How many coins have you got in your pocket right now? Three? Two? Or one? With a phone card you can make up to 200 calls without any change at all.
1. What do you do with it?
Go to a telephone box marked “Card Phone”. Put in your card, make your call and when you’ve finished, a screen tells you how much is left on your card.
It costs no extra for the cards, and the calls cost 10p per unit, the same as any other payphone call.
You can buy them in units of 10, 20, 40, 100 or 200.
2. Now appearing in a shop near you
Near each Card Phone place you’ll find a shop where you can buy one. They’re at bus, train and city tube(地铁) stations.
At many universities, hospitals and clubs, restaurants and gas stations on the highway and shopping centers.
At airports and seaports.
3. No more broken payphones
Most broken payphones are like that because they’ve been vandalized(破坏了的). There are no coins in Card Phone to excite thieves’ interest in it. So you’re not probably to find a vandalized one.
Get a phone card yourself and try it out. Or get a bigger wallet.
1. The passage is most probably _______.
A. a warning B. a note C. an advertisement D. an announcement
2. There are three parts in the passage. Which section do you think is about why card phones are good?
A. Part 1 B. Part 2 C. Part 3 D. None
3. Choose the right order of the steps under “How you use phone card”.
a. Put in your phone card. b. Look at the screen to find out how many calls you can still make.
c. Go to the telephone box marked “Phone card”. d. Make your call.
A. a, b, c, d B. c, a, d, b C. a, d, c, b D. c, d, a, b
4. According to the information you get from the passage, how much does a card with 40 units cost?
A. 4 pounds B. 40 pounds C. 400 pounds D. 100 pounds
5. The last sentence “Or get a bigger wallet.” means “_______.”
A. Phone cards are cheap B. You cannot use all payphones
C. Thieves will not break card phones D. Or people have to carry much money
【答案与解析】本文是则广告，介绍了磁卡电话的用法和好处。
1. C。推断题。Get a phone card yourself and try it out. 是劝说人们买这些磁卡试试，可见这是则广告。
2. C。细节题。根据 There are no coins in Card phone to excite thieves’ interest in it. 可以知道，这种磁卡电话因为没有硬币在里面，小偷是不会光顾的，故电话机很少被人为破坏。这很明显是这种磁卡电话的优势。
3. B。细节题。题目要求我们对打电话的步骤排序。根据首尾定位法，第一步应该是c (Go to the telephone box marked “Card Phone”)，而最后一步应该是 b (Look at the screen to find out how many calls you can still make)，故只能在B和D之间选择;再根据常识和文章内容可确定答案为B。
4. A。推断题。根据… the calls cost 10p per unit可以知道，打这种电话每单位时间为10便士，故40单位时间，应花400便士，即4英镑(1英镑=100便士)。
5. D。词义猜测题。用这种磁卡电话免去了带现金的麻烦，故可判定Or get a bigger wallet.是“带很多钱”的意思。
