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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(病态的) 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 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.
1.The underlined word “allure” in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.
A.advantage    B.attraction    C.adaption    D.attempt
2.From the passage, technology companies aim to ______.
A.attract people to buy their products
B.provide the latest information
C.improve people’s quality of life
D.deal with cultural diseases
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
showcase4.What’s the author’s attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices?
A.Neutral.    B.Skeptical.    C.Disapproving.    D.Sympathetic.
二、根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多
余选项。
When you think about a deadly animal, you may think of a shark, a lion, or even an elephant. However, the truth is that the deadliest animal in the world is much smaller and more annoying. ①          And it feeds on human blood, transporting numerous diseases from one person to the next. Figure it out, yet? Yes, it’s the mosquito.
    The numbers don't lie: According to the World Health Organization, more than 725 ,000 people worldwide are killed by mosquito-borne diseases each year. These diseases include malaria (症疾), dengue fever, yellow fever, and encephalitis. ②_________
    “Being able to adapt easily to new environments is one of the reasons why mosquitoes are the most deadly,” Burns Blackwell, an expert in pest control said.
    ③          Mosquitoes have learned to lay eggs in as little as a few small drops of water and each female mosquito can lay between 50 and 500 eggs once. Their populations also reach the highest point at different times in different areas all over the world, making it nearly impossible to avoid being bitten. ④________
    In areas where there’re too many mosquitoes, local authorities try to control the population through routine pesticide (杀虫剂) applications. “We should protect ourselves by avoiding places where there is too much water,” said Bernard Cohen, MD, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. ⑤          Wear bug repellent(驱虫剂) that contains DEET (up to 30 percent) when heading outdoors, and reapply it about every four hours.
A. Most of the diseases can be cured in a short time.
B. There are more than 100 varieties of this thing on earth.
C. He also stresses that a little protection will go a long way.
D. And every bite increases the risk of getting a serious disease.
E. Mosquitoes take much interest in getting in touch with children.
F. Malaria is the most horrible, killing at least 600,000 people a year.

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