About the Mobile Phone

　　关于手机

　　Human creativeness is boundless. With the advance of science and technology, a completely new means of communication — the Mobile Phone — came to the world, which, being not fixed in one place like ordinary phones, greatly facilitates telephone communication.

　　The mobile phone spreads so rapidly, first from businessmen to office workers, then to township enterprise managers, then to journalists and then nowadays to people of all trades and professions. At present, it seems that nowhere we do not hear the musical ringing of the mobilephone . People at first buy phones for convenience and later for fashion. To occupy this increasingly big market, the manufacturers are worrying their brains into making various types of phones, large or small, coloured or black and white, multi-functional or with video cameras, to satisfy the needs. New fashions appear almost every day.

　　However, it is a great pity that the inventors of the mobile phone did not expect the negative effects caused by their scientific merits. Because of the abuse of the mobile phone, aircraft mechanism refuses to work properly, libraries are no longer so quiet, restaurants are filled with noisy phone talk, teaching is incessantly interrupted by the signals...

　　Here, in the picture, a concert is going on. The pianist is supposed to be playing Beethoven's symphony when, all of a sudden, a man with a tie stood up, talking loudly over his mobilephone and telling his friend that he was attending a concert of classical music. The audience shuddered with panic and the pianist was nearly shocked to death.

　　It is not infrequent that the above scene happens in public places. True, human beings have the right to enjoy modern civilization, nevertheless, should they know how to conduct themselves in the modern civilized society?

　　作文结构分析：

　　·completely new means of communication — the Mobile Phone

　　·The rapid spreading of the mobile phone

　　* People who use the phone

　　* From convenience to fashion

　　* The manufacturers

　　·The negative effects of the phone , e.g.

　　·The interpretation of the cartoon

　　·Comments

　　作文内容分析：

　　本文为一篇图画作文, 文体为议论文。作者就“ 移动电话”发表自己的看法。文章开头以“ 人类的创造力是无限的”一句引出移动电话的发明, 继而在第二段中描述了移动电话的迅速发展。接着第三段笔锋一转, 以However 引出一段反面文章, 略述移动电话的负面影响是发明者始料不及的, 由此切入画面以为典型一例。结尾一段是作者的忠告— 享受现代文明也得讲文明。

　　单词词组：

　　creativeness n. 创造性

　　boundless a. 无限的

　　means of communication 通讯工具

　　not fixed in one place 不固定在一处

　　facilitate v. 使容易

　　township enterprise 乡镇企业

　　journalist n. 记者

　　people of all trades and professions 各行各业人士

　　nowhere we do not... 我们无处不……(双重否定)

　　manufacturer n. 制造商, 厂家

　　worry one's brain into 绞尽脑汁, 费尽心机

　　multi-functional a. 多功能的

　　satisfy one's needs 满足……要求

　　It is a pity that... 遗憾的是……

　　negative effect 负效应

　　merit n. 业绩, 功绩

　　abuse n. 滥用

　　aircraft mechanism 航空装置

　　incessantly interrupted 不断被打断

　　concert n. 音乐会

　　pianist n. 钢琴家

　　Beethoven's symphony 贝多芬交响乐

　　all of a sudden 突然

　　shuddered with panic 吓得发抖