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2017届高1综合试题系列02 湖北武昌水果湖实验中学10月试题 编辑整理：刘秋实 做题时间： 年 月 日 2017届高1综合试题系列02 湖北武昌水果湖实验中学10月试题，第 PAGE 8页（共 NUMPAGES 8页） 2017湖北武昌水果湖实验中学10月试题 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）【省略】 第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） 第一节 （ 共15小题，每小题2分，满分 30 分 ） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。 A篇 Cell Phones Are the New Cigarettes When you get in your car, you reach for it. When you’re at work, you take a break to have a moment alone with it. When you get into a lift, you play with it. Cigarettes? Cup of coffee? No, it’s the third most addictive（使人上瘾的）thing in modern life, the cell phone. And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curb their wishes to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships. With its shiny surface, its smooth and satisfying touch, the cell phone connects us to the world even as it disconnects us from people three feet away. It affects us in ways its inventors in the late 1940s never imagined. Dr. Chris Knippers, an expert at the Betty Ford Center in Southern California, reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and an escape from reality. Sounds extreme, but we’ve all witnessed the evidence: the person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around him. Is it just rude, or is it a kind of unhealthiness? And pardon me, but how is this improving the quality of life? Jim Williams, an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts, he points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with. Despite the growing use of phones, e-mail and instant messaging, in other words, Williams says stud