英语四六级外刊阅读练习2.docxVIP

英语四六级外刊阅读练习2本篇阅读材料“社交媒体和后隐私社会”选自《卫报》（原文标题：Social media and the post-privacy society 2012.04.03），如果大家觉得比较简单，就当作泛读材料了解了解，认识几个新单词或新表达方式也不错。如果大家觉得这些材料理解上有难度，不妨当做挑战自己的拔高训练，希望大家都有进步　　While having a meal with his wife in his home town of Utica in 2007, the pollster John Zogby struck up a conversation with his 20-year-old waitress about privacy, social networking and YouTube. He asked what limits she set on what she would reveal online.　　struck up 使开始；建立起　　set limits on 对……加以限制　　reveal 展现；显示；揭露　　My boobs, she said. but only on Halloween, and only for my friends.　　Well, answers Zogby, in account from his book The Way Well Be. Im your friend today, but tomorrow I might not be. Can you stop me from sharing your, um, breasts, with the rest of the world, or with the company youre hoping will hire you?　　No, she replies, but so many of us do this in one form or another that employers are just going to have to adjust or they wont have anyone to hire.　　As Spring Break draws to a close, the question of what belongs in the public realm and whom it affects becomes agonisingly pertinent to thousands of undergraduates across the country. Spring Break is the annual, formal Bacchanal: the riotous, alcohol-drenched recess that launches scores of Girls Gone Wild videos, clogs toilets with condoms and beachside boardwalks with vomit and updates millions of Facebook pages.　　Spring Break 春假　　public realm 公共领域　　pertinent adj. 切题的；中肯的　　recess n. 1. [C,U]休息；休会；休庭 2. [C,U]【美】学校的假期；课间休息 v. [T] 1. 把...放在隐蔽处 2. 使凹进，使有凹进处　　But five years after Zogbys conversation, people seem to be recalibrating their limits. A report in the New York Times last month suggested an inhibition descending on Spring Break this year. They are very prudish, said one bartender in Key West. They are so afraid everyone is going to take their picture and put it online. Ten years ago, people were doingfilthy, filthy things, but it wasnt posted on Facebook. Its a shame they are not having as much as they did or would like to (Im as