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How many times a day do you check your email When you wake up Before bed A dozen times in between The technology that was supposed to simplify our lives has become the ultimate time-suck: the average teen spends more than seven hours a day using technological devices, plus an additional hour just text-messaging friends.
The advantage to all that gadgetry, of course, is connectedness: email lets us respond on the go, and we are in touch with more people during more hours of the day than at any other time in history. But is it possible we’re more lonely than ever, too That’s what MIT professor Sherry Turkle observes in her new book, Alone Together, a fascinating portrait of our changing relationship with technology, the result of nearly 15 years of study. Turkle details the ways technology has redefined our perceptions of intimacy and solitude--and warns of the perils of embracing such virtual relationships in place of lasting emotional connections.
For
A. complicated.
B. high-tech.
C. time-consuming.
D. appealing.

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How many times a day do you check your email When you wake up Before bed A dozen times in between The technology that was supposed to simplify our lives has become the ultimate time-suck: the average teen spends more than seven hours a day using technological devices, plus an additional hour just text-messaging friends.
The advantage to all that gadgetry, of course, is connectedness: email lets us respond on the go, and we are in touch with more people during more hours of the day than at any other time in history. But is it possible we’re more lonely than ever, too That’s what MIT professor Sherry Turkle observes in her new book, Alone Together, a fascinating portrait of our changing relationship with technology, the result of nearly 15 years of study. Turkle details the ways technology has redefined our perceptions of intimacy and solitude--and warns of the perils of embracing such virtual relationships in place of lasting emotional connections.
For
A. the advantages and disadvantages of technology.
B. how technology influences human relationships.
C. our expectations on technology.
D. our views on virtual relationships.

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Daylight Saving Time (DST)

How and When Did Daylight Saving Time Start
A．Benjamin Franklin-of "early to bed and early to rise" fame—was apparently the first person to suggest the concept of daylight savings. While serving as U.S. ambassador to France in Paris, Franklin wrote of being awakened at 6 a.m. and realizing, to his surprise, that the sun would rise far earlier than he usually did. Imagine the resources that might be saved if he and others rose before noon and burned less midnight oil, Franklin, tongue half in cheek, wrote to a newspaper.
B．It wasn’t until World War I that daylight savings were realized on a grand scale. Germany was the first state to adopt the time changes, to reduce artificial lighting and thereby save coal for the war effort. Friends and foes soon followed suit. In the U.S. a federal law standardized the yearly start and end of daylight saving time in 1918—for the states that chose to observe i