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Practice 1 Internet Privacy With the rapid development of e-commerce, companies are now capable of cultivating more (1) _______ relationships with their customers. It empowers companies to better understand their customers’ wants and hence they are able to (2)_____ offerings to the unique needs of individuals. At the same time, this has become a (3) _______ because the technology involves the extensive collection and use of personal data. The use of the cookie technology can help a website assign each individual user a unique identifier, so that he may be recognized in (4) _____ visits to the site. On each return visit, the site can call up user-specific information, including the consumer’s (5) _____ as indicated by documents the consumer accessed in prior visits. Despite concerns about privacy and security with online shoppers, according to the 1999 survey, still 61% of the subjects surveyed said they were (6)_____ toward banner ads based on their personal interests rather than random ones. The study seems to (7) _____ the e-commerce firms who are willing to provide customized shopping experiences. Statistics also show that not all the websites post privacy policies. Furthermore, the exact definition of the privacy policies in themselves remains (8) _____. Finally, in spite of privacy (9) _____, some companies, e.g. AdA still offended customers by transferring users information data to another company. To sum up, the (10) ________ of effective privacy protection widely believed to be stunting the growth of e-commerce. Practice 2 Medicine in Medieval England The medical practices in Medieval England: Based upon (1)________, ancient texts, myth or the direction of the Church which proved unbeneficial to the people of England. The forthcoming results: Common people didn’t care about improving their own health. The life and livelihood of an average person was (2) ______. In the villages, many children were weak from (3)________, either mental or physical. Many would