A. disregard B. prevalent C. probe D. abolish E. realizing F. radically G. assault H. reassure I. medieval J. wealthy K. skeletons L. functioning M. incredibly N. resented O. elaborate Recently, the right of privacy seems to be frequently under 1. . Many companies and organizations use different ways to 2 . into people ’ s private life. I feel 3. about these intrusions and people ’ s 4. for our privacy. One day, a picture in my room made me wonder if people needed or wanted privacy. I noticed the differences in privacy behavior of different generations. I looked back on the history, and found that in the beginning, people had no privacy and could not hide 5. in the closet. Then, the families that were quite 6. might have the possibility to have separate bedrooms. Privacy is based on private property. Those who own no property own no privacy. If a society wants to 7. privacy, it should do away with class structure and demand that ever-larger areas of life should be public. In this way, there is no need for informers, for 8. spy systems, for bugging. My visit to an Israel agricultural settlement choked me for lack of privacy. But I could not blind myself to the 9. successful control of anti-social behavior there. To solve one of the modern city problems, 10. fear in our streets, we need to return to much smaller, more self-contained communities where a great deal of what is now private can become public; where we would share more and know much more about each other. I value privacy and we must strive for the right balance between private life and pubic life.