A funny thing happened on the way to the communication 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 suddenly, 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 communication 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 emotional distance index goes up. You can’t even call a person to get the phone number of another person any 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 us. It's some of their possible consequences that make me feel uneasy.
More and more, I find myself hiding behind e­mail to do a job meant for conversations or being relieved with voice-mail picking up because I don't really have time to talk. The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.
小題1:Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?
A．The Advance of Modern Technology
B．The Consequences of Communication Technology
C．The Story of Communication Revolution
D．The Automation of Modern Communication
小題2:Which is NOT TURE according to the passage?
A．The author has decided not to use his phone when he is with his friend.
B．Modern technology makes it hard for people to have a face-to-face talk.
C．The limited use of communication device brings much inconvenience to the author.
D．The industry intended to keep people in touch is taking them away from each other.
小題3:The writer feels that the use of modern communication is ______.
A．satisfyingB．encouraging
C．disappointingD．embarrassing
小題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 people

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:B

試題解析：本文主要論述現(xiàn)代技術的消極影響——現(xiàn)代技術的使用在疏遠人與人之間的距離。
小題1:B 主旨大意題。開篇點題，第一段：一件奇怪的事情發(fā)生在信息革命的路上,我們停止了相互交談（這就是信息革命的結果）。下面通過實例來說明通訊革命帶來的結果。A. The Advance of Modern Technology現(xiàn)代技術的進步B. The Consequences of Communication Technology信息革命的結果C. The Story of Communication Revolution信息革命的故事D. The Automation of Modern Communication現(xiàn)代通訊自動化。
所以B正確。
小題2:C細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段可以判斷出A ，With email and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another.可以推斷出B，根據(jù)第三段根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段和第三段開頭可以推斷出D，根據(jù)最后一段作者決定限制使用通訊設備是因為現(xiàn)代通訊帶來的負面影響，而沒有給作者帶來不變，所以C正確。
小題3:D . 　推理判斷題。根據(jù)第五段可知，作者并不反對現(xiàn)代技術，也認為它極有幫助，只是某一些結果讓他感到不安，比如第二段中他所舉的生活例子。由此判斷他會認為使用現(xiàn)代技術有時令人感到尷尬，故選D項。
小題4:B推理判斷題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.致力于幫助人們保持聯(lián)系的產(chǎn)業(yè)使我更加孤獨和第三段開頭The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent.電話用來連接不在場的人�，F(xiàn)在它讓坐在你旁邊的人感覺不在場似的，可推斷現(xiàn)代技術正在疏遠人們之間的關系，故選B項
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