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Section Ⅰ Use of English
Directions：
Read the following text。Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and
markA,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)
In our contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with -- or even
looking at -- a stranger is virtually unbearable. Everyone around us seems to agree
by the way they fiddle with their phones, even without a 1 underground.
It's a sad reality -- our desire to avoid interacting with other human beings --
because there's 2 to be gained from talking to the stranger standing by you.
But you wouldn't know it, 3 into your phone. This universal armor sends the
4 : "Please don't approach me."
What is it that makes us feel we need to hide 5 our screens?
One answer is fear, according to Jon Wortmann, executive mental coach. We fear
rejection, or that our innocent social advances will be 6 as "creepy,". We fear
we'll be 7 . We fear we'll be disruptive. Strangers are inherently 8 to us, so
we are more likely to feel 9 when communicating with them compared with
our friends and acquaintances. To avoid this anxiety, we 10 to our phones.
"Phones become our security blanket," Wortmann says. "They are our happy
glasses that protect us from what we perceive is going to be more 11 ."
But once we rip off the bandaid...
