Ourlifehasbeentakenoverbymoderntechnology,forgoodofcour...

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Our life has been taken over by modern technology, for good of course. Young people ___41___ the fast speed that technology can move at. But there is a group of people who cannot ___42___.

It is the group of people who are caught up between traditional and ___43___ society, sort of like the middle child in technology advancement --- not exactly old and ___44___ change, but trying very hard to become modernized, ending up being ___45___ in the middle. They are 40 to 60 years old and ___46___ the latest iPhone or Samsung phone or Huawei. They buy an iPad just ___47___ they can afford to, and play the same games on a larger screen.

They are almost like the teenagers five years ago, ___48___ on their phone playing a game or using social media. They’re everywhere. And I saw something today that made me extremely ___49___.

On a train, a mother was ___50___ playing a Candy Crush-like game. Her daughter was smiling beside her. The little girl, about five years old, was talking to her mother about her day, ___51___ the next stop’s name cheerily --- with obviously desperate attempts to get her mother’s ___52___.

The mother? All she did was nod and say the occasional “mmhm”. With her eyes on the ___53___, she concentrated on completing the level. I watched the girl make a final ___54___ to get her mom to look at her, and when she failed, she ___55___ and fell silent and defeated.

It broke my heart, and got me ___56___: What kind of game can make you ___57___ that you have the most beautiful thing in the world, a person you love with all your heart? What does it ___58___ when you won’t even look into her eyes or listen to her?

The scene was so familiar years ago when parents ___59___ that their children were too interested in their mobile devices. Look at how the tables have turned now. I’m ___60___ whether to laugh or to cry. But all I can do now is hope that this storm passes.

41. A. increase    B. challenge               C. celebrate               D. accelerate

42. A. make up    B. keep up          C. turn up           D. fix up

43. A. stressful    B. complicated    C. developing      D. modern

44. A. resisting    B. accepting               C. expecting               D. considering

45. A. lost                 B. stuck              C. set                        D. involving

46. A. own          B. sell                  C. pick                 D. bring

47. A. as              B. when              C. until                D. because

48. A. seldom     B. never             C. always            D. ever

49. A. sad            B. happy             C. confused               D. curious

50. A. tired of      B. good at          C. focused on     D. used to

51. A. shouting  B. whispering      C. murmuring      D. uttering

52. A. advice      B. attention                C. support          D. reward

53. A window       B. girl                  C. book              D. screen

54. A. talk                 B. sigh                       C. attempt          D. practice 

55. A. sighed      B. sealed            C. spoke             D. enclosed 

56. A. working     B. realizing                C. learning                D. wondering

57. A. forget               B. feel                 C. imagine          D. recognize

58. A. change             B. mean              C. prove             D. explain

59. A. admitted    B. decided          C. complained     D. questioned

60. A. uncertain         B. uninterested  C. afraid            D. serious

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知识点：日常生活类

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