Question

【題目】Read the following passage and answer the questions.

In South Korea, smart-phone cases come with rings fixed firmly on the back to prevent clumsy owners from dropping them. This makes people look like they are literally married to their phones. In many of Seoul’s most Instagrammable（網(wǎng)紅）coffee shops, couples on dates spend vastly more time looking at their screens than at each other. The outcomes go beyond the potentially serious consequences for romance.

Walk around the streets of Seoul or any other South Korean city, and there is a real risk of bumping into people whose eyes are glued to their smart-phone screens. Insurers estimate that around 370 traffic accidents annually are caused by pedestrians using smart-phones. That figure does not include those who bump into lamp posts and the like while perusing the latest cat videos.

The government initially tried to fight the “smornbie”(a combination of “smart-phone and “zombie”) epidemic by distributing hundreds of stickers around cities imploring people to “be safe” and look up. This seems to have had little effect even though, in Seoul at least, it recently replaced the stickers with sturdier plastic boards.

Instead of appealing to people’s good sense, the authorities have therefore resorted to trying to save them from being run over. Early last year, they began to trial floor-level traffic lights in smomibe hot-spots in central Seoul. Since then, the experiment has been extended around and beyond the capital. For the moment, the government is retaining old-fashioned eye-level pedestrian lights as well. But in future, the way to look at a South Korean crossroads may be down.

Answer the following questions in COMPLETE sentences:

【1】According to the passage, why do people look like they are married to their phone in South Korea.?

【2】How many accidents annually are caused by pedestrian using smart-phones?

【3】In many coffee shops, what do couples on dates usually do?

【4】Distributing hundreds of stickers around cities had little effect on “smombie” epidemic, did it?

【5】What measures did the authorities take early last year?

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】In South Korea, smart-phone cases come with rings fixed firmly on the back to prevent clumsy owners from dropping them.

【2】There are around 370 traffic accidents annually caused by pedestrians using smart-phones.

【3】Couples on dates spend vastly more time looking at their screens than at each other.

【4】Yes, it did.

【5】They began to trial floor-level traffic lights in smomibe hot-spots in central Seoul.

【解析】

本文講述了在韓國，很多人都離不開手機，視線一直盯著手機屏幕。當?shù)卣�府想出了很多辦法，其中有政府最初試圖通過在城市周圍分發(fā)數(shù)百個貼紙來呼吁人們“安全”并向上看。這種做法似乎收效甚微，去年初還試驗了地面交通燈。

【1】句意：根據(jù)這篇文章，為什么在韓國人們看起來像嫁給了他們的手機。

根據(jù)In South Korea, smart-phone cases come with rings fixed firmly on the back to prevent clumsy owners from dropping them. 在韓國，智能手機套的背面都有牢固的戒指，以防笨拙的用戶把手機掉下來。故答案為In South Korea, smart-phone cases come with rings fixed firmly on the back to prevent clumsy owners from dropping them.

【2】句意：每年有多少事故是由行人使用智能手機引起的?

根據(jù)Insurers estimate that around 370 traffic accidents annually are caused by pedestrians using smart-phones.保險公司估計，每年大約有370起交通事故是由行人使用智能手機引起的。故答案為There are around 370 traffic accidents annually caused by pedestrians using smart-phones.

【3】句意：在許多咖啡店里，情侶們在約會時通常會做什么?

In many of Seoul’s most Instagrammable（網(wǎng)紅）coffee shops, couples on dates spend vastly more time looking at their screens than at each other. 在首爾的許多網(wǎng)紅咖啡店，情侶約會更花時間看屏幕。故答案為Couples on dates spend vastly more time looking at their screens than at each other.

【4】句意：在城市周圍分發(fā)幾百張貼紙對“smombie”幾乎沒有影響，是嗎?

根據(jù)This seems to have had little effect even though, in Seoul at least, it recently replaced the stickers with sturdier plastic boards. 這種做法似乎收效甚微，盡管最近用更結(jié)實的塑料板取代了貼紙，至少在首爾是這樣。故答案為Yes, it did.

【5】句意：去年年初當局采取了什么措施?

根據(jù)Early last year, they began to trial floor-level traffic lights in smomibe hot-spots in central Seoul去年年初，他們開始在首爾市中心的smomibe熱點地區(qū)試用地面交通燈。故答案為They began to trial floor-level traffic lights in smomibe hot-spots in central Seoul.