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1、精品文档专四阅读模拟附答案解析Passage 1第一页：阅读练习第二页：答案详解The simple act of surrendering a telephone number to a store clerk may not seem harmful-so much so that many consumers do it with no questions asked. Yet that one action can set in motion a cascade of silent events, as that data point is acquired, analyzed, ca
2、tegorized, stored and sold over and over again. Future attacks on your privacy may come from anywhere, from anyone with money to purchase that phone number you surrendered. If you doubt the multiplier effect, consider your e-mail inbox. If it's loaded with spam, it's undoubtedly because at s
3、ome point in time you unknowingly surrendered your e-mall to the wrong Web site.Do you think your telephone number or address is handled differently? A cottage industry of small companies with names you've probably never heard of-like Acxiom or Merlin-buy and sell your personal information the w
4、ay other commodities like corn or cattle futures are bartered. You may think your cell phone is unlisted, but if you've ever ordered a pizza, it might not be. Merlin is one of many commercial data brokers that advertises sale of unlisted phone numbers compiled from various sources-including pizz
5、a delivery companies. These unintended, unpredictable consequences that flow from simple actions make privacy issues difficult to grasp, and grapple with.In a larger sense, privacy also is often cast as a tale of "Big Brother"-the government is watching you or An big corporation is watchin
6、g you. But privacy issues don't necessarily involve largefaceless institutions: A spouse takes a casual glance at her husband's Blackberry, a co-worker looks at e-mall over your shoulder or a friend glances at a cell phone text messagefrom the next seat on the bus. while very little of this
7、is news to anyone-people are now well aware there are video cameras and Internet cookies everywhere-there is abundant evidence that people live their lives ignorant of the monitoring, assuming a mythical level of privacy. People write e-mails and type instant messagesthey never expect anyone to see.
8、 Just ask Mark Foley or even Bill Gates, whose e-mails were a cornerstone of the Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft.And polls and studies have repeatedly shown that Americans are indifferent to privacy concerns. The general defense for such indifference is summed up a single p
9、hrase: "I have nothing to hide." If you have nothing to hide, why shouldn't the government be able to peek at your phone records, your wife see your e-mail or a company send you junk mail? It's a powerful argument, one that privacy advocates spend considerable time discussing and s
10、trategizing over.It is hard to deny, however, that people behave different when they're being watched. And it is also impossible to deny that Americans are now being watched more than at any time in history.1. In the first paragraph, the telephone number is cited to showA. many customers didn
11、9;t keep their privacy confidential.B. it is harmful to give a store clerk a telephone number.C. careless disposal of personal information can be harmful.D. customers should inquire its use when giving telephone numbers to others.2. What do companies like Acxiom and Merlin do?A. Compile telephone di
12、rectories for businessmen.B. Collect and sell personal information to make a profit.C. Trade commodities like corn on the market.D. Crack down crimes like stealing private information.3. From Paragraph 3, we learn thatA. cases of privacy intrusion happen only in large institutions.B. people are quit
13、e aware of how their privacy is intruded.C. it is not privacy in trusi on whe n a wife gla nces at her husba nd's cell phone.D. Bill Gates' email messages were cited as evidenee against him.。4. It can be inferred from the fourth paragraph that the author thinksA. America ns are actually conc
14、erned about privacy issues.B. America ns are in differe nt to privacy concerns.C. America ns are very frank about privacy concerns.D. America ns are puzzled aboutprivacy concerns.5. Which of the following is the author's viewpoint?A. Never give your private in formati on to anyone.B. People shou
15、ld pay more attentionto their privacy issues.C. Do not surre nder your email to any website.D. It does no good say ing "I have no thi ng to hide".第一页：阅读练习第二页：答案详解【文章概要】本文以个人无意泄漏电话号码和电子邮件为例引出对隐私问题 的探讨。首段指出简单无意识地泄漏个人信息的行为可能事后会给自己带来麻 烦；第2段讲述某些小公司利用泄漏个人信息来赢利，使得隐私成为一个棘手 的问题；第3段进一步提到隐私问题不一定只涉及大机
16、构， 隐私在日常生活中就 可能有意无意地受到侵犯； 第4 段讲到美国人对隐私问题的态度及作者对此的看 法；第 5 段作小结指出美国人正面临着更多的监视。答案解析】1C 细节判断题。首段第 l 句提到泄漏电话号码的例子，第 2、3 句指出 这一行为可能带来的麻烦，故选 Co A B本身正确但只停留在例子本身，并没有 指明举例要表明的问题；D在文中没有提及。2. B细节推断题。根据Acxiom和Merlin定位到第2段第2旬。该句第2 个破折号说明了这两家公司的性质， 指出他们买卖个人信息就像买卖玉米和牛期 货证券一样，故选 &文中提到Merlin公司出售那些未登记过的电话号码，这些号码汇
17、编来源多样，A只是利用原文个别单词设置的干扰项；文中 只是说这 些公司买卖个人信息的方式就像在市场买卖玉米的方式一样，故 C错；D “破解 如窃取个人信息的犯罪行为”在文中没有提及。3. D段落细节题。由第3段第2句可知A错误；由该段倒数2、3句可知人们对隐私受侵犯并没有多深的意识，故 B也错：But 一句指出隐私问题并不一 定只涉及大机构，冒号后所列举的例子即是对此观点的支持， 可见C的说法也是 不正确的；末旬指出司法部控告微软公司就是利用比尔盖茨的邮件为证据，故D正确。4. A推理判断题。第4段第I句指出调查和研究证明美国人对隐私问题漠不关心，但根据后文连续几个假设问句可以推断出。美国人实际上很关住他们的隐私问题，故C错误；B只是一种表面现象；文中没有提及他们对隐私的关注是 否“迷惑”，D也不对。5. B观点态度题。文章首段就提到了隐私无意间的泄漏可能会带来的麻烦， 接下来几段分别从个人信息被滥用、 隐私问题无处不在、 美国人对隐私的态度等 方面说明，在当今时代，由于通信技术的发达，个人隐私的保护问题越来越复杂.因此人们对隐私问题应给予更多的重视，故选 Bo A、C说法太过绝对；D项 也不能概述作者的观点。精品文档