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Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over- the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.For questions , mark
Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;
N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage ;
NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.
For questions6 -11, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.
Cell phone: your next computer
One hundred nineteen hours, 41 minutes and 16 seconds. That's the amount of time Adam Rappoport, a high school senior in Philadelphia, has spent talking into his silver Verizon LG phone since he got it as a gift last Christmas. That's not even the full extent of his habit. He also spends countless additional hours using his phone's Internet connection to check sports scores, download new ring-tones and send short messages to his friends' phones, even in the middle of class. "I know the touch-tone pad on the phone better than I know a keyboard," he says, "I'm a phone guy.
In Tokyo, halfway around the world, Satoshi Koiso also closely eyes his mobile phone.Koiso, a college junior, lives in the global capital of fancy new gadgets -- 20 percent of all phones in Tokyo link to the fastest mobile networks in the world. Tokyoites use their phones to watch TV,read books and magazines and play games. But Koiso also depends on his phone for something simpler and more profound: an anti-smoking message that pops up on his small screen each rooming as part of a program to help students kick cigarettes.
Technology revolutions come in two flavors: greatly fast and imperceptibly slow. The fast kind, like the sudden ubiquity of iPods or the proliferation (增殖) of music-sharing sites on the Net, seem to instantly reshape the cultural landscape. The slower upheavals grind away over the course of decades, subtly transforming the way we live and work.
There are 1.5 billion cell phones in the world today, more than three times the number of PCs. Mobile phones are so integral to our lives that it's difficult to remember how the life we ever got on without them.
Can the cell phone turn into the next computer?
As our phones get smarter, smaller and faster, and enable users to connect at high speeds to the Internet, an obvious question arises: is the mobile handset turning into the next computer? In one sense, it already has. Today's most sophisticated phones have the processing power of a mid1990s PC while consuming 100 times less electricity. And more and more of today's phones have computer-like features, a
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