Passage C OMG! We've Been Here B4

Question # 15 - first paragraph

"Is text-messaging driving us apart? These days, we talk to each other a lot with our thumbs—mashing out over six billion text messages a day in the United States, and likely a few billion more on services like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger."

• (1) highlight the prevalence of texting

• (2) stress the benefits of texting

• (3) explain the origins of texting

• (4) support the abolition of texting

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Question #16 - line 7, "surreptitiously"

"While hanging out with friends they’d be texting surreptitiously at the same time, pretending to maintain eye contact but mentally somewhere else."

• (1) politely

• (2) boldy

• (3) secretively

• (4) earnestly

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Question # 17 - Text, lines 16 - 19

"At first, the telephone was marketed mainly as a tool for business. Physicians and drugstores bought them to process orders, and business owners installed them at home so they could be quickly reached. The phone, proclaimed early ad copy, gave business leaders an ESP-like “sixth sense”2 of their far-flung operations. …"

• (1) associated with the supernatural

• (2) not considered very useful

• (3) often blamed for worker illness

• (4) not used for social purposes

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Question # 18 - Text, line 23 - "cooed"

"'Distance rolls away and for a few minutes every Thursday night the familiar voices tell the little family gossip that both are so eager to hear,' a Bell ad cooed in 1921."

• (1) helpful and patient

• (2) strategic and persuasive

• (3) childish and inconsiderate

• (4) sarcastic and relentless

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Question #19 - Text, lines 29 - 38

"Soon, though, social critics began to wonder: Was all this phone chatter good for us? Was it somehow a lesser form of communication than what had come before? “Does the telephone make men more active or more lazy?” wondered the Knights of Columbus in a 1926 meeting. “Does the telephone break up home life and the old practice of visiting friends?” Others worried that the inverse would occur—that it would be so easy to talk that we’d never leave each other alone. “Thanks to the telephone, motor-car and such-like inventions, our neighbors have it in their power to turn our leisure into a series of interruptions,” complained an American professor in 1929. And surely it couldn’t be healthy to talk to each other so much. Wouldn’t it create Too Much Information [TMI]?"

• (1) enthusiasm about using new technology

• (2) dependence on those proficient in new technology

• (3) grasp of the significance of new technology

• (4) concern about the impact of new technology

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Question #20 - Text, line 39

"'We shall soon be nothing but transparent heaps of jelly to each other,' a London writer moaned in 1897."

• (1) lose self-confidence and motivation

• (2) lack substance and individuality

• (3) attract danger and adversity

• (4) become narrow-minded and uninformed

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Question #21 - Text, lines 48 - 49 and 55 - 56

"Even phone companies worried about whether the device created new forms of rude behavior; a 1910 Bell ad warned about 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at the Telephone.'" AND

"we will build up a world telephone system making necessary to all peoples the use of a common language, or common understanding of languages, which will join all the people of the earth into one brotherhood,” gushed John J. Carty, AT&T chief engineer, in 1907."

• (1) contrasting perspectives on the potential effects of the telephone

• (2) strong support for the growing popularity of the telephone

• (3) alternative options for communicating with family members

• (4) insightful evaluation of the importance of long-distance conversations

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Question #22 - Text, line 57

“Someday we will build up a world telephone system making necessary to all peoples the use of a common language, or common understanding of languages, which will join all the people of the earth into one brotherhood,” gushed John J. Carty, AT&T chief engineer, in 1907.

"These utopian (idealistic) views, of course, were wildly optimistic.

• (1) improve local commerce

• (2) encourage language studies

• (3) promote global unity

• (4) influence community values

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Question #23 - Text, lines 58 - 62

"Even Emily Post, the etiquette expert, came around to the telephone. By the 1920s, she’d accepted 'Hello' as a suitable greeting, and even thought it was acceptable to invite someone to dinner with a call. 'Custom which has altered many ways and manners has taken away all opprobrium (disgrace) from the message,' she shrugged."

• (1) rules of proper behavior can be confusing

• (2) norms of good conduct are universal

• (3) concepts of politeness can evolve over time

• (4) conventions of salutation depend on status

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Question #24 - Text, lines 82 - 82

"“People believe they are liberated because they can bring the mobile phone everywhere,” Martin says. “But at the same time they are slaves to it.”

• (1) bias

• (2) irony

• (3) suspense

• (4) resolution

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