20.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(病态的)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.
63.The underlined word"allure"in Paragraph 2probably meansB.
A.advantage B.attraction
C.adaption D.attempt
64.From the passage,technology companies aim toA.
A.attract people to buy their products
B.provide the latest information
C.improve people's quality of life
D.deal with cultural diseases
65.It can be inferred from this passage that peopleD.
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
66.What's the author's attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices?C
A.Neutral. B.Sceptical.
C.Disapproving. D.Sympathetic.
分析 本文主要讲述了如今人们都忙于使用他们的高科技设备,已经难以抗拒社交媒体的诱惑,而科技公司的目的是为了让我们买他们的产品,不是为了提高我们的生活质量,作者通过这篇文章告诉我们应该享受生活,不能太过依赖高科技产品.
解答 63.B 理解推断题,由第二段One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sleep,cigarettes and alcohol.可知
研究发现,人们更难抵御社交媒体的诱惑力,故选B.
64.A 细节理解题,由第三段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.可知科技公司的目的是为了让人们买他们的产品,故选A.
65.D 理解推断题,由第五段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.可以推断出不滥用技术我们可以生活的更好,故选D.
66.C 理解推断题,由第四段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.可知作者对高科技设备的滥用是不赞成的,故选C.
点评 本文考察日常生活类阅读,要把握好人物的活动内容,时间和地点,根据题目中关键词寻找文中答案,查找文中细节后作出合理推断.