《厦门大学2016博士研究生入学考试英语试题》.docVIP

厦门大学2007博士研究生入学考试英语试题 厦门大学2007博士研究生入学考试英语试题 Part I Reading Comprehension(40 points) Part A(30 points)Directions: There are 3 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center．Passage OneQuestions 1~5 are based on the following passage：For the longest time, I couldn’t get worked up about privacy: my right to it；how it’s dying；how we’re headed for an even more wired，underregulated，overinstrusive，privacy-deprived planet．I should also point out that as news director for Pathfinder，Time Inc’s mega info mall，and a guy who makes his living on the Web, I know better than most people that we’re hurtling toward an even more intrusive world. We’re all being watched by computers whenever we visit Websites；by the mere act of“browsing”(it sounds so passive!)we’regoing public in a way that was unimaginable a decade ago．I know this because I’m a watcher too．When people come to my Website，without ever knowing their names, I can peer over their shoulders，recording what they look at, timing how long they stay on a particular page，following them around Pathfinder’s sprawling offerings．None of this would bother me in the least，I suspect，if a few years ago，my phone, like Marley’s ghost, hadn’t given me a glimpse of the nightmares to come．On Thanksgiving weekend in 1995, someone(presumably a critic of a book my wife and I had just written about computer hackers)forwarded my home telephone number to an out-of-state answering machine’ where unsuspecting callers trying to reach me heard a male voice identify himself as me and say some extremely rude things．Then，with typical hacker aplomb, the prankster asked people to leave their messages(which to my surprise many Callers, including my mother，did)．This went on for several days until my wife and I f