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英语二真题及答案
Section I Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)
In our contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with -- or even looking at — a stranger is
virtually unbearable. Everyone around us seems to agree by the way they fiddle with their phones, even
without a 1 underground.
It's a sad reality — our desire to avoid interacting with other human beings — because there's 2
to be gained from talking to the stranger standing by you. But you wouldn't know it, 3 into your phone.
This universal armor sends the 4 : "Please don't approach me."
What is it that makes us feel we need to hide 5 our screens?
One answer is fear, according to Jon Wortmann, executive mental coach. We fear rejection, or that our
innocent social advances will be 6 as "creepy, ” We fear we'll be7 . We fear we'll be disruptive. Strangers are inherently 8 to us, so we are more likely to feel 9 when communicating with them compared with our friends and avoid this anxiety, we 10 to our phones. "Phones become our security blanket," Wortmann says. "They are our happy glasses that protect us from what we
perceive is going to be more 11 . ”
But once we rip off the Band-Aid, tuck our smartphones in o