Question

 They do it late at night when their parents are asleep. They do it in restaurants and while crossing busy streets. They do it in the classroom with their hands behind their back. They do it so much that their thumbs hurt.

  Spurred(刺激) by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month, according to the Nielsen Company一almost 80 messages a day.

  The phenomenon is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists. Dr. Martin Joffe, a pediatrician in Greenbrae，Calif.，recently surveyed students at two local high schools and said he found that many were routinely sending hundreds of texts every day.

  The rise in texting is too recent to have produced any conclusive data on health effects. But Sherry Turkle, a psychologist who has studied texting among teenagers in the Boston area for three years,said it might be causing a shift in the way adolescents develop.

  "Among the jobs of adolescence are to separate from your parents，and to find the peace and quiet to become the person you decide you want to be," she said. "Texting hits directly at both those jobs.”

  Psychologists expect to see teenagers break free from their parents as they grow into autono- mous adults，Professor Turkle went on， " but if technology makes something like staying in touch very,very easy, that's harder to do;now you have adolescents who are texting their mothers 15 times a day,asking things like, * Should I get the red shoes or the blue shoes?'" 

(   ) 5. The purpose of the first paragraph is to tell us        .

   A.American teenagers are addicted to texting

   B.texting can affect American teens in many ways

   C.the great influence of texting on American society

   D.the value of texting for American teenagers

(   ) 6. According to psychologists, teenagers        as they grow into autonomous a-

dults.

    A.should keep in touch with their parents

   B.should live without modern technology

   C.need some freedom or independence

   D.needn't be independent from their parents

(   ) 7. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

   A.American teenagers are not allowed to use mobile phones in school.

   B.Texting can also affect American teenagers' studies.

   C.Texting has no bad effects on American teenagers' health.

   D.Parents are not worried about the effects of texting. 

(   ) 8. We can infer from the last paragraph that        .

   A.texting helps narrow the generation gap between parents and kids

   B.technology can help teens to become more autonomous adults

   C.it's necessary for teens to ask for their parents' advice

   D.texting can play a .negative role in teenagers' becoming autonomous adults

Answer 1

5—8 ACBD

B美国青少年频发手机短信，这引起了医生和心理学家的担忧，因为这不仅可能有损于他们的健康，而且会妨碍他们的成长。

5.A概括文章第一段可知，美国青少年对发短信十分迷恋。

6.C从文章最后一段可知，孩子要成为独立的成年人，必须适度脱离父母，有一定的自由和独立空间。

7.B从文章第一段可知，美国学生在课堂上也偷偷摸摸发短信，必然会影响他们的学习。

8.D文章最后说明，短信使孩子和父母保持过分密切的联系，孩子过分依赖父母，不利于他们的成长。