After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend's Liverpudlian a

After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend's Liverpudlian accent suddenly becomes too difficult to understand after his clear words on screen; a secretary stone seems more rejecting than I'd imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluidhours become minutes, and alternately seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my week, and now just two ordinary days.

  For the last three years, since I stopped working as a producer for Charlie Rose, I have done much of my work as a telecommuter. I submit(提交)articles and edit them via E-mail and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives in England, so much of our relationship is computer-mediated.

  If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my money, love and work. In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. I watched most of the blizzard of 96 on TV.

  But after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal. I start to feel as though I've merged(融合) with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another node(波节)on the Net. Others on line report the same symptoms. We start to strongly dislike the outside forms of socializing. It's like attending an A. A. meeting in a bar with everyone holding a half-sipped drink. We have become the Net opponents; worst nightmare.

  What first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has become avoidance(逃避), a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult.

  At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to chatter in the background, something that I'd never done previously. The voices of the programs relax me, but then I'm jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, needing to keep up with the latest news and the weather. "Dateline," "Frontline," "Nightline," CNN, New York 1, every possible angle of every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me. Work moves from foreground to background.

1Compared to the clear words of her boyfriend on screen, his accent becomes      .

  Aunreal         Bunbearable        Cmisleading.           Dnot understandable

2The passage implies that the author and her boyfriend live in        .

Athe same city                        Bthe same country.   

Cdifferent countries                 Ddifferent cities in England

3What does the last paragraph mean?

AHaving worked on the computer for too long, she became a bit strange

BSometime TV programs give her comfort and even makes her forget her work

CShe watches TV a lot in order to keep up with the latest news and the weather

DShe turns on TV now and then in order to get some valuable information

4What is the author's attitude to the computer?

   AAt first she likes it but later becomes tired of it

BShe likes it because it is very convenient

CShe dislikes it because TV is more attractive

DShe dislikes it because it provides an imaginary world

5The underlined phrasecoming back out of the cave probably means      .

Agoing back to the dreaming world

Bcoming back home from the outside world

Cbringing back direct human contact

Dgetting away from living a strange life

答案

DCBAC

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