III. 篇章結構：5 分（每題 1 分）        If you spend enough time in cyberspace, emoticons substitute for real smiles and frowns. __26__. In hershort story "Web Central," Fay Weldon illustrates a dystopic future along these lines: The privileged classessit alone in sealed rooms with computer terminals, their moods regulated intravenously.       The idea that spending a lot of time in cyberspace might have an ill effect on mental health has untilrecently been intuitively sensible but hard to prove. In August 1998, findings of the first concentrated studyof the social and psychological effects of the Internet, a two-year effort by Carnegie Mellon University, werereleased. The results? __27__. You'd guess that it might be because the lonely and depressed tend to gravitateto the Net. But that wasn't so. "Participants who were lonelier and more depressed, as determined by standardquestionnaires at the start of the study, were no more drawn to the Internet than those who were originallyhappier and more socially engaged. __28__."        Eventually, and perhaps sooner rather than later, there lies a world where most human beings are simplyincapable of experiencing the emotions that life ought to evoke. Whatever they see or hear or taste, no matterhow raw and beautiful, will promptly be pillaged for its usable constituent parts. __29__. As we travel deeperinto corporate-driven cyberspace, images of fractured humans loom on our own horizon. __30__. Outside, thenatural world has all but vanished and the social order is breaking down. The citizens of this new world orderare trapped inside their living rooms, roaming the thousand-channel universe and exercising the one freedomthey still have left: to be the voyeurs of their own demise.(AB) Instead, Internet use itself appeared to cause a decline in psychological well-being(AC) People’s attention spans flicker near zero, their imaginations have given out and they can no longerremember the past(AD) Netheads were lonelier and more depressed than the average population(AE) All that they have left is the “bare essentials”—the ability to type and click(BC) Over time, the computer drives out what we thought was an innate art: living through all of our senses(BD) Once an emotion is corrupted, it can never be uncorrupted(BE) They, intriguingly enough, end up falling under the same category of social outcasts
【題組】26.(AB) Instead, Internet use itself appeared to cause a decline in psychological well-being (AC) People’s attention spans flicker near zero, their imaginations have given out and they can no longer remember the past (AD) Netheads were lonelier and more depressed than the average population (AE) All that they have left is the “bare essentials”—the ability to type and click (BC) Over time, the computer drives out what we thought was an innate art: living through all of our senses (BD) Once an emotion is corrupted, it can never be uncorrupted (BE) They, intriguingly enough, end up falling under the same category of social outcasts