【C4】A．withinB．afterC．withD．in

【C3】

A．cars

B．vehicles

C．bikes

D．motorcycles

【C2】

A．of

B．over

C．between

D．in

al responsibility of______.

A．filing reports to the agencies like Pew Research Center

B．installing its products in the space where Taxi TVs sit

C．predicting the trends in product design and manufacturing

D．creating more jobs for people to be involved in its business operation

______.

A．its rivals succeeding in cutting into the market share

B．failing to process credit-card payments with an iPhone

C．e-book readers being distracted from their normal reading

D．misleading the trucks that get them tablet market

placement of Taxi TVs?

A．Excerpt 1 and Excerpt 5

B．Excerpt 3 and Excerpt 4

C．Excerpt 2 and Excerpt 6

D．Excerpt 3 and Excerpt 5

o a Pew Research Center report, which showed that the number of adults in the United States who owned tablets nearly doubled from mid-December to early January. Excerpt 2: Apple, based in Cupertino, California, controls 73 percent of the market, while Samsung Electronics Co. , Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. are among companies making constant improvements on table without bringing services that cut into the market share, Sarah Rotman Epps, an analyst at Forrester, said in the report. Excerpt 3: Under Squares year-long pilot program, an iPad would be installed in the space where Taxi TVs currently sit, and the driver would have an iPhone to process credit-card payments. The technology would allow drivers to accept a passengers card at any point during the ride, then enter the amount later. The system charges drivers less in credit card transaction fees than the current rates. Excerpt 4: When Apple introduced the iPad tablet computer in 2010, it was doing what it likes to do best: creating a new category to dominate, as it had done with the iPod and iPhone. By the end of the year, the company had sold nearly 15 million iPads, generating about $9.5 billion in revenue. Just two years later, the chief executive of Apple, Timothy D. Cook, has a prediction: the day will come when tablet devices like the Apple iPad outsell traditional personal computers. Excerpt 5: Apple has made its first attempt to quantify how many American jobs can be credited to the sale of its iPads and other products, a group that includes the Apple engineers who design the devices and the drivers who deliver them—even the people who build the trucks that get them there. On Friday, the company published the results of a study it commissioned saying that it had "created or supported" 514, 000 American jobs. The study is an effort to show that Apples benefit to the American job market goes far beyond the 47, 000 people it directly employs here. Excerpt 6: People who read e-books on tablets like the iPad are realizing that while a book on a black-and-white Kindle is straightforward and immersive, a tablet offers a menu of distractions that can fragment the reading experience, or stop it in its tracks. E-mail lurks tantalizingly within reach. Looking up a tricky or unknown fact in the book is easily accomplished through a Google search. And if a book starts to drag, giving up in it to stream a movie over Netflix or scroll through your Twitter feed is only a few taps away.

What is said about Apple Inc. with its tablet devices like iPad______.

A．It doubled its sale of e-readers during the Christmas season

B．It controls 73 percent of the tablet device market

C．It charges customers less in credit card transaction fees

D．It has long been selling its traditional personal computers

Which of the following is NOT a sign of Internet addiction?

A．Checking e-mail before doing anything else.

B．Expecting all the time the next online visit.

C．Surfing the Net instead of going out with others.

D．Preferring the company of family and friends.

What does Dr. Elias Aboujaode think of the virtual lifestyles that we are living in?

A．They change the place where people talk.

B．They make people dependent more on the Internet.

C．They have negative effect on real-life relationships.

D．They make more people interested in online studies.

According to Tara Parker-Pope, million of people______.

A．have realized the problem of Internet addiction

B．are unable to stop their habit of staying online

C．have become more patient and careful online

D．welcome the changes brought about by technology

ternet addiction. According to reporter Tara Parker-Pope, millions of us are addicted to being online. She says this is a growing problem that is making us more forgetful and impatient. Ms. Parker-Pope writes about various reports highlighting how technology is changing people. In one, she quotes cyber-psychologist Dr. Elias Aboujaode who says: "More and more, life is resembling the chat room. " He said we are living in "virtual lifestyles" which are negatively affecting our real-life relationships. Nicki Dowing, a clinical psychologist from Melbourne University in Australia, concluded in a recent study that 10 percent of young people had what she called " Internet dependence. " Tara Parker-Pope quizzed experts in this field on what the signs are of being overly absorbed in technology. She came up with seven indicators of "tech overload". The first is whether you check your e-mail before doing other things. Another telltale sign is if you always anticipate and look forward to your next online visit a sure sign of dependence and addiction. The third point is if you say, "just a few more minutes" when someone wants you. Parker-Pope found your interaction with others also says a lot about how important the Internet is, compared with your family and friends. Do you lie about how much time you spend online or choose to surf the Net instead of going out with others? Other giveaways include the "online lift" that stops you being unhappy, and when others complain about you always being online.

Which of the following can be the title of this passage?

A．Internet Addiction—A Growing Problem

B．Virtual Lifestyles in Chat Rooms

C．Indicators of Internet Dependence

D．Importance of the Internet