课时作业(四十) [选修8 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors]
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The New York Times published an article recently that shows great regret for the “death of conversation”. It suggests that while technology such as cellphones, emails, and Internet posting makes us feel more __1__ than ever, they're also driving us away from people around us.
Users get final connectivity at the price of __2__ facetoface conversation. She rry Turkle, author of the article in The New York Times says people are __3__ to a different way of being “alone together”．
Actually, __4__ text messages or writing microblogs allows us to __5__ thoughts.
But bits and pieces of online cannot __6__ a “real conversation”. Lan Guo, 19, a freshman English major from Changsha University, said that she would like to hear people's tone of voice and see their faces in a(n) __7__. “The give and take of ideas in a conversation sharpens our minds.”she said. She also mentions that __8__ ourselves in mobile technology reduces our chance of starting conversations with strangers and __9__ people.
Turkle m entioned the popular __10__ of “I share, therefore I am” among this generation. Liu Xuan, a young writer from Taiwan and psychology graduate from Harvard University, thinks it's a mindset adopted by most young people. They are so busy creating or polishing their online persona (网络人格) that they forget how to live
