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Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. valuableB. unrecognizableC. unconsciouslyD. reservedE. heavily F. encountersG. disruptedH. confusedI. closeness J. bunchK. recomposed |
Relationship in the Digital Age
People from our past whom we no longer directly communicate with but who are active on social networks can “occupy ___11___ space in your mind, and you think about them instead of about your close friends,” said Carlin Flora, the author of “Friend-fluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We are.”
“If my high school friend posts frequently about her life, it’s almost like it’s celebrity gossip, or it seems as if I am watching a reality show about her,” Ms. Flora said. “Our brains get ___12___ about whether we know celebrities; if we see someone a lot, our brain thinks we know them.”
Ms. Schiller, the Iowa graduate, goes out often with friends at night but also lives on a digital diet of texting ___13___ enough that she recently hurt her thumb, Google chat and social media. As with many young people, talking on the phone was never a big part of her routine and is now ___14___ for the rarest of occasions.
There are physiological benefits to face-to-face ___15___ however, that doesn’t belong to digital interactions or the phone. “Your blood pressure goes down, and you imitate your friends gesture ___16___.” Ms. Flora said. “It’s a kind of harmony humans have developed over thousands of years, and you don’t get that when you only follow someone on social media.”
But now it’s common for the synchrony(同步性)to be ___17___ in person, thanks to smartphones. Imagine Edward Hopper’s 1942 painting “Nighthawks” (below) ___18___ today, with the three late-night diners and counterman all gazing at screens. “If there’s a(n) ___19___ of guys at a bar together and they’re all on their phones,” Ms. Flora said, “they’re not doing much to stimulate the body system to create the sense of ____20____.”
本文是一篇说明文，介绍了当今社会网上社交占据了人们生活的大部分，人们之间缺少了面对面的交流和亲密感。
【11题详解】
考查形容词。句意：我们过去没有与之直接交流，但在社交网络上活跃的人可以“在你的脑海中占据有价值的空间，你想到的是他们，而不是你的亲密朋友。分析句子可知，空格处为缺少定语表示“有价值的重要的”，A. valuable符合句意。故选A项。
【12题详解】
考查形容词。句意：我们的大脑知道对我们是否认识名人感到迷惑。根据下文“if we see someone a lot, our brain thinks we know them.”可知，空格处为表示“感到迷惑的”，H. confused符合句意。故选H项。
【13题详解】
考查副词。句意：席勒女士是艾奥瓦州的毕业生，她不但晚上经常和朋友出去玩，而且她太过于依赖数字生活，以至于最近伤到了拇指。分析句子可知，空格处表达意思是“太过于依赖数字生活以至于……”，此处表示依赖的程度，应使用副词heavily修饰动词词组live on,故选E项。
【14题详解】
考查动词以及被动语态。句意：和许多年轻人一样，打电话从来不是她日常生活的一大部分，现在只在极少数的场合使用。分析句子可知，空格处为和is构成被动语态，表示“保留”，reserved符合句意。故选D项。
【15题详解】
考查名词。句意：面对面接触有生理上的好处。分析句子可知，空格处缺少名词，为“见面。接触”之意，F. encounters符合句意。故选F项。
【16题详解】
考查副词。句意：你的血压下降了，你会无意识地模仿朋友的手势。根据上文“Your blood pressure goes down”可知“模仿”是“无意识的”，空格处为需要副词unconsciously修饰动词imitate。故选C项。
【17题详解】
考查不定式的被动式。句意：但现在，由于智能手机的出现，同步被当面破坏的情况很普遍。分析句子可知，空格处为不定式做真正主语，表示“被打扰，被打乱”，G. disrupted符合句意。故选G项。
【18题详解】
考查过去分词。句意：想象一下，爱德华·霍珀1942年的画作《夜鹰》（下图）今天重新组合，三位深夜食客和服务员都凝视着屏幕。分析句子可知，空格处为过去分词作后置定语表示“重新组合”，K. recomposed符合句意。故选K项。
【19题详解】
考查名词。句意：如果酒吧里有一群人在一起，他们都在打电话，那么他们就不会太多地刺激身体系统来产生亲密感。分析句子可知，空格处为表示“一群”构成固定短语a bunch of，J. bunch符合句意。故选J项。
【20题详解】
考查名词。句意同上题。分析句子可知，空格处需要名词作宾语表示“亲密感”，I. closeness符合句意。故选I项。
