【正文】 ing habits. In fact, it’s likely that some of these things have already happened to you. Who would watch you without your permission? It might be a husband or wife, a girlfriend, a marketing pany, a boss, a police or a criminal. Whoever it is, they will see you in a way you’ve never intended to be seen. Some experts tell us boundaries are healthy, and it’s important to reveal（暴露） yourself to your friends, family and lovers in stages, at proper times. But few boundaries could remain. The digital equipment makes it easy for strangers to know who you are, where you are and what you like. In some cases, a simple Google search can even reveal what you think. Like it or not, increasingly we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret. The key question is: Does that matter? When opinion polls ask Americans about privacy, most say they are concerned about losing it. A survey shows that 60 percent of them feel their privacy is ―slipping away, and that bothers me.‖ But people often say one thing and do another. Only a tiny number of Americans change the behaviors in an effort to protect their privacy. Few people turn down a discount at tollbooths （收費(fèi)站） to avoid using the EZPass system that can track your automobile movements. And few turn down supermarket loyalty cards. Privacy economist Alessandro Acquits has run a series of tests, and these tests show that the majority of Americans will not keep personal secret just in order to get their hands on a pitiful 50centsoff coupon（優(yōu)惠券） But privacy does matter—at least sometimes. It’s like health: when you have it, you don’t notice it. Only when it’s gone, do you wish you’d done more to protect it. So, when it es to privacy, why do so many people say one thing and do another? And what can be done about it? 53． What would be the experts advise on the relationships between friends? A． Friends should open their hearts to each other. B． Friends should always be faithful to each other. C． There should be a distance even between friends. D． There should be fewer secrets between friends. 54． The author says ―we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret‖ because ______. A． modern society has finally entered a much opened society B． people leave privacy around when using modern technology C． there are always people who are curious about others’ affairs D． many search engines profit by selling people’s privacy 55． According to Alessandro Acquits, most Americans _________. A． like to exchange their personal secret for the mercial benefit B． aren’t interested in the pitiful mercial benefit to keep their personal secret C． pay no attention to their personal secret for the mercial benefit D． can’t keep the balance between their personal secret and the mercial benefit 56． The best title for the passage could be _________? A． Is Privacy As Important As Health B． What Can Be Done to Protect the Privacy C． Does Privacy Really Matter D． Does Modern Technology Reveal Privacy E I’ve been writing for most of my life. The book Writing Without Teachers introduced me to one difference and one practice that have greatly helped my writing processes. The difference is between the creative mind and the critical mind. While you need to use both of the creative mind and the critical mind to reach a finished result, they cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so. Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possible the single greatest trouble with writing that most of us meet. If you are listening to a 5th grade English teacher correcting your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting（稍縱即逝的） thought, the thought will die. If you catch the fleeting thought and simply share it with the world in raw form, no one is likely to understand. You must learn to create first and then criticize if you want to make writing the tool for thinking as it is. The practice that can help you overe your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls ―free writing‖. In free writing, the goal is to get words down on paper nonstop, usually for 1520 minutes. No stopping, no going back, no criticizing. The aim is to get t5he words flowing. As the words begin to flow, the ideas will e from the shadows and let themselves be captured on your notepad or your screen. Now you have raw materials that you can begin to work with using the critical mind that you’ve persuaded to sit on the side and watch quietly. Most likely, you will believe that this will take more time than you actually have and you will end up staring blankly at the pages as the deadlines draws near. Instead of staring at a blank start and filling it with words no matter how bad they could be, stop halfway through your available time and rework your raw writing into something closer to the finished product. Move back and forth until you run out of time and the final result will most likely be far better than your current practices. 57． When the author says the creative mind and the critical mind ―cannot work in parallel‖ in the writing process, he means __________. A． no one can be both creative and critical B． they can’t be regarded as equally important C． they are in constant conflict with each other D． one cannot use them at the same time 58． What usually prevents people from writing on is ________. A． putting their ideas in raw form B． attempting to edit as they’r