“My daughters are dealing with friendship disagreements, school pressures and college application. My younger daughter sets her alarm for 5 a.m. to finish her homework before school begins,” says Cameron Gaeren, a mother in Chicago. Her daughters are not alone. A survey found that about 30% of the 1, 018 teens surveyed reported feeling anxious or overwhelmed (不堪重负的).
Still, kids don’t often accept parents’ help. That’s because when teens are overwhelmed, parents may say things like “When I was your age, I had a job, and I still did my homework and made time for my friends. I know that you can do this, too.” They mean well trying to connect with their teens in this comparative way, but often it causes a communication breakdown.
When teens are stressed, most parents try to solve their problems, but often what teens really need is to develop problem-solving skills of their own. Sheryl Ziegler, an expert in Denver, says it’s important to teach teens how to develop cognitive empathy (同理心), which allows them to try to understand someone else’s thoughts and how they view the world. For example, if a teen is upset because a friend doesn’t return a text, parents can ask, “What do you think might be going on for her?” or “Remember last week when you didn’t text back right away because you were studying for an exam?”
Because teenagers are so emotionally driven, they may act in mad ways. A disagreement with a teacher or a friend or an unanswered text can make them feel like the end of the world. Research shows that cognitive empathy skills can help teens realize that people and situations can change, which allows them to face social challenges more easily. By developing their cognitive empathy, teens can remind themselves that even when feelings take over, stressful situations last for a short time only.
1. What does the first paragraph try to tell us?| A．Teens have a busy schedule. |
| B．Teens face a number of challenges. |
| C．Teens need more communication. |
| D．Teens don’t get along well with others. |
| A．Creative. | B．Simple. | C．Ineffective. | D．Unclear. |
| A．Help them solve their problems. |
| B．Express their understanding of them. |
| C．Bring up examples related to themselves. |
| D．Teach them to understand what’s on others’ mind. |
| A．It strengthens their kindness. |
| B．It improves their speaking ability. |
| C．It helps them manage their emotions. |
| D．It makes them focus their energies on others. |
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【推荐1】Life is full of surprises and events that sometimes change one’s daily routine. Some of them might be good and pleasant.
Have a positive attitude. Not all unexpected events are bad.
Introduce small changes into your life.
Always focus on the present moment, learning from it and making use of new changes that come your way. In other words, make the most of the present moment, instead of thinking about what you lost, or how bad the situation is.
| A．This is useless and is a waste of time. |
| B．Admit the fact that unexpected events are part of life. |
| C．However, there are some that are bad and unpleasant. |
| D．Think before speaking when facing unexpected events. |
| E．This will help you deal more easily with unexpected events. |
| F．Sometimes what seems like a problem could be a good thing. |
| G．It would be much more useful to think about the bad situation. |
【推荐2】How to Deal with Your Homework
Write it down.
Create a homework station. Find somewhere-comfortable and quiet to work.
Do homework as early as possible. Don't leave homework to the last minute.
Treat yourself. You can easily get tired by sitting through an hour or two of homework without stopping. Once you finish homework for a subject, take a small break. Just make sure it's quick (no more than 15 minutes). Do not turn on the TV, or you'll never go back and finish your homework.
| A．Use your time wisely. |
| B．Start as soon as you get home. |
| C．Begin with your hardest homework. |
| D．You can take a walk or find something to eat. |
| E．Never do your homework in front of the TV. |
| F．After short breaks, return to finish up the last of your work. |
| G．Keep a homework notebook where you record all your homework. |
【推荐3】Maybe one day, scientists will invent a way for us to download dictionaries straight into our brains. Until then: here are three vocabulary-building tips for those learning English.
Look up new words. If you keep hearing a word and aren’t sure what it means, try to look it up as soon as you can. We asked an expert, Bob the Canadian: what is the best way to look up new words? Bob said, “
Keep a notebook handy. Every time you are exposed to English you will come across new words that you don’t understand. Each time you notice a new word, it’s a great opportunity!
| A．Try learning example sentences. |
| B．Don’t take dictionary meaning seriously. |
| C．Sometimes words are used completely differently in practice. |
| D．My preferred way is to look up the word in an English dictionary. |
| E．So sometimes if you can keep it at a distance, you will learn faster. |
| F．Perhaps you think putting something down on paper takes much time. |
| G．Get a notebook and write down each new word that you think is interesting. |
【推荐1】If non-musicians play arhythm-based (基于韵律的) game using musical instruments for eight weeks, they can become better at remembering recently seen faces; that is, their short-term memory for non-musical tasks improves, a new research showed.
Previous researches have shown that musicians tend to have better short-term memory than non-musicians about music-related tasks. However, we don’t know whether the benefit still exist when it comes to non-musical tasks or to non-musicians who are learning to play an instrument. It is not clear how the change might actually be seen in the brain.
Theodore Zanto at the University of California, San Francisco thinks the benefit will continue to exist. His research team performed a research of 47 non-musicians for eight weeks, who were divided into two groups. Group l was asked to play a musical rhythm training game and group 2 was asked to play a word search game. At the start and end of the research, participants took a short-term memory test to measure their ability to remember a face they saw seconds before. Only group 1 showed an improvement on their scores.
Brainwave data (数据) showed an increase of activity in the right superior parietal lobe (上顶叶), a brain region associated with encoding (编码) visual information and attention. This suggests, says Zanto, that the rhythm training is improving the brain’s ability to focus attention on a task and change what you are doing into memory.
The ability to remember and recognise faces tends to decline as we age, so any possible way to change that is important, says Josh Davis at the University of Greenwich, the UK. However, in order to make the result of this research completely convincing, it should be shown in real-world facial recognition situations as well as in lab-based tests, says Davis.
1. Theodore Zanto carried out the research to ________.| A．Make comparisons | B．Confirm his predictions |
| C．Explain a phenomenon | D．Prove previous researches |
| A．People in group 1. | B．People in group 2. |
| C．People who carried out the research. | D．People who took part in the research. |
| A．Older people tend to remember the recently seen faces. |
| B．The result of this research needs to be further proven. |
| C．We have found the way to prevent the decline of memory. |
| D．Playing word search games can improve the brain’s ability to concentrate. |
| A．Rhythm training can prevent memory loss. |
| B．Rhythm-based games influence memory greatly. |
| C．Playing instruments can improve short-term memory. |
| D．Musicians have a better short-term memory than non-musicians. |
【推荐2】Do you know what “zero” means? Have you ever even stopped to think much about this concept? It’s an easy one to take for granted. Of course, everyone can understand the concept of nothing, or having nothing.
But did you know that some animals can understand zero as well? Experiments with monkeys and birds have proven that they can master this concept. But now, the understanding of zero has been found in a most unlikely animal: bees.
According to a recently published study in the journal Science, Australian and French researchers worked together to conduct experiments to prove that bees are the first insects to “understand that zero belongs at the lower end of a sequence (序列) of numbers”, according to a report by Science Daily.
Scarlett Howard, a researcher at RMIT University in Melbourne, trained bees to choose from several cards with different numbers of flowers printed on them. Correctly choosing the card with the fewest flowers earned them a reward of sugar water. For example, the bees learned to choose three flowers compared with four; or two flowers compared with three. And then these bees were presented a challenge —— a card with nothing. But 64 percent of the time, they chose to fly toward the blank card instead of the card that had flowers on it. This suggests that the insects understand that zero stands for something less than two or three, according to Science magazine.
Associate Professor Adrian Dyer, also from RMIT University, said the number zero was the basis of modern mathematical and technological progress.
He told Science Daily that the findings have opened a door to new understandings of how different brains understand zero. “If bees can understand zero with a brain of less than a million neurons (神经元) (compared with the 86,000 million neurons of a human brain), it suggests there are simple and efficient ways to teach artificial intelligence (AI) new tricks.”
1. What did the Australian and French researchers recently find?| A．Bees can recognize different shapes. |
| B．Bees can understand the meaning of zero. |
| C．Bees are better at numbers than monkeys and birds. |
| D．Most insects can be trained to understand numbers. |
| A．Presenting the bees with one card each time. |
| B．Training different groups of bees at the same time. |
| C．Training the bees to choose the card with more shapes. |
| D．Rewarding the bees when they chose a card with fewer flowers. |
| A．It shows there might be easier ways to train AI. |
| B．It suggests bees can complete more difficult tasks. |
| C．It explains the importance of zero in modern mathematics. |
| D．It proves that monkeys and birds can understand what zero is. |
| A．Bees can help teach AI new tricks. |
| B．Bees are clever than monkeys and birds. |
| C．Bees are discovered to have high intelligence. |
| D．Bees can be trained to choose the card with fewer flowers. |
【推荐3】My dog, Nala, loves rolling around in a patch of grass any chance she gets. And it always cracks me up to watch her have the time of her life.
She’s enjoying a smell.
She’s covering up her own scent. According to Dr. Austin, there is another theory that dogs may roll in grass to cover their own scent, as more of an inherited predatory instinct.
If you notice your dog rolling around in the grass, it’s probably just her having the best time ever. I’m not sure about you,
| A．In other words, they want to smell like the environment so they don’t scare off prey |
| B．but that grass may look extra appealing to your dog |
| C．I’ve always wondered why she actually does it |
| D．She’s scratching an itch |
| E．It’s important to remember how incredibly powerful your dog’s nose is |
| F．but now I’m even thinking about joining mine next time |
| G．She’s cooling off |
【推荐1】Researchers say two-way communication is possible with people who are asleep and dreaming. Specifically, with people who are lucid dreaming – that is, dreaming while being aware they’re dreaming.
In separate experiments, scientists in the U.S, France, Germany and the Netherlands asked people simple questions while they slept. Sleepers would respond by moving their eyes or moving their faces in a certain way to indicate their answers. For example, a typical question would be to ask what is 8 minus 6. A 19-year-old American man was able to respond by moving his eyes left-right, left-right – two times – to signal “2”.
“Since the 1980s, we’ve known that lucid dreamers can communicate out of dreams by using these signals,” says Karen Konkoly, a Ph.D. student at Northwestern University who published the study in Current Biology. “But we were wondering, can we ask people questions that they could actually hear in their dreams?” They were studying rapid-eye-movement sleep when people dream most vividly. Konkoly tells Scott Simon on Weekend Edition, “When people become lucid in the dream, they just look left-right, left-right, really dramatically. So we know that they’re communicating out.”
To study Lucid dreaming, researchers recruited people who had experienced with it. Before the participants went to sleep, they were also trained on how to communicate their answers. Special sensors measured people’s eye movements or experts judged their facial movements. Not all the participants responded the same way, though.
The researchers write that their findings present “new opportunities for gaining real-time information about dreaming, and for modifying the course of a dream” Konkoly says there’s the possibility of one day doing a sort of “dream therapy” for people experiencing lucid nightmares. And if more reliable communication methods can be worked out, it could help people with creative activities and ideas. “People often use lucid dreaming or dreaming for a kind of artistic, creative inspiration,” With the help of an awake person, Konkoly says it could be possible to “combine those logical advantages of wake with the creative advantages of dreams and maybe have some more applications.”
1. How do people in their lucid dream react to simple questions?| A．By opening their mouths. | B．By using hands. |
| C．By shaking their heads. | D．By moving their eyes. |
| A．They can detect sound better. | B．They are able to communicate. |
| C．They dream most vividly. | D．They have a good sense of direction. |
| A．The participants’ behaviors. | B．The preparation of the research. |
| C．The experiment of lucid dreams. | D．The process of a lucid dream. |
| A．Creative activities. | B．Lucid nightmares. |
| C．Magic inspiration. | D．Logical thinking. |
【推荐2】Shanghai Disneyland to reopen after shutting down
May 11 could be a very magical day for theme park lovers. As parts of the world start to reopen in the coronavirus (新冠病毒) pandemic (大流行病), many people are looking to see how businesses will return after closing down. It’s likely that theme park lovers will be interested to see how the Disney parks change their practices in response to the outbreak. Shanghai Disneyland announced that it will be reopening to the public on Monday. The park closed its doors on Jan. 25 as part of China’s efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Since then, the outbreak has become a pandemic and Disney parks across the world have also been limited and shut their doors.
In a statement, Disney CEO Bob Chapek said: “We know how much our guests have been looking forward to returning to Shanghai Disneyland, and we are excited to begin welcoming them back. As the park reopens with significantly enhanced health and safety measures, our guests will find Shanghai Disneyland as magical and memorable as ever.”
When the park reopens, guests will be required to purchase admission tickets valid for certain dates only. Also, annual pass holders will have to make reservations prior to arrival, The park will also control guest density (密度) in lines, restaurants, ride vehicles and other facilities. The park will also use temperature screening and require guests to wear masks in the park, except when eating.
1. What does the underlined word “curb” mean in paragraph 1?| A．compete | B．encourage | C．control | D．treat |
| A．Shanghai Disneyland closed before the pandemic of the coronavirus. |
| B．Only Shanghai Disneyland shut its door during the pandemic. |
| C．Shanghai Disneyland will be reopen because the pandemic is ended. |
| D．China has curbed the spread of the coronavirus. |
| A．It won’t be as entertaining as before. | B．Those who bought ticket can visit it at any time. |
| C．Annual pass holders can visit the park freely. | D．Many measures will be used to enhance safety. |
【推荐3】Will the AI chatbots eat search engines’ lunch? For more than 20 years, search engines have been the Internet’s front door. Google has dominated the field in most of the world. But nothing lasts forever, particularly in technology.
Just ask IBM, which once ruled business computing or Nokia, once the leader in mobile phones. Both fell behind because they didn’t follow big technological transitions. Now another tech innovation might announce a similar shift and a similar opportunity. ChatGPT has put itself on center stage, by letting people chat with an AI directly. ChatGPT can write essays in various styles, explain complex concepts, summarize texts and answer questions. And it can collect, process and combine knowledge from the web: for example, listing holiday spots that match certain criteria, or suggesting menus or schedules. If asked, it can explain its reasoning and provide details. Many things that people use search engines for today, in short, can be done better withchatbots.
Will ChatGPT help students cheat better? Yes, but as with many other technology developments, it’s not a simple black and white situation. Decades ago, students could copy encyclopedia entries, and more recently, they’ve been able to search the Internet and explore into Wikipedia entries. ChatGPT offers new abilities for everything from helping with research to doing their homework for them. Many ChatGPT answers already sound like student essays. Ask the new artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to write an essay about the cause of the American Civil War and you can watch it produce a persuasive term paper in a matter of seconds.
It can even pass a number of exams. It scored 60% on the United States Medical Licensing Examination, 70% on an exam for lawyers, 78% on New York state’s high school chemistry exam’s multiple-choice section, and ranked the 40th on the Law School Admission Test.
A high school teacher concluded ChatGPT already writes better than most students today. He’s torn between admiring ChatGPT’s potential usefulness and fearing its harm to human learning: “Is this moment more like the invention of the calculator, saving me from the boredom of long division, or more like the invention of the player piano, robbing us of what can be communicated only through human emotion?”
1. What is the reason why some tech companies fail to develop?| A．The sharp rising market cost. | B．The negative impact of local economy. |
| C．Their shift to other business fields. | D．Their failure to keep pace with tech changes. |
| A．Write various articles. | B．Schedule a holiday trip. |
| C．Play the piano. | D．Explain complex concepts. |
| A．To explain a rule. | B．To illustrate a fact. |
| C．To make a prediction. | D．To clarify a concept. |
| A．Neutral. | B．Positive. | C．Critical. | D．Ambiguous. |
