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.
13（）
A．place
B．phone
C．home
D．room
参考答案：B
解析：
语义衔接题。该句提到的是录音电话的留言提示，根据常识可知，当时主人一定无法接听电话，所以提示打电话者留言——If you want us to call you back，please leave your name and number after the beep，(如果想让我们回电话，在听到嘟的一声后，请留下姓名和电话。)根据上下文的意思，此话是主人不在家时电话的录音内容。因此正确选项是phone，表示不能接电话之意。
[避错指导] place，home，room都是表示地点的名词，与phone相比，这些词都过于笼统，不能准确传递信息。
