14.With the development of science and technology,new inventions,especially new electronic products,have made people's lives easy and convenient.But as the saying puts:A coin has two sides.
One day,I was walking in the park with a friend 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(疏遠(yuǎn)) 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.
Pumping petrol at the station?Why say good morning to the attendant when you can swipe(刷)your credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact?
Making a deposit at the bank?Why talk to a teller who might live in the neighborhood when you can just insert your card into ATM?
Pretty soon you won't have the burden of making eye contact at the grocery shop.Some supermarket chains are using a self-scanner so you can check yourself out,avoiding those check-out people who look at you and ask how you are doing.
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 e-mail to do a job meant for conversation.Or being relieved that voice mail picked up a call because I didn't really have time to talk.The communications industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.
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.
32.Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?B
A.The Advance of Communications Technology
B.The Consequences of Modern Technology
C.The Process of Communications Revolution
D.The Automation of Modern Communications
33.Paragraphs 5to 7are listed as examples,which show that the use of modern communications isD.
A.encouraging
B.disappointing
C.satisfying
D.embarrassing
34.The passage implies thatB.
A.modern technology is bridging the people
B.modern technology is separating the people
C.modern technology is developing too rapidly
D.modern technology is interrupting our lives
35.What does the writer think to do with the modern technology?D
A.We may use them no matter what others are doing.
B.We can throw them away and return to the ancient.
C.We can be far away from them forever.
D.We can use them less and communicate with the people around us.
分析 本文是科教類閱讀,主要講述了現(xiàn)代科學(xué)技術(shù)的發(fā)展在給人們的生活帶來便捷的同時(shí),也帶來了某些不好的影響.
解答 32.B.主旨大意題.縱觀全文可知,本文主要講述了現(xiàn)代科學(xué)技術(shù)的發(fā)展在給人們的生活帶來便捷的同時(shí),也帶來了某些不好的影響.故選B.
33.D.推理判斷題.根據(jù)第七段的Prettysoon you won't have the burden of making eye contact at the grocery shop可知由于現(xiàn)代技術(shù)的發(fā)展,人們?cè)谝恍┙灰篆h(huán)節(jié)省去了必要的語言交流,甚至是眼神上的接觸.這讓現(xiàn)代交際變得很尷尬.故選D.
34.B.推理判斷題.這篇文章主要講述了現(xiàn)代技術(shù)的發(fā)展使人們之間的交往不像以前那樣需要面對(duì)面的進(jìn)行交流,因此加深了人與人之間的隔閡.故選B.
35.D.細(xì)節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)最后一段的noinstant messaging,with people who live near me,nocell phoning in the presence of friends,noletting the voice mail pick up when I'm at home,可知作者為了應(yīng)對(duì)這些影響,決定盡量少使用這些現(xiàn)代技術(shù),多同周圍的人們交流.故選D.
點(diǎn)評(píng) 本文是科教類閱讀,主要考查細(xì)節(jié)理解題和推理判斷題.在做細(xì)節(jié)理解題時(shí),首先根據(jù)題目要求迅速在文章里找出相應(yīng)的段落、句子或短語.認(rèn)真比較選項(xiàng)和文中細(xì)節(jié)的區(qū)別,在做推理判斷題時(shí)不要以個(gè)人的主觀想象代替文章的事實(shí),要根據(jù)文章事實(shí)進(jìn)行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.