A smart phone is a mobile phone built on a mobile operating system, with more advanced computing abilities than a common phone. The first smart phones enabled the users to send and receive emails. Later models added the function of portable media players, pocket video cameras, and GPS navigation units to form one multi-use device. Many modem smart phones also include touchscreens and web browsers that display web pages.
A recent report says we spend an average of two hours and 40 minutes each day looking at a smart phone. That doesn’t mean making calls, but playing phone games and browsing the Web.
Nowadays we always find people checking emails in a restaurant, taking a picture of the food when it arrives, or checking a message during a conversation instead of traditional communication. It’s no secret that our lives are being affected by our smart phones obsession.
However, this phenomenon has never been presented so vividly as in the short YouTube film I Forgot My Phone. Despite only being online for a few days, it's already been viewed more than 10.5 million times. Whether it will be screened in the cinema remains to be seen.
Ironically, YouTube’s data show that the site gets a billion views per day from mobile devices, so a lot of those people watched it on their phones.
The short film, written by and starring actress Charlene Deguzman, shows groups of people in various social situations, the majority of whom are absorbed in their phones instead of the world around them. To a certain extent, we all do it.
小題1:People prefer a smart phone to a common one, because the latter only can help us ______.
A．check emails B．send messagesC．find the destinationD．watch a video
小題2:The underlined word “obsession” in the third paragraph most probably means “______”.
A．devotion B．contribution C．a(chǎn)ddictionD．emotion
小題3:Which of the following is right?
A．People spend as average of two hours and 40 minutes each day using smart phones.
B．The film hasn’t been put on in the cinema.
C．The film is written by an actor named Charlene Deguzman.
D．The film has already been viewed more than 105 million times in the first few days.
小題4:When the writer mentions the number of people watching the film from mobile devices in the fifth paragraph, he mainly feels ______.
A．encouraged B．depressedC．proudD．satisfied

小題1:A 
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:B

試題分析: 智能手機的出現(xiàn)改變了人們的生活，通過智能手機人們可以收發(fā)電子郵件，可以聽歌，看電影，可以上網(wǎng)瀏覽網(wǎng)頁。智能手機有著如此多的功能以至于人們越來越多地對智能手機產(chǎn)生了依賴性，作者對這種現(xiàn)象非常擔憂。
小題1:A 細節(jié)理解題根據(jù)文章第一段The first smart phones enabled the users to send and receive emails.可知人們利用智能手機可以查郵件，答案選A。
小題2:C詞意猜測題。A奉獻；B貢獻；C上癮；D感情。根據(jù)文章第二三段內容可知人們在生活中越來越依賴手機，對手機的癡迷越來越嚴重，由此判斷該詞obsession意思是“”癡迷，上癮，選C。
小題3:B細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第三段Whether it will be screened in the cinema remains to be seen.可以判斷此電影只是在優(yōu)酷上播放過，還沒有被搬上電影銀幕，選B。
小題4:B推理判斷題。作者在文章中提出人們對手機的過度依賴這種現(xiàn)象，然后以優(yōu)酷視頻的點擊率為例對此進行了更為有力的例證，再通過文中the majority of whom are absorbed in their phones instead of the world around them.  Ironically,….，可以推斷作者對這種現(xiàn)象是感到抑郁不安的，故答案選B。
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