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 that 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 very 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(救护车) 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 Bramante 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 ( 同时地) 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(存取) the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.
1.How do you understand‘Point 1 —The telephone creates the need to communicate, …’？
A. People don’t communicate without telephone.
B. People communicate because of the creating of the telephone.
C. People communicate more since telephone has been created.
D. People communicate more because of more traffic.
2.Which of the following best shows people’s attitude towards mobile phones?
A. Mobile phones help people deal with the emergency.
B. Mobile phones bring convenience as well as little secret to people.
C. Mobile phones are so important and should be encouraged.
D. Mobile phones are part of people’s life.
3.It is possible to talk to several complete strangers simultaneously through _______.
A. the TV screen
B. a fax machine
C. the phone line hooked up to the computer
D. a microphone
4.The best heading for the passage is _________.
A. Phone Power B. Kinds of Phone
C. How to Use Phones D. Advantage of Phones
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The other day I talked to a stranger on the bus. When he found out that I was from ________, he told me he had a good friend who lived there and he wondered if, by any chance, I ________ to know him. At the moment I thought he might be joking, but I could ________ from the expression on his face that he was ________ . I felt like saying that it was impossible to all the millions of people in Chicago I could have ________ with his friend. But instead, I just________ and told him that Chicago was a very big city. He ________ , and I thought he was going to ________ talking about the subject. But I was ________ . He was silent for a few minutes, and then he began to tell me about his friend.
He told me that his friend's main ________ in life seemed to be playing tennis. He said he was an excellent tennis player, and that he ________ had his own tennis court(网球场). He added that he knew a lot of people with swimming pools, ________ he only knew two people who had private tennis courts. I told him I knew several people having private tennis courts, including my brother who was a doctor in California---and, in fact, ________ my next door neighbor in Chicago. He said that maybe there were ________ private courts in the country than he realized, but he did not know of any others. Then he asked me where my brother lived in California. When I said Sacramento, he said that was a coincidence(巧合) ________ his friend spent the summer in Sacramento last year, and he stayed next door to a doctor who had a tennis court in his backyard. I said I felt that really was a coincidence because my ________ had gone to Sacramento last summer and had rented (租用) the house________ my brother's. For a moment, we________ at each other, but we did not say anything.
"Would your friend's name happened to be Roland Dickwood?" I asked finally. He laughed and said, "Yes. Would your ________ name happened to be Dr Ray Hunter?" It was my ________to laugh. "Yes, "I replied.
1.A. Chicago B. a city C. Sacramento D. California
2.A. wanted B. happened C. went D. had
3.A. speak B. watch C. see D. tell
4.A. serious B. anxious C. friendly D. gentle
5.A. talked B. worked C. met D. lived
6.A. smiled B. sat C. thought D. talked
7.A. rose B. nodded C. smiled D. agreed
8.A. stop B. begin C. continue D. change
9.A. right B. curious C. wrong D. foolish
10.A. habit B. interest C. duty D. belief
11.A. once B. exactly C. even D. almost
12.A. for B. or C. so D. but
13.A. same B. as C. also D. well
14.A. some B. no C. more D. fewer
15.A. if B. because C. while D. when
16.A. brother’s friend B. brother C. friend D. next-door neighbor
17.A. far from B. next to C. near D. behind
18.A. stared B. talked C. laughed D. shouted
19.A. friend's B. brother's C. neighbor's D. court's
20.A. chance B. time C. turn D. moment
The discovery of new evidence led to _________.
A. the thief having caught
B. catch the thief
C. the thief to be caught
D. the thief being caught
You have made a ______. You have _____ two lines from this paragraph
A.. mistake; left over B. mistake; left for
C. mistake; left out D. mistake; left behind
He _____ to the meeting ten minutes earlier, but he was _______ by a heavy fog.
A. was supposed to come; held out
B. is supposed to come; held back
C. is supposed to have come; held up
D. was supposed to come; held back
– I wonder if you could go with me to the cinema.
--- Don’t disturb me. I ______ a composition all the morning and haven’t finished it yet.
A. write B. was writing
C. have written D. have been writing
