专题03 芸芸众生-2024年初中英语中考最新时文阅读训练

2024年初中英语中考最新时文阅读训练 专题03芸芸众生 阅读理解 A The father of the cell phone 手机之父 Have you ever unlocked(开锁)a shared bike? Have you ever ordered a meal online? Have you ever enjoyed watching the short-form videos on the Internet? Well, if no one had invented the cell phone, none of these would have been possible. Luckily,someone did invent the cell phone. That person is Martin Cooper, and he did that 50 years ago, in 1973. Cooper used to work for Motorola. In the 1970s, the company was competing with AT&T, a larger company, to make a cell phone system. Cooper didn't thinkMotorola's product was good enough. He didn't like AT&T's idea of a car phone(车载电话)either. The man had a new idea. He wanted to make it possible for people to talk on their phones anywhere. It took Cooper and his team 90 days to design the world's first cell phone. The product was called Dyna TAC. People could talk on it for 25 minutes before its battery died. The phone's short battery life wasn't a big problem, Cooper once joked(开玩笑)．Why? Well,the phone was too heavy (1,100 grams) to hold in hand for more than 25 minutes! On 3 April, 1973, Cooper made the world's first public cell phone call. He called Joel Engel, an AT&T manager. Cooper told Engel, “I'm calling you on a cell phone. It's a real, handheld cell phone.” On the other end of the line,there was only silence. Cell phones have changed a lot since that first call. They're much smaller and can do many more things. Cooper, now 94, is surprised at the progress. But the man has also kept thinking about life in the future. “Keep learning all your life,”he says,“or you'll lose the ability to learn-that would be terrible!” 1. Why does the author raise three questions in the first paragraph? A. To list the usage of cell phones. B. To show the importance of cell phones. C. To do a survey about what people use their cell phones for. D. To do a survey about whether people can use their cell phones in a proper way. 2. What was the big problem Cooper needed to so