Another day begins with the call of the phone’s alarm, Where are you? Open your eyes. Turn the alarm off and you will start working out on your apps（應(yīng)用軟件）.
First stop, weather: Sunny day. Look outside the window. Oh, no, it isn’t. Second stop, Air Quality Index: 344, dangerous, Level 6 Severely Polluted. Mental recheck required: It really is a sunny day and the weather app isn’t lying or in need of being replaced, it’s just that you can’t see the sun through the thick fog. Note to self: Cycling to work is out, face mask is in.
Has the world stopped turning? News app merely confirms that it’s business as usual. Another government has fallen, your soccer team has lost again, and China’s economy is still increasing steadily.
Diary app informs you of all the things you failed to do the previous day and loads you up with another half-dozen tasks. Next, browse a couple of social networking apps to determine the status updates of friends.
Another sound from the phone, it’s a message from your significant friend who is already at work, saying the Taobao. com order for Italian cheese is about to arrive.
Apps have become part of our “every-moment” lives. Apps provide so much information. But the dark side to all this connectivity would be lack of privacy, being a slave to the app. The only real problem is that once you lose your smartphone, you lose your life.
Some friends and family do not have smartphones, but prefer the old-fashioned Nokia that merely makes phone calls and sends instant messages. While I respect their purity and desire to be free of the control of technology, it’s obvious they are outsiders, and their lives are loaded up with paper and old devices. They’re still buying books at stores, complaining the lack of CDs on the market, watching TV and missing out on complete news cycles. Though I would add, they have lives that aren’t spent inside small screens.
My phone is a palm-sized one-stop shop and about the only thing it doesn’t do is teleport（心靈運輸）. What’s not to like?

  1. 1.

    The functions of apps mentioned in the passage can be listed as follows EXCEPT that _______

    1. A.
      the apps can show you weather forecast
    2. B.
      the apps can tell you how to work directly
    3. C.
      the apps can inform you the latest news
    4. D.
      the apps can tell you what you failed to do
  2. 2.

    According to the passage, the author thinks that _______

    1. A.
      people’s life is governed by apps
    2. B.
      people feel bored about the use of apps
    3. C.
      people can’t live without apps
    4. D.
      people hate apps with powerful functions
  3. 3.

    It can be inferred from the last paragraph but one that _______

    1. A.
      more and more people like Nokia more than apps
    2. B.
      using Nokia can be free of the control of technology
    3. C.
      all people don’t like the advanced smartphones
    4. D.
      ordinary people don’t like shopping online
BAC
試題分析：本文介紹的了一種智能手機(jī)上的應(yīng)用軟件。這種軟件的功能很多，它可做鬧鐘，能夠預(yù)報天氣和空氣質(zhì)量指數(shù)，能瀏覽新聞，朋友的信息，還能提醒你前一天沒有做完的事情。雖然它的功能這么多，但是不好的一面就是，這種軟件使人們沒有隱私，生活中的很多事情都受它的控制。所以有一些人不喜歡智能手機(jī)，而更喜歡舊式的功能簡單的諾基亞手機(jī)。
1.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段的First stop, weather，Second stop, Air Quality Index，第四段的Diary app informs you of all the things you failed to do the previous day可知apps的功能有:空氣，空氣質(zhì)量指數(shù)，告訴你沒能做到的事情。所以A,C,D項屬于 apps的功能。故選B。
2.作者態(tài)度題。根據(jù)第六段的But the dark side to all this connectivity would be lack of privacy, being a slave to the app. The only real problem is that once you lose your smartphone, you lose your life. the app 會使人們?nèi)鄙匐[私，淪為它的奴隸，唯一的一個問題就是一旦你失去你的智能手機(jī)，你就失去了你的生命。所以說 apps 控制了你的生命。故選A。
3.推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段的Some friends and family do not have smartphones, but prefer the old-fashioned Nokia that merely makes phone calls and sends instant messages.一些朋友和家庭，沒有智能手機(jī)，他們更喜歡舊式的，只能打電話和發(fā)短信的諾基亞手機(jī)。所以可以推斷出C項正確。
考點：科普環(huán)保類短文閱讀。
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D．Because she thinks humans today become colder with the development of society.
【小題6】Which of the following best describe the tone of this passage?
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People who put a smiley face at the end of a message, in an attempt to show feeling, show no feeling. I wish there was a symbol for two fingers in the air.
I had some bad news this week. My manager informed me of this news via email. It was like hearing about the death of a loved one via pigeon. Bad news should only ever be delivered face to face or voice to voice.
We seem to celebrate our numerous methods of communication, but really there is no communication at all. I talk to my plants more than I talk to my neighbors, I get text messages that take me three hours to read because they’re written like this: “Hi, I ope you av a gr8 day. Call me La8tr.” I had an email from someone this week that read, “Da ut ov 2day are really annoying me!” Ut? I had to say this 20 times before I understood it. Youth has now become ut. Haven’t we taken enough from them—now we have to take their letters?
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  1. 1.

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    1. A.
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    2. B.
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    3. C.
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    1. A.
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    3. C.
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    4. D.
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    1. A.
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    2. B.
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    3. C.
      her classmates would write to each other because they couldn’t send messages
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    What message is conveyed in the passage?

    1. A.
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    2. B.
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    1. A.
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    2. B.
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    3. C.
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