When I asked my daughter which item she would keep: the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said, “the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology.
Point 1. The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the every people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?
Point 2. The mobile phone means that we are never alone.”The mobile saved my life,” says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance to her rescue.
Point 3. The mobile removes our secret. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are, where they are going, and how their last meeting went.
Point 4. The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramanate in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near---but we didn’t meet for the first two weeks!”
Point 5. The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously(同聲翻譯地)on chat lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn’t know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they’re space-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.
小題1:Point 1 mainly tells us that __________.
A.The writer’s daughter enjoys talking on the phone
B.More roads create more traffic
C.phones create the need to communication
D.it’s easy to communicate through phones
小題2:People’s attitude towards mobile phone is that it _________.
A.helps people deal with the emergency
B.brings convenience as well as little secret to people
C.is so important and should be encouraged
D.is part of people’s life
小題3:It is possible to talk to several complete strangers at the same time through_____.
A.the TV screenB.a(chǎn) fax machineC.the InternetD.the phone
小題4:Which is the most suitable title for the passage?
A.Phone PowerB.Kinds of Phones
C.How to Use PhoneD.Advantages of Phones

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:A
本文通過“女兒”選擇電話,作者談到電話在日常生活中的作用,以及電話帶來的負(fù)面影響。
小題1:C主旨大意題。根據(jù)The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way more roads create more traffic.可知,第一句話變式本段文字的中心句。
小題2:B 細(xì)節(jié)概括題。根據(jù)第二和第五點(diǎn)是電話帶給人們的便利和用途,顯然是電話的優(yōu)點(diǎn)長處,即advantages。但第三和第四點(diǎn):The mobile removes our secret. / The telephone separates us. 顯然是討論電話的缺點(diǎn)和弊端,即disadvantages 。
小題3:C 考查常識題。通過網(wǎng)絡(luò)和不認(rèn)識的人聊天這是常識。
小題4:A 本文主要講述的電話帶給我們的便利,以及改變我們的生活。所以A最恰當(dāng)。
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