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7、Owning a smartphone may not be as smart as you think.They may let you surf the Internet，listen to music and snap photos wherever you are...but they also turn you into a workaholic，it seems.A study suggests that，by giving you access to emails at all times.the all-singing.all-dancing mobile phone adds as much as two hours to your working day.

Researchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles.The study by technology retailer Pixmania，reveals the average UK working day is between nine and ten hours，but a further two hours is spent responding to or sending work emails，or making work calls.Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails.Some workers confess they are on call almost 24 hours a day，with nine out of ten saying they take work emails and calls outside their normal working hours.Nearly two-thirds say they often check work emails just before they go to bed and as soon as they wake up，while over a third have replied to one in the middle of the night.

Ghadi Hobeika，marketing director of Pixmania，said：“The ability to access literally millions of apps，keep in contact via social networks and take photos and video as well as text and call has made smartphones valuable for many people.However，there are drawbacks.Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day，seven days a week，and smartphones mean that people literally cannot get away from work.The more constantly in contact we become。The more is expected of us in a work capacity.”

【小题1】The text is probably taken from___________.

A.a scientific report

B.a financial report

C.a newspaper

D.a literary journal

【小题2】The underlined word “drawbacks” in the last paragraph probably means_________.

A.advantages B.faults C.mistakes D.features

【小题3】Ghadi may agree that___________.

A.employees are supposed to be on call 24 hours a day

B.the ability to access many apps made smartphones worthless

C.smartphones might turn a person into a workaholic

D.people literally cannot get away from work without smartphones

【小题4】What is the main idea of this passage?

A.Smartphones are lengthening working hours

B.Smartphones are becoming valuable for many people

C.Britons work art additional 460 hours a year on average

D.Smartphones are more beneficial to our life than we think

8、“Old wives tales” are beliefs passed down from one generation to another, For example, most of us remember our parents’ telling us to eat more of certain foods or not to do certain things.Is there any truth in these teachings? Some of them agree with present medical thinking, but others have not passed the test of time.

Did your mother ever tell you to eat your carrots because they are good for your eyes? Scientists now report that eating carrots can help prevent a serious eye disease called macular degeneration.Eating just one carrot a day can reduce the possibility of getting this disease by 40%.Garlic is good for you, too.It can kill the type of virus that causes colds.

Unfortunately, not all of Mom’ s advice passed the test of medical studies, For example, generations of children have been told not to go swimming within an hour after eating.But research suggests that there is no danger in doing so.Do sweets cause tooth problems? Well, yes and no.Sticky sweets made with grains tend to cause more problems than sweets made with simple sugars.

Even though science can tell us that some of our traditional beliefs don’t hold water, there is still a lot of truth in the old wives’ tales.After all, much of this knowledge has been accumulated from thousands of years of experience in family health care.We should respect this body of knowledge even as we search for clear scientific support to prove it true or false.

【小题1】Which of the following is TRUE according to the test?

A.Eating garlic is good for our eye

B.Carrots prevent people from catching colds.

C.Swimming after a meal is dangerous.

D.Sticky sweets are damaging to our teeth.

【小题2】The author develops the third paragraph mainly________.

A.by cause and effect

B.by order in space

C.by examples

D.by order in time

【小题3】The phrase “hold water” in the last paragraph most probably means”_____”.

A.to be suitable

B.to be valuable

C.to be admirable

D.to be believable

【小题4】What’s the author’s attitude towards “old wives’ tales” in the text?

A.objective

B.subjective

C.dissatisfied

D.curious

9、People are being lured(引诱)onto Facebook with the promise of a fun, free service, and don’t realize that they’re paying for it by giving up loads of personal information.Facebook then attempts to make money by selling their data to advertisers that want to send targeted messages.

Most Facebook users don’t realize this is happening.Even if they know what the company is up to, they still have no idea what they’re paying for Facebook, because people don’t really know what their personal details are worth.

The biggest problem, however, is that the company keeps changing the rules.Early on, you could keep everything private.That was the great thing about Facebook—you could create your own little private network.Last year, the company changed its privacy rules so that many things—your city, your photo, your friends’ names—were set, by default(默认), to be shared with everyone on the Internet.

According to Facebook’s vice president Elliot Schrage, the company is simply making changes to improve its service, and if people don’t share information, they have a “less satisfying experience.”

Some critics think this is more about Facebook looking to make more money.Its original business model, which involved selling ads and putting them at the side of the page, totally failed.Who wants to look at ads when they’re online connecting with their friends?

The privacy issue has already landed Facebook in hot water in Washington.In April, Senator Charles Schumer called on Facebook to change its privacy policy.He also urged the Commission to set guidelines for social-networking sites.“I think the senators rightly communicated that we had not been clear about what the new products were and how people could choose to use them or not to use them,” Schrage admits.

I suspect that whatever Facebook has done so far to invade(侵犯)our privacy, it’s only the beginning，which is why I’m considering deactivating(撤销) my account.Facebook is a handy site, but I’m upset by the idea that my information is in the hands of people I don’t trust.That is too high a price to pay.

【小题1】What do we learn about Facebook from the first paragraph?

A.It is a website that sends messages to targeted users

B.It makes money by putting on advertisements

C.It earns money by selling its user’s personal data

D.It provides a lot of information to its users

【小题2】What does the author say about most Facebook users?

A.They don’t know their personal data enriches Facebook

B.They are unwilling to give up their personal information

C.They don’t identify themselves when using website

D.They care very little about their personal information

【小题3】Why does Facebook make changes to its rules according to Elliot Schrage?

A.To help its users make more friends

B.To obey the Federal guidelines

C.To make money by attracting more users

D.To offer better service to its users

【小题4】What does Senator Charles Schumer argue for?

A.Setting guidelines for advertising on websites

B.Setting rules for social-networking sites

C.Stopping sharing user’s personal information

D.Removing ads from all social-networking sites

【小题5】Why does the author plan to stop using his Facebook account?

A.He is dissatisfied with its service

B.He finds many of its users untrustworthy

C.He doesn’t want his personal data abused

D.He is upset by its frequent rule changes

10、阅读A、B、C三篇材料，然后从各小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

The Winter Olympics is also called the White Olympics.At this time, many colorful stamps are published to mark the great Games.The first stamps marking the opening came out on January 25, 1932 in the United States for the 3rd White Olympics.From then on, publishing stamps during the White Olympics became a rule.

During the 4th Winter Olympic Games a group of stamps were published in Germany in November 1936.The five rings of Olympics were drawn on the front of the sportswear.It was the first time that the rings appeared on the stamps of the White Olympics.

In the 1950s, the stamps of this kind became more colorful.When the White Olympics came, the host countries as well as the non-host countries published stamps to mark those Games.China also published four stamps in February 1980, when the Chinese sportsmen began to take part in the White Olympics.

Japan is an Asian country that has ever held the White Olympics.Altogether 14,500 million stamps were sold to raise money for this sports meet.

Different kinds of sports were drawn on these small stamps.People can enjoy the beauty of the wonderful movements of some sportsmen.