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[調查工作組] 外國文(英文)
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請依下文回答第 11 題至第 15 題 One of the ironies of modern life is that everyone is glued to their phones, but nobody uses them as phones anymore. Phone calls are becoming relics of a bygone era, the “phone” part of a smartphone turning vestigial as communication 11 , willingly or not, into data-oriented formats like text messaging and chat apps. The distaste for telephony is especially acute among Millennials, 12 have come of age in a world of AIM and texting, then gchat and iMessage, but it’s hardly limited to young people. When asked, people with a distaste for phone calls argue that they are 13 , especially given alternative methods of contact that don’t make unbidden demands for someone’s undivided attention. In response, some have been diagnosed with a kind of telephoniphobia among this set. When even initiating phone calls is a problem—and even 14 ones, like phoning the local Thai place to order takeout—then anxiety rather than habit may be to blame. But when it 15 taking phone calls, nobody seems to have admitted that using the telephone today is a different material experience than it was 20 or 30 years ago. The telephone used to be truly great, partly because of the situation of its use, and partly because of the nature of the apparatus we used to refer to as the “telephone”—especially the handset.
請依下文回答第 11 題至第 15 題 One of the ironies of modern life is that everyone is glued to their phones, but nobody uses them as phones anymore. Phone calls are becoming relics of a bygone era, the “phone” part of a smartphone turning vestigial as communication 11 , willingly or not, into data-oriented formats like text messaging and chat apps. The distaste for telephony is especially acute among Millennials, 12 have come of age in a world of AIM and texting, then gchat and iMessage, but it’s hardly limited to young people. When asked, people with a distaste for phone calls argue that they are 13 , especially given alternative methods of contact that don’t make unbidden demands for someone’s undivided attention. In response, some have been diagnosed with a kind of telephoniphobia among this set. When even initiating phone calls is a problem—and even 14 ones, like phoning the local Thai place to order takeout—then anxiety rather than habit may be to blame. But when it 15 taking phone calls, nobody seems to have admitted that using the telephone today is a different material experience than it was 20 or 30 years ago. The telephone used to be truly great, partly because of the situation of its use, and partly because of the nature of the apparatus we used to refer to as the “telephone”—especially the handset.
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請你觀察空格前的名詞（先行詞），它是指「人」還是「事物」？接著，看一看空格後面緊跟著的是什麼性質的詞（動詞還是名詞）？如果這個空格要在後面的小句子裡擔任「主角（主詞）」的角色來執行動作，你會選用哪一個關係代名詞呢？