2021军队职称英语考试指导：第4讲完型填空

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阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出了4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案，并涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
Squishy(易压扁的)Cellphones(大哥大)add a buzz(震动声)to calls
Vibrating rubber could be the next big thing in mobile communications.They allow people to communicate by squishing the phone to transmit __1__along with their spoken words.According to a research team at the MIT Medical Lab in Cambridge,Massachusetts,the idea will make __2__ more fun.
Many mobile phones can already be made to vibrate __3__ ring when you do not want people to know you are getting a call.But these vibrations,__4__ by a motor spinning an eccentric weight inside the device,are too crude for subtle communication,says Angela Chang of the lab’s Tangible Media Group.“They’re __5__ on or off,”she says.
But when you grip Chang’s prototype latex cellphone,your fingers and thumb wrap around five __6__ speakers.They vibrate __7__ your skin around 250 times per second.Beneath these speakers sit pressure sensors,so you can transmit vibration as well as __8__ it.When you squeeze with a finger,a vibration signal is transmitted __9__ your caller’s corresponding finger.Its __10__ depends on how hard you squeeze.
She says that within a few minutes of being given __11__ the phones,students were using the vibration feature to add emphasis to what they were saying or to interrupt the other speaker.Over time,people even began to transmit their __12__ kind of ad hoc“Morse code”,which they would repeat back to show they following what they other person was saying.“It was pretty easy to communicate,though we didn’t specifically pre-arrange __13__,”says David Milovich,one of the students who tried out the device,
Change thins“vibralanguages”could __14__ for the same reason as texting:sometimes people want to communicate something __15__ everyone nearby knowing what they are saying.“And imagine actually being able to shake someone’s hand when you close a business seal,”she says.
答案及解析：
1.文章标题分析：
squishy(易压扁的)cellphones(大哥大)add a buzz(震动声)to calls
2.直接看备选项(注意备选项的特点)和空格所在的搭配结构特点及/或句意。
1.A.voices B.messages C.vibrations D.feelings
Vibrating rubber cellphones could be the next big thing in mobile communications.They(需要参照前句确认They的指代内容)allow people to communicate by squishing(压扁，按压)the phone to transmit __1__(仅仅凭借transmit无法直接确认答案)along with their spoken words.
C.分析：该题考察上下文的句意承接/篇章用词。
补充：
along with prep.和...一起[一道],随着;除...以外(还)
e.g.Along with the letters there are answers written by people who are supposed to know how to solve such problems.
与这些读者来信一起还刊登对这些问题的回答,由那些被认为能够解决这些问题的人来撰写。Together with adv.和,加之
2.A.phoning B.talking C.working D.texting
According to a research team at the MIT Medical Lab in Cambridge,Massachusetts,the idea will make __2__ more fun.
A.线索：文章中心(squishy(易压扁的)cellphones(大哥大)add a buzz(震动声)to calls/phone的近义词)
3 A.as much as B.as well as C.in spite of D.instead of
Many mobile phones can already be made to vibrate __3__ ring when you do not want people to know you are getting a call.
D.线索：句意和备选项通常的使用特点。
补充：
e.g.I love English as much as I do mathematics
e.g.The editors as well as(=in addition to)the proofreaders(校对者)are working overtime.
e.g.In spite of great efforts we failed to carry our plans through.(carry..through/完成)
e.g.If you cannot go,hell go instead of you.
4.A.being caused B.caused C.to be caused D.having caused
But these vibrations,__4__ by a motor spinning(turning/旋转)an eccentric(离心的)weight inside the device,are too crude(粗糙的)for subtle communications,says Angela Chang of the lab’s Tangible Media Group.
B.分析：该题考察分词的语法意义。
补充：
Subtle adj.狡猾的,敏感的,微妙的,精细的
Synonyms:clever,cunning,delicate,fine
They are __5__ on or off,she says.