2016年译林版必修一unit1schoollife单元综合练习二.docVIP

Unit 1 school life单元检测二 满分（85） Class: Name: Marks: 第一部分 阅读理解(共两节, 满分40分) 第一节 (共15小题; 每小题2分, 满分30分) A We were travel HYPERLINK /ing to the Caribbean with our three kids aged 12, 7 and 4. Being from Chicago, we were all in need of a little sun and sand after an especially cold and long winter. Before the trip HYPERLINK /, my eldest child asked if we could consider getting him a lifeproof case for his iPhone. He thought it would be fun to take pictures and videos of his brother and sister underwater in the pool. That made sense to us, and we agreed that it could make great memory of good time. We bought the case for him. Down to vacatio HYPERLINK /n we went. Snap! On went the life-proof case. We performed the suggested water test, and into the pool he went. Pow! That was the end of the phone. Water immediately leaked (渗入) into it and the phone was never turned on again. Now, th HYPERLINK /is could be a post about what a poorly-designed product the case is, but in fact, that is not what I’m writing about. Actually, wha HYPERLINK /t truly surprised us was what happened to our 12-year-old over the course of the next seven days of our vacation. Aside from the initial (最初的) five minutes after the phone died, our son never mentioned his phone again. Instead of  HYPERLINK /his usual plugged-in state, he spent much of the vacation reading books, playing silly games with his siblings and talking to us at dinner. Normally when we’re on vacation and he and his siblings are done with eating, he’ll leave the table to text friends or check sports scores. But with no phone, there was no pull to keep in touch with his friends or to look at the latest posts. Instead, our almost-13-year-old played tag with his 4-year-old sister, chased iguanas (鬣鳞蜥) with his 7-year-old brother and entertained them with games while we finished our meals. At the end of the trip, when we asked him about the lack of phone, he admitted it was nice to have a break f