of them are happy to share their personal data on the Internet.
答案C
解析 观点态度题。本题考查尼克拉·严奇对互联网一代的看法。定位段首句提出问题：互联网一代是否很愿意用自己的隐私来换取免费或便宜的网络服务?后一句给出尼克拉·严奇及其同事的看法：大多数人在有选择的情况下都更愿意保护他们的个人信息，而且相当多的人甚至愿意为此付额外的费用，故答案为C)。A)“他们很可能用隐私换取免费的网络服务”和D)“他们中的大多数都乐意在网上分享个人信息”与原文意思相反，故排除；B)“他们愿意付额外的费用去保护个人隐私”是对原文意思的片面理解。首先，愿意付额外的费用是在有选择的情况下，其次，文中提到的是相当一部分人愿意这么做，并不代表所有互联网一代都乐意这么做，故排除。
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