I am a journalist in America.When reporting a storyI sometimes need to find a ____ kind of person—someone who has recently switched banksor who is ____ canceror who owns both a Chevy pickup and Toyota sedan.

At such momentsI ____ my brother Keitha telecommunication worker in eastern Kansas.Usually he says“I know just the guy.”

His contacts are so diverse in large part ____ he is offline.At age 52he’s ____ sent an e?mailsurfed the Web or bought anything online.Without any mobile e?mail system to ____ his attention when he is shoppinghe is ____ to make a friend or two before ____.Without Web pages to instruct him on his latest project—how to build a cow fence or how to fix a wood?burning stove—he seeks out the help of neighbours who have done it and follows their ____and during beer?drinking time afterwards he listens carefully to their ____ of health problemsbanking habits and new?car ____.

“I like talking to people” he says.“I do not ____ nowadays people send each other e?mails instead of talking while they’re in the ___ room.”

My older brother ____ considers himself as an old?fashioned man and the Internet ____ are making him more sotoo.As a(n) ____ to the Webmy brother belongs to one of the nation’s fastest?decreasing ____.

During the first half decade of the 21st centurythe proportion of Internet users ____ slowlyto 59% of adult Americans from just over 50%according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.____ in the second half of the decadethat growth skyrocketed(猛升) and now nearly 80% of adult Americans use the Internet.At that pacethe offline Americans will no longer ____ in the coming decade.

1.A.rich? Bfriendly

Cbrave Dparticular

2.A.battling Bavoiding

Ccuring? Ddeveloping

3.A.appoint? Bcall

Cmiss? Dsearch

4.A.when? Buntil

Cunless? Dbecause

5.A.ever? Bfrequently

Cnever? Dseldom

6.A.divide? Breceive

Cpay Dgain

7.A.willing? Blikely

Canxious? Dclever

8.A.settling down? Busing up

Csetting off? Dchecking out

9.A.advice? Bplan

Cexample? Dgesture

10.A.lesson? Bspeech

Ctalk? Dlecture

11.A.displays? Bpurchases

Cexchanges? Drepairs

12.A.imagine? Bpredict

Cunderstand? Drecommend

13.A.big? Bnew

Csame? Dspecial

14.A.sometimes? Brecently

Conce? Dalways

15.A.values? Btrends

Ctechniques? Dbenefits

16.A.stranger Buser

Cowner? Dbeginner

17.A.workers? Braces

Cminorities? Dteams

18.A.increased Bdeveloped

Cvaried? Dmoved

19.A.And? BSo

COr? DBut

20.A.change? Bexist

Clast? Dwork

 

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