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(1) My mother likes to sit with her legs crossed on the sofa, glasses balanc

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问题     (1) My mother likes to sit with her legs crossed on the sofa, glasses balanced on her nose, while she scrolls through her iPhone. I don’t know whether she is commenting on a friend’s family photo album, crushing candy or liking a meme with the caption: "Tonight’s forecast: 99％ chance of wine", but I do know that this is not the first time I catch her like this. My father opts for the "I’ll be with you shortly" line, which he delivers with a very serious look on his face as he aggressively taps away on his phone. I have learned by now that this is my cue to leave him alone for the next 10 minutes. As much as they don’t like admitting it, both of my parents are just as addicted to their phones as I am.
    (2) Growing up, we are constantly reminded that young people are the demographic most affected by technology. We are the "antisocial social club", those who prefer to text our friends in the same room rather than having to make eye contact with them. We are the "digital natives", ruining the English language because we favour using heart-eye emojis to tell someone we fancy them, instead of spelling it out. We are "generation mute", unable to bear phone calls because apparently the awkwardness of calling someone up is just too real. Even though never-ending studies warn us that we are slowly turning into tech-zombies, we should at least consider that it’s not only us young ones any more.
    (3) There’s the rise of the Instagram mums, who like to post an abundance of cute baby pictures, showcasing their seemingly put-together lifestyles and sharing their many mom feelings along the way. Or the surge of over-55-year-olds who are beginning to occupy and curate Facebook. They are the so-called "Facebook mum generation", a growing group of parents that like to overshare and, in the process, are slowly pushing out young people who can’t bear to see another one of mum’s embarrassing gin-and-tonic-on-a-holiday selfies. While many millennials are slowly leaving Facebook because our timeline seems to clog up with fake news, dog videos and repetitive memes these days, our parents might see the platform as a way of keeping up with the social lives of their old schoolmates. They’re a little late to the party, but are still arriving in their droves, with Facebook expecting its largest growth of new members joining the platform in the UK to be among the over-55s users this year.
    (4) And while all of this might be fine, and even a little humorous, new research suggests that parents’ technology addiction is negatively affecting their children’s behaviour. According to the study, 40％ of mothers and 32％ of fathers have admitted to having some sort of phone addiction. This has led to a significant fall in verbal interactions within families and even a decline in mothers encouraging their children. It is an increasing trend that people switch their attention away from those around them to check their phones instead—one that seems to be infiltrating far beyond friendship circles and now also into family life. And by family life, I mean not only young teens and children who are glued to their phones or tablets, but also their parents, who are now joining in on the antisocial fun. What are the consequences if we don’t deal with this? And why don’t we recognise it in the first place, when all the signs are there?
    (5) Whether you want to escape your pestering children for a bit, or want to stay up late flicking through Twitter, know that wanting to do all of this is normal. We—your children—know how addictive it can be and how difficult it is to switch off. But before calling us out and telling us to "put our phones away at the table" or even worse, pulling up statistics of how damaging social media can be for us, maybe lead by example and consider how much time you spend on the phone as well as how this is impacting your children and your relationship with them. Maybe in this way we can work on our addiction together. (本文选自 The Guardian) [br] It can be concluded from Para. 3 that________.
选项 A、Facebook is seeing a sharp growth in young users
B、millennial often post fake news on their Instagram
C、Instagram mums share their babies rather than lifestyles
D、young people feel awkward about parents’ oversharing
答案 D
解析 推断题。由题干定位到原文第三段。本段第三句提到，“脸书妈妈一代”喜欢晒个不停，年轻人不愿再看到妈妈们“在假期喝金汤利(鸡尾酒名)”的尴尬自拍，被慢慢排挤出脸书。由此可知，父母一辈人的过度分享让年轻人觉得尴尬，故本题正确答案为D。本段最后两句提到，很多千禧一代正逐步逃离脸书，而父母一代正在大量涌入，在英国，55岁以上的用户正是脸书今年新用户增长最快的群体，故可以排除A；本段第四句提到，很多千禧一代正逐步逃离脸书，因为时光轴里充斥的全是假新闻、晒狗视频以及重复的表情包，并非年轻人上传假新闻，由此可以排除B；本段第一句提到，照片墙上的妈妈不仅晒自己宝宝的可爱照片，还展示自己看似很有条理的生活方式，故可以排除C。
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