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It was not so long ago that parents drove a teenager to campus, said a tearful goodbye and returned back home to wait a week or so for a phone call to the dorm.(1)____(2)____ Mom or Dad, in turn, might write letters-yes,with pens.On stationary.(3)____ But going to college these days means never have to say goodbye, thanks to near-saturation of cellphones, email, instant messaging, texting, Facebook and Skype.(4)____ Researchers are looking at how new technology may be delaying the point which college-bound students truly become independent from their parents, and how phenomena such as the introduction of unlimited calling plans have changed the nature of parent-child relationships, and not always for the better.(5)____
Some research suggests that today's young adults are close to their parents than their predecessors.(6)____ And it's complicated Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose specialty is technology and relationships, calls this a particular sort of "Huck Finn moment," in which Huck "takes her parents with him. We all sail down Mississippi together." (7)____(8)____(9)____ From the electronic grade monitoring many high schools offer parents, it seems a small leap to keep electronic track of their (adult) children' s schedules or to send reminders about deadlines or assignments. Professors have figured out that some kids are emailing papers home to parents to edit.(10)____ And Skype and Facebook might be more than just chances to see a face that's missed at home; parents can peer into their little darling's messy dorm room or his messy social life.

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文章大意
本文讨论的是科技对于在校孩子和父母之间沟通的影响。科技的发展使得上大学的孩子再也不必眼泪汪汪地和父母说再见了，手机、电子邮件、即时信息等等先进交流手段使得孩子和家长之间的距离不断缩短。与此同时，交流手段的科技化也使得孩子走向独立的进程一拖再拖。
答案详解
1．back→back词汇错误。return的意思相当于come back，此处back多余，故删。
2．to→from语篇错误。上文提到“家长将孩子送往学校，回到家一个多星期都在等待……”。句中的主语始终是parents，所以他们不是等待打往宿舍的电话，而是从宿舍打来的电话，故to应改成from。
3．stationary→stationery词汇错误。前文提到“父母可能会轮流用笔给孩子写信”。接下来强调是用信笺，为区别于现在常用的“电子邮件”。stationary与stationery是形近词，意思不同。stationary作名词时指“固定物”，stationery为名词，意为“信笺”。
4．have→having语法错误。此句的主语是动名词短语going to college these days，谓语动词是means，表示“意味着”，后面需接名词、代词或动名词形式。此处have为动词，不能作宾语。故应该改为动名词having。此句完整的意思为“但是现在上大学则意味着永远不用说再见”。
5．∧which→at语法错误。how... the point为宾语从句。此处which引导的是一个定语从句，该从句已有完整的主系表结构…become…，由先行词point可知which前要加上at，正常的语序应为college-bound students... parents at which point，介词at不能省略。
6．close→closer词汇错误。根据后面的than一词，可知这里应该要填close的比较级形式。close为单音节单词，比较级直接加r，不需要加more。
7．And→But语篇错误。前文讲的是“通讯手段的多样化和加强使得父母和燕子之间的关系更加紧密，并且推迟孩子独立于父母的时间”，但后文提到事实则复杂得多，接着就详细论证和解释了这一点。这一段和前文形成对照，应该用表示转折的连词But，而不应该用And。
8．her→his语篇错误。Huck Finn根据人名和文学常识可以判断出为男孩，且句中的with him中的him已提示了这一点。所以her应该改成his。
9．∧Mississippi→the语法错误。此题考查的是定冠词的用法。Mississippi(密西西比河)为独一无二的事物，必须加the来修饰。
10．(home) to→for词汇错误。句末的to edit,是parents的动作，应该是学生发邮件给父母，让父母帮他们校订论文，应该用email sth. for sb．to do sth的形式，第一个to要改成for。