Read the following passage and answer the questions.

In South Korea, smart-phone cases come with rings fixed firmly on the back to prevent clumsy owners from dropping them. This makes people look like they are literally married to their phones. In many of Seoul’s most Instagrammable(网红)coffee shops, couples on dates spend vastly more time looking at their screens than at each other. The outcomes go beyond the potentially serious consequences for romance.

Walk around the streets of Seoul or any other South Korean city, and there is a real risk of bumping into people whose eyes are glued to their smart-phone screens. Insurers estimate that around 370 traffic accidents annually are caused by pedestrians using smart-phones. That figure does not include those who bump into lamp posts and the like while perusing the latest cat videos.

The government initially tried to fight the “smornbie”(a combination of “smart-phone and “zombie”) epidemic by distributing hundreds of stickers around cities imploring people to “be safe” and look up. This seems to have had little effect even though, in Seoul at least, it recently replaced the stickers with sturdier plastic boards.

Instead of appealing to people’s good sense, the authorities have therefore resorted to trying to save them from being run over. Early last year, they began to trial floor-level traffic lights in smomibe hot-spots in central Seoul. Since then, the experiment has been extended around and beyond the capital. For the moment, the government is retaining old-fashioned eye-level pedestrian lights as well. But in future, the way to look at a South Korean crossroads may be down.

Answer the following questions in COMPLETE sentences:

1.According to the passage, why do people look like they are married to their phone in South Korea.?

2.How many accidents annually are caused by pedestrian using smart-phones?

3.In many coffee shops, what do couples on dates usually do?

4.Distributing hundreds of stickers around cities had little effect on “smombie” epidemic, did it?

5.What measures did the authorities take early last year?

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A girl complained to her father about her hard life. She didn’t know what she had to do and wanted to_______. She felt tired for fighting and fighting. One problem had been finished but another came.

Her father, a cook, took her into the kitchen. He poured water into the pans(锅)and boiled it. When the water was boiling, in the first pan he put some carrots, in the second he put some eggs and in the last he put some coffee. he boiled them for a few minutes _______ any words.

The girl closed her mouth, too. And she waited unhappily not knowing _______ her father was doing that. After about 20 minutes, her father turned off the stove, took out the carrots and put them in a bowl. He took out the eggs and put them in another bowl. After that the coffee was poured into a cup. Turning back to his daughter, he asked, “What do you see?” “Carrots, eggs and coffee,” she answered.

Her father told her to close her eyes and let her touch the carrots. She did and felt that the carrots were soft. After that he asked her to take eggs and break them. Then, she got boiled and hard eggs._______, the father asked her to smell the coffee. “What’s the meaning, Father?” He _______ that each one had the same unlucky experience, but each had a different reaction(反应). The strong and hard carrots had become soft and _______ after being boiled in the boiling water. The eggs became hard after being cooked. The coffee was very special and it changed the water. “Who are you?” asked her father, “When bad luck knocks at your door, what’s your reaction? Are you carrots, eggs or coffee?’

1.A.look up B.give up C.grow up D.put up

2.A.about B.in C.without D.with

3.A.what B.how C.why D.when

4.A.However B.In addition C.At last D.At first

5.A.explained B.examined C.denied D.expressed

6.A.delicious B.sweet C.healthy D.weak

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