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More and more residences, businesses, and even government agencies are using telephone answering machines to take messages or gi

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问题     More and more residences, businesses, and even government agencies are using telephone answering machines to take messages or give information or instructions. Sometimes these machines give (1)_____ instructions, or play messages that are difficult to understand. If you (2)_____ telephone calls, you need to be ready to respond when you get a (3)_____
    The most common machine is the (4)_____ used in residence. If you call a home (5)_____ there is a telephone answering machine (6)_____ you will hear several rings and then a recorded message that (7)_____ says something like this: "Hello. We can’t come to the (8)_____ 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", (9)_____ is a brief, high-pitched (10)_____. After the beep, you can say who you are, whom you want to speak to, and what number the person should call to (11)_____ you, or you can leave a (12)_____. Some telephone answering machines record for only 20 or 30 seconds after the beep, (13)_____ you must respond quickly.
    Some large businesses and government agencies are using telephone answering machines to provide information on (14)_____ about which they receive a large volume of (15)_____. Generally speaking, using these systems (16)_____ you to have a touch-tone phone (a phone with buttons rather than a rotary dial). The voice on the machine will tell you to (17)_____ a certain button on your telephone if you want information on Topic A, another button for Topic B, and so on. You listen (18)_____ you hear the topic you want to learn about, and then you push the (19)_____ button. Immediately after making your (20)_____, you will hear a recorded message on the topic.

选项 A、in hand
B、in detail
C、in operation
D、in dispute
答案C
解析 短语辨析题。该句提到：如果你给家里装有录音电话的人打电话，你就会听到几声铃音，然后传出录音指令。显然，介词短语在句中作定语，修饰a telephone answering machine。in operation意为"在运转着"，句中是指录音电话在工作中，具有录音功能。in hand意为"在手头，在进行中"，in detail意为"详细地，仔细地"，in dispute意为"在争论中，尚未解决的"，这几个短语均不符合上下文语境。
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