I
am trying to muster (鼓起)
the courage to toss away my mobile phone to enjoy a more peaceful and
ringfree life.
Can
you imagine not having your mobile phone? In our hightech, inahurry age, a
cellfree life is a hard concept to swallow. Our mobile phones can now access
the Internet, and many people feel the need to express their every thought on
their blog pages. If I gave up my cellphone, people would think I was mad.
I
wish I had the strength to toss away my technology. I have an office phone, a
home phone，an email and
if people want to contact me, they can. If I’m out，people
can leave a message. Do they really need to find me 24/7？However, I’m a bit like Frodo in the movie Lord of the Rings. The
power of the ring is too strong and I can’t let it go.
Mobile
phones have become necessary tools in our busy life. For most people, they hold
all contacts and many of us don’t write up address books any more. The latest
phones carry our music, pictures, movies and everything else. We feel lost
without this device and when we do misplace it, we feel cut off from our
fellow.
“Where
have you been？” said a
friend, who saw me a week after I lost my cellphone, “I tried calling you, but
you disappeared. You disappeared off the face of the Earth.” See, when you
don’t have a mobile phone, you don’t exist.
I’m
not really going to toss my mobile phone away, in fact. We humans are such
social animals and mobile phones serve us well. So in 2009, I’ve decided not to
serve my mobile phone. Like all machines, I can always turn it off.
1.
. What does the
underlined phrase “toss away” mean?
A. give
away B. get away
C. break away D. throw away
2.
The writer
mentions Frodo to________.
A. show it is
difficult to get rid of the mobile phone
B. show how
much he likes Frodo
C. suggest a
cellfree life is what he wants
D. introduce
a film character to us
3.
What do we know
about mobile phones in the 4th paragraph?
A. Mobile
phones can do anything for us.
B. Mobile
phones have become very important in our life.
C. We could
not live without mobile phones.
D. We would
be cut off by our fellow without mobile phones.
4.
What can be inferred
from the last paragraph?.
A. The writer
is not really going to toss his mobile phone away.
B. When you
don’t have a mobile phone，you
don’t exist.
C. The writer
decides not to serve his mobile phone.
D. We humans
can control ourselves and machines.
