Question

【题目】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Sometimes your friends start to talk about a new video game or a new app they have downloaded. It sounds pretty cool, and your friends really seem to like it. You become so (interest) in it that you want to buy it too. Has this ever happened to you?
In the US and in places around the world, there is a similar feeling of wanting the (new), greatest tech gadgets (小玩意). There is a big (attract) to getting the latest technology even though people may not need it. But why is this?
As to(关于) these technologies, there's initial （最初的） excitement that (get) people's attention, according to Richard Larson, a director at MIT, US. If there's a big group of people want these things, you want to be a part of the excitement too.
One of the major US (company) that really take advantage of this is Apple. It comes out with a new iPhone with very small changes every year. But people still flock (涌入) to the stores even if they have just bought the previous phone.
However, （buy）these things may not always be the best choice. You could be buying things that you don't really need and (spend) too much money just for the right to show it off to your friends.
Not only that, but our need to always be on your phones or playing video games takes a lot of time in our lives. So is this excitement over technology a good or a bad thing?

Answer 1

【答案】interested；newest；attraction；an；gets；who/that；companies；buying；spending；up
【解析】本文通过一些实例分析了人们追求最新的东西的心理。

⑴句意：你变的对它感兴趣。固定短语become interested in变的对...感兴趣,故填interested。

⑵联系前后文 the后 ________(new), 和greatest 是并列结构，也就是要用形容词最高级，最新的，故填newest。

⑶根据前面的a big可知此处用名词形式，故填attraction。

⑷句意：有一个最初的兴奋引起了人们的注意。 excitement兴奋在此是抽象名词具体化，initial以元音音素开头，故填an。

⑸excitement是先行词是单数，在从句中作主语，故定语从句谓语动词用单数，根据文章用一般现在时态，故填gets。

⑹句意：如果有一大群想要这些东西的人，此处people作先行词，指人，在定语从句中作主语，故填who/that。

⑺固定结构one of+可数名词的复数形式，故填companies。

⑻句意：然而，购买这些东西未必总是最好的选择。句子缺主语，做某事做主语要用动名词形式，故填buying。

⑼此处与and前面的buying并列，故填spending。

⑽句意：玩电子游戏在我们的生活中占了很多时间。 固定词组take up占用（时间，空间），开始从事，故填up。