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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.

32. The underlined word “allure” in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.

A. advantage      B. attraction  C.adaption          D. attempt

33. 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

34. 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 

35. What’s the author’s attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices?

A. Neutral.         B. Skeptical.           C. Disapproving.       D. Sympathetic.

第二節(jié)（共5小題，每小題2分，滿分10分）

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。                 

    36     Sometimes they try to get out of a class to escape a teacher they don’t like. Here is some advice to solve this problem.

Ask yourself, “What can I learn from this teacher?” Even if you don’t worship his or her personality or lectures, dig deep until you find a subject in which he or she is very knowledgeable. Focus on that part of the teacher’s personality, and use him or her as a tool for learning. Not only will you gain more knowledge in that subject, but a closer relationship with your teacher may help you understand one another better.    37      

Talk to students who are doing well in the class and ask them for tips, tools, and a plan of action to get along with the teacher better.     38     

If you still can’t get along, make an appointment with the school guidance counselor (輔導(dǎo)員). He or she will offer many tips and suggestions for you to get out of difficult teacher relationships.     39      That means they can help you and your teachers get rid of the bad impression on each other.

    40      Your parents can meet with your teacher and try to work it out.

Teachers are there for more than just homework, and they know about more than just their subject matter. They can help you learn how to function as an adult and a lifelong learner.

Undoubtedly, these will be a few teachers along the way who you will always remember and who might change your life forever.

A.Sometimes a guidance counselor can act as a mediator between you and the teacher.

B.If you’re too shy to talk to another student, study his or her actions and behavior in the classroom and try to follow that lead.

C.Guidance counselors have the right to blame teachers.

D.There must be something good in every teacher for you to learn from.

E.Students find it easy to get along well with their teachers.

F.If your relationship problems can’t be solved in school, then it’s time to tell your parents or guardians.

G.Students don’t always get along well with their teachers.
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