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Changes in the technology of communication are occurring so rapidly that we human beings now move through a cloud of messages as densely(1)____ as a locust-storm. Every new device increases the speed and the outreach of the last, and young people are now governed by the gadgets in their hands, which don't merely contain their lives(2)____ and also to a great extent dictate them. Of course, the print media still exist. There are old-fashioned people like myself who make a living by writing things, and old-fashioned people like you, who support us by reading, or at any rate buy, (3)____what we write. But maybe it's only people like us who are able really to regret for (4)____the changes that are sweeping away so much that we depended upon. The rest of the world is caught up in the torrent of gadgets, each new model is(5)____ designed to relieve its owner of one more source of spiritual(6)____ exercise or one more obstacle to fun. Memory now exists behind a screen. Very few (7)____is stored in our heads, and our recollections drift in cyberspace like asteroids, unconnected to the orbit in which we move.
Written letters are a thing of past, (8)____and essays are downloaded from the sites devoted to them. Research means surfing the web, and as for social life-this is a matter of tweeting and twittering as one drifts through cyberspace. Facebook friendships bubble up in a moment, and consist of (9)____ a mutual agreement between strangers to put themselves on display. More and more does it seem that putting yourself on display is what it is all about, which there is nothing more to love and friendship than being mutually visible.(10)____

参考答案及解析

参考答案及解析:
1．densely→dense语法错误。此处as... as结构作后置定语，用来修饰mesaages，相当于从句which are as...as，故应该用形容词形式，把densely改为dense，此处意为“像蝗虫风暴一样密集的信息。”
2．and→but词汇错误。此句前面的merely相当于only，应该用not only... but also...结构连接两个谓语contain和dictate，表示“他们手中的通讯产品不仅包括了他们的生活而且还在很大程度上控制着他们。”
3．buy→buying词汇错误。此处动词buy和前面的reading并列，与介词by连用作方式状语，而不是和support井列作谓语，故应改为动名词形式buying。
4．for→for词汇错误。此姓regret意为“对……感到遗憾，后悔”，怍及物动词，后面不需要介词，故要删除for。
5．is→is∧ each→and语法错误。从结构来看，前后两个分甸都是完整的句子，需要有一个连词连接，前后两句在意义上是并列的关系，故可以加上连词and。或者把后一个分句的谓语is去掉，过去分词designed和逻辑主语each new model构成独立主格结构。
6．spiritual→mental词汇错误。spiritual意为“精神的，心灵的”，与“肉体的”相对而言。mental意为“智力的，脑力的”，此处要表达的意思是“脑力活动”，故应该把spiritual改为mental。
7．few→little词汇错误。few可作名词，用来指代可数名词，little也可柞名词，用来指代不可数名词，此处指代memory，故应该用little。
8．∧pase→the词汇错误。此处past作名词，意为“过去”，常和the搭配使用，此句的意思是“书信已经是陈年往事。”
9．of→in词汇错误。consist of意为“由……组成”，consist血意为“存在于”，此句要表达的意思是“网络友谊存在于和陌生人之间的一个协议中，即服方愿意相互展示自己。”
10．which→that语法错误。此处的从句和前面的that从句并列，作句中的表语，且句中不缺少任何成分，应该用从属连词that引导，故把which改为that。

文章大意
本文讨论的是通讯技术变化带来的影响。通讯技术日新月异，使得人类址在铺天盖地的信息之中。每种新的设备都提供了更快的速度、更多的外展服务。现在时髦的年轻一代都受制于他们手中的通讯产品。也许只有守旧的人才会为此感到遗憾，因为这些变化大太削弱了我们过去所依赖的印刷媒体，而其他人全都被卷入信息技术的漩涡。每个新款的设计都是为了帮助拥有的人摆脱脑力劳动或享乐的障碍，阿络上人与人之间的友谊仅是展示自己而别无其他。