下列短文中有十个空白,每个空白有四个选项。根据上下文要求选出最佳答案,并在答题卡上将相应的字母涂黑。
We all believe that modern technology can make life better because it makes everything faster. But by __11___everything up, we suffer losses we have not yet learnt to know. Our day begins with speedy urges; the alarm rings and you jump __12___bed. You take a quick shower. Then you wake the kids and __13___them through breakfast so they won't miss the bus. At the dining table, you swallow some slices of bread with a cup of tea. When everything __14___, you hurry to the car, thinking of the things you would buy from the supermarket on the way__15___. Driving 20 minutes in the busy traffic, you reach your workplace , rushing into the building and __16___up the stairs three at a time, arriving at your desk with seconds to spare. You take__17___deep breaths. Then, you instantly remember that the __18___you didn't finish last night must be faxed to Beijing by 10 o'clock in the morning.
Yet it seems that the__19___we go, the further we fall behind. Not only in the literal sense of not getting done what we set out to do, __20___ at a deeper level. It has come to the point where my days feel like an Olympic marathon.
11. A. speeding B. setting C. waking D. looking
12. A. away from B. on to C. back on D. out of
13. A. look B. break C. rush D. see
14. A. is done B. begins C. works D. is gone
15. A. to home B. home C. at home D. from home
16. A. leaping B. walking C. driving D. moving
17. A. a great deal of B. a number of C. a lot of D. a couple of
18. A. subject B. project C. object D. inject
19. A. more B. slower C. faster D. less
20. A. but also B. as well C. too D. either