Question

Cell Phones Are the New Cigarettes

When you get in your car, you reach for it．When you’re at work, you take a break to have a moment alone with it．When you get into a lift, you play with it．

Cigarettes? Cup of coffee? No, it’s the third most addictive thing in modern life, the cell phone．And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curbtheir longing to hug  it more tightly than most of their personal relationships．

With its shiny surface, its smooth and satisfying touch, its air of complexity, the cell phone  connects us to the world even as it disconnects us from people three feet away．In just the past  couple of years, the cell phone has challenged individuals, employers, phone makers and  counselors（顧問）in ways its inventors in the late 1940s never imagined．

The costs are becoming even more evident, and I don’t mean just the monthly bill．Dr．Chris  Knippers, a counselor at the Betty Ford Center in Southern California, reports that the overuse of  cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and an escape from reality．

Sounds extreme, but we’ve all witnessed the evidence: The person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around him．

Is it just rude, or is it a kind of unhealthiness? And pardon me, but how is this improving the quality of life?

Jim Williams, an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts, notes that cell-phone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gulf of personal separation．He points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with．Despite the growing use of phones, e-mail and instant messaging, in other words, Williams says studies show that we don’t have as many friends as our parents. “Just as more information has led to less wisdom, more acquaintances via the Internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends,” he says．

If the cell phone has truly had these effects, it’s because it has become very widespread．Consider that in 1987, there were only 1 million cell phones in use．Today, something like 300 million Americans carry them．They far outnumber wired phones in the United States．

1.Which of the following best explains the title of the passage?

A．Cell phone users smoke less than they used to．

B．Cell phones have become as addictive as cigarettes．

C．More people use cell phones than smoke cigarettes．

D．Using cell phone is just as cool as smoking cigarettes．

2.The underlined word “curb” in Paragraph 2 means ____．

A．rescue           B．ignore            C．develop           D．control

3.The example of a woman talking on the phone in the car supports the idea that           ．

A．women use cell phones more often than men

B．talking on the phone while driving is dangerous

C．cell phones do not necessarily bring people together

D．cell phones make one-on-one personal contact easy

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.D

3.C

【解析】

試題分析：

1.推斷題。文章標(biāo)題的意思是手機是一種新型的香煙。是一個比喻句，通過第二段Cigarettes? Cup of coffee? No, it’s the third most addictive thing in modern life, the cell phone．可知手機已經(jīng)成為了和香煙、咖啡一樣讓人迷戀的東西。故選B。

2.推斷題。文章第二段最后一句講到對于一些人來說，他們難以處理好他們對手機的迷戀程度和人際關(guān)系交往中情感投入方面的事情。可知他們并不能夠控制好這種關(guān)系，故選D。rescue 營救 ignore 忽視 develop 發(fā)展

3.推斷題。從文章第四自然段可知，手機的過度使用已經(jīng)變成了一個社會問題，它阻礙了人與人之間的面對面交流，并沒有將人們的關(guān)系拉的更近，因為很多人都只是一味的專心打電話而忽視了周圍的親人、朋友。故選C。

考點：議論文

點評：本文講述了手機在日常生活中又成為了一種吸引人的東西。由于手機的過度使用，是人們忽視了與周圍人的相處，從而導(dǎo)致了人與人的距離更為疏遠(yuǎn)。并未將人際關(guān)系拉近。解答此類題型時需要把握作者寫作的態(tài)度，作者是在褒還是在貶，理解了這點后答題就更加容易。