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　　Videoconferencing is nothing more than a television set or PC monitor with a camera Through the videocenferencing, not only your voice but also your face, the surroundings and any other graphic and phisical __1__ can be captured and transmitted through the communication system with or without wires. Of course, when you go into the details, the technology involved is very __2__ and the subject matter littered with jargon. Such as ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network), POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) or the __3__ behind bandwidth, latency and isochrony which are used to explain how videoconferencing works.Good people communication is __4__ in any business, and the more interaction you can achieve, the more likely it is that your __5__ will be the right ones. Videoconferencing not only allows you to speak to people in different locations, but also note __6__ expressions and gestures that let you know what the other person is really thinking. Meetings are made more __7__ by sharing documents and computer applications that a simple telephone cannot __8__.__9__, organizations are discovering the competitive advantages and the power of videoconferencing. With advances in performance, economical pricing, the ability to __10__ essential meeting tools and connectivity to global telephone networks and standardized videoconferencing protocols, videoconferencing is now a practical reality for any organization.
　　A) fortunately
　　B) effective
　　C) images
　　D) articulate
　　E) facial
　　F) manage
　　G) decisions
　　H) connect
　　I) advanced
　　J) integrate
　　K) progressive
　　L) concepts
　　M)pictures
　　N) increasingly
　　O) important
　　【答案】
　　1.選C)。空格中要填的是名詞，從后面的......can be captured and transmitted可以選出選項(xiàng)中images和pictures，pictures指“畫(huà)面，圖片”，一般指靜態(tài)的情景;而文中的意思表達(dá)的是實(shí)時(shí)的電視會(huì)議，畫(huà)面應(yīng)該是動(dòng)態(tài)的，images可以表示動(dòng)態(tài)的形象，畫(huà)面，故C)images正確。
　　2.選I)。這里應(yīng)填形容詞，修飾the technology。選項(xiàng)中的advanced，progressive，important可以用來(lái)修飾the technology，注釋1說(shuō)明了the technology中包含了很多行業(yè)術(shù)語(yǔ)，是很深?yuàn)W的，排除important;而progressive“上進(jìn)的，進(jìn)步的”，強(qiáng)調(diào)尋求更好的，advanced“領(lǐng)先的，有高深的，并非人人都能接受的含義”，根據(jù)上下文I)advanced更符合題意。
　　3.選L)。首先判斷這里應(yīng)填名詞，再根據(jù)注釋2種“用于解釋視頻會(huì)議工作原理的......”，原文中有explain“解釋?zhuān)�說(shuō)明”可以退出，選項(xiàng)中的名詞中concepts最符合題意。故選L)。
　　4.選O)。此處應(yīng)填形容詞。這個(gè)分句后面說(shuō)交流越多，你越可能成為正確的那一個(gè)，說(shuō)明交流很重要，與本土的視頻會(huì)議-----一種交流的工具主題一致，這里應(yīng)該填important。
　　5.選G)。由空格后的ones可知，這里應(yīng)填名詞的復(fù)數(shù)形式。前面提到the more interaction..., the more likely...be the right ones“得到的交互信息越多，你的......就更有可能正確的”。人們通過(guò)電視會(huì)議談判協(xié)商，了解得信息越多，自己的判斷，決策才會(huì)更正確。故這里應(yīng)填G)decisions。concepts“概念”是打擾項(xiàng)，這里和概念無(wú)關(guān)。
　　6.選E)。此處應(yīng)填形容詞。由上文Videoconferencing not only allows you to speak to people in different locations“視頻會(huì)議不僅可以讓你與不同地方的人說(shuō)話(huà)”，...expressions and gestures that let you know what the other person is really thinking.“......表情和姿態(tài)，從而讓你知道他們的真實(shí)想法”，很明顯修飾expressions的應(yīng)該是facial，意思是“面部表情”。
　　7.選B)。此處要填形容詞，與more構(gòu)成形容詞比較級(jí)結(jié)構(gòu)。從后文by sharing documents and computer application“通過(guò)共享文檔和計(jì)算機(jī)應(yīng)用，會(huì)議能更加......”，這里電話(huà)會(huì)議的優(yōu)勢(shì)，也是其目的，即提高效率，故這里應(yīng)填B)effective。K)progressive“進(jìn)步的”并不是電話(huà)會(huì)議要達(dá)到的目的，故排除。
　　8.選F)。此處應(yīng)填動(dòng)詞原形。選項(xiàng)中的動(dòng)詞原形有articulate，manage，integrate，connect，由原文可知，電視會(huì)議可以“共享文檔和應(yīng)用計(jì)算機(jī)”，而電話(huà)是不能做到的，以推斷這里填的詞表示“做到，實(shí)現(xiàn)”的詞，故只有manage“設(shè)法，達(dá)成”符合文意。
　　9.選N)。可以推斷此處應(yīng)填副詞，選項(xiàng)中有fortunately和increasingly兩個(gè)副詞，本文全文都在說(shuō)隨著技術(shù)的發(fā)達(dá)，電視電話(huà)會(huì)議越來(lái)越受歡迎，所以應(yīng)該是increasingly而不是fortunately“幸運(yùn)地”。
　　10.選J)。此處應(yīng)填動(dòng)詞原型，賓語(yǔ)是各種重要的會(huì)議工具。選項(xiàng)中還有articulate，integrate和connect三個(gè)位動(dòng)詞原形。其中aiticulate作“接合”意思講的時(shí)候指的是單獨(dú)的事物由關(guān)節(jié)連接，connect“連接”表示將分離的東西連接在一起，而integrate強(qiáng)調(diào)的是各種事物結(jié)合，形成一個(gè)整體。integrate正確，故選J)。