Worse Living Through Better Technology
I believe that advances in technology over the last fifty years have only served as a catalyst to the breakdown of our society and, though I can't stop them, I will try to curb the effects they have on my family and me. Television, being perhaps the most significant technological breakthrough ever, has allowed society to escape from reality and replace it with whatever is on the screen.（26）_____ Anyone who has seen The Partridge Family knows that life really isn't like that, and this can leave a person feeling empty and cheated.（27）_____
The more television I watch, the more likely I am to become detached from my own life and from reality.（28）_____ Meanwhile my own life gets put on hold and my problems don't get fixed. It is very easy to take what you hear on any given news channel as the way it is, but maybe it is just the way they want you to perceive it.
If it's not the news that's being piped into the television, it's something even worse, like the latest trend—reality television.（29）_____ Sports programs, to my mind, have also always been a great distraction from reality. I find it amazing that I am still attracted to the result of a football game when it has absolutely no bearing on my existence whatsoever.
It was Halloween last night and, since I don't have cable at the moment, I watched The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown with my family via YouTube on my PlayStation 3, which happens to double as a web browser. I told my kids that the cartoon was from 1966, and that back then no one would be able to imagine this program being watched on something like a PlayStation 3, over a network like YouTube, rather than on NBC, ABC, or CBS. Those were the only three networks I had when I was growing up.（30）_____
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A、It is too easy to get caught up in whatever is happening on screen.
B、I don't know about anyone else but my reality isn‘t like the reality I see on these programs.
C、I believe that this not only makes a person unable to identify with himself, but also sets unrealistic standards of what life should be like.
D、My cell phone is ringing and I have to run.
E、Television also leaves less time for other activities that can stimulate your mind, for example reading a book, or conversing with friends or family.
F、I was able to convey my message to my kids about how far technology has come.
【正确答案】：C
【题目解析】：前一句讲，电视机可能是迄今最大的技术突破，它使人们得以逃避现实，沉溺于屏幕上的世界。而后边一句列举出具体的电视剧来对此说明。因此这里所填句也是对上句的解释说明。C句句意，我认为电视不仅让人沉湎其中，而且还让人持有一种不现实的生活态度。
