CATII笔译综合能力练习：冠词（二）
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SAYING sorry can be (1) enriching experience. For Mark Zuckerberg, who this week endured two days of questioning in front of Congress, (2) rewards of contrition are not just metaphorical. Over the course of his testimony, as (3) Facebook boss apologised for (4) leakage of data on 87m users to (5) political-campaign firm, his company’s shares rose by 5.7% and his own net worth by $3.2bn.
Shareholders were doubtless relieved by Mr Zuckerberg’s robotic but gaffe-free display. And even (6) firm’s fiercest critics ought to acknowledge (7) distance that it has travelled since (8) Cambridge Analytica story broke in March. Mr Zuckerberg welcomed the idea of regulation and cautiously endorsed (9) forthcoming European law on data protection. By saying explicitly that Facebook was responsible for (10) content on its platform, he has opened (11) door to bearing greater liability for the material it carries. But (12) bounce in the share price also signals something worrying: that neither the firm nor American legislators have grasped (13) need for radical change.
Start with Facebook. Mr Zuckerberg told Congress that any firm that has grown at (14) speed of Facebook was bound to make mistakes. But (15) dorm-room excuse is wearing thin. Facebook is (16) sixth-most-valuable listed firm on the planet. It spent $11.5m on lobbying in Washington in 2017. Its endless guff about “community” counts for little when it has repeatedly and flagrantly disregarded its users’ rights to control their own data. The company has carried out lots of fiddles in recent weeks—from making privacy settings clearer to promising (17) audit of suspicious apps. But it should go much further.
(18) internal investigation into how third-party apps have been using Facebook users’ data is not enough to restore trust: it should appoint (19) outside firm to conduct (20) full independent examination of its own conduct. That would help address lingering questions; Cambridge Analytica may be just one of many such outfits to have got hold of user data, for example. (21) appointment of an independent chairman would be another way to improve the quality of debate and scrutiny within Facebook.
Along with other tech firms, it should create (22) industry ombudsman whose jobs would include making access to platforms easier for independent researchers. Instead of opening up, however, the risk is that Facebook will throw up walls: its decision to kick third-party data-brokers off (23) platform has the convenient effect of both protecting users’ data and entrenching its power as (24) source of those data.
Wanted: well-informed legislators
Even if Facebook did all this, there would still be (25) need for data-protection regulation in America. Mr Zuckerberg has (26) majority of (27) voting rights at the company: an independent chairman would not stop him wielding ultimate control. The firm’s advertising-led business model incentivises it to turn users’ personal data into targets for ads. Facebook has said nothing about allowing people to opt out of being tracked across (28) web. It is inherently hard for users of online services to make informed choices about how their data should be stored. In any case, these issues span more firms than Facebook.
That leads to (29) other concern raised by this week’s hearings: (30) capacity of policymakers to put together good legislation. Where Mr Zuckerberg was competent, his interrogators were often clueless. One seemed not to know that the firm made money from advertising; another was more interested in getting Facebook to build fibre-optic cable in her state. To work for its users, (31) data economy requires thoughtful policy and (32) sea-change in (33) way tech firms are run. On this week’s evidence, neither looks likely.
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1-5：an; the; the; the; a
6-10：the; the; the; a; the
11-15：the; the; the; the; the
16-20：the; an; an; an; a
21-25：the; an; the; a; a
26-30：a; the; the; the; the
31-33：the; a; the
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