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【題目】A

Most children have heard their parents at one time or another yell "sit up straight!" or "don't slouch!"

In the past, this was usually heard at the dinner table as children ate dinner. But these days, it is also heard around another activity-video games.

Ten-year old Owaish Batliwala, from Mumbai, India, admits he spends three to four hours each day playing games on his tablet computer. His mother Mehzabin became concerned when her son started saying that his neck hurt.

She said, "My son started having neck problems around June or July. The pain slowly spread to his hand and his back. He plays for hours on the iPad and mobile phone. This is what has caused the problem."

Sadia Vanjara is a physical therapist. She says the number of young children with chronic pain in their necks, arms and shoulders is on the rise. Dr. Vanjara says the pain is not from aging, accidents or disease. It is from poor posture, or body position, while playing video games.

"They are not aging, they haven't had an accident, their age is like, under 10, they are not complaining, the blood reports are fine, their x-rays are fine, their MRI's are fine, then where is the culprit(罪魁禍首)? And that is the very common thing that is happening amongst all children and that is smart phones and the gadgets(小電器)."

This is a problem in many parts of the world. But there are more smartphone users in India than anywhere else in the world, except China. Networking equipment company Cisco estimates that the number of smartphone users in India will increase from 140 million today to 651 million by 2020.

19-year old student Nida Jameel says she feels pain in the finger which holds the weight of her smartphone most of the day.

She says she uses her smartphone 24/7. This means 24 hours a day, seven days a week, or all the time.

"As I use phone 24/7 (all day) like, so probably yeah, it was because of the phone, continuous usage and Snapchat, Whatsapp, more and more you know social media coming, so like phone is the center of everything."

Dr. Vanjara says the best treatments for the pain are daily exercises.

"And start stretching it in all the possible directions that you can."

Correct posture can help prevent pain. Dr. Vanjara teaches children how to hold their gadgets correctly. She tells a patient to hold the gadget in front of the face. She says that bending the head down to look at the device, strains the neck and creates an unhealthy bend to the back.

Sadia Vanjara predicts we will see not only physical but psychological and emotional problems resulting from overuse of gadgets.

Experts advise taking breaks from using a computer or other device often. Stand up. Stretch your legs, back, shoulders and arms. And when your work or school work is done, unplug and exercise.

【1】According to Paragraph 2, when will one hear yells like “sit up straight!”_________?

A. When playing video games B. When sleeping

C. When walking D. When driving

【2】What caused Owaish Batliwala’s neck to hurt___________?

A. Studying too hard

B. The bad body position

C. Playing the iPad and mobile phone for hours

D. His mother’s concern

【3】According to Sadia Vanjara, the pain is from__________?

A. poor posture

B. aging

C. accidents

D. disease

【4】What can we learn from the passage_________?

A. the number of young children with chronic pain in their necks, arms and shoulders is decreasing

B. the culprit is smart phones and the gadgets

C. there are more smartphone users in India than anywhere else in the world

D. the number of smartphone users in India is 651 million

【5】This passage most probably comes from__________.

A. an amusement magazine

B. a news report

C. a travelling booklet

D. a health magazine

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】A

【4】B

【5】D

【解析】

【文章大意】隨著智能機和平板電腦的逐漸普及，越來越多的孩子使用它們玩游戲。然而，長時間玩游戲給孩子們帶來了疼痛，這是由玩游戲時的不良坐姿導致的。治療疼痛的最好辦法就是日常鍛煉。

【1】A 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段“it is also heard around another activity-video games”可知，現(xiàn)在，孩子玩視頻游戲時，父母也會提醒他們坐好，不能駝背。

【2】C 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段“He plays for hours on the iPad and mobile phone. This is what has caused the problem.”可知，長時間玩平板電腦和手機是導致脖子痛、手痛等問題的原因。

【3】 A 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第五段“the pain is not from aging, accidents or disease. It is from poor posture, or body position, while playing video games”可知，疼痛不是源于衰老、事故或疾病，而是玩游戲時的不良坐姿導致的。

【4】B 推理判斷題。根據(jù)第六段“then where is the culprit(罪魁禍首)?...and that is smart phones and the gadgets(小電器)”可知，導致疼痛的罪魁禍首是智能機等小電器。根據(jù)“the number of young children with chronic pain...is on the rise...there are more smartphone users in India...except China...the number of smartphone users in India will increase from 140 million today to 651 million by 2020”可知ACD三項錯誤。

【5】D 文章出處題。文章主要關注的是長期使用智能機和平板電腦時的不良坐姿給兒童帶來的疼痛。只有D項與健康有關。