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If you’ve bought a phone in the last decade or so, it’s likely that you’ve bought an increasingly nice rectangle.

Other than sharper screens, better cameras, or improved battery life, there really haven’t been any massive changes to the structure of the smartphone in over 10 years now. But it seems like 2019 is set to buck the trend.

Recently, we’ve had squeezy phones, curved phones, notched phones, and now, we are getting bendable phones. Unlike the gimmicks of years past, these might have some value.

There have been some early indications about where phone makers have been heading. Companies like Samsung and LG have shown off flexible displays at trade shows for years, leading some to believe that there would be a future where we’d roll up our phones like a newspaper. That future has been slow-moving, but this year at the CES electronics trade show in Las Vegas, electronics manufacturer Royole showed off the FlexPai, which it calls the first “fully flexible display” electronic device. In plain English: that’s a smartphone that folds out into a tablet.

Even though it’s being folded over itself, the FlexPai’s display doesn’t snap or bruise—which, definitely don’t try with your current phone’s display. It’s meant to replace the need for two devices, by being two devices in one. A developer model of the phone is available now, for only $1,318.

1.What did the phone look like in the last decade?

A A rectangle.

B A circle.

C A square.

D A triangle.

解析：选A。细节理解题。根据第一段If you’ve bought a phone in the last decade or so, it’s likely you’ve bought an increasingly nice rectangle.可知如果你的手机是在过去十年间买的，它很可能是个不断完善的长方形，故选A。

2.What can we know from the second paragraph?

A The smartphone will have sharper screens, better cameras and improved battery life.

B There have been some massive changes to the structure of the smartphone.

C The smartphone in 2019 will be as nice as before.

D The structure of the smartphone in 2019 will not be the same as before.

解析：选D。推理判断题。根据第二段可知过去十年来，智能手机在外部结构上并没有大变化，但是2019年这一趋势要逆转，从而可以推断智能手机在外部结构上会和以前不一样，故选D。

3.What is the FlexPai?

A It’s the first “partially inflexible display” electronic device.

B It’s a tablet that folds up a smartphone.

C It’s a smartphone that folds out into a tablet.

D It’s a developer model for only $1,318.

解析：选C。细节理解题。根据第四段最后两句可知FlexPai是一部展开像平板电脑的智能手机，故选C。

4.What’s the best title for the passage?

A The smartphone with sharper screen is coming.

B The curved phone is coming.

C The bendable phone is coming.

D The bendable tablet is coming.

解析：选C。主旨大意题。根据第三、四、五段所讲内容我们知道这篇文章主要是讲可折叠手机时代来临，故选C。