职称英语考试

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Live with Computer

After too long on the Net, even a phone callcan be a shock. My boyfriend's Liverpudlian accent suddenly becomesindecipherable after the clarity of his words on screen; a secretary's toneseems more rejecting than I'd imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid -hours become minutes, and alternately seconds stretch into days. Weekends, oncea highlight of my week, and now just two ordinary days.

For the last three years, since I stoppedworking as a producer for Charlie Rose, I have done much of my work as atelecommuter. I submit articles and edit them via E-mail and communicate withcolleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives in England, so much ofour relationship is computer-mediated.

If I desired, I could stay inside for weekswithout 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 outonly to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. I watched most of theblizzard of '96 on TV.

But after a while, life itself begins to feelunreal. I start to feel as though I've merged with my machines, taking data in,spitting them back out, just another node on the Net. Others on line report thesame symptoms. We start to strongly dislike the outside forms of socializing.It's like attending an A. A. meeting in a bar with everyone holding ahalf-sipped drink. We have become the Net opponents; worst nightmare.

What first seemed like a luxury, crawling frombed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has become anavoidance, a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real humancontact with cyber-interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quitedifficult.

At times, I turn on the television and justleave it to chatter in the background, something that I'd never donepreviously. The voices of the programs soothe me, but then I'm jarred by thecommercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, or compulsively needing tokeep up with the latest news and the weather. "Dateline,""Frontline," "Nightline," CNN, New York 1, every possibleangle of every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possibleuse to me. Work moves from foreground to background.

练习：

1. Compared to the clear words of her boyfriendon screen, his accent becomes

A) unidentifiable.

B) unbearable.

C) unreal.

D) misleading.

2. The passage implies that the author and herboyfriend live in

A) different cities in England.

B) different countries.

C) the same city.

D) the same country.

3. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A) she is so absorbed in the TV programs thatshe often forgets her work.

B) In order to keep up with the latest news andthe weather, she watches TV a lot.

C) In order to get some comfort from TVprograms she, sometimes, turns on the television.

D) Having worked on the computer for too long,she became a bit odd.

4. What is the author's attitude to thecomputer?

A) She dislikes it because TV is moreattractive.

B) She dislikes it because it cuts off herrelation with the outside world.

C) She has become bored with it.

D) She likes it because it is very convenient.

5. The phrase "coming back out of thecave" in the fifth paragraph means

A) coming back home.

B) going back home.

C) living a luxurious life.

D) restoring direct human contact.

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网考网参考答案：A、B、C、C、D
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59%的考友选择了A选项
21%的考友选择了B选项
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14%的考友选择了D选项
考友解析与评论：
 · 我就纳闷了，为什么要选A、B、C、C、D
 · 不注意就选错了,其实这条是会的.坑人的题目.
 · 同样的题比原先难了