阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。In South Korea smartphone cases come with rings fixed on the back 【小题1】 (prevent) clumsy owners from dropping them. This makes people look like they are married to their phones. In lots of Seoul’s coffee 【小题2】 (shop), couples on dates spend much more time looking at their screens 【小题3】 at each other. The results go beyond the 【小题4】 (potential) terrible consequences for romance.
Walk around the streets of Seoul, and there is 【小题5】 real risk of bumping into people 【小题6】 eyes are glued to their smartphone screens. According to the statistics, around 370 traffic accidents annually 【小题7】 (cause) by pedestrians using smartphones.
The government initially tried to fight the “smombie” (手机僵尸) phenomenon by distributing hundreds of stickers (贴纸) around cities, 【小题8】 (beg) people to “be safe” and look up. This seems to have had little effect even though, in Seoul at least, it recently replaced the stickers with stronger plastic boards.
Instead 【小题9】 appealing to people’s good sense, the authorities have therefore turned to trying to save them from being run over. Early last year, they 【小题10】 (begin) to test floor-level traffic lights in smombie hotspots in central Seoul. Since then, the experiment has been extended around and beyond the capital. For the moment, the government is keeping old-fashioned eye-level pedestrian lights as well. But in future, the way to look at a South Korea crossroads may be down.