Question

【题目】Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

The Internet E-commerce and globalization are making a new economic age possible. In the future, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on 【1】 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, quiet 【2】.” They 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 what’s more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so 【3】 supporting.

The technological leader promised us that access would make life more convenient. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to 【4】 us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy 【5】.

If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast 【6】 land, 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 【7】 of all resources.

And 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. Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really 【8】 in the e-economy age. If this new technology 【9】 is only about super efficiency, then we risk losing something even precious than time-our sense of what it means to be a(n) 【10】 human being.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】I

【2】K

【3】E

【4】G

【5】J

【6】H

【7】D

【8】A

【9】F

【10】C

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。互联网电子商务和全球化正在使一个新的经济时代成为可能。在未来，资本主义市场将在很大程度上被一种基于网络关系、合同安排和使用权的新型经济体系所取代。相反，那些本应解放我们的技术奇迹，已开始奴役我们，使我们置身于一个似乎无法轻易逃脱的关系网之中。虽然我们创造了各种省时省力的设备来满足我们的需求，但我们开始觉得自己比历史上任何其他人类拥有的时间都要少。

【1】考查形容词。句意：在未来，资本主义市场将在很大程度上被一种基于网络关系、合同安排和使用权的新型经济体系所取代。relationship为名词需要形容词修饰，故填networked，“网络的”。故选I。

【2】考查形容词。句意：令人惊讶的是，几乎所有人都说:“不，完全相反。”根据上文Surprisingly可知情况是“完全相反”的，故填contrary。故选K。

【3】考查副词。句意：更有启发性的是，他们把大部分责任都归咎于他们大力支持的技术。support为动词需要副词修饰，故填aggressively“侵略地；攻击地；大力地”。故选E。

【4】考查动词。句意：相反，那些本应解放我们的技术奇迹，已开始奴役我们，使我们置身于一个似乎无法轻易逃脱的关系网之中。根据句意可知应填liberate“解放；释放”，故选G。

【5】考查名词。短语no easy escape“不容易逃脱；无法轻易逃脱”，故填名词escape。故选J。

【6】考查形容词。句意：如果早期的一代人专注于包围广阔的地理区域，那么.com一代似乎更专注于时间的殖民。根据句意可知表示“地理的”应填geographic。故选H。

【7】考查形容词。句意：我们的每一个空闲时间都被某种形式的商业联系所占据，这使得时间本身成为所有资源中最稀缺的。根据上文the以及下文of all resources可知应填形容词最高级scarcest，“最稀缺的”。故选D。

【8】考查动词。句意：也许我们需要问一下，在电子经济时代，什么样的联系才是真正重要的。根据句意可知表示“重要”应为count，故选A。

【9】考查名词。句意：如果这项新技术革命只是为了提高效率，那么我们可能会失去一些甚至比时间更宝贵的东西——我们对作为一个有爱心的人意味着什么的意识。短语technology revolution“技术革命”，故填revolution选F。

【10】考查形容词。句意：如果这项新技术革命只是为了提高效率，那么我们可能会失去一些甚至比时间更宝贵的东西——我们对作为一个有爱心的人意味着什么的意识。human being为名词词组需要形容词修饰，故填caring，表示“有爱心的”。故选C。