In a highly-connected world where your phone is always with you, information is being collected and shared every second.“So what?” you say. “I have nothing to hide.”
The problem is that while companies and data brokers are hovering up all the information they can, there are no laws governing what they can do with that information.
So what can you do to protect yourself?
| A．Don’t be so sure. |
| B．Yet we do little to block the spies. |
| C．Care about who owns and controls the data. |
| D．We don't want to prevent all Internet spying. |
| E．Privacy is not just about freedom from embarrassment. |
| F．You can minimize some unwanted spying by taking these measures. |
| G．That includes things you thought were private, such as your health data, beliefs and daily habits. |
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【推荐1】“Farm to table” is the name of a movement that encourages people to eat locally grown food. The farmtotable idea has become more popular in recent years. But there is also a movement that brings “table to farm”. Its purpose is to connect people to the land and to honor local farmers by creating a sort of restaurant without walls.
Its founder, Jim Denevan, got the idea for this kind of “culinary adventure (美食探险)”, as he called it, ten years ago. He recently prepared tables for more than a hundred people at Briars Farm in Virginia. He and his eightmember team arrived the night before. Chefs (厨师) from a local restaurant prepared the dinner.
Jim Denevan’s brother is a farmer and he himself is a chef. He thought that the idea of a meal served right on the farm made sense, though not everyone agreed.
“But I wanted to make the idea work, so I decided to cross the country,” said Denevan. “I went all the way across the United States and set the table on farms, ranches (大牧场) and beaches, and all the places where food came from.”
“This kind of event connects us with a lot of enthusiastic people, people that we can form relationships with,” said Matt Szechenyi, who operates Briars Farm.
The tour of the farm ends at the dinner table. The meats in the meal come from Matt Szechenyi’s farm. The vegetables come from nearby farms. Guests and local farmers sit together.
Annoica Ingram came with a friend. “The food is wonderful. I appreciate their hard work. I see everything they have to do to take care of the animals and make sure they are wellcaredfor. Without them, I think, we’ll have big problems,” she said.
1. What is the main purpose of the movement “table to farm”？| A．To provide people with healthy food. |
| B．To help farmers earn more money. |
| C．To honor farmers for their hard work. |
| D．To encourage people to work less and practice more. |
| A．make new friends | B．walk around the farms |
| C．communicate with farmers | D．build restaurants for farmers |
| A．worried | B．grateful | C．doubtful | D．supportive |
| A．A travel guide. | B．A news report. | C．A diary. | D．Popular science. |
【推荐2】Can you imagine exchanging the attraction of city life for a quiet life in the countryside? Many people want to move from the country to the city because they think that life in the city is more exciting and better than in suburb areas, especially younger people who like new, modern things.
Often people like to be fashionable and feel they can find the latest styles only in the city. Other people are interested in technological things and high-tech jobs and think they can find them only in a big city. If they want to find a job, especially a good position in a company, they feel they have to live in a city. To enjoy these jobs, they are willing to put up with many of the disadvantages of city life such as crime, high traffic and pollution.
However, it is now possible to enjoy a higher quality of life in the countryside and still enjoy some of the advantages of living in the city. Nowadays, travel is fast and information is available on the Internet, so many people are able to do their work in home offices.
Because they have e-mail and personal computers, they don’t have to be in big cities to conduct their business. It is not important where they actually work because the results of their work can be sent everywhere with technology. So why should they put up with all the disadvantages of the city any longer? Now they can escape noisy city life to enjoy life in the countryside and still be able to do good business and have successful careers.
1. We can infer that many people think______.| A．life in the countryside is of latest style |
| B．cities are places suitable for young people |
| C．people can not find jobs in the countryside |
| D．cities offer more chances for self-development |
| A．Able to be used. | B．Cheap to buy. |
| C．Easy to understand. | D．Difficult to get. |
| A．Success in business is dependent on the high-tech in the city. |
| B．People can do well in business while enjoying a quiet country life. |
| C．Escaping noisy city means quitting the chances of using high-tech. |
| D．Running a company in a big city will bring you a countryside house. |
| A．Why still put up with life in the city |
| B．Enjoy advantages in the countryside |
| C．Why addicted to latest fashion in the city |
| D．Compare the city life with the country life |
【推荐3】Recycling in general can be an effective way to reuse natural material resources. The U.S.’s high recycling rate of paper, 68 percent, has proved this point. But although some materials can be effectively recycled and safely made from recycled content, plastics cannot. Plastic recycling does not work and will never work.
The problem with recycling plastic lies not with the concept or process but with the material itself. There are thousands of different plastics, each with its own characteristics. They all include different chemicals that cannot be recycled together, making it impossible to sort the trillions of pieces of plastics into separate types for processing. What’s more, plastic recycling costs more than new plastic because collecting, sorting, transporting, and reprocessing plastic waste is very expensive.
Despite this obvious failure, the plastics industry has begun a decades-long campaign to keep the lie that the material is recyclable, which reminds the public of the tobacco industry’s efforts to tell smokers that filtered (过滤的) cigarettes are healthier than unfiltered cigarettes.
Traditional mechanical recycling, in which plastic waste is ground up and melted (熔化), has been around for many decades. Now the plastics industry is promoting the benefits of so-called chemical recycling, in which plastic waste is broken down using high heat and turned into a low-quality fossil fuel. In 2018, Dow Chemical claimed that the Renewlogy chemical-recycling factory in Salt Lake City was able to reprocess mixed plastic waste through the “Hefty EnergyBag” program and turn it into diesel fuel (柴油). As Reuters showed in a 2021 survey, however, the pyrolysis (高温分解) process was not worth it.
We’re not making a case for hopelessness. Just the opposite(相反的). We need the facts so that individuals and policymakers can take action. Proven solutions to the plastic-waste and pollution problems exist and can be quickly copied across the country. These solutions include placing bans on single-use plastic bags and unrecyclable single-use plastic food-service products, and installing dishwashing equipment in schools.
Consumers can put pressure on companies to stop filling store shelves with single-use plastics by not buying them and instead choosing reusables and products in better packaging. And we should all keep recycling our paper, boxes, cans, and glass, because that actually works.
1. What is the problem with recycled plastic?| A．It costs too much to produce. |
| B．It can hardly be selected out. |
| C．It is generally of poor quality. |
| D．It can’t be stored in large numbers. |
| A．To compete with the tobacco industry. |
| B．To cut down the cost of recycling plastic. |
| C．To uncover the lie of the tobacco industry. |
| D．To prove the possibility of recycling plastic. |
| A．Traditional recycling proves to be safer. |
| B．Chemical recycling turns out to be a failure. |
| C．Chemical recycling can save energy resources. |
| D．Traditional recycling can deal with limited waste. |
| A．To show the difficulty in recycling plastic. |
| B．To introduce a new way of recycling plastic. |
| C．To stress the importance of recycling plastic. |
| D．To call for a ban on single-use plastic products. |
【推荐1】Humans have little difficulty recognizing one another. We may not remember a name, but we can usually remember if we’ve seen a face. And we know that no two faces are exactly alike.
Governments, employers and police services are using facial recognition technology.
Ordinary people, too, are using facial recognition to unlock their phones, their computers and other devices.
There are also numerous concerns about the use of facial recognition.
| A．Such systems are quite safe |
| B．Even twins’ faces have some differences |
| C．Primarily, the concern is that it has an influence on privacy |
| D．This allows them to quickly recognize someones’ identity |
| E．Personal facial recognition protection has several advantages |
| F．Facial recognition systems are being trained to use less facial data |
| G．In most examples the pictures were not taken in a controlled environment |
【推荐2】With the improvement of privacy protection awareness, everyone has questions about the telephone address, ID card information and so on. This visible privacy has been particularly concerned, but for chat photos and original pictures, it has not attracted enough attention. The topic “How much privacy can a photo reveal” has been trending on Sina Weibo, sparking concern and heated discussion about privacy awareness. In group chats, some people may post their original photos. But that may give away their home address and other information.
Images often contain a lot of information and various traces left by digital cameras or photo manipulation (处理) software. This data, called Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF), is a key tool for many professionals. It can detail whether the photographer used a flash, which digital effects were applied to a picture and when the photo was taken. EXIF can also contain the precise GPS coordinates (坐标) of the location where a photo was taken, according to CNN. If you take a landscape picture from your window and send the original picture to a group chat, it means that you are releasing your location data to all strangers in the group. They may even accurately infer your house number by analyzing the shooting time and angle.
Not just in a group chat,sending an image in a text message, email, or other delivery tools will also include the accompanying information. So how do we protect our privacy when sending photos? The most effective way is to avoid sending original photos in group chats. If it’s necessary, try not to tap the “original picture”. However, photos sent by WeChat Moments are automatically pressed by the system, and they travel without location and other information. To solve the problem at its root, we can delete and remove a picture’s EXIF data on a computer. If you are using an iOS smartphone, you can turn off location services for the camera in the privacy settings. If you’re using an Android device, the settings vary. Typically, you can go to the setting menu and switch the services off for the camera, according to CTV News. There is one more thing you can do — photoshop your photos before you share them. What comes with your edited images is photos without stored location data.
1. What is the function of the first paragraph?| A．To explain the meaning of privacy protection. |
| B．To lead to the topic of privacy protection. |
| C．To describe people’s concern about privacy. |
| D．To tell the readers the importance of privacy. |
| A．It can be used as a flash for the photographer. |
| B．It may apply digital effects to a picture. |
| C．It includes the home address of the viewers. |
| D．It provides a photo’s shooting time and place. |
| A．By switching off location services for Wechat. |
| B．By sending out their EXIF data on our phone. |
| C．By editing the photos with photo editing apps. |
| D．By turning off Internet connection when taking photos. |
| A．Photo Privacy Protection |
| B．The Importance of Protecting Photos |
| C．The Privacy a Photo Reveals |
| D．Getting Information from Photos |
【推荐3】If you post updates on Facebook or do anything that requires the Internet, you’re at risk of being hacked. In fact, last August, Mat Honan, senior writer for tech magazine Wired — someone supposedly well aware of the dangers of hacking — got hacked. He lost all the data on his computer and was about to quit his digital life.
You don’t have to delete your Facebook or Twitter account to stay safe, but posting birth dates, graduation years, or your mother’s maiden name — information often used to answer security questions to access your accounts online or over the phone — on social media sites makes a hacker’s job even easier.
A strong password is also necessary. It takes a hacker’s computer only ten minutes to guess a password made up of six lowercase letters, but free websites such as safepasswd.com can help you create a nearly uncrackable password with uppercase letters, symbols, and numbers.
Try to avoid Wi-Fi hot spots. T-Mobile and AT&T, the largest providers of free public wireless Internet, don’t require encryption (加密) of data traveling between laptops and the Internet. It means any information in laptops is easy for hackers to access.
| A．Using phrases works well too. |
| B．How about using more than one password? |
| C．Being aware of what you share matters a lot. |
| D．Hackers have to be cautious to take advantage of it. |
| E．However, submitting to hacking is not the only option. |
| F．So right-click on the wireless icon in the taskbar to turn it off. |
| G．Using common sense to create a password is not a good choice. |
