根据下列文章，回答36～40题。 It never rains but it pours. Just as bosses andboards have fina

lly sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles，and improved their feeble corporation governance， a new problem threatens toearn them- especially in America-the sort of nasty headlines that inevitablylead to heads rolling in the executive suite： data insecurity. Left， until now，to odd， low-level IT staff to put right， and seen as a concern only of data-richindustries such as banking， telecoms and air travel， information protection isnow high on the boss's agenda in businesses of every variety.

Several massive leakages of customer and employee data this year- fromorganizations as diverse as Time Warner， the American defense contractor ScienceApplications International Corp and even the University of California.Berkeley-have left managers hurriedly peering into their intricate 11 systemsand business processes in search of potential vulnerabilities.

“Data is becoming an asset which needs no be guarded as much as any otherasset.” says I am Mendelson of Stanford University's business school “Theability guard customer data is the key to market value， which the board isresponsible for on behalf of shareholders” Indeed， just as there is the conceptof Generally Accepted Accounting Principles （GAAP）. perhaps it is time for GASP.Generally Accepted Security Practices， suggested Eli Noam of New York's ColumbiaBusiness School. “Setting the proper investment level for security， redundancy，and recovery is a management issue， not a technical one.” he says.

The mystery is that this should come as a surprise to any boss. Surely itshould be obvious to the dimmest exccutive that trust， that most valuable ofeconomic assets， is easily destroyed and hugely expensive to restore-and thatfew things are more likely to destroy trust than a company letting sensitivepersonal data get into the wrong hands.

The current state of affairs may have been encouraged-though notjustified-by the lack of legal penalty （in America， but not Europe） for dataleakage. Until California recently passed a law. American firms did not have totell anyone， even the victim， when data went astray， I hat may change fast lotsof proposed data-security legislation now doing the rounds in Washington. D．C．Meanwhile. the theft of information about some 40 million credit-card accountsin America， disclosed on June 17th. overshadowed a hugely important decision aday earlier by America's Federal Trade Commission （FTC） that puts corporateAmerica on notice that regulators will act if firms fail to provide adequatedata security.

第36题：The statement： “It never rainsbut it pours” is used to introduce

A．the fierce businesscompetition.

B．the feeble boss-board relations

C．the threat fromnews reports.

D．the severity of data leakage.