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credit card and save yourself the bother of human contact?

Making a deposit at the bank? Why talk to a clerk who might live in the neighborhood when you can
just insert your credit card into the automatic machine?
Pretty soon you won’t have the burden of making eye contact at the food store. Some chain stores
are using a self-scanner so you can check yourself out, avoiding those cold clerks who look at you and

ask how you are doing.

1. The first sentence of the passage shows that today_______.
A. people do not stay in one place all the time

B. people do not like to be familiar with others
C. people feel much more lonely than before
D. people have less time to enjoy themselves

2. The word “intimacy” in line 2, Para 1, most probably means______.

A. closeness B. tendency C. curiosity D. happiness

3. If you ask somebody to give the telephone number of another person, you____.
A. can easily have it correctly
B. may fail to get the answer

C. are likely to be laughed at
D. have to send him an email

4. This passage seems to tell us that_______.

A. buying things in a chain store is pleasant
B. most chain stores will not have clerks
C. chain stores are more convenient than other shops
D. clerks in chain stores are not friendly

5. From this passage we can see that the writer________.
A. thinks that we should be familiar with modem technology
B. holds a negative attitude towards today’s communications technology
C. believes that people are more concerned with themselves now
D. welcomes the influence of modern communications on our lives

【答案】CABBB

【解析】
1. C 推理判断题。考生很难直接翻译出文章首段第一句，要结合下文去理解，“Every advance in
communications technology is a setback（挫折） to the intimacy of human interaction.”每一个在交流
技术上的进步都是对人类亲密沟通的一个挫折。第一句中的connected是指科技进步带来的距离上

的近，disconnected是指科技进步带来的交流沟通上的疏离，人们变得越来越孤单。故选C。

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