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  3. In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 1—5, choose the most suitable one from the list A—G to fi

In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 1—5, choose the most suitable one from the list A—G to fi

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问题 In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 1—5, choose the most suitable one from the list A—G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps.
    It is always a little disconcerting to realise a generation has grown up never knowing what it was like to manage without something that is taken for granted today. A case in point: the World Wide Web, which celebrated the 20th anniversary of its introduction last Saturday. It is no exaggeration to say that not since the invention of the printing press has a new media technology altered the way people think, work and play quite so extensively. With the web having been so thoroughly embraced socially, politically and economically, the world has become an entirely different place from what it was just two decades ago.
    【R1】______. On balance, the world is grateful for what the web has brought. Despite their arrogant attitudes to privacy, websites like Facebook, Twitter have changed the way a whole generation of people communicates—creating new ways to make friends, find old acquaintances, socialise online and pursue common interests. Business sites like Linkedln help them further their careers. From Amazon to Zappos, online retailing sites have taken the drudgery out of shopping, allowing goods to be bought with the click of a mouse at home. Music-streaming sites like Spotify have opened millions of ears to melodies they might never otherwise have heard.
    At a keystroke, it has become possible to find all sorts of obscure information, thanks to Google, Bing, Ask and other search engines. 【R2】______. Compared with printed encyclopaedias and public libraries, the web has democratised the collected wisdom of ages, and redistributed it in a way unimaginable a few decades ago.
    Few would deny that such services have made the world a smarter, livelier, more interesting place. But while the news travels faster than ever courtesy of the web, so do lies, hyperboles and distortions. All those with access to the web now have a voice to air their grievances, vent their anger, parade their biases, push the boundaries of decency. The gatekeepers have gone. 【R3】______. In a deliberate and calculated manner, it is making the world a more dangerous place.
    Meanwhile, for every online job the web has created, several others have been lost in the bricks-and-mortar world. And unlike the latter, many of the new online jobs lie beyond a country’s shores. Likewise, for all the new freedoms and certainties the web has created, numerous old ones have disappeared. 【R4】______.
    You have to wonder whether something is wrong when so many people spend so much of their time these days in front of a computer screen tapping away on a keyboard, instead of going out into the real world to experience life’s actual adventures. 【R5】______.
[A]Ironically, for all the labour-saving tools the web has given us, and all the personal connections it has allowed us to make, we seem to have become lonelier and more isolated than ever. That is a rather sorry state of affairs.
[B]Once copyright provided authors, artists and musicians with a living, and ensured that the fourth estate could do its job of rooting out injustice and corruption. Illegal downloading from the web, and the widespread erosion of copyright protection generally, has put paid to much of that.
[C]It is fair to say that, without the web, the internet would have remained essentially a tool for geeks and professionals. And without the internet, the web would not have existed—at least, not in the form we know it today.
[D]No question that, over the past 20 years, the web has brought numerous benefits. But it has had its dark side, too.
[E]When WikiLeaks dumps massive volumes of diplomatic correspondence stolen from government computers on its website, it is not engaging in some heroic act of free speech, nor bringing specific cases of wrongdoing to the public’s attention.
[F]Wikipedia may not be the most reliable of sources, but at least it provides a quick run-down on practically anything you need to know in a hurry.
[G]The vast amount of information on the web makes it difficult for us to comprehensively survey the various viewpoints on topics of interest. We have to rely on search engines such as Google to help locate documents that are relevant to our topics of interest.
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答案F
解析 空格出现于第二段中间。上文指出，网络使得信息查找简便易行。下文则指出网络打破了对集体智慧的集中控制，实现了民主化。可见，空格处也应该是说明网络对于信息获取的有利面。[F]选项强调维基百科使人们能够快速获得各种急需信息，符合语境要求，为正确项。[G]选项由于提到了上文所出现的google，search engines等词语而有一定的干扰性。但该选项强调的是“网络巨大的信息量对人们的困扰”以及应该采取的措施，不符合“说明网络对于信息获取的有利面”这一要求，故排除。
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