考研英语二（完形填空）模拟试卷135
完型填空
Not so long ago, it was the stuff of nightmares: you pick up the landline telephone and there\’s no dialing tone. Nothing. The phone is useless,【C1】______in your hand. For most of the 20th century, this was a horror film stereotype, a symbol of isolation and【C2】______foretold.
But just 15 years later, the death of the landline is close to being a【C3】______—and one entirely of our own making. BT has announced plans to【C4】______charges for landline calls, in a bid to maintain commercial feasibility for landline services. The move suggests that BT—which has long【C5】______landlines over mobile calls—may have given up on turning back the clock. In the US, the【C6】______of households that have mobile phone connection but no landline has risen to a quarter. The most recent research in the UK, put the【C7】______figure at 15%.
For millions of today\’s twentysomethings, who have had a mobile number since their teens and for whom a landline makes no【C8】______sense during the transient years before they settle down, the moment of【C9】______into land-line-owning may never come【C10】______it becomes an expensive extra.
The death of the landline has gone almost unnoticed. After all, the noise of phone chatting is all around us. What【C11】______does it make whether the cables lie underground or not?
A lot,【C12】______. The death of the landline is a cultural【C13】______that affects our personal and public lives. It has separated us【C14】______our groupings—in the office, where email has disconnected us from what the people who sit three feet away do all day, and even more【C15】______, at home. In any household in the days before mobiles【C16】______, the landline served as a switchboard for everyone\’s connections outside the home.【C17】______families, couples, roommates, it was a kind of【C18】______knowledge map about the state of everyone\’s romantic and social lives, and one we took for granted. And【C19】______though we are to our mobiles, most of the time we aren\’t talking but typing. With its arrogant \\
1.【C1】(D)
A. honest
B. crucial
C. tireless
D. dead
解析：no dialing tone(没有拨号音)和useless(没有用处的)都表明固话不能用了。D项dead“死亡的”表示固话不能用了，也能与下段首句中的death一词相对应。
2.【C2】(B)
A. poverty
B. doom
C. prosperity
D. boom
解析：该句的主语this指代the stuff of nightmares，填入的内容与foretold搭配，且与前面的a horror film stereotype(恐怖电影的老套伎俩)和a symbol of isolation(象征着孤立无援)并列。B项doom“厄运，死亡”搭配foretold意为“预兆着不祥”。符合上下文语义。
3.【C3】(A)
A. reality
B. dream
C. disaster
D. ceremony
解析：本段提到：在美国，拥有手机而没有固定电话的家庭增多了．由此可知the death of the landline即将成为现实，故A项reality“现实”正确。
4.【C4】(B)
A. drop
B. hike
C. evaluate
D. calculate
解析：空格处动词是英铟电信公司对固定电话费用打算采取的措施，目的是要维持固话服务的商业可行性。下文提到使用固定电话的家庭减少，因此BT只有上涨话费用才能保证商业正常运作。选B项hike“提高(价格等
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