Mobile PhoneA mobile phone (also known as a wireless phone, or cellular telephone) is a very small

portable radio telephone.

The mobile phone can be used to communicate over long distances without wires. It

works by communicating with a nearby base station (also called a "cell site") which

connects it to the main phone network. As the mobile phone moves around, if the mobile

phone gets too far away from the cell it is connected to, that cell sends a message to

another cell to tell the new cell to take over the call. This is called a "hand off," and the

call continues with the new cell the phone is connected to. The hand-off is done so well

and carefully that the user will usually never even know that the call was transferred to

another cell.

As mobile phones became more popular, they began to cost less money, and more people

could afford them. Monthly plans became available for rates as low as US$30 or US$40 a

month. Cell phones have become so cheap to own that they have mostly replaced pay

phones and phone booths except for urban areas with many people.

Question.

1. What is the text about?

2. What is the type of the text?

3. What is the main idea of paragraph 1 ?

4. What is the purpose of the text?

5. When the mobile phone starts being a cheap stuff?

6. How much the mobile phone costs a month?

7. What is the function of mobile phone?

8. What kind of generic structure will you find in the text ?

9. " Monthly plans became available for rates as low as US$30 or US$40 a

month "(paragraph 3) What is the synonym of the word " plans"?

10. How does the mobile phone work?​