I am a journalist in America.When reporting a story，I sometimes need to find a ____ kind of person—someone who has recently switched banks，or who is ____ cancer，or who owns both a Chevy pickup and Toyota sedan.
At such moments，I ____ my brother Keith，a telecommunication worker in eastern Kansas.Usually he says，“I know just the guy.”
His contacts are so diverse in large part ____ he is offline.At age 52，he’s ____ sent an email，surfed the Web or bought anything online.Without any mobile email system to ____ his attention when he is shopping，he is ____ to make a friend or two before ____.Without Web pages to instruct him on his latest project—how to build a cow fence or how to fix a woodburning stove—he seeks out the help of neighbours who have done it and follows their ____，and during beerdrinking time afterwards he listens carefully to their ____ of health problems，banking habits and newcar ____.
“I like talking to people，” he says.“I do not ____ nowadays people send each other emails instead of talking while they’re in the ___ room.”
My older brother ____ considers himself as an oldfashioned man and the Internet ____ are making him more so，too.As a(n) ____ to the Web，my brother belongs to one of the nation’s fastestdecreasing ____.
During the first half decade of the 21st century，the proportion of Internet users ____ slowly，to 59% of adult Americans from just over 50%，according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.____ in the second half of the decade，that growth skyrocketed(猛升) and now nearly 80% of adult Americans use the Internet.At that pace，the offline Americans will no longer ____ in the coming decade.

A．rich B．friendly C．brave D．particular

A．battling B．avoiding C．curing D．developing

A．appoint B．call C．miss D．search

A．when B．until C．unless D．because

A．ever B．frequently C．never D．seldom

A．divide B．receive C．pay D．gain

A．willing B．likely C．anxious D．clever

A．settling down B．using up C．setting off D．checking out

A．advice B．plan C．example D．gesture

A．lesson B．speech C．talk D．lecture

A．displays B．purchases C．exchanges D．repairs

A．imagine B．predict C．understand D．recommend

A．big B．new C．same D．special

A．sometimes B．recently C．once D．always

A．values B．trends C．techniques D．benefits

A．stranger B．user C．owner D．beginner

A．workers B．races C．minorities D．teams

A．increased B．developed C．varied D．moved

A．And B．So C．Or D．But

A．change B．exist C．last D．work