a mobile phone. In countries like Russia and China, people use mobile phone in places where
there is no ordinary telephone. Business people use mobiles when they’re traveling. In some
countries, like Japan, many people use their mobile phones to send e-mail message and access the
Internet. They use a new kind of mobile phone called “i-mode”. You can even use a mobile phone
listen to music.
Mobile phones are very fashionable with teenagers. Parents buy mobile phones for their
children. They can call home if they are in trouble and need help. So they feel safer. But teenagers
mostly use them to keep in touch with their friends or play simple computer games. It’s cool to be
the owner of a small expensive mobile. Research shows that teenage owners of mobile phone
smoke less. Parents and schools are happy that teenagers are safer and smoke less.
But many people dislike them. They hate it when the businessman opposite them on the
train has a loud conversation on his phone. Or when mobile phones ring in a café or restaurant.
But there is a much more serious problem. It’s possible that mobile phone can heat up the brain
because we hold the phone so closed to our bead. Scientists fear that mobiles can perhaps be bad
for your memory and even give you cancer.
16. Mobile are popular among people because _______
A. they think mobile are fun
B. they believe mobile are safe
C. they love to listen to music
D. they feel it easier to talk to each other

17. It is stated in the passage that Russia and China _______ .
A. ordinary telephone service is available everywhere
B. people prefer mobile phone to ordinary telephones
C. mobile are used in places without ordinary telephoneD. people use mobiles to send e-mail and access the Internet

18. Parents buy mobile phone for their children because ________ .
A. mobile phone are very fashionable with teenagers
B. they can call home if they are in trouble and need help
C. they can use mobile to play simple computer games
D. mobile phone enable teenagers to give up smoking

19. Why can mobile phone be a much more serious problem?
A. Because people hate the businessmen using mobile in public places.
B. Because of use of mobile phones can be physically harmful.
C. Because there is strong evidence for the problems of mobiles.
D. Because people feel their privacy unprotected in a café or restaurant.

20. Which of the following can be the title of this passage?
A. Why Are Mobile So Popular?
B. Mobiles—Useful or Useless
C. Mobile—A Danger to health?
D. Why Do We Design Mobile?

Questions 21—25 are based on the following passage:
At the International Snow Sculpture Championships in Colorado on January 27, people will
carve the white stuff into art. Planning begins months before the first snow falls. Teams submit
applications and sketches of their sculptures in July. Then, a panel of judges choose 14 teams for
the championship.
The rules are simple: Electric tools are not allowed. Teams carve snow with everything but the
results are not entirely in the sculptors’ hands,” if it is extremely sunny and warm.” DeWall, the