阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

  When I asked my daughter which item she would keep:the phone,the car,the cooker,the computer,the TV,or her boyfriend,she said“the phone”,Personally,I could do without the phone entirely,which makes me unusual.Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology.

  Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate,in the same way that more roads create more traffic.My daughter comes home from school at 4∶00 p.m.and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day.If the phone did not exist,would she have anything to talk about?

  Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone.“The mobile saved my life.”says Crystal Johnstone.She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skiption.Trapped inside,she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance to her rescue.

  Point 3 The mobile removes our secret.It allows Marketing Manager of Haba Deutsch,Carl Nicolaisen,to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are,where they are going,and how their last meeting went.

  Point 4 The telephone separates us.Antonella Bramante in Rome says,“We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window.It was easy to get his number.We were so near-but we didn't meet for the first two weeks!”

  Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives.Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously(同时地)on chat lines (at least my daughter does.I wouldn't know what to talk about).We can talk across the world.We can even talk to astronauts(if you know any)while they are space-walking.And,with the phone line hooked up to the computer,we can access the Internet,the biggest library on Earth.

1.Which of the following best shows people's attitude towards mobile phones?

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A.Mobile phones help people deal with the emergency.

B.Mobile phones bring convenience as well little secret to people.

C.Mobile phones are so important and should be encouraged.

D.Mobile phones are people's life.

2.Which points do you think support the idea that phones improve people's life?

a.Pont l  b.Point 2  c.Point 3  d.Point 4  e.Point 5.

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A.c,d
B.a,e
C.a,c
D.b,e

3.It is possible to talk to several complete strangers simultaneously through________.

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A.the TV screen

B.a fax machine

C.the phone line hooked up to the computer

D.a microphone

4.The best heading for the passage is________.

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A.Phone Power
B.Kinds of Phone
C.How to Use Phones
D.Advantage of Phones

It was the first time in Cindy's 12 years she had tried to make a cake, but it wasn't exactly a success. The cake was ---well, lumpy(粗笨的). And it tasted   1   , as if she had run out of sugar. Besides, the   2   was in a mess with all the fixings for cake out of place.

     But Cindy wasn't thinking about the mess. She was   3   for her parents to return home so she could   4    her gift to them. She turned off the lights and waited   5   in the darkness. When at last she saw the   6   of the car headlights, she   7   herself in the kitchen doorways. When she had heard the key   8    into the front door, she was this  9  exploding.

      Her parents tried to slip in quietly, but Cindy would have   10  of that. She turned on the lights dramatically and gestured toward the kitchen table,   11    a slightly off-balance cake awaited their   12    But her mother saw nothing but the   13  , She shouted, "How many times have l talked to you about cleaning up   14   yourself?"

     "But Mom, l was only ..."

     "Clean this up immediately."

     Unfortunately, Cindy's mother isn't the only parent who   15   the occasional inability to see the forest for the trees. Sometimes we allow ourselves to be   16   to issues of long-term significance by the thing that seems   17   now --but isn't.   18   kitchen sanitation (卫生) is important, is it worth the   19   of tender feelings and relationships? As parents there are times when we   20   need to see the mess in the kitchen. And times when we only need to see the cake.

1. A. delicious           B. sweet              C. terrible             D. bitter

2. A. kitchen            B. dining-room         C. sitting-room         D. table

3. A. ready             B. eager               C. anxious             D. crazy

4. A. provide            B. present             C. offer               D. supply

5. A. patiently           B. excitedly            C. nervously           D. happily

6. A. shadow            B. flame               C. flash               D. body

7. A. positioned          B. hid                C. adapted             D. adjusted

8. A. putting             B. knocking           C. pushing             D. sliding

9. A. more than          B. close to             C. related to            D. rather than

10. A. neither             B. nothing             C. none               D. something

11. A. which              B. where              C. as                 D. because

12. A. inspection           B. admiration          C. encouragement      D. inspiration

13. A. table               B. kitchen             C. cake               D. mess

14. A. by                 B. of                 C. for                D. after

15. A. gives away          B. suffers from         C. shows off           D. takes in

16. A. blinded             B. caught             C. stuck               D. devoted

17. A. necessary           B. important           C. extraordinary        D. clean

18. A. Whenever           B. If                 C. While              D. Since

19. A. price                B. value             C. reward              D. sacrifice

20. A. actually            B. only               C. really               D. occasionally

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