If it fits inside a pocket, keeps you safe as well as in touch with your office, your mother and your children, it is (1)……….. worth having. This is the (2)……….…. of the (3)………… ranks of female mobile-phone users who are beginning to (4)……………. the customer market.
Although Britain has been (5)…….…… to be one of the most expensive places in the world to (6)………. a mobile phone, both professional women and (7)…...….. mothers are underterred. At first, the mobile phone was a rich man plaything, or a businessman’s (8)………........ symbol. Now women own almost as telephones as men do - but for very different reasons.
The main (9)…...…. for most women customers is that it (10)……….. a form of communications back-up, wherever they are, in case of (11)……..… . James Tanner of Tancroft Communications says: ‘The (12)…….… of people buying phones from us this year were women - often young women - or men who were buying for their mothers, wives and girlfriends. And it always seems to be a question of (13)………….of mind. ‘Size is also (14)…………. for women. They want something that will fit in a handbag,’ said Mr Tanner, ‘The tiny phones coming in are having a very big (15)…………. . This year’s models are only half the size of your hand.’
1. A. totally B. certainly C. absolutely D. completely
2. A. vision B. vista C. view D. panorama
3. A. swelling B. increasing C. boosting D. maximising
4. A. master B. dominate C. overbear D. command
5. A. demonstrated B. shown C. established D. seen
6. A. function B. drive C. work D. run
7. A. complete B. total C. full-time D. absolute
8. A. prestige B. fame C. power D. status
9. A. attraction B. enticement C. charm D. lure
10. A. supplies B. furnishes C. provides D. gives
11. A. urgency B. emergency C. predicament D. contingency
12. A. most B. preponderance C. majority D. bulk
13. A. tranquility B. calmness C. serenity D. peace
14. A. crucial B. necessary C. urgent D. essential
15. A. impact B. impression C. perception D. image
