【正文】 l outlook(人生觀 ) on life, special feeling about life, and knows how he fits into it. If you look at children, you’ll see great difference between what we call “bright” children and “not bright” children. They are actually two different kinds of people, not just the same kind with different amounts of intelligence. For example, the bright child really wants to find out more about life — he tries to get in touch with everything around him. But the unintelligent child keeps more to himself and his own dream– world。 those qualities go a long, long way here! Tuesdays are a fun and big day here. In the morning, we all get together for a few hours for various work projects. In the afternoon, many will hop in the truck for a trip to the town of Pahoa. That evening, we then are all treated to what is wellknown throughout this region as “ Taco Tuesday” . Anyone is wele to join us from the surrounding areas, which makes for a large gathering each week. It’ s certain that drummers and other musicians will be playing around the fire pit (坑 ) each “ Taco Tuesday” . With the exception of the few hours of work on Tuesdays, residents are free to do whatever they please. Some just relax, while others may snorkel(潛泳 ), surf, swim, shop, backpack, camp, go sightseeing, watch the lava flow, etc. It’ s rare that someone leaves this area without feeling it is a lifechanging experience. There are also many who decide to make it their permanent home. We are very weling. Come to give us a visit! Mahalo! 8. Which of the following shows the position of Cinderland? C=Cinderland B=Big Island H=Hilo P=Pahoa 9. Residents in Cinderland grow fruit trees and vegetables to . A. treat guests B. make money C. satisfy their own needs D. attract tourists 10. What do residents in Cinderland do on Tuesday? A. They work most of the time. B. They have fun most of the time. C. They have various work projects most of the day. D. They spend the whole day in the town of Pahoa. 11. Where will we probably find the text? A. In a travel note. B. In an advertisement. C. In a newspaper story. D. In a textbook D Everywhere I look outside my home, I see people busy on their hightech devices ( 裝置 ), while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting on toilets. When connected electronically, they are away from physical reality. People have been influenced to bee technology addicted. One survey reported that “addicted” was the word most monly 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 panies 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 flulike 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 they 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, bee the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology. Mae West is famous for claiming 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, a former CEO 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. 12. The underlined word “allure” in Paragraph 2 proba bly means ______. A. advantage B. attempt C. adaptation D. attraction 13. From the passage, technology panies 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 14. It can be inferred from this passage that people ______. A. consider too much technology wonderful B. may enjoy life better without overused technology C. can regain freedom without hightech devices D. have realized the harm of hightech devices 15. What’s the author’s attitude towards the overusing of high tech devices? A. Objec