Question

A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolution: 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 e-mail 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(疏遠(yuǎn)) index goes up. You can't even call a person to get the phone number of another person anymore. 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 e-mail account. Giving them up isn't wise, they're a great help to us. 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.

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 the Communications Revolution

D. The Automation of Modern Communications

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 phone call

B. you can hardly get in touch with the people sitting beside you

C. modern 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

3.The writer feels that the use of modern communications is _________.

A. satisfying B. encouraging

C. disappointing D. embarrassing

4.The passage implies that________.

A. modern technology is bridging people

B. modern technology is separating people

C. modern technology is developing too fast

D. modern technology is interrupting our communication

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.C

3.D

4.B

【解析】

試題分析：現(xiàn)代科技的發(fā)展給人們的生活帶來了極大的便利，人們逐漸習(xí)慣與使用電子郵件、電話等途徑進(jìn)行交談、交流。然而，科技帶給人們便利的同時(shí)，也在逐漸地讓人們之間的距離變得疏遠(yuǎn)。

1.I became invisible, absent from the conversation.”和第三段“Every advance in communications technology is a tragedy to the closeness of human interaction.”可知，科技帶給人們不好的影響是讓人們逐漸變得疏遠(yuǎn)，文章著重講的是現(xiàn)代科技的負(fù)面作用，故選B。

2.and his cell phone rang,...I became invisible, absent from the conversation”和第三段“we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another”可知，當(dāng)朋友接電話的時(shí)候，作者仿佛成了擺設(shè)，隨著科技的發(fā)展，人們通過電話、郵件等途徑進(jìn)行交談，這使得面對(duì)面的交談變得很難，故選C。

3.It's some of their possible consequences that make me feel uneasy.”可知，本該讓人們的生活變得更方便的現(xiàn)代科技卻在使人們之間的距離變得疏遠(yuǎn)，現(xiàn)代科技的一些不好的影響是讓作者感到不舒服的地方，故選D。

4.As almost every contact we can imagine between human beings gets automated, the alienation(疏遠(yuǎn)) index goes up.”和第六段“The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier, or at least facilitating my antisocial instincts.”可知，每當(dāng)科技有了新發(fā)展，人們的聯(lián)系方式變得更自動(dòng)化，人與人之間的疏遠(yuǎn)指數(shù)就會(huì)上升，幫助人們保持聯(lián)系的科技卻讓人變得孤獨(dú)，助長(zhǎng)了人們不喜歡社交的本能，故選B。

考點(diǎn)：生活類短文閱讀