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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.”

1.The text is probably taken from___________.

A.a scientific report

B.a financial report

C.a newspaper

D.a literary journal

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

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

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

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

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Researchers from France and Italy discovered that Canadian parents are less strict with their children than mothers and fathers in France and Italy.

“Our most important finding was the difference between Canadians and the others,” said Professor Michel Claes,the lead author of the study.“Canadians focus on independence and negotiation.On the other hand,Italians,for example,exercise more control.We found Canadians seem to focus on negotiation in case of a conflict.”

Claes said Canada,France and Italy were selected for the study because they share important cultural and social factors.“We chose French?Canadians because they share the same language as France,and originally came from France and share certain values.Italy was included because it was considered to have similar,strong and important family values,” he explained.

The researchers examined the emotional ties between parents and their children by questioning 1,256 students aged 11 to 19 years old.

Canadian students reported less control and more free actions,according to the study.Italian parents were stricter and French parents were somewhere in the middle.

Claes explains that the differences lie in education in Canada,France and Italy.

“North America has its own educational values,which promote individualization.Tolerance and comprehension are encouraged.Italy,on the other hand,promotes respect of authority,control,and the need for permission.” he said.

Children from all three countries described their mothers as warm and communicative.Italian and Canadian children had similar feelings about their fathers,and reported high levels of emotional ties.But French fathers were generally thought by their children to be more distant and cold.

“We were surprised by this,” Claes admitted.“It seems as though the relationships between French mothers and their children were becoming closer over time,while fathers maintain a form of distance and coldness,which is more of a source of conflict in France than in the other countries.”

1.Professor Michel Claes believes that Canada,France and Italy ________.

A.have the same family spirit

B.have some similar cultural traditions

C.have experienced some similar social changes

D.have experienced similar cultural developments

2.How did the researchers carry out the study ?

A.By collecting answers of parents from Canada,France and Italy.

B.By collecting answers of children from Canada,France and Italy.

C.By questioning parents and their children from Italian Canadian families.

D.By questioning children from French?Canadian families.

3.According to Michel Claes,what mainly leads to the differences in parent?children relationships among Canada,France and Italy?

A.Educational opportunities.

B.Traditional ideas.

C.Educational values.

D.Historical events.

4.Which of the following is NOT a finding of the study?

A.French children have troubled relationships with their parents.

B.Canadian children have close relationships with their parents.

C.Italian children have good relationships with their parents.

D.Kids from Canada,France and Italy have closer ties with their moms.

阅读下列短文,选出最佳选项。 Three-year-old Teddy Lasry was sleeping in his cowboy outfit (套装) yesterday at his family’s Fifth Ave.apartment when he shot up in bed screaming.A 3-foot-long black-and-white snake twisted around his left arm and had just bitten his little finger.

“The babysitter (a person taking care of children while their parents are away for a short time) was frightened to death,” said Teddy’s father, David Lasry, who, along with his wife, Evelyn, was at work when the snake appeared about 4:00 pm.

The horrified babysitter called 911 and the building’s doorman.The doorman and two cable TV workers helped take the snake off the boy’s arm and put it in a garbage bag.Police rushed Teddy to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he spent two hours attached to a heart monitor as a precaution in case the snake was poisonous.It wasn’t.Experts at the snakebite treatment center at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where policemen took the snake, found out it was a non-poisonous California king snake.

But how did it end up in Teddy’s bed?

A little detective work determined that the snake had escaped two weeks ago from its cage in the apartment of a doctor whose family lives four floors below the Lasrys.The apologetic owner said his son’s pet snake likely traveled up the water pipes and into his neighbor’s apartment.“It’s a very gentle, very harmless snake,” he said.“It’s handled by our family all the time.”

David Lasry believed the pet was simply hungry after two weeks of wandering.Evelyn said her son seems to have overcome his fright by thinking of himself as a hero cowboy as he rode in the back of the police car to the hospital.

“I told Teddy he’s a pretty snake, a nice pet snake who got out of his cage,” Evelyn said.“But he asked, ‘Why did he bite my finger, Mamma?’ And I said, ‘Because he saw that you are a big boy, Teddy, in your cowboy outfit and he got scared.’”

1.What did the babysitter do after Teddy was bitten by a snake?

A.She ran out of the apartment.

B.She called the TV company.

C.She made an emergency call.

D.She took the snake off Teddy’s arm.

2.We can learn from the passage that the snake _______.

A.was poisonous

B.was kept in a cage by its owner

C.was deserted by its owner

D.escaped to the apartment

3.From the passage, we know _______.

A.Teddy needed a heart machine to stay alive for two hours

B.Teddy was awake when the snake arrived

C.Teddy’s mother was at home when the snake turned up

D.the snake was used to being touched

4.Teddy probably believed he was attacked because _______.

A.his parents weren’t at home

B.he was asleep the snake

C.was scared of him

D.the snake was hungry

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