轻松寒假，快乐复习30天 第23天

----Do you know how to learn English well? ________.
----Why? Don’t you think English is quite interesting?

—How do you find your trip to Taiwan during the week-long National Day Holiday?
—________ I can't speak too highly of it.

---Tom, I’ll go to Shanghai for a job interview(面试).
---_____! I hope you will do well.

–Are you going to Tom’s birthday party?
-_____. I might have to work.

--- Would you mind passing me my glasses? I can’t make out the words in the letter. --- _________.

-- I hate all the noise downtown. Life would be much better if we could move to the countryside.
--But you might find it dull and inconvenient to live in the country after a while, and you might start to miss your life in the city. _______________________, you know.

--Jenny , I hate to say it , but you really must go !  --________.

—I’d like a wake-up call at 7:00 a.m., please!
—OK, _______.

—Let me help you cross the street.
—    ! I’m not that old.

— Why ,this is nothing but common vegetable soup?
— _______ madam. It’s our soup of the day.

That cold January night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was, walking home at one in the morning after a tiring       at the theatre. With opening night only a week away, I was       learning my lines. I was having trouble        my part-time job at the bank and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously          giving up both acting and San Francisco.    ___had become too much for me.
As I walked down        streets under tall buildings, I felt very       and cold. I began running, both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers. Very few people were still out except a few sad-looking homeless people under blankets.
About a block from my apartment, I heard a sound behind me. I turned      , half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty.       I saw was a shining streetlight.      , the noise had made me nervous, so I started to run fast. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I realize what the noise had been. It had been my wallet falling to the sidewalk.
     I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to       I’d heard the noise.       I searched the sidewalk anxiously for fifteen minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.
Just as I was about       the search, I heard the garbage truck pull up to the sidewalk next to me. When a voice        from the inside. “Alisa Camacho?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened, and out jumped a small red-haired man with an      look in his eyes. “Is this what you’re looking for?” he asked,     a small square shape.
It was nearly 3 a. m. by the time I got into bed. I        get much sleep that night, but I had gotten my wallet back. I      had gotten back some enjoyment of city life. I realized that the city couldn’t be a bad place     people were willing to help each other.

A．exercise B．work C．practice D．training

A．still B．already C．yet D．only

A．to deal with B．to handle with C．handling with D．dealing with

A．of B．about C．over D．out

A．City life B．Country life C．School life D．Modern life

A．busy B．crowded C．noisy D．empty

A．proud B．confident C．small D．excited

A．fast B．immediately C．rapidly D．quickly

A．All which B．All C．That D．Which

A．Therefore B．Still C．Consequently D．Subsequently

A．Suddenly B．Gradually C．Absolutely D．Exactly

A．which B．that C．where D．what

A．Even if B．Although C．As if D．As though

A．to give in B．giving in C．to give up D．giving up

A．called B．calling C．was called D．to call

A．amusing B．amazing C．amazed D．amused

A．to hold up B．holding up C．to hold on D．holding on

A．couldn’t B．wouldn’t C．didn’t D．shouldn’t

A．still B．already C．also D．certainly

A．as far as B．as well as C．as soon as D．as long as

Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices（装置）, 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 flu-like 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 claiming 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, a former CEO 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.
The underlined word “allure” in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.

From the passage, technology companies aim to ______.

It can be inferred from this passage that people ______.

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

随着网络的普及，越来越多的中学生甚至小学生都注册了个人博客，对此有人赞同，也有人反对。请根据下表中的提示写一篇英语短文，谈谈人们对此现象的看法并发表自己的观点。

注意：1、词数120左右。      2、可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：博客—blog
With the popularity of the Internet, a growing number of middle school students start their own blogs on the Internet,
                                                                    
                                                                    
                                                                    

（）— You know, I met my girlfriend’s parents for the first time only yesterday.
— ________? I thought you’d met them before.