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pII. Vocabulary Expansion1. B 6. A Unit TenKey to ExercisesIII. VocabularyA. 1. battened 2. posed as 3. infested 4. thought twice about 5. defamed 6. demolish 7. avidly 8. moderate 9. loathed 10. toutingB. 1. bare 2. donned 3. raucous 4. abolish 5. wheedle 6. jovial 7. summoned 8. disgorge 9. squalid 10. bentC. 1B 2A 3C 4D 5C 6B 7A 8B 9C 10DIV. Cloze1 gay 2 affairs 3 beloved 4 rise 5 tackle6 whether 7 Nor 8 justified 9 public 10 but11 Revealing 12 hypocrisy 13 gratuitous 14enough 15 indeed16 liar 17 paying 18 ignoble 19 hardly 20 onV. TranslationA.誠(chéng)然,一個(gè)人的家不再是他的城堡,或者即便是,護(hù)城河也是干的,吊門(mén)總是高懸著的。沒(méi)有任何東西能夠阻擋每日如潮水般涌來(lái)貌似私人信件的廣告郵件、上門(mén)的推銷(xiāo)員以及陌生人打來(lái)的電話。電話到了不替別人著想的那些人手里,便成了致命的武器。但如果一個(gè)人想采取措施保護(hù)自己,拒絕將自己的電話號(hào)碼登記在電話簿上,他就得自食苦果。紐約電話公司的用戶名冊(cè)上有近50萬(wàn)不愿登記號(hào)碼的頑固分子。這個(gè)數(shù)字表明,人們依然渴望保護(hù)隱私,盡管對(duì)隱私的尊重已不復(fù)存在。幾年前,該公司對(duì)未登記號(hào)碼的主顧感到很惱火,就在他們每月的帳單上增收額外的費(fèi)用,希望以此來(lái)迫使他們回到登記在冊(cè)的好用戶隊(duì)伍中來(lái)。現(xiàn)代建筑在破壞隱私方面也有一份責(zé)任。觀景窗最初是由弗蘭克勞埃德懷特這樣的人設(shè)計(jì)出來(lái)的,用以觀賞大自然美景?,F(xiàn)今數(shù)以百萬(wàn)計(jì)的美國(guó)人從自家的觀景窗往外看,一直看到別人家的觀景窗內(nèi)的情形以及繁忙的街景。承包商剛剛安裝完觀景窗裝,裝潢人員就被召來(lái)用昂貴的窗簾將其遮擋起來(lái),以防外界窺視。即使這樣,隱私仍然難以確保。在許多現(xiàn)代房屋中,房間已被相互融為一體的“區(qū)域” 所替代。這樣一來(lái),丈夫想在“閱讀區(qū)”(以前的書(shū)房)工作,數(shù)英尺之外的“娛樂(lè)區(qū)”(以前的活動(dòng)室)發(fā)出的喧鬧聲,就會(huì)毫無(wú)遮擋地傳到他的耳中。B. The idea that public status es with a loss of privacy is unpersuasive. Far more persuasive is the thought that a person’s privacy may be breached if the information disclosed serves a proven public interest. A code of press practice specifies the various conditions that could count as involving a genuine public interest in publication, such as detecting or exposing crime, protecting public health, preventing the public from being misled. Showing public officials to be corrupt, grossly inefficient, criminally negligent, or dishonest is certainly in the public’s interest, provided that these failings bear directly on their performance of their public duties. Thus, for example, a revealing that a minister is a highly paid nonexecutive director of a pany which regularly seeks contracts with the government is a matter for public concern. However, the majority of cases where privacy is breached touch on matters of sexual morality and it is that much harder to see how the public interest is served by their disclosure. Key to Additional WorkI. Idiom Studies1. came of age2. old before their time3. his days were numbered4. made her day5. a wet blanket6. blacken the character of7. marking time8. the moment of truth9. play second fiddle10. on the spur of the momentII. Vocabulary Expansion1. B 6. C 9