Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets. When connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.
People have been influenced to become technology addicted. One survey reported that “addicted” was the word most commonly used by people to describe their relationship to iPad and similar devices. 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（病態(tài)的）relationship with time-sucking technology, where they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude. 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 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.
小題1:The underlined word “allure” in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.
A．a(chǎn)dvantageB．a(chǎn)ttractionC． adaptionD．a(chǎn)ttempt
小題2:From the passage, technology companies aim to ______.
A．a(chǎn)ttract people to buy their productsB．provide the latest information
C．improve people’s quality of lifeD．deal with cultural diseases
小題3:It can be inferred from this passage that people ______.
A．consider too much technology wonderful
B．have realized the harm of high-tech devices
C．can regain freedom without high-tech devices
D．may enjoy life better without overused technology
小題4:What’s the author’s attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices?
A．Neutral.B．Sceptical.C．Disapproving.D．Sympathetic.

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:C

試題分析：文章作者指出了人們過度使用科技的許多弊端，反對大眾對高科技設(shè)備的過度依賴。
小題1:猜詞題：根據(jù) One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.可猜出allure意思是吸引，故選B。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)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.可知從這篇文章來看，技術(shù)公司目標(biāo)是吸引人們來買他的產(chǎn)品，故選A。
小題3:推理題： 根據(jù)To break the grand digital connection people must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without today’s overused technology.可推斷出人們?nèi)绻贿^度使用科技，可以更好地享受生活，故選D。
小題4:推理題：根據(jù)全文內(nèi)容來看，作者指出了人們過度使用科技的許多弊端，所以作者對高科技設(shè)備的態(tài)度是反對。故選C。
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