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【題目】 My mother is the only living person who has never communicated via email or text. She has never turned on a computer, registered an email account, used data storage media or searched the Internet. Since 1955, she has settled in Silicon Valley, married to an extremely technical specialist in applied physics and engineering, designing photometric systems for NASA. Only when Dad suffered from cancer could we convince her she needed a cell phone. Mom’s being separated from the information age is voluntary and deliberate.

Mom is still that farm girl, and she takes the most pride in it. She sees her neighbor and her community “real”. She shows no interest in the digital and virtual life. My mother saw Depression, World War II and the beginning of the Cold War before reaching voting age. She enjoyed country music on “The Sons of the Pioneers”, a Canadian broadcast. The battery was so precious a resource that radio was limited to the barn because Grandma thought it helped cows produce milk. In the age when Churchill moved millions for the first time with radio broadcasts, she only experienced live media monthly, if at all.

In her early twenties, Mom completed nurses’ training and worked in that field before marriage, family and church became her life’s concerns. She never really warmed up to television, though I think she appreciated a few of the series we watched, comedies like All in the Family. Computers, the Internet and mobile apps are simply not part of her experience.

Mom disagrees with the opinion that technology simplifies life. In her life, she sees online records, email and paperless systems as mysteries in which no written reference can assist her.

However, I can partly understand: I like such kind of experience and relationship one has with physical books. I am a child of television who only recently switched to online viewing. I’ve written down my awkward, love-hate relationship with my devices. Mom’s technophobia surely played a role here, but it works for her. She’s happiest as she is.

【1】The author’s mother began to use mobile phone when .

A. she found it hard to contact with her husband

B. she settled in Silicon Valley for fifty years

C. she got marred to a technical specialist

D. her husband suffered from cancer

【2】What is the author’s mother most proud of according to the passage?

A. Having so many close neighbors.

B. Experiencing too much all her life.

C. Living simply and in her own style.

D. Being involved in modern technology.

【3】What is the author’s attitude towards his mother’s such kind of experience?

A. Critical. B. Positive.

C. Neutral. D. Negative.

【4】It is implied in the underlined sentence that .

A. the author should make efforts to learn from his mother

B. the author prefers watching movies online to watching TV

C. Mom’s attitude towards technology has an effect on the author

D. Mom should also set down the relationship with physical books

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】B

【4】C

【解析】

試題分析:本文是一篇記敘文，講述了自己那脫離信息時(shí)代、恐懼技術(shù)產(chǎn)品的母親。同時(shí)也表達(dá)了自己對母親對他影響的感謝。

【1】D細(xì)節(jié)題。第一段倒數(shù)第二句Only when Dad suffered from cancer could we convince her she needed a cell phone.僅僅只在父親得了癌癥之后我們才說服她需要一個(gè)手機(jī)，故選D

【2】C分析推斷題。第二段第一句中提到了母親是對自己感到驕傲的。后文提到她真誠地對待鄰居和街坊，對于虛擬生活沒有任何興趣�？梢酝茢喑瞿赣H真正自豪的是自己過著簡單的生活。故選C

【3】B分析推斷題。根據(jù)最后一段作者對自己母親想法的描述。我們可以知道作者能夠理解母親的生活，也很喜歡和她在一起。母親的“技術(shù)恐懼癥”雖然對他的生活有了一點(diǎn)影響，但是對母親來說是好的，她快樂就好。故選B

【4】C分析推斷題。劃線句子中的play a role意思為起作用，從這里可以推斷母親的態(tài)度對于作者有一定影響。故選C