Do you find it hard to go a day without updating your micro blog? Do you feel out of the loop if you are not chatting on QQ?
For many teenagers around the world, social media has become a big part of their lives. They constantly tell us that communication has never been easier and that you can connect to friends with the click of a button. But is this a good thing?
A recent survey done by Common Sense Media, a non-profit organization in the US, has found that as many as 79 percent of 13- to 17-year-old teenagers feel the need to disconnect from social media sometimes. Surprisingly 36 percent said they wish they could go back to a time before social media existed. Why do they feel this way?
Yahoo reported that scientists have found that social networking sites are a way in which youngsters isolate (孤立) themselves; they tend to use the Internet to avoid human contact and escape from real problems. And the study by Common Sense Media has confirmed (确认) this. According to the organization, many teenagers believe that using social media takes away the time they spend face-to-face with friends. One participant in the study said: “Technology and social networking have absorbed (影响) some of my close friendships, and they’ve dwindled. I miss the times where we could just go hang out and laugh.”
The organization also reports that more than a third of US teenagers want to unplug (关机) in order to avoid overexposure to negative information. The Washington Post reports that 90 percent of teenagers in the country say they have witnessed their peers being bullied (欺负) on social networking sites. According to the newspaper, some teenagers present their “ alter ego (个性的另一面)” on social media, engaging in (参与) conversations with more bravado (逞强) and taking more risks than they do in person.
And some teenagers want to disconnect to enjoy being alone. One teenager said they disliked social media because sometimes being alone is important— It’s nice to just sit back and relax with no possible way to communicate with anyone in any way.”
1. What did the recent survey done by Common Sense Media find out about the US teenagers?A.Over 30 percent of the teens would rather have no social media around them. |
B.90 percent of the teens said their peers were once bullied on social networking sites. |
C.More than a third of the teens believe their use of social media affects how they feel about themselves. |
D.About three-fourths of the teens wished they could disconnect themselves from the Internet completely. |
a. to protect their privacy
b. to have more alone time
c. to spend more time with their friends
d. to escape from their real problems
e. to reduce their exposure to negative information
A.a, b, c | B.a, c, d | C.b, c, e | D.b, d,e |
A.been in danger | B.become weaker | C.been improved | D.remained firm |
A.Some teenagers play a negative role in their real daily life. |
B.Some teenagers admitted having bullied others on social networking sites. |
C.Some teenagers tend to present a different personality on social networking sites. |
D.Some teenagers agree that the advantages of social media outweigh their disadvantages. |
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【推荐1】THE BRONTE FAMILY
Yorkshire in England was the setting for two great novels of the 19th century.These were Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.The youngest sister,Anne,was also a gifted novelist,and her books have the same extraordinary quality as her sisters’.
Their father was Patrick Bronte,born in Ireland.He moved with his wife,Maria Bronte,and their six small children to Haworth in Yorkshire in 1820. Soon after,Mrs Bronte and the two eldest children died, leaving the father to care for the remaining three girls and a boy.
Charlotte was born in 1816.Emily was born in 1818 and Anne in 1820.Their brother Branwell was born in 1817.Left to themselves,the children wrote and told stories and walked over the hills.They grew up largely selfeducated.Branwell showed a great interest in drawing.The girls were determined to earn money for his art education.They took positions as teachers or taught children in their homes.
As children they had all written many stories.Charlotte,as a young girl, alone wrote 22 books,each with 60 to 100 pages of small handwriting.Therefore, they turned to writing for income.By 1847,Charlotte had written The Professor; Emily had written Wuthering Heights;and Anne had written Agnes Grey.After much difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher,but there was no interest shown in Charlotte’s book.(It was not published until 1859.) However,one publisher expressed an interest in seeing more of her work.Jane Eyre was already started,and she hurriedly finished it.It was accepted at once;thus each of the sisters had a book published in 1847.
Jane Eyre was immediately successful;the other two,however,did not do so well.People did not like Wuthering Heights.They said it was too wild,too animallike.But gradually it came to be considered one of the finest novels in the English language.Emily lived only a short while after the publication of the book and Anne died in 1849.
Charlotte published Shirley in 1849,and Villette in 1853.In 1854 she married Arthur Bell Nicholls.But only a year later,she died of tuberculosis(肺结核) as her sisters had.
1. What did the Bronte sisters want to do for Branwell?A.Help him write stories. | B.Help him get trained in art. |
C.Teach him how to draw well. | D.Teach him how to educate himself. |
A.Jane Eyre was published in 1847 |
B.Charlotte Bronte wrote 22 books in all |
C.the Bronte sisters received a good education |
D.Patrick Bronte helped his daughters with their writings |
A.Shirley. | B.Villette. |
C.Agnes Grey. | D.The Professor. |
【推荐2】Everyone likes talking about weather. When people meet, they usually say something like “Isn't it a nice day?” or “Do you think it will rain?”
Different people often want different weather. When a farmer needs water, he hopes it will rain. When people want to take a trip, they hope it will be sunny soon.
How will be the weather? Many people think they can tell it. But they often have different ideas. Some may say, “It's cloudy in the east. It will rain tomorrow.” But others may say, “No, it will be sunny tomorrow.” So people like the weather report. It sometimes makes mistakes Still, it can tell many things about the weather.
1. When people meet, they usually say something about .A.their clothes | B.food | C.their work | D.weather |
A.different people often want different weather | B.farmers always want rain |
C.sunny weather is good for a trip | D.people like to take a trip |
A.don't know the weather tomorrow | B.have different ideas about the weather |
C.don't like the weather report | D.do different things in different weather |
A.People don't need it now. | B.It's interesting to watch it. |
C.It's still useful. | D.It's not useful at all. |
【推荐3】Many people have become accustomed to saying “bless you” or “gesundheit” when someone sneezes. No one says anything when someone coughs, blows their noses or burps (打嗝), so why do sneezes get special treatment? What do those phrases actually mean, anyway?
Wishing someone well after he sneezes probably originated thousands of years ago. The Romans would say “Jupiter preserve you!” or “Salve!” which meant “good health to you” and the Greeks would wish each other “long life”. The phrase “God bless you” is due to Pope Gregory the great, who spoke it out in the sixth century during a bubonic plague epidemic (黑死病) (sneezing is an obvious symptom of one form of the plague).
The alternative term “gesundheit” comes from Germany, and it literally means “health”. The idea is that a sneeze typically comes ahead of illness. It entered the English language in the early 20th century, brought to the United States by German-speaking immigrants.
Actually every country around the globe has its own way of wishing sneezers well. People in Arabic countries say “Alhamdulillah!” which means “praise be to God”. Hindus say “Livel” or “Live well!”. Some countries have special sneezing responses for children. In Russia, after children are given the traditional response, “bud zdorov (be healthy)”, they are also told “rosti Bolshoi (grow big)”. When a child sneezes in China, he or she will hear “bai sui” which means “may you live 100 years.”
For the most part, the various sneeze responses originated from ancient superstitions (迷信). Some people believed that a sneeze caused the soul to escape the body through the nose, Saying “bless you” would stop the devil from claiming the person’s freed soul. However, some people believed that those evil spirits used the sneeze as an opportunity to enter a person’s body. There was also the misconception that the heart temporarily stopped during a sneeze (it doesn’t), and that saying “bless you” was a way of welcoming the person back to life.
1. What’s the purpose of paragraph 1?A.To lead in the topic of the text. | B.To explain the definition of blessing. |
C.To introduce the evidence of the text. | D.To tell the cause of saying “bless you”. |
A.To avoid illness. | B.To wish them health. |
C.To comfort their family. | D.To get a get-well card from others. |
A.By raising questions. | B.By analyzing data. |
C.By making comparisons. | D.By listing causes. |
A.How “bless you” is introduced into English. |
B.Why we wish sneezers health in various ways. |
C.How people from various countries avoid sneezers. |
D.Why people say the blessing when someone sneezes. |
【推荐1】The American Academy of Pediatrics has warned about the potential negative effects of social media on young kids and teens. But the same risks may be true for adults. A review study suggests addiction symptoms (症状), such as failure to pay attention to personal life and escapism, appear to be present in some people who use Facebook excessively (过度).
A study also shows when people stop using the Internet, they also go through small but measurable physical effects. Rather than improving health, as frequent interactions (互动) with offline social networks do, the findings show that interacting with Facebook may predict the opposite result for young adults—it may undermine it.
In fact, another study found that social media use is linked to greater feelings of social isolation (隔离), mentally and physically. We fall into the trap of comparing ourselves to others as we check our Facebook pages. The study looked at how we make comparisons with others’ posts, in “upward” or “downward” directions—that is, feeling that we are either worse or better off than our friends. It turned out that both types of comparisons made people feel worse, which is surprising, since in real life, only upward comparisons make people feel bad. But in the social network world, it seems that any kind of comparison is linked to depressive symptoms.
All of this is not to say that there is no benefit of social media—obviously it keeps us connected across great distances, and helps us find people we had lost touch with years ago. But visiting social networks when you have some time to kill is very likely a bad idea. If you are feeling brave, try taking a little break, and see how it goes. And if you are going to keep “using” it, then at least try to use it reasonably.
1. What might researchers think about “using Facebook excessively”?A.It’s problem behavior. |
B.It’s costly and time-consuming. |
C.It’s sometimes a solution to social isolation. |
D.It’s leading people to become imaginative. |
A.Present. | B.Destroy. |
C.Check. | D.Ensure. |
A.Social media are being given too much importance. |
B.Young Facebook users feel more isolated than their elders. |
C.All kinds of comparisons on social media upset people. |
D.Downward comparisons link closer to depression than upward ones. |
A.Social media affect people’s mental health. |
B.Comparing ourselves with others may lead to depression. |
C.Social networks have more advantages than disadvantages. |
D.Nowadays people tend to turn to the Internet for satisfaction. |
【推荐2】Family vlogging — the frequent recording and uploading of personal videos of the family, usually on video sharing website — has become big business nowadays, especially among parents of young children. The more viewers such videos can get, the more money the family can make. At first thought, it does seem like an easy way to make money. However, are we doing right by putting their lives up for public attention?
For one thing, as the children grow up, they increasingly become aware that what they do needs to be admirable enough for the public to enjoy — Being young children, they also would want to do whatever it takes to please others. They then feel the pressure to be perfect, and as that is something not always possible, they become anxious and stressed. Comments from viewers and the expectations of sponsors (赞助者) can also affect the parents’ reactions towards their children.
Another problem is the lack of privacy in the children’s lives. As the children reach adolescence, there is a greaser need for personal space. At 12 or 13, very few children would appreciate being filmed while eating or having a conversation with their friends. Teenhood is a time of significant change in an individual, both physically and emotionally, and is a time when parents need to protect their children and guide them, instead of exposing them to the eyes of the public.
Family vlogging can be irresistible, given how it allows parents to bring greater fun to their family lives. There is also the easy money and the fame to look forward to. Indeed, all would probably go well, but only as long as parents keep in mind that, if not managed well, making their children live their lives in the unforgiving eyes of the public could prove to be a big mistake.
1. How does vlogging about children’s lives influence the family?A.Children will get used to public attention. |
B.Children may suffer from too much pressure. |
C.Parents may show no concern for their children. |
D.Parents become addicted to exposing their children to the public. |
A.By providing examples | B.By listing numbers |
C.By making comparisons | D.By analyzing causes |
A.To introduce a new big business |
B.To show how vlogging influence people’s lives. |
C.To persuade parents to watch out for comments from viewers. |
D.To convince parents of the danger of vlogging about children’s lives. |
A.negative | B.positive | C.neutral | D.uninterested |
【推荐3】Social media truly can affect one’s life. Below are some ways how this new interactive technology can affect your life.
●Cyberbullying (网络暴力).
Cyberbullying can be a serious issue where the victim can experience a huge amount of stress that leads to a decline in mental health. There are also cases where cyberbullying have led to suicide cases and caused death.
●Distraction (分心) and Drop In Productivity.
Do you know that social media is a huge distraction and it can interrupt your life in every level? Try to imagine you are writing an important article and suddenly someone gives you a call on Facebook, which will distract your focus. Many studies have found that the more people engage with social media, the less the person is able to focus on his work.
●Tiredness and Stress.
What do you think would happen if you stare at your computer screen or your cell phone for a long period?
●Peer (同辈) Pressure and The Desire To Compare.
Another common way how social media can affect your life is through peer pressure. People are afraid to miss out and they love to compare themselves with other people.
●Other Related Health Issue.
Apart from all that being mentioned, there will be other related health issues such as blurry vision due to strain eyes as the result of long hours watching the screen.
A.It will decrease work efficiency |
B.You will feel tired and stressed |
C.Over compare will create anxiety |
D.And if you are using social media via a cell phone |
E.Social media addiction is a growing problem that needs to be solved |
F.You want to become part of the community and part of the group |
G.People can say anything they want and still get away on the Internet |