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高考英语二轮复习综合练习——倡议书
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1. With the development/wide spread of…, more and more people…
随着…的发展/广泛传播,越来越多的人…
2. Currently, there is an unpleasant phenomenon of… in society.
目前,在社会上有一种令人不愉快的…现象。
3. As we know, … is of great importance for us. 正如我们所知,…对我们来说非常重要。
4. Besides, doing… is also beneficial/harmful to…此外, 做…对…来说也是有益/害的。
5. Only if we do…, can we…只有当我们做…时, 我们才能…
6. It is high time we did/should do... Let's take action right now.
是时候该我们做…了。让我们现在就采取行动。
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1、 阅读文本一并完成练习
Pre-reading:
1. Do you know which company rolled out the first smartphone? How did it look?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of smartphones?
The brief history of smartphones
30 years ago, most people didn't have mobile phones. 15 years ago, it was rare to see people carrying smartphones. With the development of today's smartphone technology, we take it for granted that we can chat with others, access the world's information, map our locations, and much more in the palm of our bands. Smartphones have changed how we interact with the world. But they didn't appear overnight.
The Oxford dictionary describes a smartphone as "a mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, Internet access, and a system capable of running downloaded apps".
The first phone that technically can be considered as a smartphone was simply a brick phone. IBM had come up with the idea for a computer-style phone as early as the 1970s, but it wasn’t until 1992 that the company showed the public a prototype3 at a trade show in Las Vegas. Besides placing and receiving calls, the prototype could send emails. It even had a touchscreen for dialing numbers. It included apps for a calendar, address book, calculator, and notepad. The company only sold about 50,000 units, so it took the product off the market after six months.
Things started to change befor