37 What can be inferred from the fact that a tiny percentage of criminal cases are solved using CCTV evidence?
(A) The government pays great price to solve criminal cases.
(B) The government’s use of public surveillance is questionable.
(C) The British citizens live in the world of 1984.
(D) In spite of this fact, the government plans to continue to solve criminal cases.

What can be inferred推斷 from the fact that a tiny percentage％ of criminal cases are solved using CCTV evidence? 

(A) The government pays great price to solve criminal cases. 
(B) The government’s use of public surveillance is questionable翻譯：不確定的；未必正確的；值得懷疑的. 
(C) The British citizens live in the world of 1984. 
(D) In spite of this fact, the government plans to continue to solve criminal cases. 

It is an uncomfortable fact, but every country watches the movements of its citizens.

The degrees程度 of surveillance監視 vary from authoritarian regimes獨裁政權 such as North Korea featuring among the most heavily monitored societies to the Database States such as the United Kingdom英國.

It is surprising to learn that the UK has been described as one of the most surveyed調查 countries in the world. The main reason for this is that it has more close-circuit television (CCTV)閉路電視 cameras in use than any other democratic country.

Despite儘管 statistics統計數字 suggesting that over 90 percent％ of these cameras are in private hands, people remain仍然 concerned about official snooping窺探.

The government insists the cameras are there to prevent crimes and keep people safe; yet statistics統計數字 show that only a tiny percentage％ of criminal cases are solved using CCTV evidence.

In spite of儘管 this, the authorities權威當局 continue to champion支持 the use of public surveillance監視.

It seems the Big Brother大佬 society predicted預言 by the British writer George Orwell in his famous novel 1984 has come to pass. In recent years, the naysayers反對人 have won the day.

British surveillance system, such as the National Identity Registration (NIR)全國身份登記 system, which allows government agencies to share personal data with no accountability問責, has been abandoned.

However, many British citizens remain仍然 convinced確信 that the government continues to poke its nose干涉、管閒事 into the private affairs of its citizens.