Question

【題目】 When I asked my daughter which one she would keep: the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said 'the phone'. As for me, I could do without the phone entirely（完全地）, which makes me unusual. But in fact, telephone is _______ our lives more than any other piece of technology.

Point 1 The telephone gives the need to communicate. On the road, drivers may call his/her friends or relatives. In the same way, more roads have traffic _______. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 p.m. and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist would she have anything to talk about?

Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone. 'The mobile saves my life,' says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the road between suburbs and city centers. Trapped（被困）inside, she tried to make the call that _______ the ambulance to her.

Point 3 The mobile has our secret usages. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaison, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any _______ of day to ask where they are, where they are going, and _______ their last meeting went.

Point 4 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several people though they are _______ to us at the beginning on chat lines. My daughter enjoys talking while I don't know what to talk about before we get to know each other. We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts if you know any while they're space-walking.

【1】A.makingB.changingC.spendingD.using

【2】A.namesB.lightsC.signsD.accidents

【3】A.fetchedB.boughtC.gaveD.brought

【4】A.placeB.oneC.timeD.space

【5】A.whichB.howC.whatD.who

【6】A.angryB.foolishC.strangeD.satisfied

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】D

【4】C

【5】B

【6】C

【解析】

本文談?wù)摿穗娫捳�在改變我們的生活�?/span>

【1】句意：但事實上，電話正在改變我們的生活比任何其他技術(shù)都多。

考查動詞辨析。A. making制造，做；B. changing改變，變化；C. spending度過，花費；D. using使用，利用。根據(jù)下文作者提到的4點內(nèi)容，可知“電話正在改變我們的生活比任何其他技術(shù)都多�！惫蔬xB。

【2】句意：同樣，更多的道路發(fā)生交通事故。

考查名詞辨析。A. names姓名；B. lights燈；C. signs標(biāo)志，信號；D. accidents事故。根據(jù)上文On the road, drivers may call his/her friends or relatives.（在路上，司機(jī)可以打電話給他的朋友或親戚。）結(jié)合常識可知“打電話可能發(fā)生更多的交通事故。”故選D。

【3】句意：她被困在里面，試圖打救護(hù)車的電話。

考查動詞辨析。A. fetched (去)拿來；(去)請來；B. bought買；C. gave給；D. brought帶…到某處，帶來。短語bring sth. to sb.：把某物帶給某人；本句是定語從句，先行詞the call，關(guān)系代詞that做定語從句的主語，從句意思是“那個電話帶救護(hù)車到她那個地方”，故選D。

【4】句意：它允許Haba Deutsch的市場經(jīng)理Carl Nicolaison在一天中的任何時候給他在世界各地的銷售人員打電話，詢問他們在哪里，他們要去哪里，以及他們的最后一次會議如何進(jìn)行。

考查名詞辨析。A. place地點；B. one一；C. time時間；D. space空地，空間。根據(jù)語境和名詞day可知是“在一天中的任何時候”；故選C。

【5】句意：它允許Haba Deutsch的市場經(jīng)理Carl Nicolaison在一天中的任何時候給他在世界各地的銷售人員打電話，詢問他們在哪里，他們要去哪里，以及他們的最后一次會議如何進(jìn)行。

考查賓語從句的引導(dǎo)詞。A. which哪一個，哪些，代詞；B. how怎樣，如何，副詞；C. what什么，代詞；D. who誰，代詞。本句their last meeting went的謂語went是不及物動詞，后面不能直接跟賓語（代詞或名詞），可以用副詞修飾動詞；故選B。

【6】句意：今天我們可以通過聊天電話和幾個人聊天，盡管他們起初對我們來說很陌生。

考查形容詞辨析。A. angry憤怒的；B. foolish愚蠢的；C. strange 陌生的；D. satisfied滿意的。根據(jù)常識可知“通過聊天電話和幾個人聊天的那些人一般是我們不認(rèn)識，所以是陌生的”，故選C。