Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets. When connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.

People have been influenced to become technology addicted. One survey reported that “addicted” was the word most commonly used by people to describe their relationship to iPad and similar devices. One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.

The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. Consumers willingly give up their freedom, money and time to catch up on the latest information, to keep pace with their peers or to appear modern.

I see people trapped in a pathological（病態(tài)的）relationship with time-sucking technology, where they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude. I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence because of uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money. 

What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my life? That is what people need to ask themselves if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about their use of technology. When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology. Mae West is famous for proclaiming the wisdom that “too much of a good thing is wonderful.”  But it’s time to discover that it does not work for technology.

Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our technologies.” To break the grand digital connection people must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without today’s overused technology.

1.The underlined word “allure” in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.

A. advantage B. attraction C.adaption D. attempt

2.From the passage, technology companies aim to ______.

A. attract people to buy their products

B. provide the latest information

C. improve people’s quality of life

D. deal with cultural diseases

3.It can be inferred from this passage that people ______.

A. consider too much technology wonderful

B. have realized the harm of high-tech devices

C. can regain freedom without high-tech devices

D. may enjoy life better without overused technology

4.What’s the author’s attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices?

A. Neutral.( 中立的） B. Doubtful

C. Disapproving.(不贊成） D. Sympathetic.（同情的）

Puppy Food

A puppy (young dog) is a precious addition to any family. The excitement of bringing home a little furry friend will always live in our memories. Like all of us, though, your puppy must have adequate nutrition（營養(yǎng)） right from the start to make certain that it’ll have a long and healthy life.

1. You might ask yourself what is the best for your new pet with all of the different varieties on the market in all of their attractive packaging. Some dry food produced specially for puppies is the best for the development of their teeth. 2.

Contrary to the belief of many first-time puppy owners, it is not always the best idea to purchase food that is too high in calcium (鈣), protein, and vitamin levels. 3. In addition, a high intake of calcium is associated with bone disease in large-breed dogs. If you have a “small-breed” puppy, you can buy that kind of food.

It is not a good idea to feed the food you eat to your puppy frequently, as your puppy may become selective about food. 4. Some people think that dog biscuits and other treats are fine, but they should not be a main part of puppy’s diet.

Young puppies should be fed three times a day. Each puppy is unique, however, so feeding them twice a day is acceptable. After ten to twelve weeks of age, feed your puppy twice per day. Allow your puppy to eat as much as he would like in fifteen minutes. 5. If you let your puppy eat too much or too often by keeping food accessible at all times, he may become overweight and have health problems as an adult. Like humans, your puppy will not enjoy the food any longer if it is there at all times.

A. Pick up the dish with the remaining food.

B. Proper food is a basic necessity for your puppies.

C. Remember to give your puppy the food he would like to have.

D. It can also cause an upset stomach due to an unbalanced diet.

E. A further benefit is that it is less expensive than the canned food.

F. One example is that extra helpings of nutrients do harm to digestive organs.

G. It’s good to provide the extra nutrients a puppy needs until he grows larger.

你們班同學(xué)打算周六去爬香山。請給外教Chris寫一封英文信，邀請他參加此次活動。具體內(nèi)容如下：

1. 時間：8 am—5 pm；

2. 集合地點：校門口；

3. 交通工具：公交車；

4. 攜帶物品：雨具，午餐，相機。

注意：1. 詞數(shù)不少于50；

2. 可適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫；

3. 開頭和結(jié)尾已給出，不計入總詞數(shù)。

Dear Chris，

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Yours,

Joe

假設(shè)你是紅星中學(xué)高三（1）班的學(xué)生李華。上周你班組織志愿活動，清理地鐵內(nèi)小廣告和垃圾。請根據(jù)以下四幅圖的先后順序，用英語寫一篇周記，記述從討論到活動實施的全過程。

注意： 1. 周記的開頭已為你寫好。

2. 詞數(shù)不少于60。

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Last week, our class organized a voluntary activity in subway cars.___________________

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I'm sorry it's my power to make a final decision on the project.

A. over B. above C. off D. beyond

Visitors not to touch the exhibits.

A. will request B. request

C. are requested D. are requesting

I didn't imagine a writer in my childhood.

A. becomes B. becoming

C. became D. become

When the man came in, gun in hand, we all stood there, ________.

A. astonished B. astonishing

C. being astonished D. having astonished

If you keep on doing stupid things like this, you'll get _______ someday!

A. punished B. punishing

C. being punished D. to punish

--- Sorry, I’m late.

--- That’s OK. I ___________ long.

A. haven’t waited B. don’t wait

C. haven’t been waiting D. didn’t wait