问答题 《复合题被拆开情况》 Hello, my name is Richard and I am an ego surfer. The habit began about five years ago, and now I need help. Like most journalists, I can’t deny that one of my private joys are seeing my byline in print. Now the【S1】________Internet is allowing me to feed this vanity to ever greater extent, and the【S2】________occasional sneaky web search has grown into a full-blown obsession for【S3】________how high up Google’s ranking my articles appear where I put my name【S4】________into the search box. When I lastly looked, my best effort was a rather【S5】________humiliating 47th place. You know you have a problem how you find【S6】________yourself competing for ranking with a retired basketball player from the 1970s. Not that I’m lonely for suffering from a dysfunctional techno-habit.【S7】________New technologies have revealed a whole raft of hitherto unsuspected personality problems; think crackberry, power-pointlessness or cheesepodding. Most of us are familiar in sending an e-mail to a【S8】________colleague sitting a couple of feet away instead talking to them. Some go【S9】________onto the web to snoop on old friends, colleagues or even the first dates.【S10】________More of us than ever reveal highly personal information on blogs or My Space entries. A few will even use Internet anonymity to fool others into believing they are someone else altogether. So are these web syndromes and technological tics new versions of old afflictions, or are we developing fresh mind bugs?《问题》:【S10】
【正确答案】第二个the去掉
【答案解析】冠词冗余。first dates意为“初次约会”,这里是泛指,而不是特指,无须加定冠词the。