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To Britons, mobile phones have been the greatest invention in the past decade.
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
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第1题
Can We Live Without Our Mobiles？
Are you a mobile phone addict？
HELLO. My name is Damian and I'm a mobile-phone addict. I am here today to face the truth about my condition and hope that by speaking out 1 can help others to overcome their own problems.
The casual observer probably couldn't detect anything wrong with me. I have a respectable appearance and my behavior. in public isn't shocking or conspicuous. I hadn't even realized myself that I was a mobile phonoholic, until the past few days. But I have just spent two of those days conducting an experiment that has revealed the awful reality. I have suffered mentally and physically. And my experience has convinced me that I am only one of millions of fellow addicts. You may well be one yourself.
I have just attempted to live my life without a mobile phone. I was one of four people asked to eschew(回避)my phone for two days. Russell Crowe was not officially part of our group, but maybe he was trying a similar thing in a New York hotel lately. If he had used his mobile, rather than the hotel phone, to call his wife in Sydney he might have been able to secure a connection and wouldn't have been so enraged that he threw a phone at a clerk and ended up handcuffed(拷上手铐)in a Manhattan court.
The magic power of mobile phones
Mobile phones have been the biggest agent of change in the daily behavior. of Britons in the past decade. Today there are more than 55 million mobile phone subscribers in Britain, a huge leap from less than 10 million users in 1997. As the size of the handsets has diminished, their influence has grown, altering the speed and frequency of our communication with each other, quickening the pace of decision- making and altering radically the way we plan our working and social lives.
As the coverage of mobile phones has extended, so the world has shrunk; now it has been announced that we will soon even be able to use them on the London Underground. There will be nowhere beyond their reach (and, even as an addict, I dread this. The only thing worse than a mobile phone train bore(在火车上用手机聊天的无聊之人) will surely be someone exposing their sweaty armpits(腋窝)to lift their phone to their ear and yabber(急促而含混不清地说话). "'ello darlin'. I'm underground .... I said I'MUNDERGROUND! Amazin' innit？")
Two days without a mobile phone
Switching it off at the beginning of Day I was strange. For the past few years I have done this only when boarding an aircraft. Even on holiday — and this may strike you as rather sad — I put the phone on silent and annoy my wife by checking it at least every few hours.
Dorothy Rowe, a clinical psychologist, tells me that this sort of behavior. is consistent with extroverts "who need reassurance that other people are thinking of them. Your degree of self-confidence will determine how much you worry about it." Worry about it？ Me？ Don't be ridiculous, l check only out of idle curiosity. I'm not a needy control freak or anything.
I should have left the phone at home, or at least put it in a drawer for two days. But i couldn't bring myself to do that, so I left it sitting on my desk. For the first few hours of abstinence (节制)I kept involuntarily picking it up and looking at the display to see if I had any messages or had missed a call, only to see that it was, of course, switched off.
When I had got used to the fact that it was off, I still picked it up, turned it over in my hand and fiddled with it, like a smoker fidgeting with a packet of cigarettes. I realized that I had a whole routine of nervous tics (不自觉的习惯行为) involving my phone and that these were exacerbated (加剧) by my desire to use it. I took these to be the physical effects of undergoing the process of withdrawal.
My 40-minute walk home at the end of the day is normally a time for making calls, mostly to friends or
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
第2题
听力原文：M: Hi, Jane. Do you have acme change？ I have to make a call on the pay phone.
W: Pay phone？ Why not use my mobile phone？ Here you are.
Q: What will the man most probably do？
(18)
A．Get some change from Jane.
B．Use the woman's phone.
C．Go and look for a pay phone.
D．Pay for the phone call.
第3题
By using the examples in Paragraph 5, the author means to tell us ______.
A．that Britons are more patient and talkative than people in other large cities
B．why some visitors find Britain a pleasant place
C．how British people manage to live a leisurely and pleasant life
D．the sharp contrasts between Britons and people in other cities
第4题
What does the reporter who has visited plants throughout Europe think about Britain？ （）.
A. Tea breaks do not affect the intensity of work in Britain
B.Britons do their work in an unhurried sort of way.
C.The pace of work in Continental Europe is much slower than in Britain
D.Britons give the impression of working intensively
第5题
By “what is wrong with Britain may also be what is right” (Para. 6, Line 1) the author means to say that ________.
A) quarrels between unions will help create jobs
B) a leisurely way of life helps Britons increase productivity
C) the gentle tone and temper of the people in Britain makes it a pleasant place
D) Britons will not sacrifice their leisure to further increase productivity
第6题
The word “this” (Para. 3, Line 1) the author means to say that ________.
A) there are more men on any given job than are needed
B) 33 per cent overmanning leads to 33 per cent less productivity
C) it is difficult to measure the intensity of work
D) Britons generally do not want to work too hard
第7题
A reporter who has visited plants throughout Europe have an impression 【M1】______
on the pace of work is much slower here. Nobody tries too hard. 【M2】______
Tea breaks does matter and are frequent. Britons give a distinct impression 【M3】______
of going at their tasks in a more leisure way. 【M4】______
It certainly does not improve the gross national product or output
per worker. However, those visitors have noticed anything else about 【M5】______
Britain. It is a pleasant place.
Street crowds in Stockholm, Paris and New York move quickly and
silently heads down, all in a hurry, London crowds tend to walk at an easy pace.
Every stranger is struck by the patient and orderly way in that 【M6】______
Britons queue for a bus: if the saleswoman is slow and out of stock she
will be likely say, 'Oh dear, what a pity' ;, the rubbish collectors stop to chat 【M7】______
and called the housewives "Love" . Crime rises here as in every city but there 【M8】______
still remains a gentle tone and temper that is matched in Berlin, Milan or Detroit.【M9】_______
In short, what is wrong with Britain may also be what is right. Having
reached to a tolerable standard, Britons appear to be choosing leisure over goods. 【M10】______
【M1】
第8题
A reporter who has visited plants throughout Europe has an impression that the pace of work is much slower here. Nobody tries too hard. Tea breaks do matter and are frequent. It is hard to measure intensity of work, but Britons give a distinct impression of going at their tasks in a more leisurely way.
But is all this so terrible？ It certainly does not improve the gross national product or output per worker. Those observant visitors, however, have noticed something else about Britain. It is a pleasant place.
Street crowds in Stockholm. Paris and New York move quickly and silently heads down, all in a hurry. London crowds tend to walk at an easy pace (except in the profitable, efficient City, the financial district).
Every stranger is struck by the patient and orderly way in which Britons queue for a bus: if the saleswoman is slow and out of stock she will likely say, ‘oh dear, what a pity’; the rubbish collectors stop to chat (聊天) and call the housewives “Luv.” Crime rises here as in every city but there still remains a gentle tone and temper that is unmatched in Berlin, Milan or Detroit.
In short, what is wrong with Britain may also be what is right. Having reached a tolerable standard, Britons appear to be choosing leisure over goods.
第36题：What happens when disputes over job opportunities arise among British unions？
A) Thirty three per cent of the workers will be out of work.
B) More people will be employed than necessary.
C) More jobs will be created by the government.
D) The unions will try to increase productivity.
