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, overintrusive, privacy-deprived planet.
   I should also point out that as news director for Pathfinder, Time Inc.'s mega info mall, and a guy who 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're going 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 figured out that something was wrong ("Hey...why hasn't the phone rung since Wednesday?") and got our phone service restored.
   It seemed funny at first, and it gave us a swell story to tell on our book tour. But the interloper who seized our telephone line continued to hit us even after the tour ended. And hit us again and again for the next six months. The phone company seemed powerless. Its security folks moved us to one unlisted number after another, half a dozen times. They put special pin codes in place. They put traces on the line. But the troublemaker kept breaking through.
   If our hacker had been truly evil and omnipotent as only fictional movie hackers are, there would probably have been even worse ways he could have threatened my privacy. He could have sabotaged my credit rating. He could have eavesdropped on my telephone conversations or siphoned off my e-mail. He could have called in my mortgage,  discontinued my health insurance or obliterated my Social Security number. Like Sandra Bullock in The Net, I could have been a digital untouchable, wandering the planet without a connection to the rest of humanity. (Although if I didn't have to pay back school loans, it might be worth it. Just a thought.)
   Still, I remember feeling violated at the time and as powerless as a minnow in a flash flood. Someone was invading my private space--my family's private space--and there was nothing I or the authorities could do. It was as close to a technological epiphany as I have ever been. And as I watched my personal digital hell unfold, it struck me that our privacy- mine and yours- has already disappeared, not in one Big Brotherly blitzkrieg but in Little Brotherly moments, bit by bit.
   Losing control of your telephone, of course, is the least of it. After all, most of us voluntarily give out our phone number and address when we allow ourselves to be listed in the White Pages. Most of us go a lot further than that. We register our whereabouts whenever we put a bank card in an ATM machine or drive through an E-Z Pass lane on the highway. We submit to being photographed every day--20 times a day on average if you live or work in New York City--by surveillance cameras. We make public our interests and our purchasing habits every time we shop by mail order or visit a commercial Website.

Hello, my name is Richard and I am an ego surfer. The habit began about five years ago, and now I need help. Like most journalists, I can't deny that one of my private joys is seeing my byline in print. Now the Intemet is allowing me to feed this vanity to an ever greater extent, and the occasional sneaky web search has grown into a full-blown obsession with how high up Google's ranking my articles appear when I put my name into the search box. When I last looked, my best effort was a rather humiliating 47th place. You know you have a problem when you find yourself competing for ranking with a retired basketball player from the 1970s.
   Not that I'm alone in suffering from a disfunctional techno-habit. New technologies have revealed  a whole raft of hitherto unsuspected personality problems:  think crackberry, powerpointlessness or cheesepodding. Most of us are familiar with sending an email to a colleague sitting a couple of feet away instead of talking to them. Some go onto the web to snoop on old friends, colleagues or even first dates. More of us than ever reveal highly personal information on blogs or My Space entries. A few will even use Intemet anonymity to fool others into believing they are someone else altogether. So are these web syndromes and technological tics new versions of old afflictions, or are we developing fresh mind bugs?
   Developing a bad habit is easier than many might think. "You can become addicted to potentially anything you do," says Mark Griffiths, an addiction researcher at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, "because addictions rely on constant rewards." Indeed, although definitions of addiction vary, there is a body of evidence that suggests drug addictions and non-drug habits share the same neural pathways. While only a hardcore few can be considered true technology addicts, an entirely unscientific survey of the web, and of New Scientist staff, has revealed how prevalent techno-addictions may have become.
   The web in particular has opened up a host of opportunities for overindulgence. Take Wikipedia. Updating the entries--something anyone can do--has become almost a way of life for some. There are more than 2,400 "Wikipedians", who have edited more than 4,000 pages each. "It's clearly like crack for some people," says Dan Closely at Cornell University in New York, who has studied how websites such as Wikipedia foster a community. To committed Wikipedians, he says, the site is more than a useful information resource; it's the embodiment of an ideology of free information for all.
   Then there are photolog sites like Flickr. While most of us would rather die than be caught surreptitiously browsing through someone else's photos, there need be no such qualms about the private PICS people put up on these sites. Most people using Flickr and similar sites spent time each day browsing albums owned by people they had never met. They do this for emotional kicks. Khalid and Dix suggest: flicking through someone else's wedding photos, for example, allows people to daydream about their own nuptials.
   Email is another area where things can get out of hand. While email has led to a revival of the habit of penning short notes to friends and acquaintances, the ease with which we can do this means that we don't always think hard enough about where our casual comments could end up. This was the undoing of US broadcaster Keith Olbermann,who earlier this year sent a private email in which he described a fellow MSNBC reporter as "dumber than a suitcase of rocks". Unfortunately for Olbermann, the words found their way into the New York Daily News.
   Pam Briggs, a specialist in human-computer interaction at the University of Northumbria, UK, says the lack of cues such as facial expressions or body language when communicating electronically can lead us to overcompensate in what we say. "The medium is so thin, there's little room for projecting ourselves into it," says Briggs. "When all the social cues disappear, we feel we have to put something else into the void, which is often an overemotional or over-intimate message."
   The habit of forwarding jokey emails or YouTube videos- think Diet Coke and Mentos fountains- can also say a lot about how people want to be perceived, Briggs adds. "We rarely want to be seen as too serious, so we try to project more of our personality into email." This could also explain why many bloggers expose private information that they would never shout out to a crowded room.

It is interesting to reflect for a moment upon the differences in the areas of moral feeling and standards in the peoples of Japan and the United States. The Americans divide these areas somewhat rigidly into spirit and flesh, the two being in opposition in the life of a human being. Ideally, spirit should prevail but all too often it is the flesh that does prevail. The Japanese make no such division, at least between one as good and the other as evil. They believe that a person has two souls, each necessary. One is the "gentle" soul, the other is the "rough" soul. Sometimes the person uses his gentle soul, sometimes he must use his rough soul.He does not favor his gentle soul, neither does he fight his rough soul. Human nature in itself is good, Japanese philosophers insist, and a human being does not need to fight any part of himself. He has only to learn how to use each soul properly at the appropriate times. Virtue for the Japanese consists in fulfilling one's obligations to others. Happy endings, either in life or in fiction, are neither necessary nor expected, since the fulfillment of duty provides the satisfying end, whatever the tragedy it inflicts. And duty includes a person's obligations to those who have conferred benefits upon him and to himself as an individual of honor.He develops through this double sense of duty a self-discipline which is at once permissive and rigid, depending upon the area in which it is functioning.
   The process of acquiring this self-discipline begins in childhood. Indeed, one may say it begins at birth--how early the Japanese child is given his own identity! If I were to define in a word the attitude of the Japanese toward their children I would put it in one succinct word. Love? Yes, abundance of love, warmly expressed from the moment he is put to his mother's breast. For a mother this nursing of her child is important psychologically.
   Rewards are frequent, a bit of candy bestowed at the right moment, an inexpensive toy. As time comes to enter school, however, discipline becomes firmer. To bring shame to the family is the greatest shame for the child.
   What is the secret of the Japanese teaching of self-discipline? It lies, I think, in the fact that the aim of all teaching is the establishment of habit. Rules are repeated over and over, and continually practiced until obedience becomes instinctive. This repetition is enhanced by the expectation of the elders.They expect a child to obey and to learn through obedience. The demand is gentle at first and tempered to the child's tender age. It is no gentle as time goes on, but certainly it is increasingly inexorable.
   Now, far away from that warm Japanese home, I reflect upon what I learned there. What, I wonder, will take the place of the web of love and discipline which for so many centuries has surrounded the life and thinking of the people of Japan?

Tourists are frequently criticized  1  the ecological balance of Mount Himalayas and  2  chewing gum under the benches of museum and art galleries. They are also blamed for their  3  while visiting Notre Dame. My fellow tourists have reviled me for having destroyed Provence  4  . They have made a lot of complaints  5  . For instance, there have been the busier markets, higher prices,  6  restaurants, cafe tables and parking lots,  7  empty bakeries and impatient waiters. Yet, Provence began  8  over 2,600 years ago. The locals welcomed Greeks  9  , and Romans  10  viaducts and amphitheaters. But those of Visigoths, Ostrogoths and Franks brought the tourists into  11  by terrifying the inhabitants and  12  . According my observation, I would like to say a few words  13  those much blamed tourists. Most of them are amiable and considerate, and they came mostly to the towns and postcard villages in Provence in July and August just for sunshine,  14  , the food, the wine, a pleasant break from real life. I believe Provence has been  15  to tourism  16  the chateaux, gardens and monuments, and  17  concerts and village fetes in the districts. But usually the tourist is  18  the blame  19  and  20  in some parts of the world.
   A．spectacular scenery                    K．shouldered
   B．for the holding of                     L．for the overexploitation
   C．not to mention                         M．amiable and considerate
   D．grateful                               N．high occupancy of
   E．the smearing of                        O．for the survival of
   F．based on their own perspectives        P．the lost charm
   G．its massive tourism                    Q．poor behavior
   H．by writing about it                    R．for the monuments
   I．ravaging the countryside               S．disrepute
   J．for their spoilage of                  T．for their civilizing influence

1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

5. 

6. 

7. 

8. 

9. 

10. 

11. 

12. 

13. 

14. 

15. 

16. 

17. 

18. 

19. 

20. 

Yoga, the ancient practice of postures, breathing and meditation, is gaining a lot of attention from the material world that its serious practitioners are trying to escape.
   Yoga practitioners are trying to keep themselves away from the material world.
   And no wonder, Americans who practice yoga are often well-educated, have higher-than-average household income and are willing to spend a bit more on so-called "green" purchases seen as benefiting the environment or society.
   "It's kind of growing out of the crunchy stage of yoga to the Starbucks stage," said Bill Harper, publisher of Yoga Journal. "From the videos and the clothes and the toe socks...people are pursuing this market with a vengeance."
   A glance through recent issues of his monthly magazine, whose readership has doubled in the past four years to 325,000, illustrates the point. There are four-color ads from the likes of Asics athletic shoes, Eileen fisher apparel and Ford Motor Co. Yoga Journal is now licensing a Russian edition and preparing to expand in other international markets.
   Americans spend some $2.95 billion a year on yoga classes, equipment, clothing, holidays, videos and more, according to a study commissioned by the magazine, fuelled in part by ageing baby boomers seeking less aggressive ways to stay fit.
   Roughly 16.5 million people were practising yoga in the United States early last year, in studios, gyms or at home, up 43 percent from 2002, the study found.
   Established sellers of yoga gear such as Hugger Mugger and Gaiam have been flooded with competition in the market for yoga mats, incense, clothing and fancy accoutrements ranging from designer yoga bags to eye pillows.
   Vancouver, British Columbia-based Lululemon Athletica, for one, has seen sales of its yoga apparel rise to $100 million since Canadian entrepreneur Chip Wilson founded the company in 1998. Customers are snapping up its trendy pants and tops to wear to class and, increasingly, to the supermarket or out to dinner.
   Another expanding business, Exhale, markets itself as a "mindbodyspa", with tony locations in Los Angeles, New York and other urban areas that combine yoga classes with facials, massage and alternative treatments such as acupuncture.
   Some question how all the consumption is changing a discipline with a strong spiritual foundation.
   "We've taken this ancient tradition, science, and art of yoga out of a culture and a religion and world view and we've tried to transplant to the other side of the planet," said Judith Hanson Lasater, a longtime yoga instructor and author who holds a doctorate in East-West psychology. "I believe there's not a complete match-up."
   Even so, several entrepreneurs stressed that they are able to adhere to yoga's healing principles while also turning a profit.

1. 
Use three words to describe the practice of yoga.

2. 
The large consumption of yoga related products shows that yoga has developed into______

3. 
Why do baby boomers go for yoga practice?

4. 
Give an example to show that the yoga clothing ofLululemon Athletica is in fashion.

5. 
How does Exhale promote its yoga classes?

For the first time, we found______ that allow us to connect the first phase of human evolution and the second phase.
   A. theories         B. morasses        C. frescos          D. fossils

As welfare reform has ______ millions of single mothers like Patino into the workforce since 1996, questions about its effects on families have loomed large.
   A. nudged          B. propelled        C. divested         D. bumped

The flicker of impatience in the husband's eyes melts into bemused ______ as his wife asks for "just a little more time" at the mall.
   A. resignation      B. regradation      C. retrial           D. reverse

Despite much discussion, and efforts by both women's and business groups to break "the glass ceiling" down, the world's biggest companies are still almost ______ run by men.
   A. exceptionally    B. excessively      C. exclusively       D. exceedingly

Larry Griffin was woken at three that morning to be told that his last-minute ______ against his death sentence for the murder of Quintin Moss, 15 years before, had been unsuccessful.
   A. appeals          B. accusation        C. indictment       D. prosecution

The workers of space shuttle Discovery got into the back of the shuttle to look for ______in the electronics that send data from the sensors to onboard computers.
   A. glitches          B. suspects         C. orbiters          D. pitches

7   Pick a disease at random, and the chances are that females and males will handle the pain ______with it differently.
   A. connected       B. combined        C. associated       D. compared

But like many.__, Turner is growing a little fired as Florida's busy hurricane season continues to ______ nerves and extend hardships.
   A. sprain           B. fray             C. distort           D. scuffle

You could refuse to ______ your Social Security number except for Social Security purposes, which is all that the law requires.
   A. expound        B. divulge          C. apprehend       D. unriddle

As marketers increase their communication through both print and electronic channels, the opportunity for ______is growing rapidly.
   A. fraud            B. jargon           C. pledge           D. motivation

The captain performs his duties with great ______ and all the crew believed that they can get over the storm.
   A. affection        B. suspicion        C. assurance        D. definition

Although he had done many great things, he never felt it necessary to ______ his achievements.
   A. lavish           B. extravert         C. impose          D. vaunt

It's easy to ______ us because we're supposedly a bunch of dumb country bumpkins and rednecks.
   A. pick over        B. pick off         C. pick on          D. pick out

He wants to start his own business, but ______ handling payroll, government compliance, and benefits chores.
   A. loathe           B. remark          C. uphold          D. systematize

Koizumi's annual visits to the notorious shrine have sparked a______ of condemnation and protests from China and the ROK because the shrine honours 14 Class-A war criminals.
   A. splash           B. flurry            C. particle          D. stain

President Bush warned Congress on Wednesday that inaction on his push to ______Social Security could breed political repercussions.
   A. accustom        B. formulate        C. overhaul         D. dismantle

He was reluctant but he ______ because he wanted to find out more about their plans before going to the police.
   A. played along     B. played down     C. played about     D. play in

Free will allows us to indulge our ______ passions; freedom leads us in the higher path to unlock life's mystic secrets.
   A. discharging      B. fleeting         C. colluding        D. displacing

Preliminary figures show Bibb County's tax digest is slightly ______ with state guidelines, which could result in a fine of up to $100,000.
   A. out for the count  B. out and out      C. out of blast      D. out of whack

The Tacoma's executive director and three port commissioners will be in China next week to ______advice from world port experts on improving inland transportation systems.
   A. discriminate     B. disperse         C. differentiate      D. glean

London's Heathrow  airport,  alongside many other major airports,  is hoping that passenger numbers will be swallowed up by a new generation of huge aircraft______
   A. probate          B. obsolete         C. swelling         D. recapitulating

By now Dad was sixty-five, and what little lenience he may once have possessed had long since hardened into______inflexibility.
   A. compassionate   B. friendly         C. remorseful       D. steely

What small businesses need to learn from larger competitors is how developing a dynamic learning environment______innovation, strengthens market position, and develops a true competitive advantage.
   A. propels          B. restrains         C. prescribes        D. improvises

The chances of infection of BSE or "mad-cow disease" may be slight, but that does not stop people ______ beefen masse.
   A. shunning        B. ignoring         C. disregarding     D. affronting

Activist parents say school kids aren't ______ enough to understand that a fruit-flavored soft drink doesn't have the nutritional benefits of real fruit.
   A. adulterated      B. mingled         C. sophisticated     D. refined

Identity theft can range for the simple theft of a credit card, or it can go into more complex schemes where the thieves can ______ hundreds of people at a time.
   A. embody         B. impersonate      C. personify        D. assume

College Board President Gaston Caperton trumpeted rising SAT math scores and bemoaned ______verbal scores last week.
   A. motionless      B. stagnant         C. briskness        D. sluggish

Many agents quit and say they are leaving because they are ______ and want better pay and more humane working conditions, including less travel.
   A. reverted to      B. backed up       C. fed up           D. thrust in

Don Hambrick, a management professor at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, says "It's become much more______and a lot less fun to be an executive or director."
   A. sinking         B. indifferent       C. taxing           D. slouching

The government recently presented an ambitious plan to tackle the violence and ______that follow when too many people drink too much too quickly in too small an area.
   A. alienation        B. delimitation      C. bareness         D. mayhem

But cellphones had been around for 15 years before they caught on with______ America. By that yardstick, broadband-widely available for only the past couple of years-has many more miles to go.
   A. main-topmast    B. mainstay        C. main artery      D. mainstream

Women once demanded men with social skills, but they're now focusing on "his values, if he's interested in family".
   A. impeditive       B. colossal         C. blemish         D. impeccable

I get asked about what individuals can do to stay current in a world that somehow keeps and repeating pattems all at the same time.
   A. transforming     B. distorting        C. converting       D. contorting

They might be willing to move from country to country, until they end up in a backwater ______nation with no laws or lawmakers to speak of, and can proceed with their miserably experiments.
   A. well-built       B. ill-conceived     C. well-groomed    D. ill-bred

The Bush Junta is using the of______ Hurricane katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities.
   A. dismantlement   B. devastation      C. scuttle           D. wreckage

Entering the fumiture store, Mr. Thompson took a few minutes to ______ through the catalog and got a sense of what kinds of sofa were in popular demand.
   A. gaze            B. stare            C. shuffle          D. riffle

Critical articles on this novel argue that though the plot seems logical, the ending of the novel is______
   A. tardy           B. ramrod          C. farfetched        D. factitious

Everyday there are reports of______ that have been committed against innocent people.
   A. behaviors        B. fixtures          C. subordinates     D. atrocities

You invest in the equity market to provide yourself with stream of future dividends which will hopefully ______ inflation.
   A. outpace         B. outface          C. outgrow         D. outlaw

He acknowledged that the ______ of financial support in the election took long hours of persuasion.
   A. gestation        B. enlistment       C. establishment    D. temperance

Despite the web, we watch more television than ever.
   In the chaos of today's media and technology brawl- iPod vs. Zune, Google vs. Yahoo, windows vs. Linux, Intel vs. AMD--we can declare one unlikely winner. Standing tall in a field of new tech wonders, it's a geezer technology that are invented in the 1920s and commercialized in the 1940s, and it's still more powerful than any thing created since. (1) As you try to figure out where consumer infotech is going, and what it means for society, remember this big, central reality: People just want more television.
   If you doubt it, look at today's biggest news in tech. It continually centers on new ways to bring consumers the thing they crave above all else. (2) Sony flooded the recent Consumer Electronics Show with products that put Intemet video on your TV set, as did almost every other consumer electronics company. At the simultaneous Macworld Expo, Apple chief Steve Jobs introduced Apple TV. which does the same thing. Verizon said it will soon offer live TV on cellphone screens. It will also sell full-length programs for viewing whenever you want. Put it all together, and we have achieved a nirvana that didn't exist even a year ago: unlimited television available 24 / 7 on every screen you own.
   It's no surprise, of course. (3) Ever since the basic facts of steadily multiplying processor power and bandwidth became apparent, seers have confidently predicted this day. They just as confidently predicted what it would mean: traditional television's demise. Once the World Wide Web appeared in the mid-1990s, the future looked very clear. Boring old TV, the scheduled programs that come to you through a coaxial cable or satellite dish or antenna, would fade away.
   (4) Which is exactly the opposite of what has happened. Despite many Net Age alternatives, we Americans today watch more boring old TV than ever, which is saying something. How can that be? My theory is the Two-Liter Coke Principle. The Coca--Cola company discovered long ago that if it could get people to bring home bigger bottles of Coke, those people would drink more than they used to. Just getting more Coke in front of them increased their consumption. It seems to be the same with TV. Put more of it in front of people-- over 100 channels in many homes--and people will watch more.
   Seen from this perspective, the latest announcements of new TV-related technology look simply like additional ways to put more TV in front of American consumers. The supposed threat from the Internet was that we'd cut back on TV as we spent more time on MySpace or in Second Life. We may well spend more time on such new Net attractions, but we're unlikely to take that time away from video viewing. We're more likely to cut back on things we consider less important, like sleep.
   (5) No one has evaluated TV better than the great New Yorker essayist E. B. White, who in 1938 wrote, "We shall stand or fall by television, of that I am sure." We still don't know which it wilt be, but his assessment looks truer than ever.

1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

5. 

大学的功能
   2. 大学是否实现了目标
   3. 如何改进