Kelly Reeves was getting ready for a trip when her phone slipped into a sink full of water. Panic moment! She quickly picked up the wet phone and tried to turn it on, but nothing worked. Her first reaction? She got dressed, drove to the nearest store, and bought a new model at full price.
A new study finds that fear of losing your phone is a common illness. About 66 percent of those surveyed suffer from nomophobia or “no mobile phone phobia”. Interestingly, more women worry about losing their phone than men.
Fortunately, there’s a solution.
The first step is to figure out if you have nomophobia. Checking your phone too often is one thing, but the true sign of a problem is that you can’t conduct business or go about your routine when the fear becomes so severe.
Do you go to unusual lengths to make sure you have your phone? That’s another sign of a problem. If you find you check your phone plenty of times per hour, or a total of an hour per day, there may be a problem.
Some of the treatments are similar to those for treating anxiety attacks: Leaving the phone behind and not checking e-mail or text messages, and then learning to tolerate the after anxiety. Even if this leads to a high level of worry and stress, the solution is to push through the fear and learn to deal with not having your phone.
Of course, there are also technological alternatives. Luis Levy, a co-founder at Novy PR, says he uses an application called Cerberus that can automatically track the location of his phone. To find it, he can just go to a Web site and see the phone’s location.
He also insures his phone through a service called Asurion. The company’s description of its product reads like a prescription for anxiety: “60 million phones are lost, stolen or damaged each year. You’ll have complete peace of mind knowing that your phone is protected and you can quickly reconnect with family, friends and work, as soon as the very next day!”
小題1:Why does the author mention Kelly’s experience in the first paragraph?
A．To inform us that mobile phones are useful.
B．To introduce the topic for discussion.
C．To tell us we should get phones ready for a trip.
D．To warn us that we should be careful.
小題2:The underlined word “nomophobia” in Paragraph 2 means ________.
A．Fear of losing mobile phones.
B．Habits of using mobile phones
C．Independence of mobile phones.
D．Eagerness for new mobile phones.
小題3:Which of the following is a way to treat nomophobia?
A．Learning more about modern technology.
B．Avoiding using phone for some time
C．Not using a mobile phone in one’s daily work.
D．Protecting one’s phone against any damage.
小題4:Why can the service called Asurion help to treat nomophobia?
A．It will give you a new phone through insurance.
B．It lets you know other people also lose their phones.
C．It gives you a prescription to treat nomophobia.
D．It enables you to reconnect with your acquaintance.
小題5:What is the passage mainly about?
A．New mobile phone technology.
B．Attitude toward mobile phone.
C．Solutions to nomophobia
D．Disadvantages of mobile phone

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:B
小題4:D
小題5:C

小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。下文緊接著提出了擔(dān)心丟失手機(jī)是普遍的問(wèn)題。所以第一段的具體事例就是引出要討論的話題。
小題2:詞義理解題。本段第一句說(shuō)fear of losing your phone is a common illness，緊接著又說(shuō)suffer from nomophobia結(jié)合suffer from（患……�。┑挠梅ǹ芍猲omophobia就是fear of losing phones這種病。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。結(jié)合Leaving the phone behind and not checking e-mail or text messages, and then learning to tolerate the after anxiety可知答案。
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。結(jié)合最后一段內(nèi)容;you can quickly reconnect with family, friends and work可知答案
小題5:文章舉例指出擔(dān)心丟失手機(jī)是種常見(jiàn)病并提出了解決方法。
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