Unit 3 Under the sea Learning about language课时作业

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　　If the law punished addiction, we would all be in prison because we are addicted to our phones.

　　We're hopelessly　1　by them, helplessly devoted to them. Our hands and minds are

　2　:texting, emailing, sharing, etc. We find ourselves 　3　stimulated (刺激).

　　My iPhone is the last thing I look at when I go to bed and the first thing I look at when I

　4　. When it's not there I feel its 　5　like an amputee (被截肢者) still feeling a(n) 　6　 leg. It is my entry to culture and fun. I love it. You love yours.

　　But the comment on this enormous　7　in our behavior has been completely 　8　. The central claim is that technology makes us　9　what we have already known about life, and it

　10　 us developing fully independent selves. And the quality of human relationships is said to have 　11　. Parents are distracted by work emails at the dinner table and in the playground;children cry for 　12　until they finally get an iPad for Christmas. Gatherings of old friends can't do a couple of hours 　13　checking their Gmail every 10 minutes. Technology sucks the life out of us, and takes our souls in 　14　for the convenience of not having to learn how to read maps properly.

　　I simply do not　15　the idea that we aren't fully whole due to our phones, just because we can talk to our friends whenever we want, without any 　16　for the limitations that space and 　17　used to set on us. This helps us to get 　18　. It doesn't make us grow apart.

　　　19　, we will film. We will photograph. We will edit. We will 　20　 feelings, like, love and envy. Finally, in our own strange way, we will control our heavily doctored lives.

1.A.surprised B.distracted C.frightened D.punished