More and more residences, businesses, and even government agencies are using telephone answering machines to take messages or gi

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问题     More and more residences, businesses, and even government agencies are using telephone answering machines to take messages or give information or instructions. Sometimes these machines give (1)_____ instructions, or play messages that are difficult to understand. If you (2)_____ telephone calls, you need to be ready to respond when you get a (3)_____
    The most common machine is the (4)_____ used in residence. If you call a home (5)_____ there is a telephone answering machine (6)_____ you will hear several rings and then a recorded message that (7)_____ says something like this: "Hello. We can’t come to the (8)_____ right now. If you want us to call you back, please leave your name and number after the beep." Then you will hear a "beep", (9)_____ is a brief, high-pitched (10)_____. After the beep, you can say who you are, whom you want to speak to, and what number the person should call to (11)_____ you, or you can leave a (12)_____. Some telephone answering machines record for only 20 or 30 seconds after the beep, (13)_____ you must respond quickly.
    Some large businesses and government agencies are using telephone answering machines to provide information on (14)_____ about which they receive a large volume of (15)_____. Generally speaking, using these systems (16)_____ you to have a touch-tone phone (a phone with buttons rather than a rotary dial). The voice on the machine will tell you to (17)_____ a certain button on your telephone if you want information on Topic A, another button for Topic B, and so on. You listen (18)_____ you hear the topic you want to learn about, and then you push the (19)_____ button. Immediately after making your (20)_____, you will hear a recorded message on the topic.


选项 A、topics
B、things
C、arguments
D、concerns

答案A

解析 语义衔接题。单纯从本句来看,很难确定正确选项,真正帮助做出正确选择的是本句后面的句子:…if you want information on Topic A,another button for Topic B,and so on.(…如果你想获得关于A话题的信息,另一个按键则是有关B话题的信息,如此类推)。从后面的提示中可以推出,这里是说一些大公司及政府机构使用录音电话来提供某些话题的信息,因此正确选项是topics。thing意为"事情,情况",argument意为"争论,争辩",concern意为"关切,有利害关系",这三个词与上下文无语义衔接关系。
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