孤独的概念在数字世界中几乎是不存在的。在数字技术，电子邮件，社交网络和在线视频游戏的世界上，信息是用来分享的。一旦孤独被放弃了，它是很难被发现的。在这方面，新技术已经改变了我们的文化。
当我们现在知道的时候，被关注的欲望已经把孤独送到了终点。人们已经在网络和连接世界里变得很容易接触到。以至于他们能经常接触，即使他们不愿意。今天我们可以不仅是可以通过我们的电脑，还可以通过我们的移动电话进行交谈、发短信和电子邮件、网上聊天和写博客，。
许多发达国家都依赖于数字技术仅仅是因为他们已经习惯了它。在这一点上不使用数字技术会使他们一个局外人。许多工作和职业需要的人有联系。从这一点来看，技术改变了工作文化。对那些不想在任何时候都能被联系到的人来说，随时可及在他们感觉起来很可能是一种负担。
我认为，积极的一面是，对任何一个真正想要孤独的人来说，孤独仍然是可能的。电脑可以关机，手机可以关闭。能被连接和处于开机状态”有许多好处，也有很多不利之处。旅客们在山上迷路了，手机就拯救了无数人的生命。他们也能让人感觉到被困住了，被迫回答不必要的电话或者回复不必要的文本。
经过一代又一代，社会对人与人之间的连接的态度也在变化。有人发现今天的技术是一个礼物。而其他人认为这是一个需要诅咒的东西。不管大家对这个东西的观点如何，我们很难想象，如果没有每的科技进步，我们的生活会变成什么样子。
2012江苏英语高考题
【解答】2012年江苏省高考英语第35题原题：35. — Happy birthday!—Thank you! It’s the best present I_____ for.A. should have wished B. must have wishedC. may have wished D. could have wished【解析】【考点】情态动词 完成式
【答案】D
【解析】A项意为“本应该期望而实际上并非如此”；B项意为“一定希望”；C项意为“也许希望”；D项意为“可能希望”。句意为：——生日快乐！——谢谢你！这是我所能期望的最好的礼物了。根据句意可知，应选D项。
【举一反三】情态动词＋have 过去分词表示与过去事实上相反的情况，也是高考单项选择题涉及到情态动词的一个重要方面。高考对情态动词表示虚拟‘用法，表示与过去事实相反的情况。近几年高考，主要侧重should （not）have done 这一句式上，表示本来不该做却做了或本来该做却未做的事，在复习时，还应关注其它几种虚拟形式，如need (not)have done 表示本来需要做而未做或本来不需要而做的事等等，以做到有备无患。
【试题延伸】.Oh, I‘m not feeling well in the stomach. I______so much fried chicken just now.A. shouldn’t eat B. mustn’t have eaten C. shouldn’t have eaten D. mustn’t eat
【解析】该句所表达的意思是刚才我不因该吃那么多炸鸡，而实际上是吃了那么多，可以判断用shouldn’t have eaten. 答案是 C。 希望可以帮到你。
2012江苏英语高考试卷
PASSAGE D ( from NMET Jiangsu Paper)Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.
I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of theliterature in the years before the Civil War. H. B. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain’s novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twains most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums (贫民窟).” More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurences of the word nigger. (The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often severely criticized, never appears in it.)
But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim’s search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man.”
There is much more. Twain’s mystery novel Pudd’nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior (低等的) to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain’s tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master’s baby and, for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master’s baby by his wife. The slave’s light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class. The master’s wife’s baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.
The point was difficult to miss: nurture (养育), not nature, was the key to social status. The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech, for example—were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.
Twain’s racial tone was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography (自传) about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth—mostly with white men performing in black-face—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.
Was Twain a racist? Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black manthe inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.
65. How do Twain’s novels on slavery differ from Stowe’s?
A. Twain was more willing to deal with racism.
B. Twain’s attack on racism was much less open.
C. Twain’s themes seemed to agree with plots.D. Twain was openly concerned with racism.
66. Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its _____.
A. target readers at the bottom
B. anti-slavery attitude
C. rather impolite language
D. frequent use of “nigger”
67. What best proves Twain’s anti-slavery stand according to the author?
A. Jim’s search for his family was described in detail.
B. The slave’s voice was first heard in American novels.
C. Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture.
D. Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent.
68. The story of two babies switched mainly indicates that _____.
A. slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters
B. slaves’ babies could pick up slave-holders’ way of speaking
C. blacks’ social position was shaped by how they were brought up
D. blacks were born with certain features of prejudice
69. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 7 refer to?
A. The attacks.
B. Slavery and prejudice.
C. White men.
D. The shows.
70. What does the author mainly argue for?
A. Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism.
B. Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln.
C. Twain’s works had been banned on unreasonable grounds.
D. Twain’s works should be read from a historical point of view.
