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 mon 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 bees 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 pany’s description of its product reads like a prescription for anxiety: “60 million phones are lost, stolen or damaged each year. You’ll have plete 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!”
【小题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.【小题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.【小题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.【小题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.【小题5】What is the passage mainly about? A．New mobile phone technology.B．Attitude toward mobile phone.C．Solutions to nomophobiaD．Disadvantages of mobile phoneB
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(答案→)B
解析：
【小题1】细节理解题。下文紧接着提出了担心丢失手机是普遍的问题。所以第一段的具体事例就是引出要讨论的话题。
【小题2】词义理解题。本段第一句说fear of losing your phone is a mon illness，紧接着又说suffer from nomophobia结合suffer from（患……病）的用法可知nomophobia就是fear of losing phones这种病。
【小题3】细节理解题。结合Leaving the phone behind and not checking e-mail or text messages, and then learning to tolerate the after anxiety可知答案。
【小题4】细节理解题。结合最后一段内容;you can quickly reconnect with family, friends and work可知答案
【小题5】文章举例指出担心丢失手机是种常见病并提出了解决方法。