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以下是2017年专业四级考试完型填空题的最后一部分。请从下列词语里选出合适的词语填入空白处。
The harmful side of the Internet's impact is obvious but statistically less important than many would guess. People (1) write fewer letters when they can send e-mail messages. To (2) through a box of old paper correspondence is to know what has been (3) in this shift: the pretty stamps, the varying look and feel of handwritten and typed correspondence, the tangible
(4) that was once in the sender's hands.
A. always B. barely C. demise D. emergence E. gained F. implications G. leaf H. lost I. naturally J. object K. one L. online M. rising N. single O. value
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以下是2017年专业四级考试完型填空题的一部分。请从下列词语里选出合适的词语填入空白处。
Every day, some two million Netflix envelopes come and go as first-class mail. They are joined by millions of other shipments from （1）pharmacies, eBay vendors, Amazon.com and other businesses that did not exist before the Internet. The（2） of "snail mail" in the age of instant electronic communication has been predicted at least as often as the coming of the paperless office. But the consumption of paper keeps （3）. It has roughly doubled since 1980. On average, an American household receives twice as many pieces of mail a day as it did in the 1970's.
A. always B. barely C. demise D. emergence E. gained F. implications G. leaf H. lost I. naturally J. object K. one L. online M. rising N. single O. value
参考答案：1、L，online 2、C, demise 3、M. rising
解析：1、从eBay vendors, Amazon.com可以推测出，pharmarcies的修饰语必是与它们俩同类，即互联网网站，online phamacies，网上药店。2、snail mail（蜗牛邮件）与instant electronic communication是相对的，要在逻辑上与paperless office相一致，就应该是否定性的词，demise是符合要求的。3、后一句的 roughly doubled 其实就暗指了这一句的意思。另外，but一词也与之前描述电子时代无纸化的情形相反。完型填空的词语选择，强调的是对上下文的理解。
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