四六级考试

【单选题】After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend’s Liverpudlian accent suddenly becomes indecipherable after the clarity of his words on screen; a secretary’’s tone seems more rejecting that I’’d imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid -- hours become minutes, and alternately seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two ordinary days. For the last three years, since I stopped working as a producer forCharlie Rose, I have done much of my work as a telecommuter. I submit articles and edit them viaE-mail and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives inEngland; so much of our relationship is computer-mediate
D、If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my money, love and work. In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. I watched most of the blizzard of ’’96 on TV.But after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal. I start to feel as though I’ve merged with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another mode on the Net. Other on line reports the same symptoms. We start to strongly dislike the outside forms of socializing. It’s like attending an
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A、meeting in a bar with everyone holding a half-sipped drink. We have become the Net opponents’ worst nightmare. What first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying ’’about hair, and clothes and face, has. become an avoidance, a lack of discipline.And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming back. out of the cave can be quite difficult.At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to chatter in the background, something that I’’d never done previously. The voices of the programs soothe me, but then I’’m jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, or compulsively needing to keep up with the latest news and the weather. "Dateline", "Frontline", "Nightline",CNN, New York 1, every possible angle of every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to us. Work moves from foreground to backgroun
D、 The phrase "coming back out of the cave" in the fifth paragraph means ______.
A、coming back home

B、going back home
C．living a luxurious life

D、restoring direct human contract

网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
语义题。根据词语所在的上下文来推测词义。该词语出现在这个句子里：And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction，coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult．(一旦你开始用网络代替人与人之间的真实交流，再从这个洞穴里出来就会非常困难)。此处的“洞穴”指的是计算机网络以及通过网络进行交流，“从洞穴里出来”就意味着恢复与人面对面的交流。所以，D是正确答案。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>