第二卷（非选择题，共两大题，35分）第四部分: 任务型阅读 (共10小题；每小题l分, 满分l0分)请认真阅读下列短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

第二卷（非选择题，共两大题，35分）
第四部分: 任务型阅读 (共10小题；每小题l分, 满分l0分)
请认真阅读下列短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意: 每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上。
Many people think a telephone is a necessity (必需品). But I think it is a pest (有害的事物) and a time waste. Very often you find it impossible to escape from it. If you have a telephone in your own house, you will admit that it tends to ring when you least want it to ring; when you are asleep, or in the middle of a meal or a conversation or when you are just going out, or when you are in your bath. Are you strong-minded enough to ignore it? You are not. You think there may be some important news or message for you. I can assure you that if a message is really important it will reach you sooner or later. Have you ever rushed from the bathroom or the bed, only to be told that you are a wrong number?
But you will say, you need not have your name printed in the telephone directory, and you can have a telephone which is only usable for outgoing calls. Besides, you will say, isn’t it important to have a telephone in case of sudden emergency—illness, accident, or fire? Of course, you are right, but here in a country with a large population like England one is seldom far from a telephone in case of emergency.
I think perhaps I had better try to prove that what I like is good. I admit that in different cases—if I were a wealthy and powerful business person, for instance, or badly ill and had to lie in bed, I might find a telephone a necessity. But then if I were a taxi driver I should find a car as necessity. Let me put it another way: there are two things for which the English seem to show particular talent: one is mechanical (机器的) invention, the other literature. My own business happens to be with the use of words but I see I must now stop using them, for I have just been handed a piece of paper to say that somebody is waiting to speak to me on the telephone. I think I had better answer it. After all, one never knows, it may be something important.
Title: The Telephone
Different (71)      about it
Many people
It is (72)      when one wants to make a call, especially in time of (73)     .
The author
It may (74)      time and even be         (75)     .
Not everyone, (76)      a business person or a sick person who has to stay in bed, needs it.
I don’t need it because my job is writing.
(77)      with it
It always seems to (78)      when one is doing something else or doesn’t want it to ring.
Almost (79)      can ignore it even if they want to.
One (80)      to answer it only to find that he is misdialed.
71. opinions   72. necessary                     73. emergency      74. waste        75. harmful