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【题目】根据短文理解，选择正确答案。
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（使人上瘾的） thing in modern life, the cell phone. And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curb their wishes to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships.
With its shiny surface, its smooth and satisfying touch, the cell phone connects us to the world even as it disconnects us from people three feet away. It affects us in ways its inventors in the late 1940s never imagined.
Dr. Chris Knippers, an expert 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, 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(熟人) through 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. In 1987, there were only 1 million cell phones in use. Today, almost 300 million Americans carry them. The number of cell phones is far more than that of wired phones in the United States.
（1）Which of the following could probably best explain the title of the passage?
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.
（2）The underlined word “curb” in Paragraph 2 means ________.
A.rescue
B.control
C.develop
D.ignore
（3）Which idea does the example of a woman talking on the phone in the car support?
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.
（4）What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?
A.How to make people get closer.
B.The advantages of wired phones.
C.How to use cell phones properly.
D.Giving an example to prove the bad effects of cell phones.

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）C
（2）B
（3）D
（4）C
【解析】像香烟，咖啡一样，现代生活中最让人上瘾的第三件事就是手机。这是一篇议论文，文章论述了现代人对手机越来越痴迷和依赖，就像香烟一样，手机也给人们的生活带来许多的负面影响，作者并列举了许多例子对其不利之处进行论述。
⑴主旨大意。文章讲的是现在很多人对手机有瘾，就像对香烟一样，手机也给人们的生活带来负面影响。第二段Cigarette? Cup of coffee? No, it's the third most addictive thing in modern life, the cell phone.可知作者想要表达现代人开始对手机上瘾。故选C。
⑵猜测词义。根据句子And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curb their wishes to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships.专家们说抑制/控制住他们的希望紧紧拥抱它的愿望更困难了，也就是人们越来越难以控制对于手机的渴望。可知划线词curb“控制”和B项同义。故选B。
⑶推理判断。根据第三段中notes that cell-phone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gulf of personal separation.可知，这是为了说明手机把人们分离开。手机不一定能把人们聚集在一起。 故选D。
⑷推理判断。文章讲述了很多人对手机有瘾，手机给人们的生活带来负面影响。所以下文应该讲怎样正确使用手机，故选C。