Many teens may feel anxious sometimes. It's the kind of nervousness that makes you bite your fingers before a big test. We spend more time online than we should. We feel good about ourselves or bad based on how many Likes and Followers we get on social media. Young people are developing a wrong view of life.
On the screen, we see what people want to show us. People usually only post photos where they are looking at their best. They meet friends around them and seem that they are having a great time. No one seems sad or lonely. In short, life is wonderful. But sooner or later, our young people compare their real life to it. They find that theirs doesn't seem as fun or exciting and grow worried that they may be missing out.
No wonder teachers are reporting more anxious students. It's reported that a lot more college students feel —too much anxiety. The percentage jumped from 50% in 2016 to 62% in 2021. Anxiety is now the most common mental-health problem in my country. It affects nearly one-third of teens and adults.
Certainly, we can't blame （责备）it on social media alone. We expect too much from our children and a lot of these expectations aren't reasonable. Their plans are packed with sports, clubs and homework. They don't have enough free time. We want our children to succeed, and we don't care how much it costs.
As parents, we must have more balance. On one hand, we push too hard, and on the other hand, we make life too easy for children. We shouldn't and can't promise our children that they will always be happy. We shouldn't try to protect them from the problems of everyday life. Let them solve the problems in person.
1. What does the underlined word “theirs” in Paragraph 2 refer to?| A．Young people's life. | B．Young people's friends. |
| C．Young people's photos. | D．Young people's parents. |
| A．The cost from parents. | B．The duty of social media. |
| C．The hobbies of young people. | D．The expectations from parents. |
| A．Try to meet teens' expectations. | B．Help teens with their homework. |
| C．Give teens more free time to play sports. | D．Allow teens to solve their own problems in life. |
| A．What Causes Teens' Nervousness | B．How to Deal with Teens' Anxiety |
| C．How to Treat Social Media Suitably | D．What a View of Life Means to People |
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【推荐1】Between working，cleaning and sleeping，it can be hard to clear your schedule for fun family activities.
Check your city websites for activities. Most cities and towns have well-maintained websites listing free and cheap activities for families. You can also find coupons (优惠券) for local museums and restaurants.
Do something outside. Between school and working，the chances are good that you and your child spend a lot of time inside.
Take your kids to a competitive event. Competitive events are exciting to attend and might develop a lifelong passion in your kids. Find events that are based on mutual(共同的) interests.
| A．Consider your family’s interests |
| B．Raise your kids’ interest in outings |
| C．If you can’t think of anything to do with your children |
| D．Watch a football game together if you are football fans |
| E．When you somehow manage to spare time for family activities |
| F．Now it’s time to improve your health by spending time outside together |
| G．For example，if you both enjoy Bruce Lee movies，attend a martial arts competition |
【推荐2】How to Make Your Clothes Last Longer
We have to throw out some clothes that we love just because we’ve not taken good care of them. Four top tips can help you make your clothes last longer.
●Reduce the times you wash your clothes. Washing your clothes less doesn’t mean wearing the same T-shirt tor a week. You can wear clothes like jeans and jumpers at least three times before washing. The exception, of course, is clothes worn for the gym. Besides, if you don’t wear clothes next to your skin, air them after wearing.
●Wash, our clothes inside out.
●Air your clothes dry if possible. Drying your clothes on a line is good for both your clothes and he environment.
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| A．Hang your jumpers on the clothes line. |
| B．Fixing your clothes is a wise alternative. |
| C．Use an app to find places for clothes repair. |
| D．Simply check your clothes for any spots or marks. |
| E．Your clothes are usually beaten hard during the wash. |
| F．In the meantime, it can also reduce the expense of the electricity. |
| G．They can also help save both your money and our environment definitely. |
When you become a parent, much of your focus shifts from your own future to your kids’ future.
Our everyday experiences provide learning opportunities. When you tap into them, you create a lifelong learning habit that will always keep you growing. Even your most disappointing experiences can be turned into breakthroughs. Every dream begins in the imagination.
We're often encouraged to work on our weaknesses, but working on your strengths is easier and creates better results. For help of identifying them, ask some friends, or colleagues to write down what they most appreciate about you. They’ll enjoy doing this, and you'll feel great when you read the responses. Once you know your strengths, you can put them to work to help you achieve your dreams.
Find ways to add what you love to do to your life now.
| A．Confidence is the foundation for all your other abilities. |
| B．Take a few minutes to sit down with a notebook and think about where you would like to be in 20 years. |
| C．Love is the best gift we can ever receive from others in the world. |
| D．Have a warm bath, lie in bed and think about nothing. |
| E．This will give you more energy and keep you connected with your bigger dreams. |
| F．But one of the most effective ways to help your children learn to dream big is to ensure that your own dreams don't get pushed aside by everyday demands. |
【推荐1】My favorite thing about autumn is that I have an excuse to make my mom apple cake again. So, I always thought, once my first child was in primary school, I would enjoy taking part in bake sale fundraisers.
Instead, I fear them. I do not imagine that funds for football uniforms appear out of thin air. So I dutifully show up to each bake sale with home-made cakes.
Still, bake sales trouble me. They feel like a holdover from a time when many moms didn’t work and it was supposed they had a lot of time to bake cookies for children. Women who don't have the time to bake at home and who bring packaged cookies are seen as breaking a great American tradition.
What are we selling at bake sales, anyway? Are we advertising our baking skills? Or is the goal to raise money? Children happily buy cupcakes from a store, so why do we care that nobody in a home kitchen worked late into the night to make them?
Actually, if you look closely at the economics, they just don’t add up. We might spend $10 on ingredients to make 18 cupcakes that sell for $2 each. Think of this $26 as profit supposing that the hours spent shopping and baking and packing things up and taking them to school, and possibly selling and cleaning up afterward, don’t have value. Volunteering your time and energy to something important is worth praising. But neither the ingredients nor the work is “free”, and many parents can't afford to give them away.
This is not an attack against people who love to make banana bread and have the time to do so. But most people do not. Most parents struggle to get even the most basic parenting tasks finished in the limited time between the end of the workday and children’s bedtimes. It feels crazy to take time away from helping with homework, or actually making dinner, to spend hours on a fundraiser.
1. What can we learn about the author?| A．She loves baking. | B．She is active at school. |
| C．She likes home-made food. | D．She is against fundraising. |
| A．She has to buy cakes in stores. | B．Home-made baking is a burden. |
| C．Some moms don’t attend bake sales. | D．Moms are showing off their baking skills. |
| A．Ingredients are too expensive. | B．It is uneconomical to bake at home. |
| C．It is hard to raise money at bake sales. | D．Ready-made cakes are popular at school. |
| A．It is increasing. | B．It is rewarding. |
| C．It is highly valued. | D．It is unavailable for many. |
【推荐2】At one point or another, you’ve probably heard someone speak with confidence on a topic that they actually know almost nothing about. This phenomenon is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, which refers to the finding that people who are relatively unskilled or unknowledgeable in a particular subject sometimes have the tendency to overestimate their knowledge and abilities.
In a set of studies, researchers Justin Kruger and David Dunning asked participants to complete tests of their skills in a particular field. Then, participants were asked to guess how well they had done on the test.
David dunning explains that “the knowledge and intelligence that are required to be good at a task are often the same qualities needed to recognize that one is not good at that task.” In other words, if someone knows very little about a particular topic, they may not even know enough about the topic to realize that their knowledge is limited. Importantly, someone may be highly skilled in one area, but be influenced by the Dunning-Kruger effect in another field.
If people who know very little about a topic think they’re experts, what do experts think of themselves? Interestingly, Dunning and Kruger found that although experts typically guessed their performance was above average, they didn’t realize quite how well they had done. They often make a different mistake:
What can people do to overcome the effect? Dunning and Kruger once had some of the participants take a logic test and then complete a short training course on logical reasoning. After the training, the participants were asked to assess how they’d done on the previous test.
The Dunning-Kruger effect suggests that we may not always know as much as we think we do.
| A．They assume that everyone else is knowledgeable, too. |
| B．Researchers found that the training made a difference. |
| C．This happens when people don’t know much about a topic. |
| D．All of them had a more accurate view of their performance. |
| E．They found that participants tended to overestimate their abilities. |
| F．This means that everyone can potentially be affected by the Dunning-Kruger effect. |
| G．In some fields, we may not know enough about a topic to realize that we are unskilled. |
【推荐3】Scot Case, Vice President of the environmental marketing firm Terra Choice, was not happy. Case last year sent his researchers into a big-box retail store to evaluate the green advertising claims of some of the products on its shelves. The results were shocking, of the 1,018 products Terra Choice surveyed, all but one failed to live up fully to their green boasts.
He couldn’t believe the result, and had his team redo the survey, but the results came back the same. “It just shows we’re awash in greenwash.” He said.
Many consumers may not have heard the term green washing, but they’ve surely experienced it — misleading marketing about the environmental benefits of a product. Greenwashing isn’t new — ever since the environment was an issue in the early 1970s. As going green has become big business, environmental advocates worry that truly green companies could get lost in the situation.
“We have such a challenge ahead of us on climate change, says Kevin Tuerff, a co-founder of the marketing consultancy EnviroMedia. “Greenwashing harms the effort we need to be making.”
The first step to cleaning up greenwashing is to identify it, and Tuerff and his partners have hit on an innovative way to spotlight particularly abnormal examples. They’ve launched the Greenwashing Index a website that allows consumers to post ads that might be examples of greenwashing and rate them on a scale of 1 to 5 — 1 is a little green lie; S is a big green lie.
It’s a simple device, but it shows the power of the Interne to uncover misleading ads with a simple Web search, any consumer can find out the index they want to know. Googling isn’t the only way to take out the greenwashing, however. The Terra Choice website offers a list of what it calls the “six sins of greenwashing” — six simple signs that should remind consumers of a company that is more interested in selling the earth than saving it.
“We have better green products but a lot of exaggerated (夸张的) claims,” says Case. “That could be enough to destroy the whole green movement” — and that’s not a little green lie.
1. Which of the following statements is TRUE about greenwashing?| A．It is harmful for the environment. |
| B．It is a special way to wash so as to save water. |
| C．It is environment-friendly so it should be advocated. |
| D．It is beneficial for both the consumers and the companies. |
| A．Holding hearings to tell genuine environmental claims from false ones. |
| B．Launching the Greenwashing Index a website to expose greenwashing. |
| C．Offering a list of “six sins of greenwashing” for companies’ reference. |
| D．Updating Green Guide for consumers which hasn’t changed since 1998. |
| A．Organic products but without any certificates. |
| B．Energy-efficient products made of harmful material. |
| C．Food which is low in nutrition but high in calorie. |
| D．Pesticides which are said to be environment-friendly. |
| A．The effort on environmental protection. |
| B．The advocation of green advertisements. |
| C．The distinction between green products and common ones. |
| D．The distinction between real environmental claims and false ones. |
【推荐1】How fit are your teeth? Are you lazy about brushing them? Never fear: An inventor is on the case. An electric toothbrush senses how long and how well you brush, and it lets you track your performance on your phone.
The Kolibree toothbrush was exhibited at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. It senses how it is moved and can send the information to an Android phone or iPhone via a Bluetooth wireless connection.
The toothbrush will be able to teach you to brush right (don’t forget the insides of the teeth!) and make sure you’re brushing long enough. “it’s kind of like having a dentist actually watch your brushing on a day-to-day basis, says Thomas Serval, the French inventor.
The toothbrush will also be able to talk to other applications on your phone, so developers could, for instance, create a game controlled by your toothbrush. You could score points for beating monsters among your teeth. “We try to make it smart but also fun,” Serval says.
Serval says he was inspired by his experience as a father. He would come home from work and ask his kids if they had brushed their teeth. They said “yes,” but Serval would find their toothbrush heads dry. He decided he needed a brush that really told him how well his children brushed.
The company says the Kolibree will go on sale this summer, for $99 to $199, depending on features. The U.S. is the first target market.
Serval says that one day, it’ ll be possible to replace the brush on the handle with a brushing unit that also has a camera. The camera can even examine holes in your teeth while you brush.
1. Which of the following might make the Kolibree toothbrush fun?| A．It can be used to update mobile phones. | B．It can be used to play mobile phone games. |
| C．It can send messages to other users. | D．It can talk to its developers. |
| A．They were unwilling to brush their teeth. |
| B．They often failed to clean their toothbrushes. |
| C．They preferred to use a toothbrush with a dry head. |
| D．hey liked brushing their teeth after Serval came home. |
| A．The brush handle will be removed. | B．A mobile phone will be built into it. |
| C．It will be used to fill holes in teeth. | D．It will be able to check users’ teeth. |
【推荐2】Scientists have found that floating solar panels (太阳能板) could provide a huge amount of electricity if they were placed on lakes and other bodies of water around the world. Floating solar panels could also help save water and protect land.
Solar panels—also known as “photovoltaic” panels—are used to turn sunlight into electricity. Most solar panels are placed on land in large collections called solar farms. But recently people have begun to explore putting floating solar panels on water. Because these panels float, some people call them “floatovoltaics”.
The researchers behind the new study looked at 114,555 reservoirs (水库) worldwide. They used computer programs to figure out how much electricity could be produced yearly by covering 30% of these reservoirs with floating solar panels. The answer was surprisingly large - more than twice the amount of energy the United States generates in a year. And 10 times as much energy as all the solar power currently being generated in the world. The researchers described the results as “remarkable”.
The scientists found that floatovoltaics would be especially conducive when reservoirs were near smaller cities(50,000 people or less). The researchers say there are about 6,256 small cities around the world where floating solar panels could provide all the electricity the cities need.
Floatovoltaics can also help save water by limiting evaporation (蒸发) from reservoirs. The scientists say that solar panels covering just 30% of the reservoirs’ surfaces could save as much water as 300 million people would use in a year. There are several other reasons that make floatovoltaics a good idea. Photovoltaic panels work better when they’re not extremely hot. The water helps cool the panels so that they create more energy. Putting solar panels on water also means that there’s no need to clear land for a solar farm. That’s more and more important as countries work to fight climate change and protect natural spaces for wild animals.
1. What did the researchers think of the study results?| A．Amazing. | B．Amusing. |
| C．Skeptical. | D．Instructive. |
| A．Troublesome. | B．Affordable. |
| C．Demanding. | D．Useful. |
| A．They can help save water. | B．They can be less expensive. |
| C．They can help protect wild land. | D．They can be more productive sometimes. |
| A．The Methods of Floatovoltaics |
| B．The Prospects of Solar Panels |
| C．Solar Farms—Turning Sunlight into Electricity |
| D．Floating Solar Panels—Making Energy, Saving water |
【推荐3】The family unit of parents and children is the most important in our life. However, a common complaint (抱怨) nowadays is “my parents have no time for me” or “my children prefer to spend time with their friends”. So what is the reason for such complaints?
One of the basic parenting rules is that parents should spend time with their children. This is the time when parents can show their love and care for their children, physically and emotionally. Similarly, the children can show that they appreciate their parents’ love and this brings about a strong parent-child relationship. Both parties get advantage.
Busy work is one reason why parents don’t spend time with their children. They are the bread winners, wanting their children to have the best. Often both parents had to work to support the family. So, the children turn to their friends who are there to offer a helping hand and a shoulder to cry on. They open up to their friends more than their parents. Another choice for parents is the maid (女佣) who is always there.
When parents get home from the office and the children from school, they are on their own-one parent prepares a meal, the other and children either in front of the computer or their iPhones. They spend time together at a meal but each is more buried in his own thoughts rather than what the others are thinking about.
What can be done to correct the situation? Both parents and children can reschedule their activities with the purpose of spending more time together. Have common interests like watching a football game. This will help develop a close and healthy relationship. Having quality time together takes effort, but it’s worthwhile.
1. What’s the author’s purpose of raising a question in the first paragraph?| A．To make a fact clear. | B．To offer an opinion. |
| C．To lead in the topic. | D．To start a conversation. |
| A．Political organizations. | B．Social activities. |
| C．Groups of people. | D．Rules of family. |
| A．Parents are busy with work. |
| B．Parents ask them to join friends. |
| C．Parents want them to have the best. |
| D．Parents need to make bread to support family. |
| A．Require maids to step in. |
| B．Turn to iphones for help. |
| C．Develop different interests. |
| D．Have quality time together. |
