Owning a smartphone may not be as smart as you think. They may let you surf the Internet, listen to music and take photos wherever you are, but they also turn you into a workaholic（工作狂）.
A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the smartphone adds as much as two hours to your working day. Researchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles. The study shows the average UK working day is between 9 and 10 hours, but a further 2 hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls.
Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails. Some workers say they are on call almost 24 hours a day. Nearly two-thirds say they often check work emails just before they go to bed and as soon as they wake up, while over a third have replied to one in the middle of the night. The average time for first checking emails is between 6 am and 7 am, with more than a third checking their first email in this period, and a quarter checking them between 11pm and midnight.
Ghadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, said: “The ability to access millions of applications has made smartphones invaluable for many people. However, there are disadvantages. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smartphones mean that people cannot get away from work. The more constantly in touch we become, the more is expected of us in work . ”
【小題1】With a smartphone the average UK working day is _______.

A．2 hours B．9 to 10 hoursC．11 to 12 hoursD．24 hours
【小題2】It could be inferred from the text that the British people _______.
A．prefer to check emails in the morning
B．a(chǎn)re crazy about different smartphones
C．shorten their normal working hours
D．work extra hours with smartphones
【小題3】What does Ghadi Hobeika feel about smartphones?
A．They are unimportant for most of people.
B．They have disadvantages for some companies.
C．They make it impossible for people to rest.
D．They are useful to improve a work ability.
【小題4】Where can we most probably read this text?
A．In a science fiction.B．In a newspaper.
C．In a travel magazine.D．In a storybook.


【小題1】C
【小題2】D
【小題3】C
【小題4】B

解析試題分析：這篇文章主要介紹使用智能手機(jī)也許并不像你想的那樣明智。使用智能手機(jī)可以讓你隨時(shí)隨地上網(wǎng)、聽音樂、拍照片……但也可能讓你變成工作狂。最新調(diào)查顯示，智能手機(jī)能讓你隨時(shí)查收郵件，因此這種花哨的手機(jī)會(huì)讓你每天的工作時(shí)間延長(zhǎng)多達(dá)兩個(gè)小時(shí)。
【小題1】根據(jù)The study shows the average UK working day is between 9 and 10 hours, but a further 2 hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls .故選C。
【小題2】根據(jù)A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the smartphone adds as much as two hours to your working day.故答案應(yīng)為D。
【小題3】根據(jù)However, there are disadvantages. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smartphones mean that people cannot get away from work. The more constantly in touch we become, the more is expected of us in work .故選C。
【小題4】這是一篇新聞報(bào)道，故最可能出現(xiàn)在報(bào)紙上，故選B。
考點(diǎn)：新聞報(bào)道類短文閱讀理解
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本題型考查了對(duì)文章段落或某一板塊的理解概括能力。先閱讀問題，然后帶著問題，再讀全文，找出答題所需要的依據(jù)，完成閱讀。在詞義與句義理解的基礎(chǔ)上，結(jié)合上下文總結(jié)歸納某一段或幾段的大意，對(duì)于把握文章主旨，分析全文結(jié)構(gòu)都是至關(guān)重要的�？v觀歷年高考試題，閱讀理解試題一般有以下幾種題型：一是直接回答who, whom, which, what, where, when, why, how等疑問詞引起的細(xì)節(jié)問題；二是猜測(cè)詞義題；三是推理判斷題；四是綜合概括題。在做閱讀理解題時(shí)，一定要仔細(xì)看完，看清楚試題要求再作答，特別要注意NOT，TRUE，EXCEPT等詞。有時(shí)，要先看題，后閱讀文章，帶著問題去讀短文，可縮短閱讀時(shí)間，效果也許會(huì)更好。 

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