A growing number of Chinese online users are willing to idle their time away (消磨时间), watching live 24-hour internet broadcasts. These vary in content from how iconic pandas live in their natural habitats to how a hospital is constructed.
More than 90 percent of Chinese netizens said they had aimlessly viewed such livestreaming(直播) videos and 87.8 percent of them said they like the slower-paced broadcasts as it gives them a psychological break from their stressful and busy routines, according to a survey released by China Youth Daily.
Among the 2,005 interviewees, the post-1980’s generation accounted for 43.9 percent, followed by the post-1990’s generation (38.6 percent) and the post-1970’s generation at 9.1 percent.
“It is a source of pleasure and comfort to aimlessly watch slow, relaxing content on livestream,” Fang Lu, a college student from Shanghai, was quoted as saying, recollecting her experience of watching a vlogger practice Chinese calligraphy with soothing background music.
Liu Chen, an employee from Beijing, is another livestream watcher. She recently viewed live online broadcasts showing a Chinese survey team reach the summit of Mount Qomolangma on a mission to remeasure the height of the world’s highest peak.
“Reaching the summit of Mount Qomolangma is a dream that many people have aspired to for a long time but have had no opportunity to realize,” said Liu. “Without post-editing, the original live broadcast, which truly represents the scene, has the audience fully absorbed in its reality.”
1. Why does the author mention watching broadcasts in the first paragraph?| A．To introduce watching broadcasts. |
| B．To explain what they are. |
| C．To stress the importance of watching broadcasts. |
| D．To encourage netizens to share broadcasts. |
| A．Because they can have a rest while watching. |
| B．Because they are aimless. |
| C．Because they like the slower-paced broadcasts. |
| D．Because they are not stressful or busy. |
| A．It is uncomfortable. |
| B．It is with background music. |
| C．It is time-consuming. |
| D．It can help realize the dream that cannot come ture in reality. |
| A．Livestreaming new source of leisure among Chinese |
| B．Broadcasting the news |
| C．Realizing your dream |
| D．Idling your time away |
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【推荐1】Do today's kids make terrible entry-level workers? We've all heard the stories: assistants who won't assist, new workers who can't set an alarm, employees who can't grasp institutional hierarchies (等级). It's easy to laugh off these short, funny stories, but there are some complex reasons for the lack of familiarity with work standards. Many 20-something adults have never held a mental summer job, once considered training wheels for adult life in the American middle class.
It was once common to see teenagers mowing lawns, waiting tables, digging ditches and bagging groceries for modest cages in the long summer months. Summer employment was a social equalizer, allowing both rich and financially strapped teenagers to gain a foot hold on adult hood, learning the virtues of hard work, respect and teamwork in a relatively low-risk atmosphere. But youth employment has declined sharply over the years, and young people are losing a chance to develop these important life skills in the process.
In 2020, less than half of the nation's youths (ages 16 to 24) were employed during the month of July, traditionally the peak of summer employment, the lowest percentage since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started collecting data in 1948 and almost 20 points lower than the peak in 1989. There's little indication of that number improving. Teenagers and 20-somethings are the least skilled and least important members of the workforce, so it's not surprising that they would be edged out in a depression by more reliable full-time workers such as senior citizens, immigrants and other adults who need those jobs.
But other long-term factors are at play. Life is more competitive than ever before, and kids–or perhaps their parents—worry about wasting time on jobs that won't yield career benefits. On Harvard's campus, students feel crushing pressure to build their resumed the instant they arrive, giving up unskilled summer jobs for unpaid internships with nonprofit organizations, political campaigns and research labs. Others spend the summer studying foreign languages.
The same pattern is found at the secondary-school level, where then employment has been on a downward trend since 2000. Tougher graduation standards have created a threefold increase in summer-school attendance over the past 20 years. High schools also now routinely require public service— surely a good thing—that can further limit the available hours to work for pay.
Many of these social changes are a sign of a healthy, and upwardly mobile, society. But there's a problem when more than 50% of the nation's young workforce has never held a basic, paying job. We maybe postponing their entry into adult hood. One paradox (悖论) of contemporary life is that the lengthening of adolescence has not better prepared young people for what comes next. This generation's 20- year-olds lack some of the soft skills that are necessary to move up the professional ladder: perseverance, humility, flexibility and commitment.
In the end, though, it's their elders who are responsible. If we want a more respectful and industrious workforce, we need to do a better job creating one.
1. Those “short, funny stories” in the first paragraph reflect that those entry-level workers ______| A．are terrible kids who have never worked before | B．are not very familiar with work standards |
| C．have never been trained for their adult life | D．are from the American middle class, doing mental jobs |
| A．How to mow lawns, wait tables, dig ditches and bag groceries. |
| B．Rich and financially strapped teenagers being socially equal. |
| C．The virtue of hard work, respect and teamwork |
| D．How to earn and spend money widely in a low-risk atmosphere |
| A．spend less time on jobs that don't bring practical benefits |
| B．deal with crushing pressure by doing unpaid internships |
| C．attend summer schools to study foreign languages |
| D．replace summer jobs for pay with voluntary public service |
| A．the young people today lack some important life skills |
| B．young people should be well prepared for their adult hood |
| C．doing summer jobs can prepare young people for their future |
| D．young people themselves are to blame for their lack of soft skills |
【推荐2】A dangerous creature is haunting South Korean Crossroads
Headless smartphone zombies(僵尸) keep stepping out in front of cars.
In South Korea smartphone cases come with rings attached on the back, to prevent clumsy owners from dropping them. This makes people look like they are actually married to their phones. In many of Seoul's most popular coffee shops, couples on dates spend vastly more time looking at their screens than at each other, the impact of which goes beyond the potentially terrible consequences for romance.
Walk around the streets of Seoul or any other South Korean city, and there is a real risk of bumping into people whose eyes are stuck to their smartphone screens. Insurance companies say that around 370 traffic accidents annually are caused by pedestrians using smartphones. That figure does not include those who bump into lamp posts and the like while enjoying the latest cat videos.
At first, the government tried to fight the ''smombie'' ( a combination of ''smartphone'' and ''zombie'')trend by distributing hundreds of stickers around cities reminding people to "be safe"and look up. This seems to have had little effect even though, in Seoul at least, it recently replaced the stickers with plastic boards.
Instead of appealing to people's good sense, the government has therefore turned to trying to save them from being run over. Early last year, they began to make experimental use of floor-level traffic lights in smombie hotspots in central Seoul. Since then, the experiment has been extended around and beyond the capital. For the moment, the government is keeping old-fashioned eye-level pedestrian lights as well. But in future, the way to look at a South Korean crossroads may be down.
1. According to the passage, ''smombies'' are people who__________.| A．are actually married to their phones. |
| B．cause around 370 traffic accidents in Seoul annually. |
| C．attach rings on the back of their smartphone cases. |
| D．stick their eyes to their smartphone screens while walking. |
| A．putting up floor-level traffic lights in Seoul. |
| B．delivering hundreds of stickers in different cities. |
| C．asking insurance companies to collect accident data. |
| D．putting up plastic boards reminding people to look up. |
| A．expecting people to be much smarter. |
| B．arming people with more knowledge. |
| C．asking people to be more reasonable. |
| D．allowing people to do what they want. |
【推荐3】
Life without access to energy is simply miserable. Accessing energy is the single most important factor in improving the lives of individuals and increasing the economic opportunities available in their communities. Access to lighting transforms education from outdoors during the day, to indoors and anytime! A simple refrigerator can transform a fruit stand to a grocery store. Reliable electricity allows businesses to stay open and ultimately provides the cornerstone that allows industries to form.
There is a dominant school of thought that energy access can be achieved around the world with only carbon-free sources. This paradigm envisions effectively “leapfrogging” traditional development patterns, skipping industrialization, and transforming economies with green energy and a service economy. While compelling in theory, this vision lacks several critical factors; the need to manufacture the goods that will build the economy, the scalability of energy sources, and the affordability of that energy.
This transformation is currently underway and its progress is inevitable. The urgency is created by individuals current, difficult conditions and the availability of abundant, affordable energy, particularly coal. All new energy demand will come from the developing world. Without a thoughtful conversation about the projected doubling of world energy demand, energy consumption will continue as it is currently underway, in two parallel paths. One path prioritizes carbon-free sources, and sets goals and policies that incentivize those. The other path responds to the supply and demand inherent in a world economy and is resulting in the massive development of coal-fired electricity generation.
The reality of energy development can be summarized in the example of India’s projected energy development. By 2022, India is planning 100 GW of new solar and a relatively tiny 50 MW of new coal. However, a simple calculation of the likely emissions of these two new sources of energy conducted by a colleague at Stanford indicates that if all this new electricity generation came from natural gas, the result would be 20 percent fewer emissions. This is a conversation worth having.
Although not a carbon-free source, natural gas has a transformative role to play in the energizing of developing nations. Abundantly available around the world, and more transportable than ever, a world natural gas market is creating a more stable, affordable supply. As an electricity generation fuel, it is both a base load alternative to coal and a backup for renewable generation. In this capacity, natural gas provides carbon and non-carbon air emissions benefits. When used as a transportation fuel, natural gas provides significant air quality benefit to traditional fuels and can be equally affordable. When deployed as a cooking fuel, liquefied petroleum gas(LPG), provides dramatic health benefits and could reduce the unnecessary 4 million annual deaths attributed to cooking over inefficient, biomass fuels. As an economic cornerstone, natural gas can empower industrial development as a chemical feed-stock fertilizer component, direct energy source, and electricity provider.
1. Which of the following is the view of the dominant school?| A．We must actively develop manufacturing industry to promote economic development. |
| B．Energy affordability should be fully considered in the process of economic development |
| C．Developed countries don't have to worry about energy because of overcapacity. |
| D．Only carbon-free sources can achieve energy access in the world. |
| A．Because of insufficient availability energy supply. |
| B．Because of rapid population growth. |
| C．Because of huge consumption of renewable energy. |
| D．Because of serious environmental pollution. |
| A．Natural gas resources are abundant all over the world. |
| B．Natural gas is not only a substitute for coal but a renewable energy. |
| C．Natural gas is good for the air as a traditional fuel. |
| D．Natural gas can be used to promote industrial development. |
| A．Traditional heating water to cook rice can be life-threatening. |
| B．Natural gas is a kind of carbon-free energy. |
| C．Energy consumption can only continue in the same way as before. |
| D．Reducing energy poverty is the common goal of mankind. |
【推荐1】There was a strange stillness. Where had the birds gone? I was a spring without bird voices. Only silence lay over the fields and woods...
Rachel Carson was a scientist, but these lines from her 1962 book Siln Spring show her talent as writer. By imagining a world without birds, she aimed to warn the scientific community and the general public of the damaging effects of human activity on ecosystems-in particular, of the harmful use of pesticides（杀虫剂）,such as DDT. She believed that the chemical industry was knowingly causing ham to plants, animals and even humans, and wished to see pesticides used in a more responsible, limited and carefully monitored way.
Silent Spring contains a lot of scientific research and case studies, which proves some progirammes did nothing to reduce the problems they were originally designed to solve. And the 50or so pages at the end of the book list Carson’s sources, showing how thorough and precise she was as a scientist.
Carson’s message has caused a great increase in environmental awareness: the use of DDT was banned and the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)was established in the US. Silent Spring was therefore regarded as a milestone in the launch of green movement in the Western world.
Silent Spring was not, however, received positively by everyone. Though supported by most scientists, the book quickly became a target for critics in the pesticide industry. They said Carson did not understand the science because she was a marine biologist rather than a chemist. Some also said that her work was more emotional than scientific. These were attempts to damage Carson’s reputation and stop her work from influencing public policy, but she remained determined to stand by her research.
Personally, I enjoyed Carson’s book. Today, more than 50 years after it was published, the voice of Silent Spring is still ringing loud and clear.
1. Why did Carson describe a world without birds?| A．To create a poetic atmosphere. |
| B．To show Carson’s talent as a writer. |
| C．To raise environmental awareness. |
| D．To arouse readers’ interest in science. |
| A．She is a committed scientist. | B．She is an uninfluential biologist. |
| C．She is a well-recognized chemist. | D．She is a productive writer. |
| A．She couldn’t control her emotion. | B．She went against science. |
| C．She lacked scientific spirit. | D．She threatened their profit. |
| A．A book review. | B．A news journal. |
| C．A research article. | D．A personal profile. |
【推荐2】Have you ever run into a careless cell phone user on the street? Perhaps they were busy talking, texting or checking updates on WeChat without looking at what was going on around them.As the number of this new “species” of human has kept rising, they have been given a new name—phubbers（低头族）.
Recently, a cartoon created by students from China Central Academy of Fine Arts put this group of people under the spotlight.In the short film, phubbers with various social identities(身份) bury themselves in their phones.A doctor plays with his cell phone while letting his patient die, a pretty woman takes selfie（自拍） in front of a car accident site, and a father loses his child without knowing about it while using his mobile phone.A chain of similar events eventually leads to the destruction of the world.
Although the ending sounds overstated（夸大）, the damage phubbing can bring is real.
Your health is the first to bear the effect and result of it.“Constantly bending your head to check your cell phone could damage your neck,” Guangming Daily quoted doctors as saying.“The neck is like a rope that breaks after long-term stretching.” Also, staring at cell phones for long periods of time will damage your eyesight gradually, according to the report.
But that’s not all.Being a phubber could also damage your social skills and drive you away from your friends and family.At reunions with family or friends, many people tend to stick to their cell phones while others are chatting happily with each other and this creates a strange atmosphere, Qilu Evening News reported.
It can also cost you your life.There have been lots of reports on phubbers who fell to their death, suffered accidents, and were robbed of their cell phones in broad daylight.
1. For what purpose does the author give the example of a cartoon in Paragragh2?| A．To inform people of the bad effects of phubbing. |
| B．To advertise the cartoon made by students. |
| C．To indicate the world will finally be destroyed by phubbers. |
| D．To warn doctors against using cell phones while treating patients. |
| A．His social skills could be affected. |
| B．His neck and eyesight will be gradually harmed. |
| C．He will cause the destruction of the world. |
| D．He might get separated from his friends and family. |
| A．Supportive. | B．Opposed. |
| C．Neutral | D．Objective |
| A．Advice on how to use a cell phone. | B．People addicted to phubbing. |
| C．Measures to reduce the risks of phubbing. | D．Consequences of phubbing. |
【推荐3】While jogging today, you twisted your ankle (扭伤脚踝) . It really hurts. You’ve heard that both heat and cold can help with pain. But which one should you use? The right form of treatment (治疗) differs depending on your type of injury and when it occurred.
In the case of a new injury, ice is the best form of treatment. Cold slows the blood flow to an injury, numbs the pain and reduces swelling(肿) .
◆ How to apply ice
Apply an ice pack (冰袋) within 48 hours after an injury occurs (发生). But first wrap (包，裹) the pack in a thin towel (毛巾), so the cold won’t damage your skin. Apply the pack for a maximum of 20 minutes at one time. Then take a 10-minute break at least before applying it again.
Cold is a good treatment for sprains (扭伤), bumps (撞伤), many sports injuries and much more.
◆ When to use heat
When a pain returns often or continues for a long time, heat is the answer. Neck pain and backache are often chronic (慢性的). The pain often results from using that body part too much or in the wrong way. Heat is also a great help to joint pains and sore muscles. Heat increases blood flow to the area and encourages healing. Heating pads, hot water bottles and hot baths are all ways to apply heat.
The next time you have pain or an injury, choosing the proper treatment should be much easier!
1. According to the passage ________ can help with the pain when you have an injury.| A．heat | B．cold | C．ice | D．heat and cold |
| A．The neck pain occurs frequently (经常). | B．A sprain occurred three days ago. |
| C．A bump occurred last night. | D．The backache which usually occurs. |
| A．48 hour | B．a 10-minute break | C．20 minutes | D．an hour |
| A．chronic neck pain. | B．continuous backache |
| C．new sports injuries | D．sore muscles |
| A．fashion | B．sports | C．advertisement | D．health |
