It’s the lunchtime break at Shanghai Xianxia Middle School. No mobile phones can be heard ringing anywhere. The common sight of crowds of children chatting on their phones or sending short messages has disappeared.

A grade-2 student said, “I couldn’t listen carefully during classes if the mobile phone was with me. I couldn’t help checking if there were messages or missed phone calls. I even played games on the phone sometimes.”

The school says they feel the ban(禁令) is necessary to keep order in class. They even gave out an open letter to remind parents not to let their children bring mobile phones to school. More than 96 percent of parents say they welcome the school decision. The school is also being flexible (灵活的) in implementing the ban. Those students who live far from school are allowed to bring mobile phones to contact their parents. But they still have to turn them off in classrooms.

Medical experts have also welcomed the school decision. They say using mobile phones too often can cause many psychological problems in teenage students.

1. The grade-2 student thought that _______.

A. the mobile phone should be on during classes

B. it is good to play cell phone games sometimes

C. the mobile phone is helpful to her studies

D. it is no good using the cell phone at school

2.According to the passage, the students use their mobile phones except _______.

A. contacting their parents

B. cheating in exams

C. sending short messages

D. playing games

3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. All the parents welcome the school decision.

B. Some students can bring mobile phones to school.

C. Medical experts think the school decision is good.

D. No one is allowed to use mobile phones in the classrooms

4.What does the underlined word “implementing” in paragraph 3 mean?

A. 调整 B. 公布 C. 执行 D. 张贴

5.The passage mainly tells us _______.

A. the mobile phone is a big trouble to teenage students

B. the use of the mobile phone can cause mental problems

C. about a ban on the mobile phone in a middle school

D. a story happening at Shanghai Xianxia Middle School

信息归纳

My grandmother is over eighty years old. She always complains about how greatly things have changed, and she often says that life used to be better.

Families aren’t families the way they used to be. If a husband and wife are having problem with their marriage, they don’t stay together any more. They choose to divorce. Mothers used to stay at home and take care of their children, but now everyone is busy working; no one has time to look after children at home.

And the cars! No one walk any more; people get richer and richer, and more and more people buy cars and drive. We used to walk five miles to school every day, even in winter. But now children don’t.

And in school, children don’t have to think any more. When I was at school, I used to add, subtract, multiply and divide using my head in math class, but now, children use calculators instead.

Most families have computers and TVs now. In the past we didn’t have computers or TVs, we spent a lot of time talking with our family members. But now, people are too busy to talk to each other. If they have time, they’d watch TV or surf the Internet rather than talk to family members. They are even too busy to eat and think.

Life used to be simple, but it isn’t any more.

Information Card

Used to

Now

Family

Mothers used to stay at home and

1.__________________________

Everyone is busy working

Transportation

On foot

2._____________

Study

Using heads to do math exercises

Using 3.____________ instead

Life

Talking with 4._____________a lot

Watching TV or 5.__________Instead.

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