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、commands
B、requires
C、asks
D、requests

答案B

解析 词汇辨析题。根据原句可知此处表达的意思是:通常而言,使用这些系统要求使用者安装按键式电话(a touch-tone phone)。表示某项规章制度或条例的要求,应该用动词require。command意为"命令,统帅"。ask、request这两个问都能表示"要求",ask含有期望给以回答或做出反应的意思。当你觉得所要求的东西会得到时,或者不可能被拒绝时,最好用ask。request则比ask正式得多,当你觉得所要求的东西不会得到时,或者有可能被拒绝时,最好用request,因此这个词可以表达谦逊或者客气,如:Gentlemen are requested not to smoke.(先生们请勿吸烟)。与require不同的是,ask和request的主语通常是人,而require的主语可以是物,这里using these systems是物作主语,故排除ask及request。
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