More and more residences businesses and even
问题详情
More and more residences, businesses, and even government agencies are using telephone answering machines to take messages or give in formation or instructions. Sometimes these machines give 【C1】______ instructions, or play messages that are difficult to understand. If you 【C2】______ telephone calls, you need to be ready to respond when you get a 【C3】______ The most common machine is the 【C4】______ used in residence. If you call a home 【C5】______ there is a telephone answering machine 【C6】______ you will hear several rings and then a recorded message that 【C7】______ says something like this: "Hello. We can"t come to the 【C8】______ right now. If you want us to call you back, please leave your name and number after the beep." Then you will hear a "beep," 【C9】______ is a brief, high-pitched 【C10】______ . After the beep, you can say who you are, whom you want to speak to, and what number the person should call to 【C11】______ you, or you can leave a 【C12】______ . Some telephone answering machines record for only 20 or 30 seconds after the beep, 【C13】______ you must respond quickly. Some large businesses and government agencies are using telephone answering machines to provide information on 【C14】______ about which they receive a large volume of 【C15】______ Generally speaking, using these systems 【C16】______ you to have a touch-tone phone. The voice on the machine will tell you to 【C17】______ a certain button on your telephone if you want information on Topic A, another button for Topic Band and so on. You listen 【C18】______ you hear the topic you want to learn about, and then you push the 【C19】______ button. Immediately after making your 【C20】______ , you will hear a recorded message on the topic.
【C1】
A.disturbing
B.annoying
C.confusing
D.surprising
参考答案
正确答案:C
解析:语义衔接题。第二句后半部分提到play messages that are difficult to understand。由句中的or可以推知后半句,是对前半句的补充说明,因此应选择confusing,表示录音电话中的指令不清。disturbing意为“干扰的";annoying意为“恼人的,讨厌的";surprising意为“‘晾人的,不可思议的”,surprising放在此处不符合上下文语境。