Questions 下列各are based on the following passage. Cell phones provide instant access t
Questions 下列各are based on the following passage. Cell phones provide instant access to people. They are creating a major 36______ in the socialexperiences of both children and adolescents. In one recent U.S. survey, about haft the teens polled saidthat their cell phone had 37______ their commtmication with friends. Almost all said that their cell phone was the way they stayed in touch with peers, one-third had used the cell phone to help a peer in need, andabout 80% said the phone made them feel safer. Teenagers in Australia,38______, said that their mobilephones provided numerous benefits and were an 39______part of their lives; some were so 40______to theirphones that the researchers considered it an addiction. In Japan, too, researchers are concerned aboutcell phone addiction. Researchers in one study in Tokyo found that more than half of junior high schoolstudents used their phones to exchange e-mails with schoolmates more than 10 times a day. Cell phones 41______social connections with peers across time and space. They allow young people toexchange moment-by-moment experiences in their daily lives with special partners and thus to have a more42______sense of connection with friends. Cell phones also can 43______social tolerance because they reducechildrens interactions with others who are different from them. In addition to connecting peers, cellphones connect children and parents. Researchers studying teenagers in Israel concluded that, in that44______environment, mobile phones were regarded as "security objects" in parent-teen relationships--important because they provided the possibility of 45______and communication at all times. A.affiliated B.attached C.contact D.contend E.continuous F.diminish G.endurance H.foster I.hazardous J.improved K.instantaneous L.intrinsic M.relatively N.shift O.similarly 第(36)题 __________
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正确答案:N
shift。详解:该空格位于不定冠词a和形容词major之后,由此推断所填词应为单数可数名词。文章开篇点明了手机的用途,下文又讲述了手机在青少年中的广泛使用,因此,本处说明手机已经改变了青少年的生活方式,使青少年的社会交往产生了巨大的变化,故答案为N)shift“转移,转变”。备选项中,endurance不可数,contact虽然是可数名词,位意思与上下文语义不符,故均排除。
