3 . Directions: After reading the passage below，fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets.     1     connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.

People     2     （influence） to become technology addicted. One survey reported that “addicted” was the word most commonly used by people     3     （describe） their relationship to iPad and similar devices. One study found that people had a harder time     4     （resist） the temptation of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.

The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. I see people     5     （trap）in a pathological （病态的） relationship with time-consuming technology,    6     they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude（奴役）. I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence     7     uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money.

What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my life? That is what we need to ask     8     if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about the use of technology. When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology. Mae West is famous for the wisdom that “too much of a good thing is wonderful.”     9     it's time to discover today's overused technology.

Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our technologies,” To break the grand digital connection, people must consider     10     life long ago could be fantastic without today's overused technology.

4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

These days, people     1     (do) manual work often receive far more money     2     clerks who work in offices. People who work in offices are frequently     3    (refer) to as 'white-collar workers' for the simple reason     4     they usually wear a collar and tie to go to work.     5     is human nature, that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay     6     the privilege of becoming white collar workers. This can give rise to curious situations,     7     it did in the case of Alfred Bloggs who worked as a dustman for the Ellesmere Corporation. When he got married, Alf was too     8    (embarrass) to say anything to his wife about his job. He     9    (simple) told her that he worked for the Corporation. Every morning, he left home     10    (dress) in a smart black suit.

5 . As an old English saying goes, “Honesty is the best policy”. It is more than    1    old cliché(陈词滥调), but   a good way to live your life. First, honesty is the    2    (easy) choice that we can make. When people get caught in lies, it always costs them something. Many relationships are destroyed by lies. Second, honesty gives us much    3    (free). Many believe that being honest limits them in life, but that is not true. Sooner or later those dishonest people     4     (pay) a price for their acts; on the contrary, when we are honest, we are     5     (true) free.

If there were two people standing before you, a person     6     a record of being honest and a person who is known to be dishonest, who would you be more likely     7     (believe)? I’m sure most people would side with the honest person.     8     we live in the truth or we live in lies. Truth sets us free and lies leave us in nothing     9     more troubles. Honesty is a choice that we can make each day. The choice is     10     (you). What will you choose?

6 . Consensus about screens(硅谷精英禁子女玩手机)

The people     1    are       2    (close) to a thing are often the most wary (警惕的)of it.     3    (Technology) know how phones really work, and many have decided they don't want their own children anywhere near them.     4    wariness that has been slowly brewing is turning into a regionwide consensus in Silicon Valley: The benefits of screens     5    a learning tool     6    (overblow), and the risks for addiction and stunting development seem high. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, said earlier this year that he would not let his nephew join social networks. Bill Gates     7    (ban) cellphones until his children were teenagers. "On the scale between candy and crack cocaine,       8     is closer to crack cocaine," Chris Anderson, the former editor of Wired, said of screens. "We thought we could control it.     9    it's beyond our power     10    (control). This is going straight to the pleasure centers of the developing brain."

7 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Up to 82 percent of children with healthy mothers are not easy to be obese（肥胖的）, according to research. A mother,     1     has a healthy weight, exercises regularly, eats a healthy diet, doesn’t smoke and only     2    (drink) wine in moderation, is significantly less likely     3    (have)a fat child, scientists say.

And research suggests it could be more to do with nurture(养育)    4     nature, as a mother's lifestyle appears     5    (direct) linked to the health of her child. When both mother and child follow a healthy lifestyle, the risk of obesity     6    (reduce)even more, the study of more than 24,000 children found.

The study examined the medical history and lifestyles of more than 24,000 children aged nine     7     fourteen, born to almost 17,000 women in the US. Researchers looked at the link between overall mother health and likelihood of a child     8    (be) obese.

The mother's health was judged on her height-to-weight ratio(比例), her diet, amount of physical     9    (active), smoking status and how much alcohol she drank. A healthy weight and diet, regular exercise, no smoking and moderate drinking all reduce the chance of a woman having     10     obese child.