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Passage Three

A young woman was riding the subway with her small dog. The dog defecated and the other passengers demanded that the women clean it up.

When the woman rudely refused, someone took pictures with a mobile phone and posted them on a popular South Korean website. The photos sparked a nationwide witch-hunt.

Within days, her identity was established and people began requesting information online about her parents and relatives. Humiliated, the woman reportedly quit her university.

This incident stirred a nationwide debate. Some said circulating pictures of the young woman was fine but revealing her personal information was not. Others said the woman‟s face should have been obscured, while still others said she didn‟t deserve any privacy.

Such campaigns can lead to accidental damage: innocent people were mistakenly identified and their reputation hurt.

In this case, the website of one university crashed when it was flooded with angry emails demanding the school take action against the young woman. The problem was the offender did not go to that school.

“The internet is turning the whole society into a kangaroo court,” the Korean Herald newspaper wrote in an editorial.

An article in US newspaper Washington Post said the incident “showed the power of the Internet and provided a peek into an unsettling corner of the future.”

US legal expert Daniel Solove of George Washington University said the incident “involves a norm that most people would agree to—clean up after your dog. But having a permanent record of one‟s norm violations is raising the sanction to a whole new level…allowing bloggers to act as a cyber-police, tracking down norm violators and branding them with digital scarlet letter.”

单选题

In the subway, the young woman‟s dog _____.

【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】

文章第一段提到“The dog defecated and the other passengers demanded that the women clean it up.”defecate意为“排便”, 选项d与文意相符, 故选D。

单选题

The young woman‟s rude behavior led to _____.

【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】

根据文章第二段“...someone took pictures with a mobile phone and posted them on a popular South Korean website. The photos sparked a nationwide witch-hunt.”这位女子粗鲁地拒绝引发人们在网上展开对她的“人肉搜索”, 对应选项b“a search for her private information online”, 故B项为正确答案。

单选题

The author seems not to be in favor of such an online campaign mainly because _____.

【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】

作者在第五段中指出“Such campaigns can lead to accidental damage:innocent people were mistakenly identified and their reputation hurt.”由此可推断他对此并不赞成, 因为如此做法使其名誉权受到侵害。 D项(人们的权益应受到保护) 与文意相符, 故为正确答案。

单选题

A kangaroo court is a(n) _____ court

【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】

根据a kangaroo court定位至文章第七段, 原文为“The internet is turning the whole society into a kangaroo court”, 而联系上下文, 前面提到人们盲目而错误地写信轰炸一所大学并责令其对事件女主角给予处分, 由此可推断此处寓意“非正规法庭”, 即选项B的unofficial符合题意。

单选题

What would be the best title for this passage?

【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】

通读全文可知, 文章主要讲述了一女子的粗鲁行为引发人们对她展开了“人肉搜索”, 并引用了各方媒体专家的观点表达了对此事的看法, 因此选项A更能概括全文, 适合做本文标题, 故选A。