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To Britons, mobile phones have been the greatest invention in the past decade.
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To Britons, mobile phones have been the greatest invention in the past decade.
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第1题
2. The Mobile Phone
1.Nowadays, more and more people are using mobile phones.______
2.The mobile phone is so popular because______.
3.However, the mobile phone can also become a nuisance sometimes.______.
第2题
When is the company's mobile service available?
A.From 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
B.From 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
C.Only in the morning
D.24 hours a day
第3题
Can We Live Without Our Mobiles?
Are you a mobile phone addict?
HELLO. My name is Damian and I'm a mobile-phone addict. I am here today to face the truth about my condition and hope that by speaking out 1 can help others to overcome their own problems.
The casual observer probably couldn't detect anything wrong with me. I have a respectable appearance and my behavior. in public isn't shocking or conspicuous. I hadn't even realized myself that I was a mobile phonoholic, until the past few days. But I have just spent two of those days conducting an experiment that has revealed the awful reality. I have suffered mentally and physically. And my experience has convinced me that I am only one of millions of fellow addicts. You may well be one yourself.
I have just attempted to live my life without a mobile phone. I was one of four people asked to eschew(回避)my phone for two days. Russell Crowe was not officially part of our group, but maybe he was trying a similar thing in a New York hotel lately. If he had used his mobile, rather than the hotel phone, to call his wife in Sydney he might have been able to secure a connection and wouldn't have been so enraged that he threw a phone at a clerk and ended up handcuffed(拷上手铐)in a Manhattan court.
The magic power of mobile phones
Mobile phones have been the biggest agent of change in the daily behavior. of Britons in the past decade. Today there are more than 55 million mobile phone subscribers in Britain, a huge leap from less than 10 million users in 1997. As the size of the handsets has diminished, their influence has grown, altering the speed and frequency of our communication with each other, quickening the pace of decision- making and altering radically the way we plan our working and social lives.
As the coverage of mobile phones has extended, so the world has shrunk; now it has been announced that we will soon even be able to use them on the London Underground. There will be nowhere beyond their reach (and, even as an addict, I dread this. The only thing worse than a mobile phone train bore(在火车上用手机聊天的无聊之人) will surely be someone exposing their sweaty armpits(腋窝)to lift their phone to their ear and yabber(急促而含混不清地说话). "'ello darlin'. I'm underground .... I said I'MUNDERGROUND! Amazin' innit?")
Two days without a mobile phone
Switching it off at the beginning of Day I was strange. For the past few years I have done this only when boarding an aircraft. Even on holiday — and this may strike you as rather sad — I put the phone on silent and annoy my wife by checking it at least every few hours.
Dorothy Rowe, a clinical psychologist, tells me that this sort of behavior. is consistent with extroverts "who need reassurance that other people are thinking of them. Your degree of self-confidence will determine how much you worry about it." Worry about it? Me? Don't be ridiculous, l check only out of idle curiosity. I'm not a needy control freak or anything.
I should have left the phone at home, or at least put it in a drawer for two days. But i couldn't bring myself to do that, so I left it sitting on my desk. For the first few hours of abstinence (节制)I kept involuntarily picking it up and looking at the display to see if I had any messages or had missed a call, only to see that it was, of course, switched off.
When I had got used to the fact that it was off, I still picked it up, turned it over in my hand and fiddled with it, like a smoker fidgeting with a packet of cigarettes. I realized that I had a whole routine of nervous tics (不自觉的习惯行为) involving my phone and that these were exacerbated (加剧) by my desire to use it. I took these to be the physical effects of undergoing the process of withdrawal.
My 40-minute walk home at the end of the day is normally a time for making calls, mostly to friends or
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第4题
听力原文:M: Hi, Jane. Do you have acme change? I have to make a call on the pay phone.
W: Pay phone? Why not use my mobile phone? Here you are.
Q: What will the man most probably do?
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A.Get some change from Jane.
B.Use the woman's phone.
C.Go and look for a pay phone.
D.Pay for the phone call.
第5题
A.Because they followed everything the Britons did.
B.Because it tasted better than mixed with butter.
C.Because it became a popular drink.
D.Because they were influenced by a woman ill the upper class.
第6题
By using the examples in Paragraph 5, the author means to tell us ______.
A.that Britons are more patient and talkative than people in other large cities
B.why some visitors find Britain a pleasant place
C.how British people manage to live a leisurely and pleasant life
D.the sharp contrasts between Britons and people in other cities
第8题
Which of the following statements about Scandinavians or Britons is INCORRECT?
A.Scandinavians are generally frank and open.
B.Britons are reluctant to show hospitality.
C.Britons pretend to be shrewd.
D.Britons prefer satirical art.
第9题
What is the reporter’s impression of Britain?
A.Most of the Britons try very hard in their work.
B.Britons do their work in an unhurried way.
C.The pace of work in other countries in Europe is much slower than in Britain.
D.Tea breaks can’t affect the intensity of work in Britain.
第10题
What does the reporter who has visited plants throughout Europe think about Britain? ().
A. Tea breaks do not affect the intensity of work in Britain
B.Britons do their work in an unhurried sort of way.
C.The pace of work in Continental Europe is much slower than in Britain
D.Britons give the impression of working intensively