Family Link has lots of advantages that may be favored by parents. Inside the app, you can create Google accounts for your children, sharing information like their names and birth dates.
Parents can also use Family Link to create restrictions for how children browse the web. You can turn on a filter (过滤器) that blocks bad websites, though Google acknowledges the filter is imperfect and some unpleasant sites may get past it.
Caroline Knorr, the parenting editor of Common Sense Media, which evaluates content and products for families, applauded the screen time feature, noting the difficulty of getting children to put down their phones.
| A．For a more picky approach |
| B．It is going to solve all my problems |
| C．Then when your child logs in to a phone |
| D．From there, Family Link is a breeze to use |
| E．Parents will probably love a feature called screen time |
| F．But sticking with time limits and schedules would be complicated |
| G．Parents can also get a weekly report to see how often a child is using a certain app |
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【推荐1】Relationship skills and social skills are referred to as “skills” for a reason — they require learning, practice, and improvement. Here are the best relationship books on the market, according to a licensed mental health counselor.
Best for Communication: 4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work — Anywhere!
In this day and age, we could all use a refresher in terms of basic communication skills. This award-winning book — filled with how-to guides and exercise challenges — is a great place to start. Written with all kinds of relationships in mind, including family, dating, friendships, and even work relationships, it’s designed to help you improve empathy, listening skills, and communication skills.
Best for Socializing: How to Become a People Magnet
Social anxiety is a common issue in our modern-day world among all age groups. This book, written by award-winning author Marc Reklau, provides 62 simple strategies (策略) to help you improve your social skills in everything from first impressions to deeper relationships. With a variety of strategies available, you can choose the ones that are best suited for your needs. This book is also beneficial for those working in sales or customer service — industries that frequently handle complaints or require making connections.
Best for Problem-Solving: I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships
In this bestselling book, author Michael Sorensen put relationship problem-solving skills into a three-hour read. It reads more like a conversation to help users understand the value of listening and validation in relationships.
Best for Personality Types: The Enneagram for Relationships: Transform Your Connections with Friends, Family, Colleagues, and in Love
The Enneagram is one of the fastest-growing personality assessments and concepts in the world right now, and rightfully so. There are nine different personality types with up to 27 subtypes to help you understand yourself — aiding in connection with those closest to you.
1. What is the purpose of the text?| A．To point out the importance of relationships. |
| B．To encourage people to improve social skills. |
| C．To call for the understanding between people. |
| D．To introduce 4 relationship books to readers. |
| A．It focuses on problem-solving skills. |
| B．It offers strategies about social skills. |
| C．It deals with all kinds of relationships. |
| D．It’s written by an award-winning author. |
| A．4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work — Anywhere! |
| B．How to Become a People Magnet. |
| C．I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships. |
| D．The Enneagram for Relationships: Transform Your Connections with Friends, Family, Colleagues, and in Love. |
【推荐2】Developing an optimistic outlook can be good for both your physical and mental health. Here are some ways to make thinking positive thoughts easy.
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If you surround yourself with constant complainers, their negativity is likely to rub off on you. Spend time with positive friends and family members to increase the likelihood that their positive thinking habits will become yours too.
●Recognize and replace negative thoughts
You won’t be successful at positive thinking if you’re still stuck in frequent negative thoughts.
●Consider the consequences of negativity
Spend some time thinking about the consequences of negative thinking. Often, it can become a self-fulfilling prediction. For example, a person who thinks, “ I probably won’t get this job interview,”may put less effort into the interview.
●Create a daily gratitude list
If you start keeping a daily gratitude list, you’ll start noticing exactly how much you have to be thankful for.
●Look for silver lining
When something bad happens, look for the silver lining.
| A．Spend time with positive people. |
| B．This will help you look for the good in other people. |
| C．Your past mistakes are not there for you to hold on to. |
| D．As a result, he may decrease his chances of getting the job. |
| E．This means looking for the positive side of a negative event. |
| F．Learn to recognize and replace thoughts that are overly negative. |
| G．Generate ideas on limiting the time you spend with negative people. |
【推荐3】Signal for help in the wild
Having multiple effective ways to signal for help can make all the difference in a survival situation where outside help is guaranteed. Signaling is one of the most under-practiced and under-emphasized skill sets in our survival, and it’s about time we took it more seriously.
Cell phone used for signaling. In areas where service is available, your call for help can be made to the exact right people and vast amounts of information can be conveyed.
Signal whistle. The humble whistle is a fine piece of signal gear for short-range audible signaling. Three blasts of a whistle are generally interpreted as a universal signal for distress.
Signal mirror. A signal mirror is one of the furthest reaching, non-electronic signal methods. Properly aimed, a signal mirror can shine a beam of daylight up to 10 miles, creating a flash of light that can catch the attention of distant aircraft, watercraft, vehicles, or persons on foot. Purchase a mirror with a sighting lens and sweep the mirror VERY slowly right to left and up and down.
Signal flag. Flags have been used for signaling for thousands of years. And while there are commercially available signal flags, you also can create your own. A brightly colored or contrasting colored garment tied to a stick serves as a quick flag.
| A．But in most cases, signaling with a whistle makes little difference. |
| B．Select brightly colored whistles, which are easy to spot if dropped. |
| C．While in areas with a weaker signal, try sending out a text message. |
| D．A space blanket and other reflective material makes an excellent flag as well. |
| E．This should sweep the beam across your target and hopefully get someone’s attention. |
| F．Follow my lead and learn how to assist in your own rescue with our signaling methods. |
| G．Here’s some practical advice for you to follow if you are really at a loss about various signals. |
【推荐1】On the summer of 1995, a second-year graduate student named Sergey Brin was giving a tour of Stanford University to prospective students. Larry Page, an engineering graduate from the University of Michigan, was one of those being shown around the campus.
“We both found each other obnoxious and annoying with strong opinions about things,” said Brin. “But we said it a little bit jokingly. Obviously, we spent a lot of time talking to each other, so there was something there.”
The technology of the web at the time meant that people could tell where a webpage linked to just by reading its code. However, to get a complete list of every page to which it linked, they needed to check every other website on the Internet.
Page’s “BackRub” project aimed to qualify these backlinks (反向链接). It was a complex task that not only demanded vast computing resources, but also required extremely complex mathematics, which was where the math genius Brin came in.
Later, Page and Brin came up with the PageRank algorithm - a ranking system which would prove to be a breakthrough idea. And then, BackRub became Google, a play on the term “googol,” meaning “10100.” The system successfully enabled users to search all 24 million pages stored in its database.
On September 15, 1997, Google.com was registered. In August 1998, it got its first funding in the form of a check for $100,000 written by Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to “Google Inc.” But still there were troubles. Later that month, Page and Brin moved into the garage (车库) of friend Susan Wojcicki (now the CEO of YouTube), and received further investment from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, among others.
Early in 1999, Page and Brin attempted to sell Google to Excite, at the time the No. 2 search engine behind Yahoo, for one million dollars. However, even after the pair had been talked down to $750,000, Excite CEO George Bell rejected them. With no buyer in sight, Google started hiring engineers and moved to an office in California in March 1999. In 2001, Eric Schmidt was hired first as chairman and then CEO, leaving Page and Brin to continue developing Google’s products and technologies respectively. By the end of its first decade, Google had effectively won the search engine wars.
1. According to the article, what can we learn about Larry Page and Sergey Brin?| A．They first met each other when studying at Stanford. |
| B．They found their first encounter rather unpleasant. |
| C．They had no intention of running a business initially. |
| D．They got financial support from Stanford to work on the ranking system. |
| A．what motivated Page to launch the “BackRub” project |
| B．how the “BackRub” project led to the founding of Google |
| C．how the PageRank algorithm worked |
| D．how Brin joined Page in carrying out the “BackRub” project |
①Andy Bechtolsheim.
②Susan Wojcicki.
③Jeff Bezos.
④George Bell.
| A．①② | B．①③ |
| C．③④ | D．②④ |
| A．The Internet: how it changed the world |
| B．Giant Google: how it beat Excite and Yahoo |
| C．Excite: CEO regretted for refusing the best offer |
| D．Google at 20: how two students changed the Internet |
【推荐2】Mobile phones have become a large part of people’s lives. No matter where they’re heading, people will take their mobile phones with them and use them when eating, going to and from work, and before going to bed.
Mobile phones have experienced great changes.
The invention of touch-screen phones came with even more changes.
Nowadays, mobile phones are palm-sized. Touch screens have long been standard on most smartphones and there are added functions. For example, you can surf the Internet, watch videos, listen to music, play games, and much more. It’s because of these functions that mobile phones have become a big part of our lives.
| A．The human desire to explore is endless. |
| B．The earliest touch-screen mobile phone was produced in 1993. |
| C．At first, mobile phones were all large, heavy and inconvenient. |
| D．Most people can hardly imagine living without their mobile phones. |
| E．There were no other functions included in mobile phones at that time. |
| F．Some people will even look down at their mobile phones when walking. |
| G．Mobile phones were invented so we could contact others anytime and anywhere. |
【推荐3】It has been four years since the Flashfood App was set to hit Canadian grocery stores and make it easier for shoppers to buy soon-to-expiry (保质期) food at a discount. Much to my delight, I heard it advertised recently on a radio station and figured it’s time for an update, especially since people became more aware of food waste’s role in the climate crisis.
The first thing I did was download the App. I hadn’t done it before because it was limited to a few locations, but now it’s all over Canada. I could see immediately that many brands of yogurt are all marked down 50 percent. Users pay for the food using the App, and then pick it up at a marked location in the store. There is no need for you to worry about them actually being bad.
It makes sense for retailers to get behind this App because it offers a win-win situation for everyone involved. Flashfood sells 75% of the products made available through its App while saving consumers an average of 50% on those grocery items, and it has 300,000 active users right now. That number is expected to grow naturally as Flashfood partners with more grocers.
“As a food retailer, we are in the business of providing food, not wasting it. The Flashfood program allows us to provide our customers with a convenient and environmentally sustainable (可持续的) way to purchase food. Loblaw sells 77% of the items it puts on Flashfood, moving an average of ＄800 to ＄1,000 worth of goods weekly at each of its largest stores,” said Gord Chem, senior VP with Loblaw’s Real Canadian Superstores.
I love looking for discount deals at the grocery store and always keep an eye out for the hot pink clearance stickers. But it’s always random, and I never know what I’m going to get from week to week. The appeal of Flashfood is that I can see what’s available, pre-purchase it, and leave it off my shopping list.
1. What can we know about the food on the Flashfood?| A．It’s delivered directly to the customers. | B．It is sold at a discount |
| C．Users can pay for it in the marked store. | D．It’ll be a month away before it goes bad. |
| A．reliable | B．unstable | C．creative | D．beneficial |
| A．By making a comparison. | B．By explaining the cause. |
| C．By listing some examples. | D．By introducing the result. |
| A．Customers can buy much cheaper food on a recent app. |
| B．A win-win situation has been set for Canadians involved. |
| C．Canadians have a smart approach to reducing food waste. |
| D．Canadians adopt a new way of protecting the environment. |
