M8U4 Project II 课后作业.阅读理解。
Social_media_have_become_a_staple_of_our_everyday_lives.Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms have changed the way we communicate with friends, family, and colleagues. Many of us use these platforms to post opinions, proudly talk about our achievements or complain about heavy traffic.This means that social media communicate public information and can be used against you. Lawyers can look for pictures and posts that could potentially disprove your claim (要求). Your posts can still be found even if your profile (概况) is private when the posts potentially are related to your case. The court may determine that your public posts may lead to admissible evidence and your privacy interests do not outweigh discovery requests. They will not make you produce your entire profile, but only what they think is relevant information. Defense lawyers wish to prove that the injured party, physically, emotionally, or financially, is lying about their injuries.Even posting about your emotions can affect your claim greatly. Say, you are suing (控告) someone for your pain and suffering because you are depressed, yet you post pictures of yourself smiling and you have quoted “Life is good” attached to the photo. If and when the defense lawyers get a hold of the posts your pain and suffering claim may not hold up in court.Most people only post about the good times on social media, rarely about the hardships and misfortunes. Insurance companies are allowed to follow you and gather information as evidence. Before social media, insurance companies and lawyers had to hire investigators to follow people around to spy on them. Social media make it easier.If you have posted contents related to your claim, remember it is too late. You must not change evidence. Deleting your account would be considered you're destroying evidence and that will affect your case. The best practice would be to stay away from social media until your case has come to a close.1．What does the author want to tell us by saying “Social media have become a staple of our everyday lives”？A．Social media negatively affect our lives.B．Social media play an important role in our lives.C．The privacy of data on the Internet is impossible.D．We receive a lot of illegal information from social media.2. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?A．Posts on the Internet cannot be trusted.B．Lawyers can use social media as evidence.C．It's illegal for lawyers to get private information.D．The court hopes people will produce their entire profile.3. What should one do if he/she has posted contents related to his/her claim? A．Change the contents secretly.B．Completely empty the contents.C．Post about the hardships and misfortunes.D．Do nothing about it and stop posting new things.4. What's the main idea of the text?A．We'd better not post about emotions.B．We should post about both good times and bad ones.C．We should stay away from social media for a personal claim.D．We can gather information as evidence through social media.Answers:语篇解读：本文是议论文。
