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The Internet, e-commerce and globalization are making a new economic era possible. By the middle of the 21 st century, capitalis

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问题     The Internet, e-commerce and globalization are making a new economic era possible. By the middle of the 21 st century, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on networked relationships, contractual arrangements and access rights.
    Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Intranet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question to hundreds of CEOs and corporate executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, "No, quite the contrary." The very people responsible for ushering in what some have called a "technological renaissance" say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with colleagues and friends—not to mention strangers. And what’s more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so aggressively championing.
    The techno gurus promised us that access would make life more convenient and give us more time. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to liberate us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy escape.
    If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast geographic frontier, the dotcom generation, it seems, is more caught up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the most scarce of all resources. Our e-mail, voice mail and cell phones, our 24-hour electronic trading markets, online banking services, all-night e-commerce, and 24-hour Internet news and entertainment all holler for our attention.
    And while we have created every kind of labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. That is because the great proliferation of labor-and time-saving services only increases the diversity, pace and flow of commodified activity around us. For example, e-mail is a great convenience. However, we now find ourselves spending much of our day frantically responding to each other’s electronic messages. The cell phone is a great time-saver. Except now we are always potentially in reach of someone else who wants our attention.
    Social conservatives talk about the decline in civility and blame it on the loss of a moral compass and religious values. Has anyone bothered to ask whether the hyperspeed culture is making all of us less patient and less willing to listen and defer, consider and reflect?
    Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really count and what types of access really matter in the e-economy era. If this new technology revolution is only about hyperefficiency, then we risk losing something even more precious than time—our sense of what it means to be a caring human being.
The best title for this text could be______.
选项 A、The Failure of the Technological Renaissance
B、Even Corporate Executives Get the Blues
C、The New Internet Economy
D、The Disadvantages of Too Much Access
答案D
解析 属主旨思想题。题目要求选出适合本文的最佳标题。英文标题的特点一般是语法不是很规范，不要求是主、谓、宾齐全的句子，而应该是简洁、醒目的名词词组。因此，单从这一特点来看，就可首先排除选项B(是句子形式)。从意义上来看，选项A、B(get the blues意为“闷闷不乐”)都是文章第二段的内容，不能概括全文。选项C题目太大、太广，属于概括过头，不适合做本文的标题。因此，既包含文章所有内容又概括适度，还符合英文标题特点的只有选项D，文章通篇讲的是这些所谓方便快捷的技术给人们带来的却是诸多不便和问题。
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