单选题 What picture of the world do the authors paint in the book?
A、People will be living in two different realities.
B、People will have equal access to information.
C、People don’t have to travel to see the world.
D、People don’t have to communicate face-to-face.
单选题 “技术是中立的,但人不是”这句话意味着什么?
A、人们对互联网发展的未来持消极态度.
B、人们对互联网革命的未来持乐观态度.
C、互联网的兴起最终对社会是好是坏尚不清楚.
D、人们的隐私在上网时处于风险之中.
单选题 What does the author think of computer-aided design?
A、It makes the architecture designing less creative.
B、It can free architects from laborious drawing.
C、It is indispensable in architects’ work process.
D、It somewhat restrains architects’ productive thinking.
单选题 What is the common perspective on multitasking?
A、It enables people to work more efficiently.
B、It is switch-tasking.
C、It makes people’s work and life even harder.
D、It distracts people’s attention from useful work.
单选题 What does the underlined clause imply at the end of the passage?
A、Your world won’t collapse because the Internet is virtual.
B、You are not that important as you think.
C、You can use more other ways to work.
D、When you are offline, you don’t have to work.
单选题 亚历克斯·庞的新书《注意力成瘾》讲述了那些在没有手机或电脑时感到恐慌的我们。庞声称,几乎所有人都在进行一项强烈的工作,试图在没有在线时仍然保持在线状态。
《注意力成瘾》并不被界定为一本自助书籍。它深入观察了我们过度依赖计算的风险,并全面回顾了技术进步如何改变意识。作为一名“职业未来学家”,庞敦促采用他所称的“沉思计算”方法。他要求你全神贯注于你的思维和身体如何与电脑互动,以及技术如何影响你的注意力和创造力。
庞的首要任务是让你摆脱一种常见的误解,即时进行两项工作的能力可以让你做更多的工作。实际上,所谓的多任务处理是任务切换处理,其对生产力的有害影响有充分的文献记载。庞并不主张回到互联网出现之前的世界。相反,他建议你“以更生态的视角看待你与技术的关系,并寻找设备或媒体在某种程度上可能使特定任务变得更容易或更快,但与此同时也让你的工作和生活变得更艰难的方式。”
《注意力成瘾》特别吸引人的是它如何描述技术在某些领域的劳作改变——往往是朝着更糟的方向发展。计算机辅助设计对建筑师来说变得至关重要,但在某种程度上,它让设计过程变得廉价。正如一位建筑师所说:“建筑首先是思考……绘图是一种比计算机辅助设计更有效的思考方式。”稍微不那么有趣的是,庞解决互联网上瘾的习惯。他建议采用通常的行为改变方法,这对你完成戒烟计划的人来说都很熟悉。保持日志以研究你的在线行为,决定你可以排除哪些内容,下载一个锁定你浏览器的程序,比如Freedom,或者采取“数字安息日”。除非你是一名记者或急诊科医生,否则你会发现,当你下线时,你的世界并不会崩溃。
1. The target readers of Alex Pang’s new book Distraction Addiction probably are those who
A、feel under great pressure of online working
B、don’t know how to use Internet to work
C、feel nervous when they are offline
D、use Internet improperly
单选题 What is the core of Alex Pang’s new book?
A、Guide people how to use Internet properly.
B、Examine the impact of technology on the human mind.
C、Predict the trend of future technological development.
D、Inspire innovation by technology.
单选题 What does the sentence “Technology is neutral, but people are not” imply?
A、They are passive about the future of the Internet development.
B、They are optimistic about the future of the Internet revolution.
C、Whether the rise of the Internet is ultimately good or bad for society is unknown.
D、People’s privacy is at risk when they get online.