A. mobile phones are wonderful devices. we use them to be in touch with our friends and relatives. many people use smartphones to find out what’s going on in the world but some people find mobile phones so useful that they can’t live without them. when they’re not sleeping, these people use phones to check e-mails and text messages about a hundred times a day! b. people who use their phones so often may develop “nomophobia” –they are afraid that they will be helpless without their phones. nomophobia is short for “no-mobile-phone-phobia”. a lot of people have this phobia. in a uk study, 66% of the 1000 people said they were afraid of losing their phones. c. it is known that 41 per cent of people have two or more phones. many people say they need an extra phone if one of the phones is broken, suddenly runs out of batteries, or they lose it. women are more worried about losing their phones than men. 77 per cent of young people have nomophobia. another group are people who are older than 55. brendon tully, 23, says: “for me, life would be impossible without my phone.” do you think you’ve got nomophobia? mobile phones help us with our friends and family. mobile phones help us with our friends and family. what do people with nomophobia need when something happens to their phone? they need life without a phone would be for brendon tully. заполнить пропуски !

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