A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolutions: we stopped talking to one another.
I was walking in the park with a friend recently，and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and…I became invisible, absent from the conversation.   
The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a tragedy to the closeness of human interaction. With email and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another, With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.
As almost every contact we can imagine between human beings gets automated, the alienation index goes up. You can't even call a person to get the phone number of another person my more. Directory assistance is almost always fully automated.
I am not against modern technology. I own a cell phone, an ATM card a voice mail system, and an email account. Giving them up isn't wise…they're a great help to use. It's some of their possible consequences that make me feel uneasy.  
More and more .I find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation. Or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn't really have time to talk, The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier…or at least facilitating my antisocial instincts．
So I've put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging. with people who live near me，no cell phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mail pick up when I'm at home.
小題1:Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?   
A．The Advance of Communications Technology
B．The Consequences of Modern Technology
C．The Story of Communications Revolution
D．The Automation of Modern Communications
小題2:The sentence “Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent，”means that       .
A．the people sitting beside you have to go away to receive a phone call
B．you can hardly get in touch with the people sitting beside you
C．modem technology makes it hard for people to have a face-to-face talk
D．people can now go to work without going to the office
小題3:The writer feels that the use of modern communications is        ．
A．encouragingB．disappointingC．satisfyingD．embarrassing
小題4:The passage implies that        .
A．modern technology is bridging the people.
B．modern technology is separating the people
C．modern technology is developing too fast
D．modern technology is interrupting our communications

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:B
文章主要講述了現(xiàn)代科技使人與人之間的關(guān)系更加疏遠。作者表達了他的無奈和擔(dān)憂。
小題1:B 文章理解題。通讀全文，可知B是最恰當(dāng)?shù)念}目。A項和C項都不夠全面概括
小題2:C 細節(jié)題。由第三段The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent.可知正確答案為C
小題3:D 此題考察詞義辨析。A滿意的B鼓勵的C失望的D尷尬的。文中既有利又有弊，故處于尷尬境地，故選D
小題4:B 文章主旨題。通讀全文不難發(fā)現(xiàn)“現(xiàn)代科技的發(fā)展使人與人之間的關(guān)系更加疏遠”故選B
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