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

While football fans feel strongly angry and shocked about mistakes made by referees (裁判) because they cannot see clearly what has happened, a small German company is quietly pleased.
For Cairos Technologies, mistakes made by referees are the kind of advertising that money cannot buy. The company has developed a tiny chip(芯片) that fits inside a football and determines whether the ball has crossed the goal line, by being able to discover its exact location on the field. The world football organization, FIFA, has shown interest in the technology. It is very possible that the new technology will be used in the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
"We've been testing the technology at the main soccer stadium in Nuremberg for some time and more recently in an under-17 FIFA Cup in Peru," said Gunter Rohmer, a director of the company. "The technology has performed well, and we're pretty optimistic(乐观)that it will be used at the games in Germany next year."
The chip only weighs 12 grams, and is placed in the center of the football. It sends 2,000 signals a second to a receiver network of 12 antennas(天线),placed around the field. The receivers then send information about the ball's location to a central computer, and because it works in real time, it can immediately tell the referee whether a goal has been scored. The chip even can tell when the ball crosses the line in mid-air. Oliver Braun, one of the inventors of the chip, says that feedback from German referees was generally positive. Germany sports-wear giant Adidas is also optimistic about using this kind of chip in other ball sports.
FIFA aims to test the technology later this year at another game in Japan before deciding whether or not to introduce it in all 12 stadiums in Germany for next year's World Cup.  
【小题1】Carlos Technologies is pleased because ________.

A.football fans are angry with referees
B.their new product can satisfy football fans
C.their new product will have a good market
D.they can sell a lot of football in the future
【小题2】In the first sentence in Paragraph 2,"... mistakes made by referees are the kind of advertising that money cannot buy" means ___________.
A.Carlos Technologies can't afford the high price for advertising their product
B.Mistakes in production are also a kind of advertisement
C.Carios Technologies has already spent a lot of money on advertising their product
D.Referees' mistakes will be of great help for the sale of Carlos Technologies' new product
【小题3】The underlined word "feedback" probably means ___________.
A.information given back by a userB.advice given by someone
C.supplying food to customersD.food given back by consumers
【小题4】The new product has drawn attention from some _________.
A.famous peopleB.refereesC.big companiesD.countries
【小题5】According to the passage , the following are true except _______ .
A.The chip sends 2,000 signals a second
B.The chip even can tell when the ball crosses the line in mid-air.
C.The chip will be used at the game in Japan.
D.The chip will also be used at the games in Germany next year."

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