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Passage 4

Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage:

Surfing the net can be an excitement, but after too long on the net, even a phone can be a shock. My boyfriend’s Liverpudlian accent suddenly becomes indecipherable after the clarity of his words on screen; a secretary’s tone seems more rejecting than I’d imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid—hours 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 articles and edit them via email and communicate with colleagues on the 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 have merged with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another node 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 AA 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 an avoidance, 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 TV and just leave it to chatter in the background, something that I’d never done previously. The voices of the programs soothe me, but then I’m jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, or compulsively 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.

46. Why does the author say even a phone call can be a shock after too long a time on the internet?

47. What can we infer about the author and her boyfriend’s locations?

48. What is the author’s attitude to the computer?

49. What does the phrase “coming back out of the cave” in the 5th paragraph mean?

50. What can be inferred from the last sentence of the paragraph?

III. Writing (30%)

With the rapid economic, scientific and technological development in the urban areas, existing cities are growing larger and larger and more and more cities are appearing. What do you think is ONE of the major problems that may result from the process of urbanization? Write a composition of about 400 words on the topic given below to air your view.

One Major Problem in the Process of Urbanization

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