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Sometimes the biggest changes in society are the hardest to spot precisely because they are hiding in plain sight. It could well

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问题     Sometimes the biggest changes in society are the hardest to spot precisely because they are hiding in plain sight. It could well be that way with wireless communications. Something that people think of as just another technology is beginning to show signs of changing lives, culture, politics, cities, jobs, even marriages dramatically. In particular, it will usher in a new version of a very old idea: nomadism.
    Futurology is a dangerous business, and it is true that most of the important arguments about mobile communications at the moment are to do with technology or regulation—bandwidth, spectrum use and so on. Yet it is worth jumping ahead and wondering what the social effects will be, for two reasons. First, the broad technological future is pretty clear: there will be ever faster cellular networks, and many more gadgets to connect to these networks.  Second, the social changes are already visible:  parents on beaches waving at their children while typing furtively on their BlackBerrys; entrepreneurs discovering they don’t need offices after all. Everybody is doing more on the move.
    Wireless technology is surely not just an easier-to-use phone. The car divided cities into work and home areas; wireless technology may mix them up again, with more people working in suburbs or living in city centers. Traffic patterns are beginning to change again: the rush hours at 9am and 5pm are giving way to more varied patterns, with people going backwards and forwards between the office, home and all sorts of other places throughout the day. Already, architects are redesigning offices and universities,  more flexible spaces for meeting people, fewer private enclosures for sedentary work.
    Will it be a better life? In some ways, yes. Digital nomadism will liberate ever more knowledge workers from the cubicle prisons as depicted in Mr. Dilbert’s cartoons. But the old tyranny of place could become a new tyranny of time, as nomads who are "always on" all too often end up— mentally—anywhere but here. As for friends and family, permanent mobile connectivity could have the same effect as nomadism: it might bring you much closer to family and friends, but it may make it harder to bring in outsiders. Sociologists fret about constant e-mailers and texters losing the everyday connections to casual acquaintances or strangers sitting next to them in the cafe or on the Bus.
    The same tools have another dark side, turning everybody into a fully equipped paparazzo. Some fitness clubs have started banning mobile phones near the treadmills and showers lest exercising people find themselves pictured, flabby and sweaty, on some website. As in the desert, so in the city: nomadism promises the heaven of new freedom,  but it also signals the hell of constant surveillance by the tribe.  
Which of the following best summarizes the text?
选项 A、A new trend of wireless communication.
B、Mobile communication improves people’s life.
C、Digital nomadism brings people convenience as well as trouble.
D、The future of mobile communication.
答案C
解析 此题考查考生根据全文内容进行概括总结的能力。通读一下全文，第一段提出无线通信已经开始显露出深刻改变人类生活、文化、政治、城市、工作甚至婚姻的种种征兆。接下来的第二、三段主要叙述了无线通信给人们带来的方便。第四段提出在一些方面无线通信确实给我们带来了更好的生活，但是也减少了人们与外界的联系，这应该是数字移动生活的一个弊端。第五段描述了无线通信作为一种工具对人们生活产生的负面作用。因此，正确答案为C选项。
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