Smartphones have become a big part of people’s lives. When we can’t find them for a ______ , it causes us to feel anxious, which is ______ nomophobia (无手机恐惧症) or no mobile phone phobia. Most people feel it a little, but some can feel it more ______ , depending on how addicted they are to their equipment. When I first ______ using mine, I’d still look for it before remembering it wasn’t a part of my life anymore. But just like when I gave up smoking, I successfully ______ the withdrawal (脱瘾期). Thankfully, it was short-lived.

Wuyou Sui, a researcher at the University of Victoria, ______ nomophobia as a dependence that’s been placed upon us. He says, ” ______ nomophobia isn’t a reflection of one’s personal failings, but the behaviour is meant to form ______ . The more we use the smartphone, the more ______ we become.“

Finally, that sense of dependence is ______ . As I’ve found, I can find other ______ —with a desktop computer, at times, or a friend’s phone—to do all the things I need to do. It’s not always ______ , but I know I’m always much better without my ______ .

Now when my son and I are playing, my attention is ______ on him. I can see his smiles. After he’s gone to bed, instead of fixing my eyes on the ______ , I light candles, read a book and enjoy the room I’m in.

Have you seen people who take pictures of food for more than 10 minutes before eating? How about those who beautify their selfie (自拍照片) so much that they can’t be _______?There must be one or more who _______ in your social media. No matter what they choose to share, they share the best but the most unreal.

Take my friend Chen. Every time we went to a restaurant, she would not take a _______ until all the dishes we _______ were on the table. Then, she would spend five minutes in setting the dishes in a seemingly random but in fact _______ order. Then the most important part: taking pictures. After that, she would choose one of the _______ and click in the filter (滤镜) app. The food eventually looked 10 times more delicious than it really was, but we had no _______ to really enjoy it—it all went cold. Actually Chen’s real life is much less elegant. For example, she hates to wash the dishes, so she leaves them in the sink for _______.

Many people care too much about others’ opinions and try too hard to _______ others. They find it hard to be ________ and to accept themselves, and thus they are afraid to show their real life on social media. What they are trying to prove is ________ what they lack in reality. But this will not bring any change to reality, as they still ________ the same old pattern of life.

If they really want an elegant life, they should put more ________ into achieving it. Being more confident, ________ themselves and trying their best to be better is much more meaningful than ________ their life on social media.

How can you tell if someone’s lying? The answer is, they’re probably not．

Traditional economics says that people make reasonable choices and will lie if it’s to their _________. A recent university study has shown that, actually, we’re pretty _________— especially when we’re at home.

Researchers in Germany _________ people at home and asked them to toss (投掷) a coin. There was a strong _________ incentive (刺激) to lie about the result: if the coin landed tails-up, the participants would receive money, while if the coin landed heads-up, they would get nothing. Because they were on the phone, they knew there was no_________ of getting caught if they lied．

And yet people told the_________. Over hundreds of tosses, a coin will land tails-up about 50% of the time. In this _________ over half the people asked (55.6%) said that the coin landed heads-up, which meant they would receive nothing．

Previous studies had found that people were more _________. In those laboratory studies, 75% of people reported a _________ coin and asked for a reward. So the research team thinks it’s being in our own homes which makes us play fair, although it’s not yet clear why．

In fact both types of study show people are surprisingly __________. Even in the laboratory, 25% of people __________ down a reward by telling the truth. The researchers say this is because honesty is __________ valued in human society. We care about our __________ and our sense of ourselves as decent (体面的) people. So lying has a psychological __________ and it seems this cost is more important than the financial benefits of __________.