浙江省慈溪市三山高级中学2018-2019学年高二上学期期初考试英语试题

2018学年第一学期暑假作业高三年级英语检测卷 第1部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共10个小题；每小题2分，满分20分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A I prided myself on being unattached to any device（装置）. Then I got a smartphone. It was not a very fancy smartphone. I bought it at a low price at a second-hand shop. It has 8G of memory, two-thirds of which the operating software needs to run. I figured there wasn’t enough memory left to make this phone all that important to me. I was wrong. An early warning sign was the water-resistant plastic case I bought for the phone. Clearly, I intended to carry it with me. That first night, I downloaded my favorite apps, like Gmail, Google, and Kindle .... All my self-control issues with the Internet were now in the smartphone. It was used during commercial breaks and the line at the bank. I even checked my phone while on the phone with someone else. Soon that device was the first thing I grabbed after waking —checking the weather, the news and my email. Recently, I was waiting for my younger child's soccer game to start, trying to answer emails and update a website.The phone lost its signal, for I made a mistake updating the website. I couldn’t correct it until I had a real keyboard and reliable Internet. Knowing that didn’t stop me from refreshing the screen throughout the game. I drove home and went straight for the laptop.My oldest sat across from me. I asked the standard mom-questions half-heartedly, half­listening as she responded. She was talking about some music opportunity excitedly. I glanced up from my screen and saw her looking right at me. My fingers froze. An awful feeling crept over me. I realized it was the first time I had looked at her. I started apologizing, but she just laughed. “My friends are much better at multitasking online.”The next morning, I did something that was more painful than I'd like to admit.I deleted my apps. When I finished, my smartphone was just a phone again---something I could forget in the car. Hopefully, I remember how to do