I was living a life in my screen and hardly noticed what was around me. So when my friends invited me to go camping for a long weekend without the cell service, I thought this was exactly what I needed. Here’s how keeping away from my phone for 48 hours changed me.

I realized my bedtime routine was usually centered on one thing: my phone. Right before I went to sleep, I browsed through news websites and checked my emails. When I woke up in the middle of the night, I did the same thing. The problem with this was I felt anxious every night. I felt free without my phone at that weekend camp. I felt asleep listening to the sound of crickets.

When I had my phone, I was always checking the time and thinking of future plans. My thought was: “Who’s going to text me now? What will I do next?” Without my phone, I truly savored what I was doing in the moment, sitting by the river, riding a bike, or singing the old songs. There was no need to rush through any of it. I listened to what my body wanted instead of what my phone was telling me to do.

You know that moment when you’re hanging out with a group of people and no one has anything to say? The typical response: Everyone immediately pulls out their phones. So what did we do without a phone to avoid embarrassing silences? We actually talked to each other. Instead of burying our faces in our screens, we looked one another in the eye, had a moment of pure human connection and then continued talking. And you know what? People actually listened.

So, now what? Now I’m back to the real world.

1.When the author’s friends invited him to go camping, he .

A. didn’t really want to go

B. wanted to take his cellphone

C. didn’t think life would be any different

D. considered it a good chance to escape cellphone

2.What change did the author experience according to Paragraph 2?

A. He broke his bedtime routine.

B. He no longer cared about news.

C. He fell in love with sounds of nature.

D. He began to pay attention to his future plans.

3.The underlined word “savored” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by “ ”.

A. ignored B. recorded

C. enjoyed D. remembered

4.At that weekend camp, the campers .

A. often felt very lonely

B. found some other fun activities

C. got into good conversation with each other

D. often needed to deal with embarrassing silences

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