[2006 Text 4]People inearlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery: They worked untilexhausted, lived with few protections and died young. In the West, before masscommunication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, whichreminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they wouldsomeday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their artto be a bummer too。
The word “bummer”(Line 5,Paragraph 5) most probably means something________。
[A] religious [B]unpleasant [C] entertaining [D] commercial
[2004 Text 1] Instead, thebest strategy is to use the agent as a kind of tip service to keep abreast ofjobs in a particular database; when you get E-mail, consider it a reminder tocheck the database again。
The expression “tipservice” (Line 3—4, Paragraph 3) most probably means________。