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5.阅读理解：
Live with Computer
After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend's Liverpudlian accent suddenly becomes indecipherable after the clarity of his words on screen; a secretary's tone seems more rejecting than I'd imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid — hours become minutes, and alternately seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two ordinary days.
For the last three years, since I stopped working as a producer, I have done much of my work as a telecommuter. I submit articles and edit them via E-mail and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives in U.K.; so much of our relationship is computer-mediated.
If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my money, love and work. In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries.
But after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal. I start to feel as though I've merged with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another node on the Net. Others on line report the same symptoms. We start to strongly dislike the outside forms of socializing. We have become the Net opponents' worst nightmare.
What first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has become an avoidance, a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult.
41. Compared to the clear words of her boyfriend on screen, his accent becomes ______.
A. unidentifiable
B. unbearable
C. unreal
D. misleading
42. The passage implies that the author and her boyfriend live in ______.
A. different cities in England
B. different countries
C. the same city
D. the same country
43. The author feels her life unreal because ______.
A. she has become a machine
B. she has to deal with data
C. she loses the interest in social life
D. she often has nightmares
44. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. To live with computer is luxury.
B. To care about your appearance has become an avoidance
C. We should not be controlled by computers and the Internet.
D. Having computers, people do not need human contact anymore.
45. What is the author's attitude to the computer?.
A. She likes it because it is a very important means of communication.
B. She likes it because it is very convenient.
C. She dislikes it because TV is more attractive.
D. She dislikes it because it makes her life monotonous and boring.
6.补全短文：
The advantages and disadvantages of large population have long been subject of discussion among economists. __46__. To feed a large population, inferior land must be cultivated and the good land worked intensively. __47__. Other economists have argued that a large population gives more scope for specialization and the development of facilities such as ports, roads and railways, ___48__.
One of the difficulties in carrying out a worldwide birth control program lies in the fact that official attitudes to population growth vary from country to country depending on the level of industrial development and the availability of food and raw materials. In the developing country where a vastly expanded population is pressing hard upon the limits of food, space and natural resources, ___49___. In a highly industrialized society the problem may be more complex. A decreasing birth rate may lead to unemployment ____50__. When the pressure of population on housing declines, prices also decline and the building industry is weakened. Faced with considerations such as these, the government of a developed country may well prefer to see a slowly increasing population, rather than one which is stable or in decline.
A. which are not likely to be built unless there is a big demand to justify them
B. It has been argued that the supply of good land is limited
C. it will be the first concern of government to place a limit on the birth rate, whatever the consequences may be
D. Thus, each person produces less and this means a lower average income than could be obtained with a smaller population.
E. A small population may mean lower productivity, but a higher average income
F. because it results in a declining market for manufactured goods
