ECCE Reading Cell Phones

What is the purpose of this article?

• to compare cell phones in the past to today's

• to examine the development of the cell phone

• to make predictions about where cell phones are going

• to recommend what kind of cell phone to buy

What were the early cell phones like?

• reasonably priced but cumbersome

• slow and highly expensive

• heavy and hard to afford

• mainly useful as a status symbol

What does Moore's Law predict?

• how much faster computers get every year

• how much more technology can go on a chip of the same size

• how long it takes to develop a new kind of phone

• how large a part of the market Intel will control

At the end of the second paragraph, what does the phrase without a hiccup mean?

• carefully

• dutifully

• smoothly

• closely

What is true about the smartphone?

• It is the smallest handheld device so far

• It is bigger than every phone that preceded it

• It has a screen as big as a desktop computer

• It has the capabilities of a computer

In the second sentence of the fourth paragraph, what does one refer to?

• a law

• a prediction

• a handheld device

• a direction