Checking your mobile phone

Part 1.- For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

 

Checking your mobile phone

How often do you check your phone? For many of us, our phone is an essential (0) D.  part  of everyday life, but apparently we are spending an increasing amount of time checking it for information without being (1)_______ of doing so.

 

Research in Helsinki shows that phone checking (2)_____ lasts less than 30 seconds so each occasion, and usually (3)_______ of opening a single application such as social media. The study also found many users check their mobiles throughout the (4)______ day, and that what they check is often (5)_____ with particular contexts. For instance, when travelling to work or college, people tend to check their email; if they are bored, they get a quick (6)______ on the latest news.

Checking this frequently can easily become a habit, which some say can (7)______ us from more important things. Others, though, believe that being able to (8)______ so much new information so quickly makes life far more interesting.

 

0.-

A) branch

B) item

C) piece

D) part

 

1.- 

A) sensitive

B) cautious

C) sensible

D) conscious

2.- 

A) virtually

B) typically

C) widely

D) suitably

3.- 

A) consists

B) composes

C) involves

D) includes

 

4.-

A) composes

B) total

C) normal

D) entire

5.- 

A) attached

B) assumed

C) associated

D) accompanied

6.- 

A) update

B) revision

C) review

D) upgrade

 

7.- 

A) disturb

B) distract

C) disrupt

D) distribute

8.- 

A) capture

B) import

C) obtain

D) seize