19.Cell Phones Are the New Cigarettes
When you get in your car,you reach for it.When you're at work,you take a break to have a moment alone with it.When you get into a lift,you play with it.
Cigarettes?Cup of coffee?No,it's the third most addictive thing in modern life,the cell phone.And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curb their desire to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships.
With its shiny surface,its smooth and satisfying touch,its air of complexity,the cell phone connects us to the world even as it disconnects us from people three feet away.In just the past couple of years,the cell phone has challenged individuals,employers,phone makers and counselors(顧問) in ways its inventors in the late 1940s never imagined.
The costs are becoming even more evident,and I don't mean just the monthly bill.Dr.Chris Knippers,a counselor at the Betty Ford Center in Southern California,reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions:a barrier to one-on-one personal contact,and an escape from reality.
Sounds extreme,but we've all witnessed the evidence:The person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal,ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car,ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school,avoiding contact with kids all around him.
Is it just rude,or is it a kind of unhealthiness?And pardon me,but how is this improving the quality of life?
Jim Williams,an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts,notes that cell-phone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gulf of personal separation.He points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with.Despite the growing use of phones,e-mail and instant messaging,in other words,Williams says studies show that we don't have as many friends as our parents."Just as more information has led to less wisdom,more acquaintances via the Internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends,"he says.
If the cell phone has truly had these effects,it's because it has become very widespread.Consider that in 1987,there were only 1million cell phones in use.Today,something like 300million Americans carry them.They far outnumber wired phones in the United States.
51.Which of the following best explains the title of the passage?C
A.Cell phone users smoke less than they used to.
B.More people use cell phones than smoke cigarettes.
C.Cell phones have become as addictive as cigarettes.
D.Using cell phone is just as cool as smoking cigarettes.
52.The underlined word"curb"in Paragraph 2meansA.
A.control B.ignore C.develop D.rescue
53.The example of a woman talking on the phone in the car supports the idea thatD.
A.women use cell phones more often than men
B.talking on the phone while driving is dangerous
C.cell phones make one-on-one personal contact easy
D.cell phones do not necessarily bring people together.
分析 本文是篇議論文,主要講述了在日常生活中由于手機(jī)的過度使用,人們忽視了與周圍人的相處,從而導(dǎo)致了人與人間的關(guān)系更為疏遠(yuǎn).
解答 51-53 CAD
51 C 推理判斷題.文章標(biāo)題的意思是"手機(jī)是一種新型的香煙",是個比喻,結(jié)合第二段中的"Cigarettes?Cup of cof?fee?No,it's the third most addictive thing in modern life,the cellphone."可知手機(jī)已經(jīng)成了和香煙、咖啡一樣讓人上癮的東西.故選C.
52 A 詞義猜測題.句中hug后面的it應(yīng)指的是手機(jī)這件令人上癮的東西.既然是件令人上癮的東西,那么對它的迷戀程度對很多人來說就應(yīng)是很難"控制"了,故選A項control.
53 D 推理判斷題.結(jié)合文章第四段的"…a barrier to oneonone personal contact,and an escape from reality."可知手機(jī)已成為一個人與人之間面對面交流的阻礙,沒有拉近人們的關(guān)系,故選 D.
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