Farewell to My iPhone

何燁希

Answer the following questions：

1.Who is Eloise？

2.Try to summarize the change of“my”attitude toward the iPhone in a paragraph.

（Sample：First，“I”didn't want a fancy cellphone...）

3.What does the sentence“I was living on iCloud nine as I built my new life with Eloise.”mean？

4.What can you see from the experience that he Google-mapped his way to the mailbox？

5.Between which two paragraphs do you think the sentence“Okay，so I was addicted to my iPhone.”can be inserted？

Keys：

1.The author's iPhone.

2.Then“I”found myself envious of all those proud iPhone owners，and welcomed a new iPhone into the life.Later，“I”instantly fell in love with it，and could no longer imagine a life without it.Soon I became addicted to it and would feel anxious without it accompanying.And“I”hated my addiction to it.But I regained happiness and joy when quitting the addiction.

3.On iCloud nine is equal to the phrase“on the cloud nine”，which means very happy.

4.He became addicted to the iPhone.

5.Para 7 and Para 8.

長句分析：

1.What used to feel like friendly notifications now felt like constant nagging to respond.過去覺得親切的提醒現(xiàn)在看來像是等待回應(yīng)的不斷念叨。

該句主語為what used to feel like friendly notifications，是一個what引導(dǎo)的名詞性從句。謂語動詞為felt like，constant nagging是賓語，to respond是賓語的定語。

2.When I turned it on，a wave of familiarity washed over me as it buzzed with two days worth of missed texts and notifications.當(dāng)我開機(jī)時，一陣親切感撲面而來，兩天未接到的短信和提醒使它振個不停。

該句主干為a wave of familiarity washed over me。as此處引導(dǎo)原因狀語從句，it指代iPhone，buzz是動詞，指手機(jī)振動發(fā)出的嗡嗡聲。missed此處做texts and notifications的定語，意為“沒有收到的，錯過的”。

Word Bank

On cloud nine：very happy樂不可支

例如：She has been on cloud nine since the magazine printed the story she wrote.

自從那份雜志發(fā)表了一篇她寫的故事后，她高興得不得了。endprint