专题02 选词填空（用单词或短语补全短文）-备战2024年高考英语近两年名校联考模拟试题精选（上海专用）

专题02 选词填空（用单词或短语补全短文） （解析版） 目录 1. 上海市格致中学2023-2024学年高三试卷 2. 上海市卢湾高级中学2023年高三英语模拟考试 3. 上海市2023年高三“六校联合教研”调研试卷 4. 上海市宝山区2023年高三区统考试卷 5. 上海市格致中学2023-2024学年高三试题 6. 上海市控江中学2023年学高三试卷 7. 上海市浦东新区新川中学2023年高三试题 8. 上海市市北中学2023年高三试卷 9. 上海市同济大学第一附属中学2023年高三试题 10.上海市吴淞中学2023年高三调研试卷 1.【上海市格致中学2023-2024学年高三试卷】 选用适当的单词或短语补全短文 Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A．devoted  B．groupings  C． making D．connections  E. tone   F. overhear G. available  H. significantly I. favorable J. equivalent  K. romantic Not so long ago, it was the stuff of nightmares: you pick up the landline and there’s no dialing 31 . Nothing. The phone is useless, dead in your hand. For most of the 20th century, this was a horror film cliche, a symbol of isolation and doom foretold. But today the death of the landline is close to being a reality — and one entirely of our own 32 . BT has announced plans to hike charges for landline calls, in a bid to maintain commercial feasibility for landline services. The move suggests that BT which has long promoted landlines over mobile calls may have given up on turning back the clock. In the US, the proportion of households that have mobile phone connection but no landline has risen to a quarter. The most recent research in the UK put the 33 figure at 15%. The death of the landline has gone almost unnoticed. After all, the din of phone chatter is all around us. What difference does it make whether the cables lie underground or not? A lot, actually. The death of the landline is a cultural shift that affects our personal and public lives. It has freed us from our 34 — in the office, where email has disconnected us from what the people who sit three feet away do all day, and even more 35 , at home. In any household in the days before mobiles took over, the landline served as switchboard for everyone’s 36 out