What first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has become an avoidance, a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult.
At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to chatter in the background, something that Id never done previously. The voices of the programs soothe me, but then Im jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, or compulsively needing to keep up with the latest news and the weather. Dateline, Frontline, Nightline, CNN, New York 1, every possible angle of every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me. Work moves from foreground to background.
练习:
1. Compared to the clear words of her boyfriend on screen, his accent becomes
A) unidentifiable.
B) unbearable.
C) unreal.
D) misleading.
2. The passage implies that the author and her boyfriend live in
A) different cities in England.
B) different countries.
C) the same city.
D) the same country.
1. When we talk about ears, we usually mean the oddly wrinkled appendages on the sides of our heads.
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