题目内容
Since television takes up too much of our time, we __________have enough time for hobbies and other activities.
A. no longer B. no more C. not any longer D. not any more
After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend’s Liverpudlian accent suddenly becomes too difficult to understand after his clear words on screen; a secretary’s tone seems more rejecting than I’d imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid—hours become minutes, and alternately seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two ordinary days.
For the last three years, since I stopped working as a producer for Charlie Rose, I have done much of my work as a tele-commuter. I submit（提交） articles and edit them by E-mail and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives in England; so much of our relationship is computer-mediated.
If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my money, love and work. In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. I watched most of the blizzard(暴风雪) of ’96 on TV.
But after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal. I start to feel as though I’ve merged（融合） with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another node（波节） on the Net. Others on line report the same symptoms. We start to strongly dislike the outside forms of socializing. It’s like attending an A. A. meeting in a bar with everyone holding a half-sipped drink. We have become the Net opponents’ worst nightmare.
What first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has become an avoidance（逃避），a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult.
At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to chatter in the background, something that I’d never done previously. The voices of the programs relax me, but then I’m jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, or needing to keep up with the latest news and the weather. “Dateline”, “Frontline” , “Nightline,” CNN, every possible angle of every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me. Work moves from foreground to background.
【小题1】Compared to the clear words of her boyfriend on screen, his accent becomes______.
| A．unreal | B．unbearable |
| C．misleading | D．not understandable |
| A．the same city | B．the same country |
| C．different countries | D．different cities in England |
| A．Having worked on the computer for too long, she became a bit strange. |
| B．Sometimes TV programs give her comfort and even makes her forget her work. |
| C．She watches TV a lot in order to keep up with the latest news and the weather. |
| D．She turns on TV now and then in order to get some valuable information. |
| A．At first she likes it but later becomes tired of it. |
| B．She likes it because it is very convenient. |
| C．She dislikes it because TV is more attractive. |
| D．She likes it because it provides an imaginary world. |
| A．going back to the dreaming world |
| B．coming back home from the outside world |
| C．bringing back direct human contact |
| D．getting away from living a strange life |
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of addressing envelopes, licking stamps and trips to the mail box. [2] Of all the methods for developing relationships on the Internet, e-mail is the most common-and perhaps the most powerful. Although friendship may indeed begin in chat rooms, instant messages, blogs or other environments, these relationships almost always expand into e-mail as a way to deepen the communication. It is a more private, more reliable, less messy way to talk. Even when other online tools improve greatly by becoming more effectively visual and auditory (听觉的)-as in video tele-conferencing-e-mail will not disappear. Many people will prefer it because it is a non-visual and non-auditory form of communication. After all, we don't see people rushing out to buy video equipment to add it to their telephone, even though that technology has been available for some time. [3]E-mail is not just an electronic mail sent via the internet. It creates a psychological space in which pairs of people-or groups of people-communicate with each other. It creates a situation and boundary in which human relationships can unfold. | ||
| 1. What is the main idea of the text? (within 10 words) ______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Which sentence in the text can be replaced by the following one? People like e-mail better because it enables them to communicate even without seeing or listening to each other. ______________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Please fill in the blank in Paragraph l with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (within 8 words) ______________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Please list three other ways of communication. (within 15 words) ①___________ ②___________ ③___________ 5. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 into Chinese. ______________________________________________________________________________________ |
