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
2022-01-04
120
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】________.
【C16】
选项
A、handed out
B、turned in
C、took over
D、set off
答案
C
解析
空格后意为“固定电话曾是人们在家与外界交流的中转站(switchboard)”。句中的一般过去时(served)表明固定电话如此重要已经是过去某个时间的事情,即手机被广泛使用之前的事情。C项took over“接管,取代”符合语境的逻辑要求。A项handed out“分发”、B项turned in“上交”和D项set off“出发”代入后都不能表示“手机被使用”的意思,不符合语义要求。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/8ZY4777K
0
考研英语二
相关试题推荐
Excitement,fatigue,andanxietycanallbedetectedfromsomeone’sblinks,accordingtopsychologistJohnStern(21)Washington
Accordingtothepassage,thefactthatyoungpeopleseemtobelosinginterestinscience______.Whichofthefollowingstate
Conveniencefoodhelpscompaniesbycreatinggrowth;butwhatisitseffectonpeople?Forpeoplewhothinkcookingwasthefoun
Conveniencefoodhelpscompaniesbycreatinggrowth;butwhatisitseffectonpeople?Forpeoplewhothinkcookingwasthefoun
Prettyinpink:adultwomendonotrememberbeingsoobsessedwiththecolour,yetitispervasiveinouryounggirls’lives.It
Asanyonewhohastriedtoloseweightknows,realisticgoal-settinggenerallyproducesthebestresults.That’spartiallybecau
Thebattletopreventoratleastslowglobalwarminghasintensifiedinthepastyearasscientistshavelearnedmoreaboutthe
Forachild,happinesshasamagicalquality.Iremembermakinghide-outsinnewlycuthay,playingcopsandrobbersinthewood
Notsolongago,itwasthestuffofnightmares:youpickupthelandlinetelephoneandthere’snodialingtone.Nothing.Theph
Notsolongago,itwasthestuffofnightmares:youpickupthelandlinetelephoneandthere’snodialingtone.Nothing.Theph
随机试题
简述不安抗辩权的构成要件及类型。
帕金森病(PD)常见的步态()
通过抑制Thl细胞产生IFN-γ、IL-2、TNF-β等下调细胞免疫功能的细胞因子是
在付款凭证左上方的“贷方科目”可能填列的会计科目有()。
无差异曲线的位置和形状取决于()。
马克思说:“只有毫无历史知识的人才不知道:君主们在任何时候都不得不服从经济条件,并且从来不能向经济条件发号施令。无论是政治的立法或市民的立法,都只是表明和记载经济关系的要求而已。”根据上述材料,运用法理学分析这段话的主要含义,提出理论观点。
1949年3月,中共七届二中全会决议分析了新民主主义社会的经济状况和基本矛盾,提出中国从农业国转变为工业国并解决了土地问题以后,中国社会的基本矛盾是()
InalabinOxfordUniversity’sexperimentalpsychologydepartment,researcherRoiCohenKa-doshistestingarelativelynewbra
下面关于在绘制模型图时要注意的事项说法错误的是______。A)实体集的名称和编号写在矩形框(或圆角矩形框)外的下面B)非主属性也可以写在矩形框(或圆角矩形框)内水平线的下面C)主码属性写在矩形框(或圆角矩形框)内水平线的上面并用“PK”标注
若有定义:intw[3][5];则以下不能正确表示该数组元素的表达式是()。
最新回复
(
0
)