Question

Owning a smartphone 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 emails at all times, the all-singing, all-dancing mobilephone adds as much as two hours to your working day. Researchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles.

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

Ghadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, said, “The ability to access literally millions of apps, keep in contact via social networks and take photos and video as well as text and call has made smartphones invaluable for many people. However, there are drawbacks. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smartphones 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 coins 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 emails

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

D. The average time for first checking emails is between 6 am and 8 am.

4. What’s the main idea of the text?

A. workaholics like smartphones.

B. Smartphones bring about extra work.

C. smartphones make our life easier.

D. Employers don’t like smartphones.

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.D

3.C

4.B

【解析】

試題分析: 本文是一篇報道，主要介紹了使用智能手機存在的一些問題。雖然使用智能手機可以讓你隨時隨地上網(wǎng)、聽音樂、拍照片……但也能讓你隨時查收郵件，無形中讓你每天的工作時間延長多達兩個小時，這就可能讓你變成工作狂。

1.主旨大意題。A閃光的不都是金子；B不雨則以一雨傾盆；C事情都有正反兩面；D不做無意的后悔。文章主要介紹了使用智能手機不好的方面，雖然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間，由此可知是“凡事都有兩面”，答案選C。

2.詞義猜測題。本段是介紹人們對手機的使用情況，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 emails at all times, the smartphone adds as much as two hours to your working day.中access也可以進行推斷，故答案應(yīng)為D。

3.根據(jù)文章第三段and a quarter checking them between 11 pm and midnight.可知選C。

4.推理判斷題。文章首段提出….but it also turns you into a workaholic, it seems.，然后在下文進行了詳細的介紹，由此判斷文章中心內(nèi)容是講述智能手機給人無形中延長了工作時間，選B。

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