Another day begins with the call of the phone’s alarm, Where are you? Open your eyes. Turn the alarm off and you will start working out on your apps（应用软件）.
First stop, weather: Sunny day. Look outside the window. Oh, no, it isn’t. Second stop, Air Quality Index: 344, dangerous, Level 6 Severely Polluted. Mental recheck required: It really is a sunny day and the weather app isn’t lying or in need of being replaced, it’s just that you can’t see the sun through the thick fog. Note to self: Cycling to work is out, face mask is in.
Has the world stopped turning? News app merely confirms that it’s business as usual. Another government has fallen, your soccer team has lost again, and China’s economy is still increasing steadily.
Diary app informs you of all the things you failed to do the previous day and loads you up with another half-dozen tasks. Next, browse a couple of social networking apps to determine the status updates of friends.
Another sound from the phone, it’s a message from your significant friend who is already at work, saying the Taobao. order for Italian cheese is about to arrive.
Apps have bee part of our “every-moment” lives. Apps provide so much information. But the dark side to all this connectivity would be lack of privacy, being a slave to the app. The only real problem is that once you lose your smartphone, you lose your life.
Some friends and family do not have smartphones, but prefer the old-fashioned Nokia that merely makes phone calls and sends instant messages. While I respect their purity and desire to be free of the control of technology, it’s obvious they are outsiders, and their lives are loaded up with paper and old devices. They’re still buying books at stores, plaining the lack of CDs on the market, watching TV and missing out on plete news cycles. Though I would add, they have lives that aren’t spent inside small screens.
My phone is a palm-sized one-stop shop and about the only thing it doesn’t do is teleport（心灵运输）. What’s not to like?
【小题1】The functions of apps mentioned in the passage can be listed as follows EXCEPT that .A．the apps can show you weather forecastB．the apps can tell you how to work directlyC．the apps can inform you the latest newsD．the apps can tell you what you failed to do【小题2】 According to the passage, the author thinks that .A．people’s life is governed by appsB．people feel bored about the use of appsC．people can’t live without appsD．people hate apps with powerful functions【小题3】It can be inferred from the last paragraph but one that .A．more and more people like Nokia more than appsB．using Nokia can be free of the control of technologyC．all people don’t like the advanced smartphonesD．ordinary people don’t like shopping onlineB
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(答案→)B
解析：本文介绍的了一种智能手机上的应用软件。这种软件的功能很多，它可做闹钟，能够预报天气和空气质量指数，能浏览新闻，朋友的信息，还能提醒你前一天没有做完的事情。虽然它的功能这么多，但是不好的一面就是，这种软件使人们没有隐私，生活中的很多事情都受它的控制。所以有一些人不喜欢智能手机，而更喜欢旧式的功能简单的诺基亚手机。
【小题1】细节理解题。根据第二段的First stop, weather，Second stop, Air Quality Index，第四段的Diary app informs you of all the things you failed to do the previous day可知apps的功能有:空气，空气质量指数，告诉你没能做到的事情。所以A,C,D项属于 apps的功能。故选B。
【小题2】作者态度题。根据第六段的But the dark side to all this connectivity would be lack of privacy, being a slave to the app. The only real problem is that once you lose your smartphone, you lose your life. the app 会使人们缺少隐私，沦为它的奴隶，唯一的一个问题就是一旦你失去你的智能手机，你就失去了你的生命。所以说 apps 控制了你的生命。故选A。
【小题3】推理判断题。根据最后一段的Some friends and family do not have smartphones, but prefer the old-fashioned Nokia that merely makes phone calls and sends instant messages.一些朋友和家庭，没有智能手机，他们更喜欢旧式的，只能打电话和发短信的诺基亚手机。所以可以推断出C项正确。