Your smartphone can do a lot of things. It can call people. It connects to the Internet. It enables you to play fun games. But there is a dark side to this smart little equipment of yours----- it might also spread disease.
“People are just likely to get sick from their phones as from handles of the bathroom, ” Jeffrey Cain, the president of the American Academy of Family Physicians , told The Wall Street Journal.
This may be hard to believe, but scientists reached this conclusion after they tested eight cell phones from an office in Chicago. All the tested phones showed high numbers of coliforms (大腸菌), a kind of bacteria found in human waste , with about 2700 to 4200 units of the bacteria on each phone. The bacteria can cause flu, pinkeye and other diseases . That is right --- your phone is covered in our human waste.
Although computers, keys and pens carry germs (細菌) , our phones get far dirtier. They touch a lot of things, including our hands and the inside of our pocket or purse. We take them almost everywhere: the bus, the subway and who hasn’t played Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja while sitting on the toilet?
“Some things that we think are personal are actually more public than we imagine,” Cain said.  What is even worse is that after the phone returns from its dirty trip, it then spends most of its time cozying up to our faces. You don’t think about how often you touch your phone to your face, do you? Our noses, mouths and ears are all warm and rich in grease (油脂) , an environment that germs really like.
So how do you keep your phone clean? Alcohol is effective when used to kill germs from the back and side of your phone. But it might harm the screen. There is one simple and reliable way you can reduce the germs on your phone’s surface: wash your hands regularly.
小題1:The underlined word “dark” in the first paragraph means _______
A.blackB.hopelessC.unpleasantD.unclear
小題2:Which of the following best describe the tone of the third paragraph?
A.TerrifiedB.concernedC.Satisfying D.Threatening
小題3: By saying “Some things we think are personal are actually more public than we imagine,” Cain means that ________.
A.people love to share their phones more than they realize
B.our personal items could be as risky to our health as public items
C.phones are used in public places more than people realize
D.Most people don’t know how dirty their cell phones are
小題4:What is the article mainly about?
A.Tips on the use of phones
B.Health problems caused by the use of phones
C.The danger of coliforms infection
D.The influence that phone have on our life

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:B

試題分析:本文主要講述的手機上帶有太多的細菌,導致我們會出現(xiàn)很多的健康方面的問題。
小題1:C 推理題。根據(jù)文章第一段It can call people. It connects to the Internet. It enables you to play fun games. But there is a dark side to this smart little equipment of yours----- it might also spread disease.可知手機有很多的作用,但是手機也有很多的dark sides也就是說手機也有很不好的地方。故C正確。
小題2:B 推理題。在文章第三段里,作者描述了我們的手機上有太多的細菌,作者是用一種很擔心的心情在描述這樣的事情,因為手機是我們經(jīng)常使用的東西,上面如此臟,會對我們的健康也會有影響。故B正確。
小題3:C 推理題。根據(jù)本句“Some things that we think are personal are actually more public than we imagine,”可知很多事情比我們個人想象的還要復雜。在本文的具體語境中就是說我們使用手機的頻率比我們想象的還要高。故C正確。
小題4:B 主旨大意題。本文主要講述的手機上帶有太多的細菌,導致我們會出現(xiàn)很多的健康方面的問題。故B正確。
點評:本文主要講述的手機上帶有太多的細菌,導致我們會出現(xiàn)很多的健康方面的問題。推斷題測試考生在閱讀基礎(chǔ)上的邏輯推理能力,要求考生根據(jù)文章所述事件的邏輯關(guān)系,對未說明的趨勢或結(jié)局作出合理的推斷;或根據(jù)作者所闡述的觀點理論,對文章未涉及的現(xiàn)象、事例給以解釋?忌紫纫屑氶喿x短文,完整了解信息,準確把握作者觀點。
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