9．Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices，while driving，walking，shopping，even sitting in toilets．People have been influenced to become technology addicted．One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure 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．Consumers willingly give up their freedom，money and time to catch up on the latest information，to keep pace with their peers or to appear modern．
I see people trapped in a pathological（病態的）relationship with time-sucking technology，where 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 because of 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 people need to ask themselves if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about their 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 proclaiming（聲明） the wisdom that"too much of a good thing is wonderful．"But it's time to discover that it does not work for 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 how life long ago could be fantastic without today's overused technology．
25．The underlined word"allure"in Paragraph 2probably meansC．
A．advantage B．adaption C．attraction D．addiction
26．From the passage，technology companies aim toD．
A．deal with cultural diseases
B．provide the latest information
C．improve people's quality of life
D．draw people's attention to their products
27．We can learn from this passage that peopleB．
A．consider too much technology wonderful
B．may enjoy life better without overused technology
C．can regain freedom without high-tech devices
D．have realized the harm of high-tech devices
28．What's the author's attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices？A
A．Disapproving．B．Skeptical．C．Supportive．D．Sympathetic．
分析 本文抨擊了人們過度使用社交媒體和科技產品這一現象，反對人們對高科技的過度使用和依賴． 作者認為，如果不過度使用科技，人們可以更好地享受生活．
解答 25．C 詞義猜測題．根據劃線單詞的前一句People have been influenced to become technology addicted．可知，人們對社交媒體和科技上癮了，即社交媒體和科技對人們有很大的吸引力．所以劃線單詞所在句子的意思應該是：人們難以抵抗這種社交媒體的吸引力．前后句意統一，吻合．故選C．
26．D 細節理解題．根據第二段第一句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．可知，科技公司的主要目的不是為了提高人們的生活質量，而是要讓人們為它的產品消耗更多的金錢和時間，更多地關注其產品．故選D．
27．B 推理判斷題．根據倒數第二段第五句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．以及最后一段最后一句To break the grand digital connection，people must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without today's overused technology．可知，人們如果不過度的依賴科技，可以更好地享受生活．故選B．
28．A 觀點態度題．根據第三段a pathological（病態的）relationship （病態關系），technology servitude（奴役）（科技奴役）．eat up time and money（耗費時間與金錢）可知，作者對于人們的過度使用高科技持反對的態度．故選A．
點評 解觀點態度題時，可通過對作者使用的修飾詞的分析來推斷作者的思想傾向和情感．如通過文中的pathological（病態的），servitude（奴役），eat up這些形容詞、名詞和動詞的使用可以明顯地看出作者的態度---反對過度使用高科技產品．
