英语四级考试阅读理解练习题(5)_大学英语阅读

英语四级考试阅读理解练习题(5)

　　holding n. 财产;持有量

　　Service providers have different rulesand few state them clearly in their terms and conditions. Many give users a personal right to use an account, but nobody else, even after death. Facebook allows relatives to close an account or turn it into a memorial page. Gmail will provide copies of e-mails to an executor. Music downloaded via iTunes is held under a licence which can be revoked on death. Apple declined to comment on the record on this or other policies. All e-mail and data on its iCloud service are deleted on the death of the owner.

　　executor n. 执行者;遗嘱执行人

　　revoke v. 取消;撤回;废除

　　This has led to litigation in America. In 2004 the family of Justin Ellsworth, a marine killed in Iraq, took Yahoo! to court in Michigan to get copies of his e-mails. This year, a court in Oregon ruled that another bereaved American mother could use her dead sons password to enter his Facebook account for a short period. Now five American states have enacted laws giving executors control over the social-networking profiles of deceased users.

　　litigation n. 诉讼;起诉

　　take to court 把告上法庭

　　bereaved adj. 丧失亲人的;死了的

　　enact v. 颁布;制定法律

　　deceased adj. 已故的 n. 死者

　　But this raises the subject of privacy. Passing music on is one thing; not everyone may want their relatives snooping on their e-mails. Colin Pearson, a London-based lawyer, says access should come only with an explicit provision in a will.