C. persuasive
D. scientific
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage. Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a step back from the closeness of human interaction. With email and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine. As almost every imaginable contact between human beings becomes automatic by machine, the alienation quotient goes up. You can't even call a person to get the phone number of another person anywhere. Phone assistance is almost always fully automatic by machine. Pumping gas at the station? Why say good morning to the worker when you can use your credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact? Placing money at the bank? Why talk to a clerk who might live in the neighborhood when you can just put your credit card into the ATM?
Pretty soon you won't have the hard task of making eye contact at the grocery store. Some grocery chains are using a self-scanner so you can check yourself out, avoiding those annoying clerks who look at you and ask how you are doing. 6.
The effect of increased communication technology is ____________.
A. the retreat of human closeness
B. the lack of care for neighbors
C. the saving of more free time
D. the advance of our contacts 7.
If his mom has a question, he will ____________. A. find new ways to reach her
B. send her an email message
C. try to get her a voice machine
D. answer through voice mail 8.
Judging from the context, the word \Paragraph 2) means ___________. A. relationship
B. closeness
C. strangeness
D. stress 9.
ATMs in banks have changed life by __________. A. making it more difficult to want human contact
B. making it faster to receive money from banks
C. making it easier to obtain bank credit cards
D. making it unnecessary to talk with bank clerks
10. The writer's attitude toward advances in communications
technology may be described as _______________. A. unconcerned
B. critical
C. positive
D. uninterested