闵行区2015学年高二英语第二学期期末真题卷阅读改版.docxVIP

1Last year my summer holiday was spoiled by my bringing along a modern convenience that was too convenient for my own good: the iPad. Instead of looking at nature, I checked my e-mail. Inste ad of paddling a small boat, I followed my Twitter feed（推特简讯）. Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading four newspapers each morning. I was behaving as if I were ?still in the office. My body was on vacation, but my head wasn’t.? ? So this year I made up my mind to try ?something different: withdrawal from the Internet. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, since I’m bad at self-control. ?But I was determined. ?I started by giving the iPad to my wife.? ? The cellphone signal at our house was worse than in the past, making my attempts at cheating an experience in frustration （沮丧）. I was trapped, forced to go through with my plan. Largely breaking away from e-mail, Twitter and my favorite newspaper websites, I had few ways to connect to the world except for the radio—and how much radio can one listen to, really? I had to do what I had planned to do all along: read books.? ? This experience has had a happy ending. With determination and the strong support of my wife, I won in my vacation struggle against the Internet, realizing finally that it was I, not the iPad, that was the problem. I knew I had won when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “I don’t need it,” I said.? ? However, as we return to post-vacation life, a harder test begins: Can I continue when I’m back at work?? ? There are times when the need to know what’s being said right now is great. ?I have no intention of giving up my convenience completely. But I hope to resist the temptation to check my e-mail every five minutes, which leads to checking my Twitter feed and a website or two.I think a vacation is supposed to help you rest your brain to become more pr oductive. Here I hope this one worked.28. What do we know about the author’s last summer vacation?? ? A. He was determin