Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices（裝置）, 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 flu-like 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 claiming 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, a former CEO 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. adaptation 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.Objective B. Positive

C. Disapproving D. Sympathetic

 

1.B

2.A

3.D

4.C

【解析】

試題分析：文章闡述了現(xiàn)代科技給生活帶來的影響�？萍急驹摲⻊�(wù)于人們的生活、提高生活的質(zhì)量，但現(xiàn)實(shí)情況卻是，許多的科技產(chǎn)品占據(jù)了人們的日常生活，導(dǎo)致人們深陷虛擬世界無法自拔。如果放下手里的科技產(chǎn)品，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)生活有多么美好。

1.猜測(cè)詞義題。根據(jù)“People have been influenced to become technology addicted.”可知，很多人已經(jīng)變成了科技迷，他們用“addicted”這個(gè)詞來形容自己與平板電腦和類似產(chǎn)品的關(guān)系，甚至，人們很難抵抗來自科技產(chǎn)品的吸引力，故選B。

2.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段“The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products,”可知，科技公司的目的是讓消費(fèi)者花更多的金錢和時(shí)間在他們的產(chǎn)品上，故選A。

3.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)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.”可知，如果不過度使用、依賴現(xiàn)代科技，人們就能夠重獲自由，成為科技的主人 找到生活的真諦，故選D。

4.觀點(diǎn)態(tài)度題。A客觀的；B積極的；C不贊成的；D同情的。根據(jù)第一段、三、五、六“When connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.”和第三段“The main goal of technology companies is...not to actually improve our quality of life”與第五段“When we can live happily without using so much technology...”及第六段“To break the grand digital connection...”可知，文章講述的是科技產(chǎn)品的過度使用給生活帶來的危害，科技本該被用來提高人們的生活質(zhì)量，然而事實(shí)卻是，人們成了科技的奴仆，甚至脫離了現(xiàn)實(shí)生活。由此可見，作者不贊成過度使用科技產(chǎn)品，故選C。

考點(diǎn)：生活類短文閱讀

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