英語(yǔ)專(zhuān)業(yè)四級(jí)考前沖刺練習(xí)5.doc

TEXT B The Internet, E-commerce and globalization are making a new economic era possible. In the future, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on networked relationships, contractual arrangements and access rights. Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Internet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOS and corporate executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said,No, quite contrary. The very people responsible for ushering in what some have called a technological renaissance say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with colleagues and friends-not to mention strangers. And whats more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so aggressively championing. The techno gurus (領(lǐng)袖) promised us that access would make life more convenient and give us more time. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to liberate us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy escape. an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast geographic frontier, the .com generation, it seems, is more caught up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the most scarce of all resources. Our e-mail, voice mail and cell phones, our 24-hour Interact news and entertainment all seize for our attention. while we have created every kind of labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. That is because the great proliferation of labor-and-time-saving services only increases the diversity, pace and flow of commodified activity around us. For example, e-mail is a great convenience. However, we now find ourselves spending much of our day frantically responding to each others electronic messages. The cell phone is a great time-saver, Except now we are always potentially in reach of someone else who wants our attention. Social conservatives talk about the decline in civility and blame it on the loss of a moral compass and religious values. Has anyone bothered to ask whether the hyper speed culture is making all of us less patient and less willing to listen and defer, consider and reflect? Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really count and what types of access really matter in the e-economy era. ff this new technology revolution is only about hyper efficiency, then we risk losing something even precious than time-our sense of what it means to be a caring human being. 86. According to the passage, corporate executives think that A. technology renaissance should be pushed forward. B. technology has a profound impact on their lives. C. technology actually results in a decline in their life quality. D. technology should be aggressively championed. 87. Which of the following is NOT true? A. Technology was supposed to free people. B. The .corn generation became slaves of technology. C. New technologies occupy much of our time. D. It is difficult to avoid the influence of technology wonders. 88. What is the most valuable resource for the .com generation? A. Technological wonders. B. Access to information. C. Time. D. Time saving devices. 89. In the sixth paragraph, the author implied that A. social conservatives blamed the loss of morality on technology. B. the .com generation was less civil than the earlier generations. C. the hyper speed culture led to the decline in civility. D. technology might make people less impatient. 90. An appropriate title for the passage might be A. The New Internet Life. B. The Drawbacks of too Much Access. C. The Failure of Technological Renaissance. D. The Declining Quality of Life. 【文章概要】 本文探討了玩游戲的利與弊。首段介紹游戲提倡者Jane McGonigal的新觀點(diǎn):游戲其實(shí)對(duì)大家有益;第2段分析玩游戲有益的原因及持相反意見(jiàn)的人對(duì)Jane McGonigal觀點(diǎn)的質(zhì)疑;第3段指出玩游戲是否有益還有待研究討論.同時(shí)肯定了某些游戲的正面作用;最后兩段闡釋作者對(duì)玩游戲的觀點(diǎn):讓玩的人感到開(kāi)心才是最重要的。 【答案解析】 86.A因果細(xì)節(jié)題。定位到第1段,根據(jù)第l段第2句可知,傳統(tǒng)觀念中對(duì)游戲的爭(zhēng)議點(diǎn)在于玩游戲“有害身心”還是“純粹無(wú)傷大雅的娛樂(lè)”,而McGonigal卻提倡玩游戲,認(rèn)為玩游戲有益。這與傳統(tǒng)觀念背道而馳,因此備受爭(zhēng)議。故選項(xiàng)A正確。B項(xiàng)的內(nèi)容文中有提及,但這是McGonigal認(rèn)為人們應(yīng)該玩多點(diǎn)游戲的原因;C項(xiàng)是對(duì)第2段首句的誤解;D項(xiàng)文中沒(méi)有提到。 87.C細(xì)節(jié)判斷題。定位到第2段和第3段。根據(jù)第2段末句可知,A與原文內(nèi)容相符。B、D兩項(xiàng)在第3段也有提及.屬游戲的正面作用。選項(xiàng)C,與第3段首句不符,本句提到,游戲是否有助提高技能,還有待研究討論,本題為逆向選擇題,故選C。 88.D細(xì)節(jié)判斷題。定位到第4段,作者認(rèn)為為了提高認(rèn)知能力而去閱讀是讓人沮喪的,閱讀是件很快樂(lè)的事情,提倡閱讀不是因?yàn)?