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
While western governments worry over the threat of Ebola, a more pervasive but far less harmful 【C1】______ is spreading through
While western governments worry over the threat of Ebola, a more pervasive but far less harmful 【C1】______ is spreading through
admin
2016-12-13
50
问题
While western governments worry over the threat of Ebola, a more pervasive but far less harmful 【C1】______ is spreading through their populations like a winter sniffle: mobile personal technology.
The similarity between disease organisms and personal devices is 【C2】______. Viruses and other parasites control larger organisms, 【C3】______ resources in order to multiply and spread. Smartphones and other gadgets do the same thing, 【C4】______ever-increasing amounts of human attention and electricity supplied 【C5】______ wire umbilici.
It is tempting to【C6】______a "strategy" to both phages and phablets, neither of which is sentient.【C7】______, the process is evolutionary, consisting of many random evolutions, 【C8】______ experimented with by many product designers. This makes it all the more powerful.
Tech【C9】______occurs through actively-learnt responses, or "operant conditioning" as animal behaviourists call it. The scientific parallel here also involves a rodent, typically a rat, which occupies a【C10】______cage called a Skinner Box. The animal is【C11】______with a food pellet for solving puzzles and punished with an electric shock when it fails.
"Are we getting a positive boost of hormones when we【C12】______look at our phone, seeking rewards?" asks David Shuker, an animal behaviourist at St Andrews university, sounding a little like a man withholding serious scientific endorsement【C13】______an idea that a journalist had in the shower. Research is needed, he says. Tech tycoons would meanwhile【C14】______that the popularity of mobile devices is attributed to the brilliance of their designs. This is precisely what people whose thought processes have been【C15】______by an invasive pseudo-organism would believe.
【C16】______, mobile technology causes symptoms less severe than physiological diseases. There are even benefits to【C17】______sufferers for shortened attention spans and the caffeine overload triggered by visits to Starbucks for the free Wi-Fi. Most importantly, you can 【C18】______ the Financial Times in places as remote as Alaska or Sidcup. In this【C19】______, a mobile device is closer to a symbiotic organism than a parasite. This would make it【C20】______to an intestinal bacterium that helps a person to stay alive, rather than a virus that may kill you.
【C11】
选项
A、rewarded
B、resisted
C、resumed
D、reversed
答案
A
解析
此处意为“如果解开谜题,这只动物会得到一点食物作为______;如果没能解开,便会遭到电击以示惩罚”。此句前后为对称结构,根据后面的punished可推断此处应选与之相对的:rewarded“奖励”,故A.rewarded为正确答案。resist“抵抗,反对”,resume“重新开始,继续”,reverse“反转,交换”,均不符合题意,故排除。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/WRoZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
It’seasytoscarepeopleaboutwhat’sintheirfood,butthedangerisalmostneverreal.Andthe【C1】______itselfkills.Ta
Isanation’sdestinysetbyitsfertilityrates?Japanhastheworld’soldest【C1】______,butJapaneselongevitycan’t【C2】______
Aperson’shomeisasmuchareflectionofhispersonalityastheclotheshewears,thefoodheeatsandthefriendswithwhomh
Comparisonsweredrawnbetweenthedevelopmentoftelevisioninthe20thcenturyandthediffusionofprintinginthe15thand1
Seariseasaresultofglobalwarmingwouldimmediatelythreatenthatlargefractionoftheglobelivingatsealevel.Nearlyo
Seariseasaresultofglobalwarmingwouldimmediatelythreatenthatlargefractionoftheglobelivingatsealevel.Nearlyo
DuringMcDonald’searlyyearsFrenchfriesweremadefromscratcheveryday.RussetBur-bankpotatoeswere【C1】______,cutintos
Atschoolwewentoveroursocialnetworkingguidelines.【C1】______theobvious—don’tbeinappropriatewithstudentsthroughtexti
The20thcenturywitnessedtwoprofoundchangesinregionsoftheworldwherepeoplearewelleducatedandscienceandtechnolog
Theirdefenderssaytheyaremotivated,versatileworkerswhoarejustwhatcompaniesneedinthesedifficulttimes.Toothers,
随机试题
某研究将行走模式分为两类:一类是零星地短时间行走,另一类是不间断地行走10分钟以上。该研究追踪了某国16732名66岁至78岁的女性,4年随访期间有804名女性去世。结果发现,不管是零星散步还是较长时间的不间断行走,步数更多的人寿命更长;在约4500步之后
患儿,女性,4岁,乳切牙反颌,采用颌垫式活动矫治器利用舌簧推切牙解除反颌关系,患者切牙所受力是
与精神意识思维活动关系最密切的是
与正常足月儿相比,早产儿生理性黄疸的特点是
根据《物权法》的规定,下列哪一类权利不能设定权利质权?()
企业将自有房屋作为福利为高管人员配备住房,计提房屋折旧时,应编制的会计分录是()。
旅行社是以营利为目的,从事旅游业务的企业。()
在一些电影网站,点开每一部电影作品,其条目下的评论文章都成百乃至上千。不过,细看评论具体内容,或者是“太差”“看不懂”,或者是“力挺”“就是好看”,这类无分析、无论证的表态占据了大多数,其中有不少还出自职业影评人笔下。当然,一千个观众就有一千个哈姆雷特,百
从所给的四个选项中,选择最合适的一个填入问号处,使之呈现一定的规律性:
以下不属于SQL数据操作命令的是( )。
最新回复
(
0
)