I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting ou

I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day. But I became in visible, absent from the conversation.

 The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Recently I was in a car with three friends. The driver told us to be quiet because he could not hear the person on the other end of his cell phone. There we were, four friends going down the highway, unable to talk to one another because of a tool designed to make communication easier.

Why is it that the more connected we get, ________________________ ? Every advance in communications technology is a hurt to the closeness of human interaction (互动). With e-mail and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone.

 More and more. l find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation. Or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn’t really have time to talk. The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.

  So I've put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging with people who live near me, no cell-phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mail pick up when I' m home.

1. What does the author say about communications technology according to the first two paragraphs? (within 15 words)

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2. Which sentences in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?

However, I felt left out as if we were not conducting the conversation.

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3. Fill in the blanks in Paragraph 3 with proper words. (within 10 words)

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4. Does the author restrict his own activity to improving the situation? (within 15 words)

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5. Translate the underlined sentences in Paragraph 4 into Chinese.

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1. The cell phone gets in the way of facetoface communication./Communications technology is interfering with human contact. / It does harm to the closeness of human interaction. / It is a hurt to the closeness of human interaction.

2. But I became invisible, absent from the conversation.

3. the more disconnected I feel/ the lonelier we feel/ the farther away we seem to be/the more left out we feel

4. Yes. For example, he doesn’t contact people living near him with instant messaging.  / Yes. For example, he doesn’t use his cellphone in the presence of friends.  / Yes. He doesn’t let the voice mail pick up when he is at home.

5. 我发现自己越来越频繁地借用电子邮件回避面对面交谈。/  越来越多地，我发现本应该用对话交流来解决的事情，自己却用不用露面的电子邮件来做。/ 本该通过对话交流来解决的事情，我却发现自己越来越多地通过不用当面交谈的电子邮件来做。