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   A spa hotel in Baden-Baden, Germany, thinks it has come up with the ultimate in de luxerecreation with a silvery bedside switch that allows a guest to disconnect from the digital worldentirely. Turning the switch off obstructs all electronic signals with the help of copper platesembedded in the walls that guard against leakage from neighboring rooms and the Great Out There.  There should be an emoticon for this — a leering sadist, perhaps. But the Villa Stéphanie spa hasmade absolute disconnect a proactive perk for the affluent who can afford the $1,200-plus a night itcosts for a stay. True, any smartphone user can go cold turkey via his own device’s on/off switch,but we all know the battle against demon apps, the siren call to double back to the chatter.   The hotel, offering a 19th-century regimen of customized spa soaks, gym exercises and speciallytailored meals, prefers no distractions from its agenda of self-improvement. It says about half theguests agree and have switched off at some point during their stay. “It is not a sign of smartness toconstantly look at incoming messages,” Frank Marrenbach, chief executive of the Oetker Collection,which runs the hotel, told The Financial Times. “This is not smart, this is stupid.”   Anyone who has had to dodge a smartphone user engaged zombielike on a crowded sidewalk canunderstand the reach for that silvery switch. But the web world is too much with us. A newsurvey finds that 71 percent of Americans who own smartphones can’t help sleeping with them nearby.Fifty-five percent doze off with them at the ready on a night stand, 13 percent — and 34 percent ofyoung millennials — keep them on the bed like some childhood bunny, and 3 percent hold them intheir hands possessively, according to a survey of 1,000 respondents by Bank of America.   When people wake up, they reach first for smartphones (35 percent), ahead of coffee (17 percent),toothbrush (13 percent) and significant others (10 percent), according to the survey.   For the web deniers in Baden-Baden, the morning’s electronic comfort may be that all rooms atleast have coffee makers at hand beyond the silvery switch. Imagine their sense of triumph as they jethome, free to press send on a message to their entourages: “I just paid a bundle to drop out of theInternet on my self-improvement vacation!”
40. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
(A) How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brian
(B) How Smartphone Addiction Kills Manners and Moods
(C) Blocking Your Phone on a Self-improvement Vacation
(D) Going on Vacation Won’t Cure Your Smartphone Addiction

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