Kelly Reeves was getting ready for a trip when her phone slipped into a sink full of water.
Panic moment! She quickly picked up the 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 model at full price.
A new study finds that fear of losing your phone is a common illness. About 66 percent of those
surveyed suffer from nomophobia or "no mobile phone phobia". Interestingly, more women worry
about losing their phone than men.
Fortunately, there"s a solution.
The first step is to figure out if you have nomophobia. Checking your phone too often is one thing,
but the true sign of a problem is that you can"t conduct business or go about your routine when the fear
becomes so severe.
Do you go to unusual lengths to make sure you have your phone? That"s another sign of a problem.
If you find you check your phone plenty of times per hour, or a total of an hour per day, there may be
a problem.
Some of the treatments are similar to those for treating anxiety attacks: Leaving the phone behind
and not checking e-mail or text messages, and then learning to tolerate the after anxiety. Even if this
leads to a high level of worry and stress, the solution is to push through the fear 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 Cerberus that can automatically track the location of his phone. To find it, he
can just go to a Web site and see the phone"s location.
He also insures his phone through a service called Asurion. The company"s description of its product
reads like a prescription for anxiety: "60 million phones are lost, stolen or damaged each year. You"ll
have complete peace of mind knowing that your phone is protected and you can quickly reconnect
with family,friends and work, as soon as the very next day!"
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.
B. Fear of losing mobile phones.
C. Eagerness for new mobile phones.
D. Independence of mobile phones.
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.
B. It will give you a new phone through insurance.
C. It enables you to reconnect with your acquaintance.
D. It gives you a prescription to treat nomophobia.
B. New mobile phone technology.
C. Disadvantages of mobile phone.
D. Solutions to nomophobia
about our diets, our bodies soon become loose and fatty and our systems slow moving. There are some
aspects(方面) of our unhealthy lives that we cannot avoid. I am thinking of such features of modern city life as pollution, noise, rushed meals and stress. But keeping fit is a way to reduce the effects of these evils.
The usual suggestion to a person who is looking for a way to keep fit is to take up some sport or other.
While it is true that every weekend you will find people playing football and hockey in the local park, they are outnumbered a hundred to one by the people who are simply watching them.
For those who do not particularly enjoy competitive sports-and it is especially difficult to do so if you
are not good at them-there are such separate activities as cycling, walking, jogging and swimming. What often happens though is that you do them in such a leisurely way, so slowly, that it is doubtful if you are doing yourself much good, except for the fact that you have at least managed to get up out of your armchair.
Even after you have found a way for keeping in shape, through sport or gymnastics, you are still only
half way to good health, because, according to the experts, you must also master the art of complete
mental and physical relaxation(放松). It has to do with deep breathing, emptying your mind of all thoughts, meditation, and so on. Yoga, as practiced in the West, is the most widely known and popular of the systems for achieving the necessary state of relaxation. It seems ironical (讽刺性的), though, that as our lives
have improved in a material sense we have found it increasingly necessary to go back to forms of
activity-physical effort on the one hand and relaxation on the other-which were the natural way of life of
our forefathers.
B. bad features of living in towns
C. the things we can completely do away with
D. unavoidable things in town
B. don"t do them actively enough
C. find it hard to get out of our armchairs
D. don"t find them interesting
B. keep fit and learn to relax
C. be active and practise Yoga
D. have a sound mind
B. they were careful to get plenty of fresh air
C. they spent most of the time out of doors
D. their environment was not polluted
aging and how to reverse the signs of age. The beauty industry has responded to this by offering
a wide collection of anti aging creams and other anti aging products aimed at all pocketbooks,
ranging from economical to highly priced.
And the question is "do any of these often much-vaunted (被过度吹嘘的) anti aging creams
actually work?" And if they do,how precisely do they perform their miracles?
Well the appropriate response to that is that they do work - after a fashion. There certainly are
anti aging creams available for a relatively modest price that will reduce the appearance of wrinkles
in a comparatively short period of regular application. But this really is the limit of their powers:
they won"t actually undo skin damage or eradicate (根除) all signs of age;they will simply modify
them,some more effectively than others.
The way they work is like so: they remove upper layers of dead skin cells and make deeper
layers absorb water,serving to plump them up and make them look fuller and healthier. But since
such anti aging creams only go skin deep,as it were,skin damage will reappear once you stop using
the anti aging wrinkle cream.
This means fairly heavy regular use,which might be costly depending on your choice of product.
However,if you can afford it or think it"s worth the cost,it won"t be such an issue. After all,what
woman wants to look older than her years when looking good is so tied up with many women"s
self-esteem and sense of identity.
A compromise (折中) solution for those on a tighter budget is to use the cheaper creams. In
addition,it"s always wise to be a little experimental to make sure you end up with the one that suits
our skin best.
So,to sum up: an anti wrinkle face cream will work within limits,depending on your objective.
B. anti aging foods
C. anti wrinkle face
D. anti wrinkle skin
B. skin damage must not reappear after using creams
C. anti aging creams should be properly used
D. skin damage will disappear forever after using creams
B. they make deeper layers absorb water
C. they make layers look fuller and healthier.
D. they make wrinkle faces rough
B. having a smaller amount of money
C. having no money at all
D. having a lot of money
B. easily afford your choice of product
C. think your choice of product wrong
D. believe your choice of product right
life with a straightforward approach that will serve you well for years to come.
Smart eating goes beyond analyzing every bite of food you lift 1 your mouth. "In the past we
used to believe that 2 amounts of individual nutrients (营养物) were the 3 to good health,"
says Linda Van Horn, chair of the American Heart Association"s Nutrition Committee. "But now we
have a 4 understanding of healthy eating and the kinds of food necessary to 5 not only heart
disease but disease 6 general," she adds.
Scientists now 7 on the broader picture of the balance of food eaten 8 several days or a
week 9 than on the number of milligrams (毫克) of this or that 10 at each meal.
Fruits, vegetables and whole grains, for example, provide nutrients and plant-based compounds
11 for good health. "The more we learn, the more 12 we are by the wealth of essential substances
they 13 ," Van Horn continues, "and how they 14 with each other to keep us healthy."
You"ll automatically be 15 the right heart-healthy track if vegetables, fruits and whole grains make
16 three quarters of the food on your dinner plate. 17 in the remaining one quarter with lean meat or
chicken, fish or eggs.
The foods you choose to eat as well as those you choose to 18 clearly contribute to your well-being. Without a 19 each of the small decisions you make in this realm can make a big 20 on your health in
the years to come.
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which has a smallest output of greenhouse gas (GHG) release into the atmosphere, but specifically
refers to the greenhouse gas CO2. Recently, most of scientific and public opinion has come to the
conclusion that there is such an accumulation of GHG (especially CO2) in the atmosphere due to
human-related activities that the climate is changing. The over-concentration of these gases is producing
global warming that affects long-term climate, with negative impacts on humanity in the foreseeable
future. Globally performed LCEs therefore, are proposed as a means to avoid catastrophic climate
change, and as a forerunner to the more advanced, zero-carbon society and renewable-energy economy.
Some nations are low-carbon societies which are not heavily industrialized or populated. In order to
avoid climate change at any point in the future, all nations considered carbon-thick societies and societies
which are heavily populated, should become zero-carbon societies and economies. Several of these
countries have promised to become "low carbon" but not entirely zero carbon, and claim that release will
be cut by 100% by offsetting release rather than stopping all release. In other words, some release will
continue which will be offset, so they are not low-release.
Nations seek to become low-carbon economies as part of a national global warming reduction
strategy. A comprehensive strategy to manage global warming is carbon neutrality , geoengineering
and adaptation to global warming .
Nuclear power, or, the proposed strategies of carbon collection and storage (CCS) have been
proposed as the primary means to achieve a LCE while continuing to exploit non-renewable resources;
there is concern, however, with the matter of spent-nuclear-fuel storage, security and the uncertainty of
costs and time needed to successfully carry out CCS worldwide and with guarantees that the stored
release will notleak into the atmosphere. Alternatively, many have proposed renewable energy should
be the main basis of a LCE, but, they have their associated problems of high-cost and inefficiency; this
is changing, however, since investment and production have been growing significantly in recent times.
Furthermore, regardless of the effect to the atmosphere by GHG releases, the growing issue of peak
oil may also be reason enough for a change to a LCE.
B. the over-concentration of greenhouse gases is producing global warming
C. it can avoid catastrophic climate change
D. low carbon and zero carbon nations and societies claim for it
B. pioneer
C. symbol
D. guide
B. There"s worry about spent-nuclear-fuel storage, security and the uncertainty of costs.
C. The stored release will be likely to leak into the atmosphere.
D. Renewable energy tends to become the only means to achieve a LCE.
renewable energy is ______.
B. positive
C. self-confident
D. doubtful
Americans will not live without cars! However, some have realized the serious problem of air pollution
by cars. It is necessary to find ways to solve the problem of air pollution.
One way to clean the air is to build a new kind of clean car. That’s what several of the large car
factories are trying to do. But to build a clean car is easier said than done. Progress in this field has been
slow.
Another way is to take the place of the car engine by something else. Engineers are now working on
it. Many makers believe that it will take years to develop a practical model for us.
To prevent the world being polluted by cars, Americans have to make some changes in the way of
their life. They have to cut down on the number of their cars and are encouraged to travel and go to work by bike. But this change does not come easily. Many workers may find themselves without jobs if a car
factory closes down. And the problem of their pollution would become less important than that of
unemployment.
Americans may live a happy but sad life for a long time because of the car problem.
Cars and Pollution in American