【单选题】

Computers are now being pushed into schools. We’re told that multimedia will make (1) easy and fun. Students will happily learn from (2) characters while taught by expertly (3) software. Who needs teachers when you’ve got (4) educationBah. These expensive toys are difficult to use in the classrooms and (5) extensive teacher training. Sure, kids love video games (6) think of your own experience: can you (7) even one educational filmstrip of decades past I’ll (8) you remember the two or three great teachers who made a (9) in your life.

Then there’s cyber business. We’re promised (10) catalog shopping just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets (11) the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales (12) . Stores will become obsolete. So how come my local mall does more (13) in an afternoon than the entire Internet (14) in a monthEven if there were a trustworthy way to (15) money over the Internet — which there isn’t — the network is (16) a most essential ingredient of trade and commerce: salespeople.
What’s absent from this electronic wonderland Human contact.Computers and networks (17) us from one another.A、network chat line is a limp (18) for. meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display comes (19) to the excitement of a (20) concert.As it is, this virtual reality where frustration is legion and where — in the holy names ofEducation and Progress — important aspects of human interactions are relentlessly devalueD、
A、missing B、disappearingC、expelling D、retaining