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—“ Neal, listen,” she said, looking straight at him．”I ask you not to get        ____in this kind of matter．

—It’s none of your business”．

Rolls-Royces is ranked      fourth in the list of best cars．The Browns already have two and now they are buying      third．

微博(micro blog) 已成为时下学生常用的交流方式。人们对此褒贬不一。请根据以下要点提示，用英语写一篇短文，描述人们对学生使用微博的看法。

注意：词数120以上。       

参考词汇：开阔视野 broaden one’s horizon    引导 guidance

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。

My parents have decided to take me to Britain for a visit. I am

excited, _________(希望) to make good use of this opportunity. Firstly,           1._____________

I will talk to native speakers as m         as I can to improve my spoken    

2._____________

English. Secondly, there are many attractions that _________(使感兴趣) me a lot,   3. ______________

among ________ are Big Ben, Tower of London, British Museum, etc. I can’t     

4.______________

wait to visit ________. Besides, football, which is popular in England, is         5.______________

my f       sport. I have been dreaming of watching a live football            

6._____________

match there and now the dream will come t        . My pen friend Alice     

7.______________

lives in London and we have __________(安排) to meet at the weekend. Both of   

8.______________

us are ___________ forward to the meeting. I am sure I will have a good            9.______________

t         whatever I do.                                              

10.______________

A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolutions: we stopped talking to one another.

I was walking in the park with a friend recently，and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and…I became invisible, absent from the conversation.   

The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a tragedy to 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 contact we can imagine between human beings gets automated, the alienation index goes up. You can't even call a person to get the phone number of another person my more. Directory assistance is almost always fully automated.

I am not against modern technology. I own a cell phone, an ATM card a voice mail system, and an email account. Giving them up isn't wise…they're a great help to use. It's some of their possible consequences that make me feel uneasy.  

More and more .I find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation. Or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn't really have time to talk, The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier…or at least facilitating my antisocial instincts．

So I've put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging. with people who live near me，no cell phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mail pick up when I'm at home.

1.Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?   

2.The sentence “Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent，”means that       .

3.The writer feels that the use of modern communications is        ．

4.The passage implies that        .