Public response to technology often varies in peculiar ways. While biotechnology, for

example, gives rise to organized opposition, information technology, which is actually no less invasive (侵害的) ,no more harmless, is welcomed or, at the least, accepted with comparatively little debate. Information technologies from computers and communications ---- have obviously had an overwhelming social impact and their benefits hardly need explanations, but they have also disturbed privacy and threatened civil liberties, computerized data banks empower bureaucratic authorities by providing easy access to personal information-about credit ratings, social performance, housing and medical histories. They will allow access to genetic figures, providing information about our tendencies to employers, insurers, product advertisers, banks and other institutions that exercise control over our lives. Computerization allows the severe extension of advertising through telemarketing requests that shamelessly intrude our home life. Information technologies have displaced people from jobs and turned potentially skilled workers into low-level computer technologies. Computers have facilitated the work of scholars, but also turned them into typists; yet one hears hardly a complaint. They have turned the simple act of buying a plane ticket into an endless manipulation (控制) , but we welcome the so-called convenience. They have encouraged new forms of crime and fraud(欺诈) , but we describe them with grudging admiration. They have allowed new types of evil weaponry. But we call them "smart bombs". Perhaps the most important, information technologies have extended the power of the mass media, creating unusual possibilities for political manipulation reducing accountability (有责任,有义务 ), and changing the nature of political life. It is true that there are critiques(批评) of information technologies from those professionally concerned about their problematic(有问题的) legal, social and political implications. There is a near total absence, however, of organized public concern about technologies with profound and problematic implications.

11.According to the author, information technology_____________.

A. Has nothing positive

B. Has not given rise to organized opposition

C. is less harmless than biotechnology

D. is accepted without any debate

12.By the term "computerization the author means that______________.

A. all of industrial work is controlled by computer

B. computer plays an important role in our economic life

C. computer becomes an essential part in our everyday life

D. all scientific work is done with the help of computer

13.What worries the author most is that ______________..

A. political manipulate through mass media will become normal in our political life

B. our privacy will be threaded by businessmen

C. there will be more crimes and frauds by high tech

D. new types of evil weaponry will be invented

14.Those who criticizes information technologies are _____________.

A. leaders of the organized opposition to information technologies

B. persons engaged in professional works

C. those who benefit most from information technologies

D. those who benefit least from information technologies

15.(多选)The benefits brought by information technology is ____________.

A. quite evident

B. hard to explain

C. being overcome by social opposition

D. to benefit few people