Kelly Reeves was getting ready for a trip when her phone slipped into a sink ful

Kelly Reeves was getting ready for a trip when herphone slipped into a sink full of water. Panic moment! She quickly picked upthe wet phone and tried to turn it on, but nothing worked. Her first reaction?She got dressed, drove to the nearest store, and bought a new mobile at fullprice.

A new study finds that fear of losing your phone is acommon illness. About 66 percent of those surveyed suffer from nomophobiaor “no mobile phone phobia”. Interestingly, more women worry about losing theirphone than men.

Fortunately, there’s a solution.

The first step is to figure out if you havenomophobia. Checking your phone too often is one thing, but the true sign of aproblem is that you can’t conduct business or go about your routine when thefear becomes so severe.

Do you go to unusual lengths to make sure you haveyour phone? That’s another sign of a problem. If you find you check your phoneplenty of times per hour, or a total of an hour per day, there may be aproblem.

Some of the treatments are similar to those fortreating anxiety attacks: leaving the phone behind and not checking e-mail ortext messages, and then learning to tolerate the after anxiety. Even if thisleads to a high level of worry and stress, the solution is to push through thefear and learn to deal with not having your phone.

Of course, there are also technological alternatives.Luis Levy, a co-founder at Novy PR, says he uses an application called Cerberusthat can automatically track the location of his phone. To find it, he can justgo to a website and see the phone’s location.

He also insures his phone through a service calledAsurion. The company’s description of its product reads like a prescription foranxiety：“60 million phones are lost, stolen ordamaged each year. You’ll have complete peace of mind knowing that your phoneis protected and you can quickly reconnect with family, friends and work, assoon as the very next day!”

1.Why does the author mention Kelly’s experience inthe first paragraph? 

A. To introduce the topic for discussion.

B. To inform us that mobile phones are useful.

C. To warn us that we should be careful.

D. To tell us we should get phones ready for a trip.

2.The underlined word “nomophobia” in Paragraph 2means “     ” .

A. habits of using mobile phones

B. fear of losing mobile phones

C. eagerness for new mobile phones

D. independence of mobile phones

3.Which of the following is a way to treat nomophobia?

A. Avoiding using a phone for some time

B. Learning more about modern technology

C. Protecting one’s phone against any damage

D. Not using a mobile phone in one’s daily work

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Attitude toward mobile phones

B. New mobile phone technology

C. Disadvantages of mobile phones

D. Solutions to nomophobia

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【答案】

1.A

2.B

3.A

4.D

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