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1、2022年考博英语-西安电子科技大学考前提分综合测验卷（附带答案及详解）1. 单选题The Internet, E-commerce and globalization are making a new economic era possible. By the middle of the 21st century, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on networked relationships, contractual arrangements and
2、access rights.Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Internet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOS and corporate executives in Europe and
3、the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, “No, quite contrary.”The very people responsible for ushering in what some have called a “technological renaissance” say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with
4、 colleagues and friendsnot to mention strangers. And whats more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so aggressively championing.The techno gurus promised us that access would make life more convenient and give us more time. Instead, the very technological w
5、onders that were supposed to liberate us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy escape.If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast geographic frontier, the .com generation, it seems, is more caught up in the colonization of
6、 time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the most scarce of all resources. Our e-mail, voice mail and cell phones, our 24-hour Internet news and entertainment all seize for our attention.And while we have created every kind of
7、labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. That is because the great proliferation of labor-and-time-saving services only increases the diversity, pace and flow of commodified activity around us
8、. For example, e-mail is a great convenience. However, we now find ourselves spending much of our day frantically responding to each others electronic messages. The cell phone is a great time-saver. Except now we are always potentially in reach of someone else who wants our attention.Social conserva
9、tives talk about the decline in civility and blame it on the loss of a moral compass and religious values. Has anyone bothered to ask whether the hyper speed culture is making all of us less patient and less willing to listen and defer, consider and reflect?Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connect
10、ions really count and what types of access really matter in the e-economy era. If this new technology revolution is only about hyper efficiency, then we risk losing something even precious than timeour sense of what it means to be a caring human being.1. The author suggests that the most valuable re
11、source in todays society is _.2. We learn from this passage that many executives feel that _.3. The phrase “the colonization of time” (Para. 5) refers to _.4. In the seventh paragraph the author suggests that _.5. The best title for the passage could be _.问题1选项A.TechnologyB.Economic assetsC.Access t
12、o informationD.Time问题2选项A.technological advances are essential to todays economic systemB.technology has actually led to decline in their quality of lifeC.longer hours are making their workers more impatient and uncivilD.technology can be blamed for many of todays social problems问题3选项A.the filling o
13、f every moment of time with commercial transactionsB.the quest for efficiency in the workplaceC.the growing use of electronic mail and other time-saving servicesD.the impact of technology on our sense of time问题4选项A.new technologies may make people more impatientB.social conservatives do not understa
14、nd the importance of technologyC.the speed of modern culture may impact our moral and religious valuesD.people in the technology sector are less civil than those in other fields问题5选项A.The future of the technological RenaissanceB.Even Corporate Executives Get the BluesC.The New Internet EconomyD.The
15、Disadvantages of Too much Access【答案】第1题:D第2题:B第3题:A第4题:A第5题:D【解析】1.【选项释义】The author suggests that the most valuable resource in todays society is _. 作者认为，当今社会最有价值的资源是_。A. Technology A. 技术B. Economic assets B. 经济资产C. Access to information C. 获取信息D. Time D. 时间【答案】D【考查点】事实细节题。【解题思路】根据题干信息可定位到第五段“我们的每一个空闲时间都被某种形式的商业联系所填满，使时间本身成为所有资源中最稀缺的（making time itself the most scarce of all resources）。”因此选D。【干扰项排除】A、B、C选项属于过度推断。2. 【选项释义】We learn from this passage that many executives feel that _. 我们从这篇文章中了解到，许多高管认为_。A. technological advances are essential to todays economic syste
