单项选择题
Cloze 1
Someday a stranger will read your e-mail without your permission or scan the websites you‘ve visited. Or perhaps someone will casually A1______ through your credit card purchases or cell phone bills to find out your shopping preferences or calling habits.
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 A2______ to be seen-the 21st century equivalent of being caught A3______.
Psychologists tell us A4______ are healthy, that it‘s important to reveal yourself to friends, family and lovers A5______ stages, at appropriate times. But few of them remain today. The A6______ bread crumbs 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 A7______ can reveal what you think. A8______, increasingly we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret.
The key question is: Does that A9______ For many Americans, the answer apparently is "no". When asked about privacy, most Americans say they are concerned about A10______ it. A survey found an overwhelming A11______ about privacy, with 60 percent of respondents saying they feel their privacy is "A12______ away, and that bothers me."
But people say one thing and do another. Only a tiny fraction of Americans change any A13______ in an effort to preserve their privacy. Few people turn A14______ a discount at toll-booths to avoid using the EZ-Pass system that can A15______ automobile movements. And few refuse supermarket loyalty cards.
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