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【題目】Owning a smart phone may not be as smart as you think. They may let you surf the Internet, listen to music and snap photos wherever you are... but they also turn you into a workaholic (工作狂). A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone adds as much as two hours to your working day.

Researchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles. The study by technology retailer Pixmania, shows the average UK working day is between nine and ten hours, but a further two hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls. Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails. Some workers confess (坦白) they are on call almost 24 hours a day, with nine out of ten saying they take work emails and calls outside their normal working hours. Nearly two-thirds say they often check work emails just before they go to bed and as soon as they wake up, while over a third have replied to one in the middle of the night.

Ghadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, said, “The ability to access millions of apps, keep in contact via social networks and take photos and video as well as text and call has made smart phones valuable for many people. However, there are drawbacks. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smart phones mean that people cannot get away from work. The more constantly in contact we become, the more is expected of us in a work capacity (容量).”

【1】The text is probably taken from __________.

A. a scientific report B. a financial report

C. a newspaper D. a travel journal

【2】The underlined word “drawbacks” in the last paragraph probably means __________.

A. disagreements B. disadvantages

C. mistakes D. features

【3】Ghadi may agree that __________.

A. employees are supposed to be on call 24 hours a day

B. the ability to access many apps made smart phones worthless

C. smart phones might turn a person into a workaholic

D. people cannot get away from work without smart phones

【4】What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Smart phones are lengthening working hours.

B. Smart phones are becoming valuable for many people.

C. Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average.

D. Smart phones are more beneficial to our life than we think.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】B

【3】C

【4】A

【解析】

試題分析：這篇文章主要介紹使用智能手機也許并不像你想的那樣明智。使用智能手機可以讓你隨時隨地上網(wǎng)、聽音樂、拍照片……但也可能讓你變成工作狂。最新調(diào)查顯示，智能手機能讓你隨時查收郵件，因此這種花哨的手機會讓你每天的工作時間延長兩個小時。

【1】C推理判斷題。A. a scientific report科學報告；B. a financial report金融報道；C. a newspaper報紙；D. a travel journal旅行日記；根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容：花哨的手機會讓你每天的工作時間延長兩個小時�？赏浦�，該題正確答案為C.

【2】B詞意猜測題。A. disagreements分歧，不同；B. disadvantages缺點，壞處，不利；C. mistakes 錯誤，過失；D. features特征，特色；根據(jù)上文講到的手機的功能對于很多人來說很有用。（手機的優(yōu)點）而該詞所在句則使用了However，表示轉(zhuǎn)折；且下文則講到由于智能機的存在，工作時間則無形延長。由此可知，該詞的意義應為“缺點；不利”，故該題正確答案為B.

【3】C細節(jié)推理題。根據(jù)文章最后Ghadi 所說：smart phones mean that people cannot get away from work. The more constantly in contact we become, the more is expected of us in a work capacity (容量).可知，他認為智能機會讓人們擺脫不了工作，也就是說可能會讓人們成為工作狂。故該題正確答案為C.

【4】A主旨大意題。通讀文章可知，該文意在告知大家：花哨的手機會讓你每天的工作時間延長。故該題正確答案為A. 注意選項C只是個例證。