5 . Some parents agree that smartphones (智能手机) are bad for students’ health and study. They hope their children can keep away from smartphones. What are their opinions (意见) about the students? Here are the opinions of several students:

Lin Tao, 14, from Beijing, supports parents’ opinions. He uses a non-smart phone (非智能手机) and finds that its functions (功能) are enough for him. Lin Tao once said many students spent much time on games and QQ with their smartphones. He also said, “If students use smartphones, they may use them to listen to music, surf the Internet or do some other things. In this way, they may not work hard at their studies. As students, we don’t need to use smartphones.”

Chen Yun, 15, from Wuhan, doesn’t think so. She thinks that she can’t live without smartphones. She said, “Smartphones are useful. I often use my phone to surf the Internet, chat with my friends and get the latest (最近的) news. It opens up my eyes.”

Li Yan, 13, from Nanning, understands the point well. She said, “I put my phone out of my sight when I am studying. I also set a time limit (限制) about 20 minutes when I use it. I follow these rules (规则) so the smartphone doesn’t affect my life badly.”

Smartphones have advantages (优势) and disadvantages (劣势). The key to the problem is how to use smartphones. In fact, it is a test of students’ self-control (自我控制).

6 . These years, we like taking our mobiles to a dinner table. This happens a lot, especially when we eat out. Once a dish comes, instead of lifting our Chopsticks（筷子）, we take out our mobiles and click. Later, we post the photos onto Weibo or WeChat, waiting to be “liked”. Then we check our mobiles from time to time during the meal, to see how many “liked” we can get.

A recent study shows that what we are used to doing is not so good. Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less pleasant. According to a research, more photos you take, the less delicious the food seems to you. So, why not stop taking photos and just enjoy the food in front of you?

On the other hand, after posting the photos onto the Internet, one will not be able to control（控制）himself and check his mobile many times. “Does everyone like my photos? I hope a lot of people like them!” It seems that your mobile secretly calls your name all the time, even when you are with real people.

So, next time you go out to have dinner with your family or friends, how about not taking photos of food? Let the food be delicious as it is and share your life with people around you. Trust me, it will be a wonderful time.

7 . The mobile phone has become a problem for middle schools. Some middle schools in Australia have banned students from carrying mobile phones during school hours.

Mobile phone use among children has become a problem for schools this year. Many children have got mobile phones as Christmas gifts, and more students want them. Mary Bluest, an official, said, “Mobile phone use is a distraction（分散注意力的事）to students during school hours and it also gives teachers so much trouble in their classrooms.” Teachers were also saying that sometimes students might use phone messages to cheat during exams（考试作弊）. She said some schools had tried to ban mobile phones. Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t get in touch with（联系）their children.

Many teachers said students should not have mobile phones, but if there was a good reason, they could leave their phones at the school office. They also said there were many reasons why the students should not have mobile phones at the school. They were easy to lose and were a distraction from studies.

Many people say that they understand why parents would want their children to have phones, but they think schools should let the students know when they can use their mobile phones.

10 . How old were you when you got a mobile? How much do you love your mobile phone? Could you live without it? Find out what British parents and teachers say about the subject.

Everybody knows that teenagers love their phones. Here are some mobile phone facts.

(1) Two-thirds of 12-15-year-olds in the UK have a smartphone.

(2) People in the UK send 50 text messages a week on average.

(3) British 12-15-year-olds send an average of 200 messages a week.

(4) British girls aged between 12 and 15 text more than boys of the same age group.

Parents

Parents want their kids to be safe. Are teenagers safer with a mobile phone or without? Many parents want their children to have a phone so that they can be in contact at any time or in any place. On the other hand, for lots of parents a phone is a source of possible danger. Parents worry that their child may meet the wrong kind of “friends” on social networking sites or that they might receive cruel messages from school bullies. Some parents have rules about their children’s mobile phone and internet usage and bad behavior can result in removal of mobile privileges.

William, a parent of two teenagers said, “The great thing about my kids having mobile phones is that I can keep in touch with them. The worst thing about teenagers having phones is that some young people use them to send offensive messages to each other.”

“A teenager feels lost without a phone. If my daughters behave badly, I confiscate their phones and their behavior quickly improves.” said Kiera, mother of 15-year-old twins.

School

Mobile phones are permitted at school in the UK but pupils are not allowed to use them in class and they must be on silent during lessons. Teachers can take away phones if these rules are broken. School students can use their phones at break time and at lunchtime. Some teachers in British schools complain that pupils don’t always follow the rules and that lessons are disrupted by people texting, making and receiving calls, looking at social networking sites, watching videos and even making videos in the class.