课时同步（译林牛津版）高三M6 unit2 .1

根据句意及首字母或汉语提示完成单词。
O      your boss or you will be fired.
He had a t      for music.
She gave the police a v      description of the accident.
It is said that the early European playing cards were designed for e     and education.
They will celebrate their       （黄金般的）wedding anniversary next Labour Day.
His character has       （成熟） these years.

用方框中所给词组的适当形式填空。

When I        those days, I realized I was desperately unhappy.
The lazy man tried every means to        his work.
It was        that I saw him leave.
We asked him to        us        the design of a new bridge.
I don’t believe what he said but I still        him.
The shark came        and the old man hit it as it shut its jaws.

--- I’m afraid I’m not       the job.
--- I        your ability to solve the problem.

The national entrance examinations are around the comer, and some fans in my class are persuaded to        football to focus on their studies.

Though injured seriously, he tried to        , hoping to make his parents less worried.

To turn your dream into reality, you should first        the hard life here which you haven’t got used to so far.

--- Do you think we can get there on time?
--- Yes,        the car doesn’t break down.

Nobody can bear        at in public places.

根据括号内的提示翻译句子。
他抱怨他的父母只关心他的考试结果。(focus on)
                                                                         
她不允许她丈夫在家里抽烟。(allow.，．to do)
                                                                     
本来他能够通过考试，但是他太粗心。(could have done)
                                                                     
我所想做的就是努力完成自己的梦想。(realize one’s dream)
                                                                     

Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets. When connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.
People have been influenced to become technology addicted. One survey reported that “addicted” was the word most commonly used by people to describe their relationship to iPad and similar devices. 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（病态的）relationship with time-sucking technology, where they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude. 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 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.
The underlined word “allure” in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.

From the passage, technology companies aim to ______.

It can be inferred from this passage that people ______.

What’s the author’s attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices?