单选题
The cellphone, a device we have lived with for more than a decade, offers a good example of a popular technology's unforeseen side effects. More than one billion are (1) around the world, and when asked, their (2) say they love their phones for the safety and convenience (3) provide. People also report that they are (4) in their use of their phones. One opinion survey (5) that "98 percent of Americans say they move away from (6) when talking on a wireless phone in public" (7) "86 percent say they 'never' or 'rarely' speak (8) wireless phones" when conducting (9) with clerks or bank tellers. Clearly, there exists a (10) between our reported cell phone behavior and our actual behavior. Cellphone users--that is to say, most of us--are (11) instigators and victims of this form of conversational panhandling, and it (12) a cumulatively negative effect on social space. As the sociologist Erving Gotfman observed in another (13) , there is something deeply disturbing about people who are" (14) contact" in social situations because they are blatantly refusing to (15) to the norms of their immediate environment. Placing a cellphone call in public instantly transforms the strangers around you (16) unwilling listeners who must cede to your use of the public (17) , a decidedly undemocratic effect for so democratic a technology. Listeners don't always passively (18) this situation: in recent years, people have been pepper-sprayed in movie theaters, (19) from concert hails and deliberately rammed with cars as a result of (20) behavior on their cellphones.
单选题
A. now using B. got used C. in useD. to be used
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】本题的考点为固定搭配的用法辨析。文章第一句提到手机已在我们的生活中相伴了十多年,接着提到“全世界超过十亿部(手机)正在______”,由此可推知[C]in use“使用中,被使用”,表示一种状态,符合文意。[A]now using “正在用”,不能确定所有的手机都正在使用中,所以不能用现在进行时;[B]got used“习惯于”与题意不符,[D]to be used“将被使用”也与文章意思不符。因此这三项都不正确。
【答案解析】本题的考点为对上下文的理解及名词的词义和用法辨析。这里是说社会学家Gotfman在另外一种情况下观察到的结果,所以[D]context“前后关系”,in another context“在另外一种情况下”,为固定用法,符合文意。[A]place“地方”,[B]location“场所”,[C]spot“地点”都与文意不符。
单选题
A. in B. out of C. keeping D. having
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】本题的考点为对上下文关系的理解和固定词组的用法辨析。根据上下文的内容,这里表达的意思应为“与社会形势脱离接触的人们”,所以[B]out of,out of contact“脱离接触”,符合文意。[A]in,in contact“接触”;[C]keeping“保持”,keep contact“保持接触”;[D]having“有”,have contact“有接触”。因此这三项都不符合文章的意思。
【答案解析】本题的考点为名词的词义及用法辨析。前文中提到“将手机放置在公共场合”,因而这里表达的意思应该是“你对公共场所的使用”,所以[A]space“场所”,the public space“公共场所”,符合文意。[B]phone“电话”,[C]service“服务”,[D]facility“设施”都不符合上下文的语境。