Question

Owning a smart phone may not be as smart as you think. It may let you surf the Internet, listen to music and snap photos wherever you are... but it also turns you into a workaholic, it seems.

A study suggests that, by giving you access to e-mails at all times, the all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone adds as much as two hours to your working day. Researchers find that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to e-mails on their mobiles.

The study by technology retailer Pixmania reveals the average UK working day is between 9 and 10 hours, but the further two hours is spent responding to or send?ing work e-mails, or making work calls. More than 90 per cent of office workers have e-mail-enabled phones, with a third accessing them more than 20 times a day. Almost one in ten workers admit spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work e-mails. Some workers confess they are on call almost 24 hours a day, with nine out of ten saying they make work e-mails and calls outside their normal working hours. The average time for first checking e-mails is be?tween 6 am and 7 am, with more than a third checking their first e-mails in this period, and a quarter checking them between 11 pm and midnight.

Ghadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, says, "The ability to access literally millions of apps, keep in contact via social networks and take photos and videos as well as texts and calls has made smart phones invaluable for many people. However, there are draw?backs. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smart phones mean that people literally cannot get away from work. The more constantly in contact we become* the more is expected of us in a work capacity (容量).，，

1.    What can we conclude from the text?

A.    All that glitters is not gold.

B.    It never rains but pours.

C.    Every coin has two sides.

D.    It's no good crying over spilt milk.

2.    The underlined word "accessing" in the third paragraph can be replaced by 

A. calling       B. reaching

C.  getting     D. using

3.    Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

A.    The average UK working time is between nine and twelve hours.

B.    Nine tenths spent over three hours checking work e-mails.

C.    One fourth check their first e-mails between 11 pm and midnight.

D.    The average time for first checking e-mails is be?tween 6 am and 8 am.

4.    What's the main idea of the text?

A.    Workaholics like smart phones.

B.    Smart phones bring about extra work.

C.    Smart phones make our life easier.

D.    Employers don't like smart phones.

Answer 1

【文章大意】本文是一篇報(bào)道，主要介紹了使用智能手機(jī)存在的一些問題。雖然使用智能手機(jī)可以讓你隨時(shí)隨地上網(wǎng)、聽音樂、拍照片……但也能讓你隨時(shí)查收郵件，無中讓你每天的工作時(shí)間延長，這就可能讓你變成工作狂。

C主旨大意題。文章主要介紹了使用智能手機(jī)不好的方面，雖然它可以給人們提供很多方便，但是也會無形中延長人們的工作時(shí)間，由此可知c項(xiàng)為最佳答案。

D詞義猜測題。本段是介紹人們對智能手機(jī)的使用情況， 故判斷意思是"使用"，而且根據(jù)文章第二段首句"A study suggests that, by giving you access to e-mails at all times, the all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone adds as much as two hours to your working day."中的access也可以進(jìn)行推斷,故選D項(xiàng)。

C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段中的"…and a quarter chec?king them between 11 pm and midnight."可知C項(xiàng)正確。

B主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章中第三段的內(nèi)容可知，文章的中心內(nèi)容是講述智能手機(jī)給人們無形中延長了工作時(shí)間，故選B項(xiàng)。