首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Not so long ago, it was the stuff of nightmares: you pick up the landline telephone and there’s no dialing tone. Nothing. The ph
Not so long ago, it was the stuff of nightmares: you pick up the landline telephone and there’s no dialing tone. Nothing. The ph
admin
2015-11-27
47
问题
Not so long ago, it was the stuff of nightmares: you pick up the landline telephone and there’s no dialing tone. Nothing. The phone is useless,【C1】______in your hand. For most of the 20th century, this was a horror film stereotype, a symbol of isolation and【C2】______foretold.
But just 15 years later, the death of the landline is close to being a【C3】______—and one entirely of our own making. BT has announced plans to【C4】______charges for landline calls, in a bid to maintain commercial feasibility for landline services. The move suggests that BT—which has long【C5】______landlines over mobile calls—may have given up on turning back the clock. In the US, the【C6】______of households that have mobile phone connection but no landline has risen to a quarter. The most recent research in the UK, put the【C7】______figure at 15%.
For millions of today’s twentysomethings, who have had a mobile number since their teens and for whom a landline makes no【C8】______sense during the transient years before they settle down, the moment of【C9】______into land-line-owning may never come【C10】______it becomes an expensive extra.
The death of the landline has gone almost unnoticed. After all, the noise of phone chatting is all around us. What【C11】______does it make whether the cables lie underground or not?
A lot,【C12】______. The death of the landline is a cultural【C13】______that affects our personal and public lives. It has separated us【C14】______our groupings—in the office, where email has disconnected us from what the people who sit three feet away do all day, and even more【C15】______, at home. In any household in the days before mobiles【C16】______, the landline served as a switchboard for everyone’s connections outside the home.【C17】______families, couples, roommates, it was a kind of【C18】______knowledge map about the state of everyone’s romantic and social lives, and one we took for granted. And【C19】______though we are to our mobiles, most of the time we aren’t talking but typing. With its arrogant "ignore" button, we all become a little more untouchable in our individual worlds, and less【C20】______.
【C18】
选项
A、fashionable
B、affordable
C、debatable
D、invisible
答案
D
解析
所需形容词修饰向中的knowledge map(知识地图),说明该地图的特征。但knowledge map在句中是修辞性的语言.是对固话所充当的作用的一个形象描述:为了解“每个人的恋爱和社交生活状况”。既然它不是真实的地图,它所具备的特征就应不同于一般意义上的地图。D项invisible“无形的,看不见的”符合逻辑要求。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/7gzZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Conventionaldisplayadsaresimplywasteful,saysJakobNielsenofGroupM,alargemediabuyer.Sayacompanywantstoreachyo
Conventionaldisplayadsaresimplywasteful,saysJakobNielsenofGroupM,alargemediabuyer.Sayacompanywantstoreachyo
Nearlyeverybodycheats,butusuallyonlyalittle.ThatisoneofthethemesinDanAriely’snewbook"The(Honest)TruthAboutD
LikealotofearlessNewYorkers,Iamgenerallyconfusedbyburstsofpopulistoutrageoverhighgasprices.ButIhavealways
LikealotofearlessNewYorkers,Iamgenerallyconfusedbyburstsofpopulistoutrageoverhighgasprices.ButIhavealways
AmanwakesupinaNewYorkapartment,brewscoffeeandgoesoutintotheworld,andeverythingthatcanappearonasmartphone
Halfoftheworld’spopulationwillbespeakingorlearningEnglishby2015,researcherssay.Twobillionpeopleareexpectedto
Halfoftheworld’spopulationwillbespeakingorlearningEnglishby2015,researcherssay.Twobillionpeopleareexpectedto
Thosedaysarelonggonewhenplacingatelephonecallmeantsimplypickingupthereceiverandaskingtheoperatortopatchyou
Thosedaysarelonggonewhenplacingatelephonecallmeantsimplypickingupthereceiverandaskingtheoperatortopatchyou
随机试题
要求传动比大且准确的传动宜选用()。
A.肉类食品B.鱼类食品C.发酵食品D.盐腌食物E.绿色蔬菜含叶绿素最多的食物是
简述《中国土地法大纲》的内容特点。
下列会计报表中,属于反映企业特定日期财务状况的会计报表是()。
开展工作分析的首要步骤是()。
下列关于有限责任公司股东转让股权的说法正确的有()。
有一种理论认为,距今约5000万年前,生活在马达加斯加岛上的环尾狐猴、狐蝠以及其他哺乳动物的祖先当年乘坐天然的“木筏”,来到了马达加斯加这座位于印度洋的岛屿上。根据这一理论。来自非洲大陆东南部的哺乳动物当年漂流到马达加斯加,它们利用的交通工具是大原木或者漂
依据我国宪法修正案,下列表述正确的是()。
下列语句没有歧义的一项是:
There’sNoPlaceLikeHome[A]Onalmostanynightoftheweek,Churchill’sRestaurantishopping.The10-year-oldhotspotinRo
最新回复
(
0
)