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9．Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices，while driving，walking，shopping，even sitting in toilets．People have been influenced to become technology addicted．One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sleep，cigarettes and alcohol．
The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products，not to actually improve our quality of life．They have successfully created a cultural disease．Consumers willingly give up their freedom，money and time to catch up on the latest information，to keep pace with their peers or to appear modern．
I see people trapped in a pathological（病态的）relationship with time-sucking technology，where they serve technology more than technology serves them．I call this technology servitude（奴役）．I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence because of uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money．
What is a healthy use of technology devices？That is the vital question．Who is really in charge of my life？That is what people need to ask themselves if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about their use of technology．When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week，then we can regain control and personal freedom，become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology．Mae West is famous for proclaiming（声明） the wisdom that"too much of a good thing is wonderful．"But it's time to discover that it does not work for technology．
Richard Fernandez，an executive coach at Google acknowledged that"we can be swept away by our technologies．"To break the grand digital connection，people must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without today's overused technology．
25．The underlined word"allure"in Paragraph 2probably meansC．
A．advantage      B．adaption  C．attraction          D．addiction
26．From the passage，technology companies aim toD．
A．deal with cultural diseases             
B．provide the latest information
C．improve people's quality of life         
D．draw people's attention to their products
27．We can learn from this passage that peopleB．
A．consider too much technology wonderful
B．may enjoy life better without overused technology
C．can regain freedom without high-tech devices
D．have realized the harm of high-tech devices
28．What's the author's attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices？A
A．Disapproving．B．Skeptical．C．Supportive．D．Sympathetic．

分析 本文抨击了人们过度使用社交媒体和科技产品这一现象，反对人们对高科技的过度使用和依赖． 作者认为，如果不过度使用科技，人们可以更好地享受生活．

解答 25．C 词义猜测题．根据划线单词的前一句People have been influenced to become technology addicted．可知，人们对社交媒体和科技上瘾了，即社交媒体和科技对人们有很大的吸引力．所以划线单词所在句子的意思应该是：人们难以抵抗这种社交媒体的吸引力．前后句意统一，吻合．故选C．
26．D 细节理解题．根据第二段第一句The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products，not to actually improve our quality of life．可知，科技公司的主要目的不是为了提高人们的生活质量，而是要让人们为它的产品消耗更多的金钱和时间，更多地关注其产品．故选D．
27．B 推理判断题．根据倒数第二段第五句When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week，then we can regain control and personal freedom，become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology．以及最后一段最后一句To break the grand digital connection，people must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without today's overused technology．可知，人们如果不过度的依赖科技，可以更好地享受生活．故选B．
28．A 观点态度题．根据第三段a pathological（病态的）relationship （病态关系），technology servitude（奴役）（科技奴役）．eat up time and money（耗费时间与金钱）可知，作者对于人们的过度使用高科技持反对的态度．故选A．

点评 解观点态度题时，可通过对作者使用的修饰词的分析来推断作者的思想倾向和情感．如通过文中的pathological（病态的），servitude（奴役），eat up这些形容词、名词和动词的使用可以明显地看出作者的态度---反对过度使用高科技产品．

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