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As high school students flock to social networking sites, campus police are scanning their Facebook and MySpace pages for tips t

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问题     As high school students flock to social networking sites, campus police are scanning their Facebook and MySpace pages for tips to help break up fights, monitor gangs and prevent crime.
    Some students object to police looking over their shoulders. But officers responsible for school safety say routine checks of the online forums often add to the knowledge they obtain from hallways or schoolyards.
    In recent years, school administrators have blamed some campus fights on Internet conflicts and urged parents to keep watch on their children’s computer activity. But students who use the Web to let their 500 closest friends know what they are doing at all times are sometimes surprised that police are watching, too.
    Police don’t have special privileges on Facebook or MySpace. Students who want to go unobserved can change privacy settings so that their profiles are displayed only to a list of approved people. But the default (默认) settings leave those profiles open to many Internet users (in the case of Facebook) or all of them (in the case of MySpace).
    Employers and college admissions counselors have examined online profiles of student applicants for some time. Police across the country have been doing the same for the past two or three years, said Kevin Quinn, a spokesman for the Minnesota-based National Association of School Resource Officers.
    "If you’re already familiar with the technology, it doesn’t take you but a couple of minutes to hook into the student population and keep an eye on things," Quinn said.
    An expedition into a thicket (丛林) of MySpace profiles found high school students discussing drugs, sex and fights. It was all publicly available (although in language that caused a reporter to blush).
    Late last month, Fairfax County police announced the arrests of seven Chantilly area teenagers for trying to recruit Franklin Middle School students to a gang. That investigation was aided when a student showed the school resource officer gang symbols littering one of the suspect’s MySpace profiles.
    Fairfax police say they pride themselves on addressing issues in schools before they develop into major problems. Keeping an eye on Facebook and MySpace has become an extra tool in that effort, they said.
What does the author mainly discuss in the passage?
选项 A、Students’ neglect of protecting their privacy online.
B、Internet helping police maintain school and public order.
C、Social networking sites having bad influence on teenagers.
D、Police’s unwelcome interference in students’ online activities.
答案B
解析 根据题干中的discuss in the passage可知，本题考查文章的主旨，故将本题出处定位到全文。文章首段讲校园警察通过Facebook和MySpace获得信息以驱散斗殴、监视团伙和预防犯罪；接下来的段落依次分析了校园警察通过网络关注学生活动的原因和学生对此的反应以及警员通过网络关注学生活动的途径和方法；最后两段举例说明网络在处理校园问题的辅助作用。由此不难看出，本文主要分析的是网络在解决校园问题上所起到的辅助作用，故答案为[B]。
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