湖州师范学院2011届学位英语考试试卷五以及答案.docVIP

　Directions: There are 4 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the best one. Passage 1 Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a step back from the closeness of human interaction. With e-mail 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 imaginable contact between human beings becomes automatic by machine, the alienation quotient goes up. You cant even call a person to get the phone number of another person anywhere. Directory assistance is almost always fully automatic by machine. Pumping gas at the station? Why say good-morning to the worker when you can swipe (刷卡) your credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact? Placing money at the bank? Why talk to a clerk who might live in the neighborhood when you can just put your credit card into the ATM? Pretty soon you wont have the hard task of making eye contact at the grocery store. Some grocery chains are using a self-scanner so you can check yourself out, avoiding those annoying clerks who look at you and ask how you are doing. 1． The writers attitude towards advances in communications technology may be described as ________. A. critical B. unconcerned C. positive D. uninterested 2． If his mom has a question, he _________. will find ways to reach her will locate her e-mail address will try to get her a voice machine will leave her the answer through voice mail 3． Judging from the context, the word alienation in line 2, paragraph 2 means ________. A. relationship B.closeness C.strangeness D. stress 4． With the rapid development of high technology, people dont need to __________.