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Live with Computer After too long on the net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend’s Liverpudlian (利物浦的) accent su
Live with Computer After too long on the net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend’s Liverpudlian (利物浦的) accent su
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2011-01-05
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Live with Computer
After too long on the net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend’s Liverpudlian (利物浦的) accent suddenly becomes indecipherable (难懂的)after the clarity of his words on screen; a secretary’s tone seems more rejecting than I’d imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid- hours become minutes, and alternately seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two ordinary days.
For the latest three years, since I stopped working as a producer for Charlie Rose, I have done much of my work as a telecommuter. I submit articles and edit them via E-mail and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives in England ; so much of our relationship is computer-mediated.
If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my money, love and work. In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. I watched most of the blizzard of 1996 on TV.
But after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal. I start to feel as though I’ve merged with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back, just another node on the net. Others on line report the same symptoms. We start to strongly dislike the outside forms of socializing. It’s like attending an "AA" meeting in a bar with everyone holding a half sipped drink. We have become the net opponents’ worst nightmare.
What first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and faces, has become avoidance, a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult.
At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to chatter in the background, something that I’d never done previously. The voices of the programs soothe me, but then I’m jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, or compulsively needing to keep up with the possible angle of every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me. Work moves from foreground to background.
The phrase "coming back out of the cave" in the fifth paragraph means______.
选项
A、coming back home
B、going back home
C、living a luxurious life
D、restoring direct human contact
答案
D
解析
本题考查考生根据上下文猜测短语的能力。该短语出现在第五段最后一句话中:And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction,coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult.并且一旦你着手用电脑交际取代人与人之间的真正接触,再从洞穴里钻出来会是十分困难的。有了电脑不出门也可做许多事,于是你的家庭也就成了与世隔绝的洞穴。因此从洞穴里钻出来(coming back out of the cave)是指“恢复人与人的真正接触”(restoring direct human contact)。所以正确答案是D。
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