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任务型阅读 秦淮区 六、阅读填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分） A) 阅读下面短文，根据所读内容，在文章后71-80小题的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。 On buses, in meeting rooms, wherever you are, you see people staring at their mobile phones. Smart phones are of such great importance that they are becoming irreplaceable. As we depend too much on technology instead of our brains, it seems that we are losing our smartness. Many people have lost three basic abilities as a result. The first skill many people have lost is remembering phone numbers. Because phone numbers are stored in smart phone contacts, there’s now no need to dial a number or look at it again. As a result, we can’t contact others without our phones. And some of us may also have lost our sense of direction because some apps can guide us anywhere we want to go. We get so dependent on them that when we can’t use our smart phones, we lose our way. But the worst lost skills may be social ones, meaning that some people are becoming socially useless. We often lose ourselves in our smart phones and we don’t pay any attention to the people and things around. So some of us have lost conversational skills and sometimes can’t even tell whether a person is happy or not. Some researchers studied 51 students aged 11 and 12 who had over five hours’ screen time every day. Their task is to tell the emotions of 48 pictures of faces that were happy, sad, angry or scared. The children made an average(平均) of 14.02 mistakes at the beginning. But after a five-day camp without electronic products, they made only 9.41 mistakes on average. Luckily, there are ways to help you get these abilities back. You should try to keep your parents’ numbers in mind. You should also pay more attention to street signs and shops, and it will help you to draw a mind map and stop you from getting lost. And the easiest solution is to take a break from electronic products from time to time. Are smart phones really good? The 71 why we lose their smartness Smart phones become so 72 that we depen