题目内容
Growing numbers of people are becoming addicted to text messaging(手机信息), a German doctor warned recently。
Psychotherapist(采用精神疗法的医生) Andreas Herter estimated that there were some 380,000 sufferers in Germany。 Herter based his prediction(预测)on the growing number of manic mobile phone users among patients arriving at his Hanover clinic (诊所)for addiction treatment。
“Text message addiction is a real and serious illness because it causes mental and financial damage,” said Herter。 “The problem leads to depression and personality disorders, not to mention skyrocketing (飞涨的)phone bills。”
For example, a teenage boy spent 8,900 euros (US$11,000) texting people he didn’t even know and a married couple could only communicate by text message, even when they were sitting side by side。
55。 The passage is mainly to tell us ______。
A。 why people like text messaging B。 text messaging has many advantages
C。 overusing text message does great harm D。 text messaging does no good
56。 Herter thinks text message addiction is ______。
A。 acceptable B。 easy to deal with C。 unreasonable D。 worrying
57。 The examples given in the last paragraph are used to show ______。
A。 text message addiction is a serious diseas
B。they care about nothing else but text message
C。 sending text message is their only hobby
D。 they are very rich
55-----57 CDA
解析
One winter morning I bought a copy of the New York World and turned its pages until I got the “Help Wanted Unskilled” section.A small advertisement held my 36 .It read, “Easy job.Good wages.No experience 37 .” It sounded like the job I was 38 .Easy job.Good wages.Those four words 39 now and then in my brain as I was traveling to the address indicated in the 40 .Easy job.Good wages.Easy job.Good wages.Easy ...
When I got to the place I saw a series of large 41 half filled with water, out of which I noticed 42 the necks of many bottles of various sizes and shapes. 43 these basins there were a number of workers sitting on small wooden benches.All had their 44 in the water of the basin, the left hand holding a 45 and the thumb nail of the right hand scratching(刮;擦) the labels on 46 .
I sat down on a 47 beside one of the basins and started to work on one bottle.As the minutes went by I noticed that the 48 of the water started to 49 from my hand to my body.But 50 still, the delicate thumb of my right hand was 51 by the minute into a full blown tomato colored finger.A numb(麻木的)pain began to be felt 52 from my right thumb.Then I began to feel as if the pain was coming from a finger bigger than all my body.
After three hours of this I told the manager I’d 53 .He figured I had 54 69 cents at 23 cents an hour.With the money, I left the working place.“Easy job.Good wages.” came to my brain again.Looking at my hands, I 55 myself, “Can easy job get good wages?”
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