When you get in your car, you reach for it. When you're at work, you take a break to have a moment alone with it. When you get into a lift, you play with it.
Cigarette? Cup of coffee? No, it's the third most addictive thing in modem life, the cell phone. And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curb their longing to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships.
The costs are becoming more and more evident, and I don't mean just the monthly bill. Dr. Chris Knippers, a counselor at the Betty ford Center in Southern California, reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and an escape from reality. Sounds extreme, but we' ve all witnessed the evidence: The person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around him. Jim Williams, an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts, notes that cell - phone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gulf of personal separation. He points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with. Despite the growing use of phones, e - mail and instant messaging, in other words, Williams says studies show that we don't have as many friends as our parents.  " Just as more information has led to less wisdom, more acquaintances via the Internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends," he says.
If the cell phone has truly had these effects, it's because it has become very widespread. Consider that in 1987, there were only l million cell phones in use.  Today, something like 300 million Americans carry them. They far outnumber wired phones in the United States.
小題1: From the first two paragraphs, we can know________.
A．cell phones have become as addictive as cigarettes
B．cell phone addiction is good for building personal relationships
C．people are longing to have their own cell phones
D．cell phones are the same as cigarettes
小題2:Cell phone addiction has caused the following effects EXCEPT________  .
A．a(chǎn) barrier to personal contact B．fewer friends
C．a(chǎn)n escape from reality D．a(chǎn) serious illness
小題3: The underlined word "curb" in Paragraph 2 means “________. ”
A．ignore B．control C．develop D．rescue
小題4:The example of a woman talking on the phone in the car supports the idea that________  .
A．women Use cell phones more often than men
B．talking on the phone while driving is dangerous
C．cell phones do not necessarily bring people together
D．cell phones make one - on - one personal contact easy
小題5:Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A．Cell phones Are the New Cigarettes
B．Cell phones Are Harmful to the Society
C．The New Report about the Cell phone
D．The Disadvantages of the Cell phone
        
小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:C
小題5:A

試題分析：
小題1:A 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)原文it's the third most addictive thing in modem life, the cell phone.  故A符合題意
小題2:D 判斷題。根據(jù)原文信息可以判斷手機不會引起疾病 故D符合題意
小題3:B 詞義題。根據(jù)上下文句意可知，此處為控制故B符合題意
小題4:C推斷題�？梢灾滥腥舜螂娫捄雎粤俗约旱恼煞颍隙〞屓擞谌酥g的距離越來越遠故C符合題意
小題5:A主旨題。根據(jù)it's the third most addictive thing in modem life, the cell phone. 故A符合題意
點評：
文章講述了手機帶給人們生活的沖擊，呼吁人們應(yīng)多在意身邊的人。議論文是一種剖析事物、論述事理、發(fā)表見解或提出主張的說理性文章。議論文的目的不僅是客觀的解釋事物，還力圖說服讀者相信并接受某一觀點。
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