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VII/Read the following passage and choose the options that best complete the blanks.
A new threat to our health seems to have arisen in our midst, confusion and stress caused by technology. All you need to do to (46)_______ this to yourself is to telephone a large company; a recorded voice will offer you a be wildering list of choices, and when you have finished answering its questions, you will probably be (47)_______ to several minutes of piped music before you eventually make (48)_______ with a human being. But the stress you undergo as a result is negligible compared to the impression on the telegraph (49)_______ on people 150 years ago. Until then, message could only travel as fast as a messenger could carry them. But now they could be sent great distances in seconds. Before long, submarine cables were (50)_______ across the oceans, and thirty years later, the network reached 20,000 towns around the world. When the first transatlantic able was completed in 1858, the Queen and the President exchanged messages, preachers found (51)_______ for it in the Bible, and the New York jewelers, Tiffany’s, bought unused pieces of the cable and sold them as souvenirs. But then, as now, everyone was not (52)_______ of the technological advantages.
Information arrived so quickly, often (53)_______ what had previously been transmitted, that businessmen had to work much harder to (54)_______ up with developments. They arrived home tired and stressed. If we find difficulty with the Internet, which is technological evolution, not revolution, our (55)_______ had afar harder task in getting used to the invention in the first place.
46. A. confirm B. prove C. show D. test
47. A. oppressed B. subdued C. subjected D. submitted
48. A. collision B. connection C. communication D. contact
49. A. did B. got C. made D. worked
50. A. said B. lain C. put D. set
51. A. apology B. argument C. excuse D. justification
52. A. believed B. convinced C. pleased D. satisfied
53. A. contradicting B. differing C. disagreeing D. objecting
54. A. keep B. maintain C. remain D. stay
55. A. ancestors B. elders C. fathers D. forerunner
A new threat to our health seems to have arisen in our midst, confusion and stress caused by technology. All you need to do to (46)_______ this to yourself is to telephone a large company; a recorded voice will offer you a be wildering list of choices, and when you have finished answering its questions, you will probably be (47)_______ to several minutes of piped music before you eventually make (48)_______ with a human being. But the stress you undergo as a result is negligible compared to the impression on the telegraph (49)_______ on people 150 years ago. Until then, message could only travel as fast as a messenger could carry them. But now they could be sent great distances in seconds. Before long, submarine cables were (50)_______ across the oceans, and thirty years later, the network reached 20,000 towns around the world. When the first transatlantic able was completed in 1858, the Queen and the President exchanged messages, preachers found (51)_______ for it in the Bible, and the New York jewelers, Tiffany’s, bought unused pieces of the cable and sold them as souvenirs. But then, as now, everyone was not (52)_______ of the technological advantages.
Information arrived so quickly, often (53)_______ what had previously been transmitted, that businessmen had to work much harder to (54)_______ up with developments. They arrived home tired and stressed. If we find difficulty with the Internet, which is technological evolution, not revolution, our (55)_______ had afar harder task in getting used to the invention in the first place.
46. A. confirm B. prove C. show D. test
47. A. oppressed B. subdued C. subjected D. submitted
48. A. collision B. connection C. communication D. contact
49. A. did B. got C. made D. worked
50. A. said B. lain C. put D. set
51. A. apology B. argument C. excuse D. justification
52. A. believed B. convinced C. pleased D. satisfied
53. A. contradicting B. differing C. disagreeing D. objecting
54. A. keep B. maintain C. remain D. stay
55. A. ancestors B. elders C. fathers D. forerunner
