Are you tempted to trade in your mobile phone every time a new model comes out, upgrade your【C1】______every year or part-exchange your car as【C2】______as the shine wears off If【C3】______, you could be suffering from neophilia(喜新成癖): Literally, the love of the【C4】______" Suffering" is a bit of a stretch, since most of us are neophiliacs to some【C5】______It is the curse of our consumerist culture or a【C6】______if you"re a manufacturer or advertiser. But is it doing any real harm Actually, yes. Neophilia is at the【C7】______of the growing problem of hazardous waste in the US and other【C8】______countries. More than 100 million of mobile phones were【C9】______in the US last year, along with tens of millions of computers. It"s a【C10】______story for electronic games, monitors, televisions and other IT【C11】______Many of these are made of toxic materials containing heavy【C12】______such as lead, zinc, chromium, cadmium and mercury. What"s more, our enthusiasm for new products is encouraging what the writer Giles Slade calls "planned obsolescence"—the tendency of【C13】______to artificially limit the useful lifespan of their products, so consumers will soon have to【C14】______them. Who exactly qualifies【C15】______a neophiliac Colin Campbell, a sociologist at the University of York, UK, and one of the first to【C16】______into the phenomenon, defines three types. The first,【C17】______as"Pristinians" , have an almost pathological desire for things that are pristine and fresh. They replace furniture, clothes, even the living-room carpet at the first【C18】______of wear, often with identical models. The second group are the"trailblazing consumers"who seek cutting-edge innovations and technologies, a demographic【C19】______mostly of young men. The third and most common type are the【C20】______of fashion, the fickle consumers who succumb to the lure of advertising. 【C1】