I turned my phone off.

听力原文：M: Hello, this is the Lost and Found. Can I help you？

W: Yes, my name is Nora Darwin. This afternoon I left my cell phone carelessly in the library. I'm wondering whether it has been turned in yet.

Q: What do we learn from the conversation？

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A．Nora lost her cell phone in the library.

B．Nora found her cell phone in the library.

C．Nora's cell phone has been turned in.

D．Nora's cell phone has been found in the library.

o the complaint department to solve the problem.

W: I have had a similar problem with you before, but later it turned out that I hadn't followed the instructions. Maybe, you can make a check before going to the store.

Q: What does the woman suggest the man do？

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A．Repair the phone by himself.

B．See whether he has followed the instructions.

C．Calm himself down before going to the store.

D．Write a chock when buying a phone in the store.

Task 2 Cross out the irrelevant sentences in each paragraph. A. (1)When my friend Tom sets to work in the kitchen, disaster often results. (2)I, frankly, am not much of a cook. (3)Once he tried to make toasted cheese sandwiches for us by putting slices of cheese in the toaster along with the bread, he ruined the toaster. (4)On another occasion, he had cut up some fresh beans and put them in a pan to steam. (5)The water in the pan steamed away while Tom was on the telephone, and both the beans and the coating in the pan were ruined. (6)Finally, another time Tom made spaghetti for us, and the noodles stuck so tightly together that we had to cut off slices with a knife and fork. (7)The tomato sauce, on the other hand, turned out well. (8)Because of Tom’s kitchen mishaps, I never eat at his place without money in my pocket in case we have to go out to eat. B. (1)In addition to fighting acne, I felt compelled to fight my family. (2)As a teenager, I needed to be independent. (3)At that time, the most important thing in life was to be close to my friends and to try out new, more adult experiences. (4)Unfortunately, my family seemed to get in the way. (5)My little brother, for instance, turned into my enemy. (6)We are close now, though. (7)In fact, Eddie recently painted my new apartment for me. (8)Eddie used to barge into my room, listen to my phone conversations, and read my secret letters. (9)I would threaten to tie him up and leave him in a garbage dumpster. (10)He would scream, my mother would yell, and all hell would break loose. (11)My parents, too, were enemies. (12)They wouldn't let me stay out late, wear the clothes I wanted to wear, or hang around with the friends I liked. (13)So I tried to get revenge on them by being miserable, sulky, and sarcastic at home.

Can We Live Without Our Mobiles？

Are you a mobile phone addict？

HELLO. My name is Damian and I'm a mobile-phone addict. I am here today to face the truth about my condition and hope that by speaking out 1 can help others to overcome their own problems.

The casual observer probably couldn't detect anything wrong with me. I have a respectable appearance and my behavior. in public isn't shocking or conspicuous. I hadn't even realized myself that I was a mobile phonoholic, until the past few days. But I have just spent two of those days conducting an experiment that has revealed the awful reality. I have suffered mentally and physically. And my experience has convinced me that I am only one of millions of fellow addicts. You may well be one yourself.

I have just attempted to live my life without a mobile phone. I was one of four people asked to eschew(回避)my phone for two days. Russell Crowe was not officially part of our group, but maybe he was trying a similar thing in a New York hotel lately. If he had used his mobile, rather than the hotel phone, to call his wife in Sydney he might have been able to secure a connection and wouldn't have been so enraged that he threw a phone at a clerk and ended up handcuffed(拷上手铐)in a Manhattan court.

The magic power of mobile phones

Mobile phones have been the biggest agent of change in the daily behavior. of Britons in the past decade. Today there are more than 55 million mobile phone subscribers in Britain, a huge leap from less than 10 million users in 1997. As the size of the handsets has diminished, their influence has grown, altering the speed and frequency of our communication with each other, quickening the pace of decision- making and altering radically the way we plan our working and social lives.

As the coverage of mobile phones has extended, so the world has shrunk; now it has been announced that we will soon even be able to use them on the London Underground. There will be nowhere beyond their reach (and, even as an addict, I dread this. The only thing worse than a mobile phone train bore(在火车上用手机聊天的无聊之人) will surely be someone exposing their sweaty armpits(腋窝)to lift their phone to their ear and yabber(急促而含混不清地说话). "'ello darlin'. I'm underground .... I said I'MUNDERGROUND! Amazin' innit？")

Two days without a mobile phone

Switching it off at the beginning of Day I was strange. For the past few years I have done this only when boarding an aircraft. Even on holiday — and this may strike you as rather sad — I put the phone on silent and annoy my wife by checking it at least every few hours.

Dorothy Rowe, a clinical psychologist, tells me that this sort of behavior. is consistent with extroverts "who need reassurance that other people are thinking of them. Your degree of self-confidence will determine how much you worry about it." Worry about it？ Me？ Don't be ridiculous, l check only out of idle curiosity. I'm not a needy control freak or anything.

I should have left the phone at home, or at least put it in a drawer for two days. But i couldn't bring myself to do that, so I left it sitting on my desk. For the first few hours of abstinence (节制)I kept involuntarily picking it up and looking at the display to see if I had any messages or had missed a call, only to see that it was, of course, switched off.

When I had got used to the fact that it was off, I still picked it up, turned it over in my hand and fiddled with it, like a smoker fidgeting with a packet of cigarettes. I realized that I had a whole routine of nervous tics (不自觉的习惯行为) involving my phone and that these were exacerbated (加剧) by my desire to use it. I took these to be the physical effects of undergoing the process of withdrawal.

My 40-minute walk home at the end of the day is normally a time for making calls, mostly to friends or

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

er English, she was often treated unfairly.People in department stores, at banks，and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her. My mother has realized the limitations of her English as well.When I was fifteen, she used to have me call people on phone to pretend I was she.I was forced to ask for information or even to yell at people who had been rude to her、One time I had to call her stockbroker (股票经纪人).I said in an adolescent voice that was not very convincing, “This is Mrs.Tan.” And my mother was standing beside me, whispering loudly,“Why he don’t send me check already two week long. And then, in perfect English I said：“I’m getting rather concerned.You agreed to send the check two weeks ago，but it hasn’t arrived.” Then she talked more loudly.“What he want？ I come to New York tell him front of his boss.” And so I turned to the stockbroker again,I can’t tolerate any more excuse.If I dont receive the check immediately, I am going to have to speak to your manager when I am in New York next week.” The next week we ended up in New York、While I was sitting there red-faced, my mother, the real Mrs.Tan, was shouting to his boss in her broken English. When I was a teenager, my mother’s broken English embarrassed me.But now, I see it differently.To me, my mother English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural.lt is my mother tongue.Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, and full of observation and wisdom.lt was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed ideas, and made sense of the world. Why was the author’s mother poorly served？

B.Because she was unable to speak good English.

C.Because she was often misunderstood.

D.Because she was not clearly heard.

E.Because she was not very polite.

From Paragraph 2,we know that the author was__________.A.good a pretending

B.rude to the stockbroker

C.ready to help her mother

D.unwilling to phone for her mother

After the author made the phone call？ _______.A.they forgave the stockbroker

B.they failed to get the check

C.they went to New York immediately

D.they spoke to their boss at once

What does the author think of her mother’s English now？A.It confuses her.

B.It embarrasses her.

C.It helps her understand the world.

D.It helps her tolerate rude people.

We can inter from the passage that Chinese English _______.A.is clear and natural to non-native speakers

B.is vivid and direct to non-native speakers

C.has a very bad reputation in America

D.may bring inconvenience in America

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

I was feeling pretty good about. I wanted to save it, but my cursor had frozen. I tried to shut the computer down, and it seized up altogether. Unsure of what else to do, I yanked(用力猛拉) the battery out.

Unfortunately, Windows had been in the midst of a delicate and crucial undertaking. The next morning, when I turned my computer back on, it informed me that a file had been corrupted and Windows would not load. Then, it offered to repair itself by using the Windows Setup CD.

I opened the special drawer where I keep CDs. But no Windows CD in there. I was forced to call the computer company's Global Support Centre. My call was answered by a woman in some unnamed, far-off land. I find it annoying to make small talk with someone when I don't know what continent they're standing on. Suppose I were to comment on the beautiful weather we've been having when there was a monsoon at the other end of the phone？ So I got right to the point.

"My computer is telling me a file is corrupted and it wants to fix itself, but I don't have the Windows Setup CD".

"So you're having a problem with your Windows Setup CD". She has apparently been dozing and, having come to just as the sentence ended, was attempting to cover for her inattention.

It quickly became clear that the woman was not a computer technician. Her job was to serve as a gatekeeper, a human shield for the technicians. Her sole duty, as far as I could tell, was to raise global stress levels.

To make me disappear, the woman gave me the phone number for Windows' creator, Microsoft. This is like giving someone the phone number for, I don't know, North America. Besides, the CD worked; I just didn't have it. No matter how many times I repeated my story, we came back to the same place. She was calm and resolutely polite.

When my voice hit a certain decibel(分贝), I was passed along, like a hot, irritable potato, to a technician.

"You don't have the Windows Setup CD, ma'am, because you don't need it", he explained cheerfully. "Windows came preinstalled on your computer!"

"But I do need it".

"Yes, but you don't have it". We went on like this for a while. Finally, he offered to walk me through the use of a different CD, one that would erase my entire system. "Of course, you'd lose all your e-mail, your documents, your photos". It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache. "`You might be able to recover them, but it would be expensive". He sounded delighted. "And it's not covered by the warranty(产品保证书)"! The safe began to seem like a good idea, provided it was full.

I hung up the phone and drove my computer to a small, friendly repair place I'd heard about. A smart, helpful man dug out a Windows CD and told me it wouldn't be a problem. An hour later, he called to let me know it was ready. I thanked him, and we chatted about the weather, which was the same outside my window as it was outside his.

Why did the author shut down her computer abruptly？

A．She had saved what she had written.

B．She couldn't move the cursor.

C．The computer refused to work.

D．The computer offered to repair itself.

A.I'm playing my phone

B.I'm calling my phone

C.I'm using my phone

A.saw

B.seen

C.seeing

D.see

A、Since I get my smart phone, I spend too much time texting my friends, I hardly ever send e-mails anymore.

B、Since I get my smart phone, I hardly ever send e-mails. Instead, I spend too much time texting my friends.

C、Hardly do I email my friends since I get my smart phone.

D、Since I get my smart phone, I don't e-mail my friend, I spend too much time texting them.