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) use 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 cellphone 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 halls and deliberately rammed with cars as a result of (20) behavior on their cellphones.

【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】本题的考点为名词短语的固定搭配，in use意为“使用中，被……使用”。其他选项均搭配不当。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】本题的考点为名词的词义辨析，owners物主，所有人。其他选项： A. masters主人，雇主；C. holders持有者，占有者；D. inventors发明者。据上下文，只有B才符合题意。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本题的考点为上下文句子结构辨析。根据上文，they love their phones for the safety and convenience(他们因为其安全性和方便而喜欢手机)，后面应是一个定语从句，即the safety and convenience(that)they provide。句中的they指的是phones。其余选项不能与provide构成主谓搭配。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】本题的考点为形容词的词义辨析，此句意思是：有礼貌地使用电话。根据下文98 percent of Americans say they move away from．．．可知C为正确答案。其余选项：A. careful小心的；B. careless粗心的；D．cautious谨慎的，均不符合题意。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】本题的考点为动词的词义辨析。One opinion survey found一项意见调查发现。其余选项搭配不当：A. expressed表达；B．exposed暴露； C．discovered发现，发觉。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】本题的考点为代词的词义辨析。move away from others离开他人。 A. other为形容词，其他的；C．the other(两个中的)另一个；D．another又一个。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本题的考点为连词的辨析使用，此处需要一个并列连词：One opinion survey found that．．．and that．．．一项意见调查发现……并且……。其余选项B．as for至于；C. where as然而；D. on the contrary正相反，均不合题意。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本题的考点为介词辨析使用。speak on wireless phones(用无线电话讲话)，on the telephone为固定搭配。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】conducting transactions with．．．与……进行交易。其余选项：A. acts行动；B．actions动作，举动；C. operations运转，操作。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】本题的考点为名词的词义辨析。gulf海湾，此处引申为“隔阂”， a gulf between(感情、意见等)之间的分歧，隔阂。其他选项：A. limit限制； C. river河流；D. boundary分界线，均不合题意。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】本题的考点为连词的词义辨析。both instigators and victims既是煽动者，又是受害者。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】本题的考点为时态的辨析，it has had a cumulatively negative effect on social space它已经对社会空间产生了累积性的负面影响。根据上下文，此处应该用现在完成时态，故选项C为正确答案。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】本题的考点为名词的上下文词义辨析，in another context在另外的情况下。选项A. place地方；B．location场所；C．spot地点，都没有“情况”的意思，不符合题意。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】本题考的是介词的搭配，out of contact脱离接触。其余选项： A. in contact接触，不符合逻辑；C. on；D．with搭配不当。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】本题的考点为动词的词义辨析与搭配。adhere to(sth)坚持。 A. insist后面接on或upon；C. continue后面接with；D．attach为及物动词。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】本题的考点为动词与介词的搭配，transform．．．into．．．将……转变成……，其他选项介词搭配不当。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本题的考点为名词的上下文搭配。use of the public space公共场所的使用。其余选项不符合上下文语境。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】本题的考点为动宾结构的辨析，passively accept this situation被动地接受这种情况。其余三个选项都不能和situation形成通顺的搭配。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】本题考的是对文章内容的理解和近义词辨析，ejected from concert halls逐出音乐厅。A. refused拒绝；C．rejected抵制；D. repelled击退，均不合题意。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】本题的考点为形容词与名词的搭配及对上下文语境的正确理解， rude behavior on their cellphones使用手机的粗鲁行为。A. good和C．polite不合题意，而B．poor的搭配不当。