I see people trapped in a pathological(病态的)relationship with timesucking 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.
文章大意：文章作者指出了人们过度使用科技的许多弊端，反对大众对高科技设备的过度依赖。
1．The underlined word “allure” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.
A．advantage B．attraction
C．adaption D．attempt
答案：B 词义猜测题。根据该词所在句One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.可猜出allure意思是吸引，故选B。
2．From the passage, technology companies aim to ________.
A．attract people to buy their products
B．provide the latest information
C．improve people's quality of life
D．deal with cultural diseases
