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Digital property may include software, websites, downloaded content, online gaming identities, social-media accounts and even e-mails. In Britain alone holdings of digital music may be worth over £9 billion ($14 billion). A fifth of respondents to a Chinese local-newspaper survey said they had over 5,000 yuan($790) of digital property. And value does not lie only in money.“Anyone with kids under 14 years old probably has two prints of them and the rest are in online galleries,”says Nathan Lustig of Entrustet, a company that helps people manage digital property.
Service providers have different rules—and few state them clearly in their terms and conditions. Many give users a personal right to use an account, but nobody else, even after death. Facebook allows relatives to close an account or turn it into a memorial page. Gmail (run by Google) will provide copies of e-mails to an executor (遗嘱执行人). Music downloaded via iTunes is held under a license which can be abolished on death. Apple declined to comment on the record on this or other policies. All e-mail and data on its iCloud service are deleted on the death of the owner.
This has led to cases to court in America. In 2004 the family of Justin Ellsworth, an army man killed in Iraq, took Yahoo! to court in Michigan to get copies of his e-mails. This year, a court in Oregon ruled that another American mother whose son had died could use her dead son"s password to enter his Facebook account for a short period. Now five American states have made laws giving executors control over the social-networking accounts of dead users.
But this raises the subject of privacy. Passing music on is one thing; not everyone may want their relatives to read their e-mails. Colin Pearson, a London-based lawyer, says access should come only with a clear provision in a will.
But laws, wills and password safes may be contrary to the providers" terms of service, especially when the executor is in one country and the data in another. Headaches for the living and lots of lovely work for lawyers.
小题1:Why does Loren begin to think over how to bequeath his digital property at the age of 58?
A.Because he is afraid his children don"t know what paper is. |
B.Because there"s no complete law dealing with digital property. |
C.Because his digital property is of great value and importance. |
D.Because he is worried his children will be taken to court. |
A.Digital property is assessed in terms of nothing except money. |
B.No laws in America have been made to deal with digital property. |
C.The relatives may read the e-mail of the dead without permission. |
D.Lawyers can make money through cases about digital property. |
A.users are offered accounts used by nobody else except users themselves |
B.relatives of the dead may close an account or use it at their own will |
C.the executor may enter the e-mail and read it by themselves at any time |
D.the data downloaded by the dead will be copied and then deleted from net |
A.Digital Information | B.Testamentary Laws |
C.Deathless Data | D.Vital Property |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:C
解析
试题分析:文章大意:文章通过Loren.在58岁的时候考虑遗赠他的电子财产的问题,介绍电子财产的问题,很多人在网站的账户有很多的财产,但是死后怎么处理这些遗产还没有完善的法律。
小题1:细节题:从第一段的句子:Online lives have increasing economic and emotional value. But testamentary (遗嘱) laws offer confusing and incomplete ways of bequeathing and inheriting (继承) them 可知Loren.在58岁的时候考虑遗赠他的电子财产的问题,是因为现行关于电子财产的法律还不完善。选B
小题2:推理题:从最后一段的句子:Headaches for the living and lots of lovely work for lawyers.
可知对很多活着的人还说,电子财产问题是让人头疼的,而对于律师来说是很可爱的工作,也就是说律师会通过电子财产的案子挣很多钱。选D
小题3:细节题:从第三段的句子:Many give users a personal right to use an account, but nobody else, even after death. 可知Facebook, Google and Apple 都有规定,除了用户本人其他人不能使用账户。选A
小题4:主旨题:文章介绍现在颇受关注的电子版权遗产问题,用户在死后,留下大量的电子财产,如果处理它们是个问题,所以是不死的数据。选C
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试题【Loren Gladstone of Toronto is 58, but thinking over how to bequeath (遗赠) his dig】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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The research found that women suffered more than men when pretending to be happy. Psychologist Dr. Brent Scott, who led the study, said employers should take note because forcing workers to smile when dealing with the public can backfire. He said, “Smiling for the sake of smiling can lead to emotional exhaustion, and that’s bad for the organization.”
Dr. Scott said the research showed customer-service workers who “fake smile” throughout the day worsen their mood and then withdraw from work, so their productivity drops. He added, “Bosses may think that getting their staff to smile is good for the organization, but that’s not necessarily the case.” Dr. Scott, assistant professor of management at Michigan State University, analyzed a group of bus drivers during a two- week period.
The study is one of the first of its kind to examine emotional displays over a period of time and compare the different effect that has on men and women. His team examined the effects of surface acting — or fake smiling — compared to what was termed “deep acting”, or cultivating(培养) positive emotions by recalling pleasant memories.
Dr. Scott said, “Women are harmed more by surface acting, meaning their mood worsens even more than the men and they withdraw more from work. However, they are helped more by deep acting, which means their mood improves more.”
Although “deep acting” seems to improve mood in the short-term, Dr. Scott said it’s not a long-term solution to feeling unhappy.
He said, “You’re trying to cultivate positive emotions, but at the end of the day you may not feel like yourself anymore.”
小题1:What does the underlined word “backfire” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A.Have the opposite effect. | B.Lead to conflict. |
C.Drive people mad. | D.Help a lot. |
A.Surface acting is good for organizations. |
B.Men benefit more from deep acting than women. |
C.Fake smiling causes more harm to women than men. |
D.Recalling good memories is a long-term solution to feeling down. |
A.employees | B.employers | C.researchers | D.customers. |
A.Solution to feeling unhappy |
B.How to cultivate positive emotions |
C.How to improve workers’ productivity |
D.Fake smiling makes you miserable |
What has become of these women in white? The answer lies in not one but several causes. One possibility is the fact that women have greater career options. In the past, women who chose to work outside the home had two basic choices: nursing or teaching. Today, more women than ever are in the workforce, but their options have greatly increased. There are women doctors, lawyers, firefighters and police officers. In fact, women today are found in nearly every field of work. Nursing has been left behind, as women move on to jobs with higher pay and greater status. A woman or man in the nursing field is often looked down upon as“merely a nurse”. Teachers many be also at fault. Many high school students are actually away from nursing, told by teachers that they are“too bright to be a nurse”.
Americans are living longer than ever and requiring more medical attention. In fact, the number of elderly patients has almost doubled in the past twenty years. Obviously a larger population requires more nurses. AIDS and other diseases have caused more and more people to need nursing care. Usually fatal (致命的) diseases mean long hospital stay, that is to say, more nurses are needed to care for these patients. It is estimated that the demand for nurses will be doubled the supply in the coming ten years.
小题1:What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?
A.How nurses have been looked down upon. |
B.Why women have chosen many different jobs. |
C.What has caused nurse shortage. |
D.How teachers have influenced their students. |
A.not mentioning the worst nurse shortage in the US |
B.introducing jobs with higher pay and greater status to their students |
C.not asking the government to raise the nurses’ payment |
D.persuading the students not to be nurses |
A.describe the unequal treatment of women in the US |
B.warn people to pay more attention to the nursing problem |
C.tell us women’s free choices of jobs today |
D.call on women to choose different kinds of jobs |
A.high school students think themselves too bright to be nurses |
B.women in the US have greater career choices than those in other countries |
C.of all the hospitals in the world 60 percent more nurses are badly needed |
D.nursing used to be a popular job among women |
Nearly one-third of pedestrians (29.8% ) were distracted (分散注意力) by their mobile devices while crossing the street, say researchers of a study published online in the journal Injury Prevention.
Just as drivers who text, talk on cell phones, or adjust MP3 players increase their risk of losing control of their vehicles, pedestrians distracted by their conversations or their devices also put themselves at higher risk of getting into an accident.
During the summer of 2012, scientists in Seattle, Wash. , studied 1,102 pedestrians at 20 crossroads seeing the city * s highest number of pedestrian injuries over the past few years.
They watched how pedestrians crossed the street @ whether they looked both ways or obeyed the crossroad signal @ and also recorded how long it took pedestrians to do so.Distractions included listening to music with headphones, using a cell phone or earpiece to talk on a cell phone, text messaging, and talking with another person.
Overall, researchers found the most common distraction among pedestrians was listening to music (11.2%), followed by text messaging (7.3%), and using a handheld phone(6.2%). But the most absorbing distraction was texting. Compared to pedestrians who were not distracted, those who were texting took 1.87 seconds longer to cross and were four times more likely to not look where they were going, disobey traffic lights, or cross outside of the crosswalk. While the study did not track injuries related to these trends, previous studies have linked such activities to a higher risk of being injured while crossing the street.
Combined with the rise in the use of mobile devices, especially smart phones, the results raise concerns that multi-tasking while walking may be a rising concern for pedestrians. And that danger may only climb, as the number of wireless devices has already exceeded the population of the United States. Last year, roughly 1,152 people wound up in the emergency room to treat injuries caused by using a cell phone or electronic device, the Consumer Product Safety Commission told the Associated Press in July. Those numbers may be underestimated, however, because patients may not always admit that they were using their phones along with other activities such as walking or driving when they were hurt.
小题1:The scientists did their study at the 20 crossroads in order to _____.
A.attract more attention | B.see more injuries |
C.record more samples | D.find more pedestrians |
A.talking on a phone | B.texting messages |
C.listening to music | D.disobeying traffic lights |
A.gone beyond | B.greatly influenced |
C.accelerated the increase of | D.drawn the attention of |
A.Walk and don"t Talk |
B.Prevention of Distraction |
C.Look both ways while crossing the street |
D.Cell phones lead to injuries |
Landmarks(标志) of the United States.
Beyond the tremendous(巨大的) loss of innocent lives and physical property, the attack was clearly aimed at the ideals of America—our values and the economic system that has made the U.S. economy the envy of the world.
Those responsible for these acts portray(描绘)the United States as the embodiment(化身)of all that is evil
With globalization and the worldwide economy it has spawned. They use the failures of globalization as an excuse to exploit their millions of constituents in the underdeveloped world.
Sometime soon, the U.S. military will strike back against those who it is determined have committed these acts. A military response is appropriate – some would say overdue(期待已久). But even if the military objective is achieved, that alone will not get to the heart of the matter.
It is crucial that the U.S. economy return to full speed ahead and continue to be the driving force behind expansion of the global economy.
Globalization, or at least the present phase of it, generally is viewed as having started with the end of the Cold War in 1989. And for all its shortcomings, the free flow of goods, services, capital and labor across the borders of the world’s trading nations — the process that has come to be called globalization—still offers the best chance to fulfill the dreams of so many of the world’s poor.
小题1:The attack on Sept. 11 caused _____.
A.loss to both the military forces and the ordinary citizens in the U.S. |
B.a large variety of losses among the American people |
C.greater loss to the American government than the citizens |
D.less loss in the economy of the U.S. than the American ideals |
A.some people were jealous of the richness of the United States |
B.the development of globalization frightened those who were conservative |
C.everything evil might be thought to have something to do with the U.S. |
D.the United States was considered the most evil country all over the world |
A.will be successful very soon |
B.cannot make any sense to the matter |
C.is really hard to some extent |
D.will prove justifiable and necessary |
A.It will bring the expansion of the world’s economy. |
B.The poor will become rich overnight if it is realized. |
C.Nations will be too friendly to start a war against each other. |
D.The borders between the nations will be abandoned soon. |
A.Economical factors are of great importance in international affairs. |
B.The event on Sept. 11 has slowed down the process of globalization. |
C.Military forces are necessary in the course of the development of economy. |
D.The progress of globalization depends on the recovery of American economy. |
Text messaging, or simply “texting”, with allows people to send and receive messages on mobile phones, becomes very popular today.The advantages of texting are obvious. Texting helps to save money. If you have a few words to greet your families and friends on their birthdays or on some important festivals, sending messages can be cheaper than phone calling. Texting helps to save time. Even if you want to send a message to 100 people, you can do it one second. Texting helps you to “talk” to someone when he is too busy to answer the phone. Texting can also help you to “talk” to someone secretly if you don’t want others to hear what you are talking on the phone. These advantages are so amazing that many people are crazy about it. They hold mobile phones in hands all day long, send dozens of messages each day, and even text while driving or walking.
However, texting has its disadvantages. Junk messages may come into your mobile phone box now and then. When your phone box gets too full, you can’t receive any more messages. You may therefore miss some important information.
What’s more, if you don’t do texting properly, for example texting while driving or walking, it can be dangerous. It can cause injuries and even death. It was reported that about 6,000 people were killed and half a million were injured for this reason each year. In Fort Lee, a small town in New Jersey, USA, three people died because they walked into traffic while texting in 2011. Two researchers at Stony Brook University, New York found that texters are 60% more probably to have an accident than others. When people are texting, they don’t notice other people or things around them. To reduce traffic accidents, all drivers of the UN are now not allowed to text while driving. About 32 countries have passed laws restricting the use of mobile phones while driving.
Texting is a wonderful way of communication. However, only when we use it properly, can we fully enjoy the fun it brings.
小题1:How many advantages of texting are mentioned in the passage?
A.Two. | B.Three. | C.Four. | D.Five. |
A.Texters are easier to have an accident. |
B.Texting is a good way of communication. |
C.6,000 people were killed and injured. |
D.Many people text to greet families and friends. |
A.not telling | B.not allowing | C.enjoying | D.making |
A.we should do less texting |
B.texting has many advantages |
C.texting is better than phone calling |
D.we should do texting properly |
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