A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolutions: we stopped talking to one another.
I was walking in the park with a friend recently,and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and…I became invisible, absent from the conversation.   
The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a tragedy to the closeness of human interaction. With email and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another, With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.
As almost every contact we can imagine between human beings gets automated, the alienation index goes up. You can't even call a person to get the phone number of another person my more. Directory assistance is almost always fully automated.
I am not against modern technology. I own a cell phone, an ATM card a voice mail system, and an email account. Giving them up isn't wise…they're a great help to use. It's some of their possible consequences that make me feel uneasy.  
More and more .I find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation. Or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn't really have time to talk, The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier…or at least facilitating my antisocial instincts.
So I've put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging. with people who live near me,no cell phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mail pick up when I'm at home.
【小题1】Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?   

A.The Advance of Communications Technology
B.The Consequences of Modern Technology
C.The Story of Communications Revolution
D.The Automation of Modern Communications
【小题2】The sentence “Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent,”means that       .
A.the people sitting beside you have to go away to receive a phone call
B.you can hardly get in touch with the people sitting beside you
C.modem technology makes it hard for people to have a face-to-face talk
D.people can now go to work without going to the office
【小题3】The writer feels that the use of modern communications is        
A.encouragingB.disappointingC.satisfyingD.embarrassing
【小题4】The passage implies that        .
A.modern technology is bridging the people.
B.modern technology is separating the people
C.modern technology is developing too fast
D.modern technology is interrupting our communications

As a child, I was told that a wise person is the one who learns from everyone. It is a great way to live by this  1  ----One begins to look at people very  2  and he no longer puts others  3 in order to feel good about himself.

Living in China  4  me with many wonderful opportunities to put this theory (理论) into practice, China is quite   5  and as a Westerner, it’s easy for me to consider many of the local habits as “strange” and even “rude”. However, slowly I began to   6  a lot about the culture and about where many of their    7  came from. I decided to make an effort to meet people and  8  from them.

I am living in Harbin now, a city in the Northern part of China, near Russia. Yesterday I  9  to get money from the ATM and have a good cup of coffee after lunch. But I can’t speak Chinese yet and there are no signs in English   10  the nearest supermarket or coffee shop. There are signs in Russian.   11 “espaciba” which means thanks, I don’t know much else.   12  I decided to smile at my every attempt(尝试) to  13  and ask for information that would 14  me to an ATM and a coffee shop. It turned out that my efforts and my  15 were met with more smiles. I learned that   16  is to be found everywhere even17  I cannot communicate, and that people will  18  depending on what I give.

Look around you for opportunities to learn from the most   19  people. You will be surprised at what they can  20  you!

1.                A.principle        B.plan           C.strength  D.reason

 

2.                A.excitedly       B.doubtfully       C.anxiously D.differently

 

3.                A.up            B.down          C.away D.out

 

4.                A.helps          B.compares       C.impresses D.provides

 

5.                A.special         B.modern         C.beautiful  D.powerful

 

6.                A.ignore         B.forget          C.understand    D.create

 

7.                A.names         B.habits          C.behaviors D.beliefs

 

8.                A.escape         B.suffer          C.hear D.learn

 

9.                A.needed        B.refused         C.managed  D.failed

 

10.               A.heaving for      B.setting up       C.looking for D.pointing to

 

11.               A.Except for      B.As for          C.According to   D.Instead of

 

12.               A.Yet            B.Or            C.So   D.Besides

 

13.               A.relax          B.command       C.explain    D.discuss

 

14.               A.force          B.lead           C.transport  D.follow

 

15.               A.thanks         B.signs           C.questions  D.smiles

 

16.               A.illness          B.weakness       C.kindness   D.happiness

 

17.               A.before         B.when          C.because   D.after

 

18.               A.react          B.gain           C.doubt D.benefit

 

19.               A.famous         B.useful          C.unexpected    D.familiar

 

20.               A.charge         B.teach          C.lend  D.require

 

 

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