73. What does the phrase “ meaningless drivel” in paragraphs 1 and 3 refer to?
- A. Legal contracts that social media firms make people sign up to.
- B. Warnings from the UK government against unsafe websites.
- C. Guidelines on how to use social media websites properly.
- D. Insignificant data collected by social media firms.
答案：A
答案句：“The term and conditions statement that we all carelessly agree to is meaningless drivel to anyone,” says Andrew Miller, the chair of the committee. … The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee’s report, released last week, has blamed firms for making people sign up to long incomprehensible legal contracts and calls for an international standard or kitemark (认证标记) to identify sites that have clear terms and conditions.
参考译文：“我们都不经意同意的条款声明对任何人来说都是无意义的废话，”委员会主席安德鲁·米勒说。 … 上周发布的英国下议院科学技术委员会报告指责企业让人们签署冗长难懂的法律合同，并呼吁制定国际标准或认证标记，以识别条款和条件清晰的网站。
定位线索：题干“meaningless drivel”在1、3段→答案句取自第3段米勒的话“The term and conditions statement that we all carelessly agree to is meaningless drivel”；文中“term and conditions statement”和“long incomprehensible legal contracts”对应选项A“Legal contracts that social media firms make people sign up to”。
解析：题干问“meaningless drivel”指什么。答案句中米勒说“我们都不经意同意的条款声明是meaningless drivel”，紧接着前文提到企业让人们签署“long incomprehensible legal contracts”，因此该短语指这些法律合同，对应选项A。选项B、C、D均与原文无关，属于无中生有。
74. It can be inferred from the passage that Nigel Shadbolt doubts whether _______.
- A. social media firms would conduct a survey on the kitemark scheme
- B. people would pay as much attention to a kitemark as they think
- C. a kitemark scheme would be workable on a nationwide scale
- D. the kitemark would help companies develop their business models
答案：B
答案句：“I think if you went and did the survey, people would like to think they would,” says Nigel Shadbolt at the University of Southampton, UK, who studies open data. … But what would happen in practice is another matter, he says.
参考译文：“我认为如果你去做调查，人们会愿意认为他们会（注意认证标记），”英国南安普顿大学研究开放数据的奈杰尔·沙德博尔特说。 … 但他说，实际会发生什么又是另一回事。
定位线索：题干“Nigel Shadbolt doubts”→答案句取自第5段沙德博尔特的话“people would like to think they would”和“what would happen in practice is another matter”；文中“people would like to think they would”对应选项B“people would pay as much attention to a kitemark as they think”。
解析：题干问沙德博尔特怀疑什么。答案句他说人们“愿意认为”自己会注意认证标记，但“实际会发生什么又是另一回事”，暗示人们实际可能不会像自己以为的那样注意，对应选项B。选项A、C、D在原文中无依据，属于无中生有。
75. Andrew Miller thinks social media needs more attention than banks mainly because _______.
- A. their users consist largely of kids under 20 years old
- B. the language in their contracts is usually harder to understand
- C. the information they collected could become more valuable in future
- D. it remains unknown how users’ data will be taken advantage of
答案：D
答案句：Other organisations such as banks ask customers to sign long contracts they may not read or understand, but Miller believes social media requires special attention because it is so new. … “We still don’t know how significant the long-term impact is going to be of unwise things that kids put on social media that come back and bite them in 20 years’ time,” he says.
参考译文：其他组织如银行也要求客户签署他们可能不读或不理解的长期合同，但米勒认为社交媒体需要特别关注，因为它太新了。 … “我们仍然不知道孩子们在社交媒体上发布的不明智内容在20年后回过头来伤害他们的长期影响会有多大，”他说。
定位线索：题干“Andrew Miller thinks social media needs more attention than banks”→答案句取自第6段“Miller believes social media requires special attention because it is so new”和“We still don’t know how significant the long-term impact is going to be”；文中“We still don’t know”对应选项D“it remains unknown how users’ data will be taken advantage of”。
解析：题干问社交媒体比银行更需要关注的原因。答案句指出因为社交媒体“太新”，且“我们不知道”长期影响有多大，即用户数据如何被利用尚不明确，对应选项D。选项A、B、C在原文中无依据，属于无中生有。
76. The writer advises users of social media to _______.
- A. think carefully before posting anything onto such websites
- B. read the terms and conditions even if there is a kitemark
- C. take no further action if they can find a kitemark
- D. avoid providing too much personal information
答案：B
答案句：If properly administered, a kitemark on terms and conditions could help people know what exactly they are signing up to. Although they would still have to actually read them.
参考译文：如果管理得当，条款和条件上的认证标记可以帮助人们知道他们到底在签署什么。尽管他们仍然必须真正阅读这些条款。
定位线索：题干“writer advises users of social media”→答案句取自末段“Although they would still have to actually read them”；文中“would still have to actually read them”对应选项B“read the terms and conditions even if there is a kitemark”。
解析：题干问作者建议社交媒体用户做什么。答案句末句“尽管他们仍然必须真正阅读这些条款”直接表明即使有认证标记，用户仍需阅读条款，对应选项B。选项A、C、D在原文中无依据，属于无中生有。
77. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
- A. Say no to social media?
- B. New security rules in operation?
- C. Accept without reading?
- D. Administration matters!
答案：C
答案句：“The term and conditions statement that we all carelessly agree to is meaningless drivel to anyone,” says Andrew Miller, the chair of the committee. … If properly administered, a kitemark on terms and conditions could help people know what exactly they are signing up to. Although they would still have to actually read them.
参考译文：“我们都不经意同意的条款声明对任何人来说都是无意义的废话，”委员会主席安德鲁·米勒说。 … 如果管理得当，条款和条件上的认证标记可以帮助人们知道他们到底在签署什么。尽管他们仍然必须真正阅读这些条款。
定位线索：题干“best title”→答案句取自第3段米勒的话“we all carelessly agree to”和末段“Although they would still have to actually read them”；文中“carelessly agree to”和“would still have to actually read them”对应选项C“Accept without reading?”。
解析：文章围绕用户不经阅读就接受条款的现象展开，开头指出条款是“meaningless drivel”，结尾强调即使有认证标记仍需阅读，标题“Accept without reading?”（不读就接受？）概括了全文主旨，对应选项C。选项A、B、D均偏离文章核心，属于范围扩大或偷换概念。