考博英语（阅读理解）模拟试卷142
阅读理解
Shoppers who have flocked to online stores for their holiday shopping are losing privacy with every mouse click, according to a new report.
The study by the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center scrutinized privacy policies on 100 of the most popular online shopping sites and compared those policies with a set of basic privacy principles that have come to be known as \\
1.What does the sentence \\(B)
A. The study shows that someone else would buy consumers a gift for Christmas.
B. The study shows that consumers’ privacy is being invaded.
C. The study shows that companies want to make a Christmas list for children.
D. The study shows that Santa would not bring the Christmas gifts this year.
解析：本题可参照文章的第4段。前三段已经讲到网上购物极易暴露购物者的隐私。所以正确答案为B。第4段中说看你圣诞购物清单的不一定就是圣诞老人。这是在举例说明文章前三段的内容。
2.Which of the following is not in the list of the basic criteria of privacy protection mentioned in Para. 3?(C)
A. Give notice of what information is collected and how it is used by consumers.
B. Allow access to data that gives consumers a chance to see and correct the information collected.
C. Make consumers believe that the information provided by the sites is surely correct.
D. Institute the kind of security measures that ensure that the information won’t fall into the wrong hands.
解析：本题可参照文章第3段中.the basic criteria for privacy protection，which include giving offering allowing and instituting，从中可知只有C项没有列出，因此C项为正确答案。
3.It could be drawn from the passage that______.(A)
A. the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center has released at least 3 reports concerning the online privacy
B. adults cannot get any online privacy protection
C. both the online privacy of children and that of adults are not protected by FTC rules
D. only 18 of the top shopping sites displayed a privacy policy nowadays
解析：本题的依据是文章最后一段倒数第2句：The report…is the third such survey by the group.从中可知A项是正确答案。
4.What does the passage mainly talk about?(B)
A. Marc Rosenberg’s study on self-regulation.
B. Some online problems found by a privacy group’s study.
C. Adults and children are different.
D. Online security measures.
解析：综观全文，A、C、D三项与文章无关或者关系不大。只有B项最合适，因此正确答案为B。
Suppose you go into a fruiterer\’s shop, wanting an apple — you take up one, and on biting it you find it is sour; you look at it, and see that it is hard and green. You take up another one, and that, too, is hard, green, and sour. The shopman offers you a third; but, before biting it, you examine it, and find that it is hard and green, and you immediately say that you will not have it, as it must be sour, like those that you have already tried.
Nothing can be simpler than that, you think; but if you will take the trouble to analyze and trace out into its logical elements what has been done by the mind, you will be greatly surprised. In the first place, you have performed the operation of induction. You find that, in two experiences, hardness and greenness in apples went together with sourness. It was so in the first case, and it was confirmed by the second. True, it is a very small basis, but still it is enough from which to make an induction; you generalize the facts, and you expect to find sourness in apples where y
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