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  When you get in your car, you reach for it. When you’re at work, you take a break to have a moment alone with it. When you get into a lift, you play with it.        Cigarette? Cup of coffee? No, it’s the third most addictive thing in modern life: the cell phone. And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to control their longing to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships.        The costs are becoming more and more evident, and I don’t mean just the monthly bill. Dr. Chris Knippers, a counselor at the Betty Ford Center in Southern California, reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and all escape from reality.        Sounds extreme, but we’ve all witnessed the evidence: The person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around him.        Jim Williams, an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts, notes that cell-phone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gulf of personal separation. He points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with. Despite the growing use of phones, e-mail and instant messaging, in other words, Williams says studies show that we don’t have as many friends as our parents. “Just as more information has led to less wisdom, more acquaintances via the Internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends,” he says. 76. What has become a social problem according to the passage? (No more than 5 words) ___________________________________________________________________________ 77. What costs do people have to pay for their cell phones according to the passage?    (No more than 15 words) ___________________________________________________________________________ 78. What is the purpose of Paragraph 4 in the passage? (No more than 5 words) ___________________________________________________________________________ 79. What consequence do experts say about cell-phone addiction? (No more than 20 words) ___________________________________________________________________________ 80. What do you think of the overuse of cell phones in our daily life? Please give your opinion and suggestions to improve the situation. (No more than 30 words) ___________________________________________________________________________ 答案：76. The overuse of cell phones. / The cell-phone addiction. / Being addicted to cell phones. 77. Their monthly bill and the separation between people. or: Their monthly bill and a widening gulf of personal separation.  78. To give evidence. / To provide supporting examples (of the harmful cell phone addiction). 79. Cell phone addiction has more separated people than bring them closer together. or: Cell-phone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gulf of personal separation. or: The overuse of cell phones has become a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and all      escape from reality. 80. (Open) I believe it has a great negative effect on our daily life. I think people should use the    cell phone properly and strengthen personal communication to enjoy a happy life together.

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