“Teenager Therapy”, hosted by five rising seniors at Loara High School in Anaheim, Calif., has become a breakout hit. The podcast show features five teens having loose, sincere conversations about mental health, school and family, friendships, and more. Sometimes they interview big names, including Loren Gray. But typically, the show is more of a free-form discussion.
“There are episodes where we offer advice about teenage life, and there are episodes where we simply talk about our experiences,” said Gael Aitor, 17.
He got the idea for “Teenager Therapy” in 2018 after hearing “Couples Therapy”, a podcast by the YouTuber Casey Neistat and his wife. The then 15-year-old rounded up four friends to record the first episode of “Teenager Therapy”. “The first two tries were terrible,” Mr. Aitor said. “The third time we were happy with it, so we posted it online.”
Building a podcast audience is no easy job, especially since the group of high schoolers had no marketing budget. To attract listeners, Mr. Aitor repurposed an old Instagram account, which had 20, 000 followers.
Within a few months of posting their first episode, “Teenager Therapy” had over 100, 000 downloads — a number it can take years for self-governing podcasts to hit. From there, the show kept growing. But part of the great popularity of the show is that it’s produced for teenagers by several hosts from the same age group. “People often say, ‘I don’t know who to tell but you guys,’” said Mr. Aitor. “We never really scripted (写脚本) anything or planned it out.”
Maya Gabay, 16, a rising high school junior, said the podcast was now her favorite show. “The podcast never holds back on anything,” said Ms. Gabay, who, like many other young listeners, considers it as their lifeline. The podcast has helped her process things going on in her life, including problems with friendships. “It’s really great to see kids my age doing something like this,” she said.
1. What does “Teenager Therapy” usually do for its listeners?| A．It connects teenage patients with doctors. |
| B．It holds discussions about teenage topics. |
| C．It helps develop teens’ communication skills. |
| D．It allows teens to make friends with big names. |
| A．Why Gael brought together his four friends. | B．Why Gael continued his podcast. |
| C．How the listeners were attracted. | D．How the podcast show started. |
| A．It is made for teens by teens. | B．Its hosts are good at marketing. |
| C．Its programs are all carefully planned. | D．It won support from “Couples Therapy”. |
| A．It needed to make improvements. | B．It would train more kids like her. |
| C．It was an important part of her life. | D．It should pay more attention to friendships. |
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【推荐1】On the first day of fourth grade, my teacher, Mrs. Brown, told my class a story about her husband Rob, who is a brain cancer survivor. After what Mrs. Brown experienced with Robs’ illness, she decided to devote part of her life to an organization called Be head Strong, which works to support families with a member suffering from brain cancer.
Along with typical math and science, throughout the year, Mrs. Brown shared stories with us about people in Be Head Strong who had overcome some tough and unfair battles. Mrs. Brown never showed any sadness or confusion toward the disease. She instead spoke only with words of determination to find a cure. Whether news from Be Head Strong was good or bad, she always looked at the situation as an opportunity to improve and do more.
My parents taught me from a very young age that making wise choices with my money is important. I would always set aside most of my $ 2.50-a-week allowance. By the end of the school year, I had saved over one hundred dollars, $ 131.30 to be exact. One day was wondering what to do with it. I did not feel like any game or toy was worth the time I had spent saving. I thought about the stories Mrs. Brown told us, then I decided that was where I wanted my money to go.
As the last day of school approached, my mom helped me wrap the heart-shaped box full of dollars and coins. After all the other kids had left on the last day of school, I handed Mrs. Brown the present. As she opened it, I told her that I wanted the money to go to Be Head Strong to help people like Rob. She broke into tears and hugged me tightly.
People may not always realize how big of an influence one kind gesture can make. One teacher encouraged a decision in my life that has changed the way how I live.
1. What do we know about Mrs. Brown from paragraph 1?| A．She had just survived a brain cancer. |
| B．She lost her husband to a brain cancer. |
| C．She founded a non-profit organization for brain cancer. |
| D．She was devoted to helping people with brain cancer. |
| A．Outgoing and organized. | B．Positive and delightful. |
| C．Enthusiastic and patient. | D．Kind-hearted and strong-willed. |
| A．The author thought the money was worth something more meaningful. |
| B．The author’s parents were strict with him in buying games and toys. |
| C．The author was old enough to get rid of games and toys. |
| D．The author had no time to pick his favorite games and toys. |
| A．A Teacher—a Role model. | B．A Teacher—A Life-long Learner. |
| C．An Unforgettable Science lesson. | D．A Special Teacher and Her Life Story. |
【推荐2】Throughout my educational years despite the kind teachers I had met, I never felt interested in writing until I met her, Mrs Kelley. At first, I believed that writing would still be my worst class. Gradually, my fondness increased. She taught the lesson in such a lively way and her word choice impressed me. But that was not what made her my favorite. Unlike other teachers, after instructions, she gave an enormous amount of freedom in what we wrote, allowing us to create our own stories using our imagination. And that mattered most.
There was one really revolutionary event: the historical fiction unit. We were to invent out own stories using the period we were given. World War Ⅱ was mine. At that point, I was just looking for a good grade. Rather than creating a mundane story, I wanted to make a story that I felt was meaningful. As I progressed, I was pulled further and further into the reality that I had made. Grammar no longer existed, as my hands gained acceleration. When I typed the final word, my hands trembled with excitement. Briefly, I read it over and then submitted the draft.
In the midst of anxiousness, Mrs Kelley responded. She pointed out some mistakes and gave some suggestions. Sadly, there were no comments of recognition. I fixed the errors and moved on. But when waiting for the final grade, I erased all the unrealistic thoughts that wandered in my mind.
In the next class, surprisingly, after handing back my paper, Mrs Kelley mentioned that my story was very good. I looked at her in confusion. Soon excitement stirred inside me. I found a“＋5” attached to the score. She had given an extra point in “Plot” , adding an “Excellent！” No other teacher had done this. On that day, I felt what it means to be a writer. Mrs Kelley introduced me to the beauty of literature and made writing so enjoyable.
1. What made Mrs Kelley so special according to the author?| A．Her patience and kindness. | B．Her confidence in students. |
| C．Her creative teaching style. | D．Her professional knowledge. |
| A．Excited. | B．Worried. | C．Surprised. | D．Disappointed. |
| A．Dull. | B．Interesting. | C．Special. | D．Unusual. |
| A．Recognizing his talent. | B．Finding the joy of writing. |
| C．Determining his lifetime career. | D．Acquiring practical writing skills. |
【推荐3】Everyone has one special teacher who has shaped them in ways they would never expect. That teacher for me is my middle school English teacher, Mrs. Yerrington.
Before I had her as a teacher, I only did work just to get by. I wrote basic papers and essays, not putting much thought or effort into any of them. I viewed writing as a sort of chore that I was forced into doing just to pass a class. It never occurred to me that I had the potential to do more with my writing. I had the basic skills but my writing lacked creativity.
Our first big task for the class was to enter a writing contest, and I was less than excited. I wanted something short and easy, so I decided on the Patriots Pen essay; little did I know it wasn’t as easy as I hoped it would be. I turned in my first draft (草稿) to Mrs. Yerrington and she gave a lot of feedback to me. She said my writing lacked meaning. She told me I had the potential to do so much more that I shouldn’t accept less than my full potential. She taught me that writing is an art that takes practice and that you couldn’t always expect to get a piece right the first time. I took in all her feedback and rewrote the paper with more feelings. A few weeks later I won a prize in the contest.
From that day on I have always tried my best in everything I do. I know that without her I wouldn’t have grown into the person I am today. She believed in me, and now I believe in myself. I am now a senior in high school and have grown so much as not only a writer but as a person. I hope that everyone has a teacher who has shaped their lives in such a positive way as Mrs. Yerrington did mine.
1. What does Paragraph 2 imply about the author?| A．He had been wasting his talent for writing. |
| B．He had not learned the writing skills well. |
| C．He had no thought to write about. |
| D．He was a highly creative student. |
| A．It was surely a work of art. |
| B．It was too short and simple. |
| C．It would win in the writing contest. |
| D．It failed to show his real writing level. |
| A．grew into a worldwide famous writer |
| B．became more confident in himself |
| C．found his potential to be an artist |
| D．developed an interest in writing |
| A．He has made great changes in senior high. |
| B．Mrs. Yerrington was an amazing teacher. |
| C．Mrs. Yerrington had a great influence on him. |
| D．Everyone needs an influential teacher in their life. |
【推荐1】For a few months twice a year, the waters off California are home to gray whales moving north or south between the coast of Mexico and the Bering Sea. This year, however, it seems that fewer whales are surviving the journey north. So far this year, a total of 30 dead gray whales have washed up on the West Coast: Eight in Washington, one in Oregon and 21 in California. Those numbers are unusually high.
In Northern California, three out of four of the dead whales that have been examined so far appear to have died of starvation and the fourth was killed by a ship strike, said Barbie Halaska, a research assistant at The Marine (海洋的) Mammal Center (TMMC), a nonprofit organization that rescues and rehabilitates (使康复) marine mammals in California. Halaska and her colleagues examined the four whales—three young whales and one adult male — and planned to examine the remaining dead whales in the region in the next couple of days.
Gray whales were once severely threatened by whalers. Only around 2,000 of them lived in the ocean in 1946, so an international agreement to stop gray whale hunting was signed in order to help the population recover. Gray whales were removed from the endangered species list in 1994 when the population reached 23,000 individuals and TMMC predicts there are now around 26,000 gray whales in the Pacific Ocean, which is about the number before the whaling boom got up steam almost 200 years ago.
Although the gray whale population has recovered to a certain degree, the number of dead whales washing up this year is alarming, Halaska said. Climate change and declining fish stocks are likely key factors in the whales’ poor health, she said .
Halaska stressed that boaters and beachgoers on the West Coast should watch out for gray whales this time of year.
1. What are the statistics in paragraph 3 about?| A．Severe conditions facing gray whales. |
| B．An agreement to stop killing whales. |
| C．The evolving development of gray whales. |
| D．The number of gray whales in different times. |
| A．Worried. | B．Discouraged. |
| C．Optimistic. | D．Uncaring. |
| A．The importance of gray whales. |
| B．Gray whales’ living environment. |
| C．Things to do to help gray whales . |
| D．Ways to increase gray whales’ population. |
| A．Gray Whales Are Threatened by Whalers |
| B．Why Many Gray Whales Died on California’s Coast? |
| C．Gray Whales Are in Great Danger of Dying Out |
| D．Where Gray Whales Move to Avoid Being Hunt? |
【推荐2】Around 3,500 Americans ingest (摄入) batteries every year. It’s apparently such a repeating issue that even a specific hotline was built in the event of such an emergency.
And while it’s unlikely your wristwatch’s power source will ever be safe to eat, that doesn’t mean all batteries will remain uneatable-in fact, some are being designed with digestion specifically in mind.
A team of researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology recently revealed what isl being called as the world’s first fully rechargeable, eatable battery. As detailed in a paper published with Advanced Materials, the new device has made good use of some eatable materials.
“Eatable electronic devices will have major implications for gastrointestinal tract (胃肠道) monitoring, treatment, as well as rapid food quality monitoring,” reads the paper’s abstract, adding that although recent research proved the feasibility of eatable sensors and circuits, “fully eatable electronic devices and eatable power sources are still required, of which there have been very few examples.”
According to the team’s findings, their proof-of-concept battery was capable of producing 0.65 volts, which is safely low enough for the human body to handle. The ingestible could provide 48 μA of current for 12 minutes, or alternatively, a few microamps (微安) for over an hour. Such a power supply could provide enough energy for small electronics alike to eatable pill-shaped modules and other gastrointestinal procedure alternatives.
In a statement, researcher coordinator Mario Caironi explained that such a product could help power monitors for both human health conditions and food storage. Additionally, given their safety, products with stronger power could be used within children’s toys, where ingestion risk is higher.
In the team’s statement, co-author Ivan Ilic also explained that despite the battery’s relatively low power, its digestibility provides a promising example of a battery that doesn’t use any harmful materials.
1. What is the necessity of developing eatable batteries?| A．They help with the food shortage. | B．They can avoid the harm caused by eating batteries. |
| C．They are useful in some special fields. | D．They have no impact on the environment. |
| A．Availability. | B．Flexibility. | C．Responsibility. | D．Possibility. |
| A．The application of the battery has a long way to go. |
| B．The eatable batteries will be widely used in our life. |
| C．The development of the eatable battery is promising. |
| D．The eatable batteries will soon be put into production. |
| A．News Corner. | B．Story Garden. | C．Language World. | D．Technology Square. |
【推荐3】Just like humans, birds too rely on sound to communicate. However, they do not have a “language” in the true sense of the word and instead produce a variety of sounds to convey different emotions.
Often, birds recognize their mates(or young) by sound rather than sight. Hungry young birds use begging calls to let their mothers know it is feeding time. Alarm calls, flight calls and warning calls are other sounds made frequently by adults.
A new study shows that songbirds rehearse(排演) their songs even in their sleep. The activity in the brain of the birds when asleep is similar to the brain activity when the birds were awake and singing. The team used tiny recording devices to measure the activity of individual brain cells in four songbirds both when they were singing and when they were asleep.
Apparently the bird stores a song after hearing it, and then rehearses it later in its sleep. Scientists now believe the birds “dream of songs and tunes” to help them master the fine art of singing and that sleep plays a key role in the learning process!
Many songbirds learn to sing listening to adult birds of the same species. However, if separated from the adults, the young birds develop sounds which are hard to understand instead of normal song patterns. Researchers carried out an experiment in which a male bullfinch (灰雀) was raised by a female canary(金丝雀). The bullfinch soon learned the canary’s song and when it was later mated to a female bullfinch, Mr.Bullfinch taught his children the canary’s songs.
Last year, a British survey of London’s songbirds showed that the city’s birds are losing their tunes. Birds could hardly hear one another, over the traffic noise; as a result, instead of copying the sweet notes of the adults, young birds were copying the sounds they heard most often, namely car horns and beeping cellphones!
1. According to the passage, birds recognize their mates by ________.| A．using their own words | B．listening to their sounds |
| C．looking at their appearances | D．singing the same songs |
| A．Flight calls. | B．Alarm calls. |
| C．Begging calls. | D．Warning calls. |
| A．young birds learn to sing from whom they live together with |
| B．birds only learn how to sing from the same adult species |
| C．it's not easy for adult birds to teach young birds songs |
| D．a canary's song is more beautiful than a bullfinch's |
| A．traffic noise makes young birds become deaf |
| B．birds in the city can sing as sweetly as those in the wild |
| C．birds in the city recognize their mates mainly by sight |
| D．noise pollution causes much trouble for birds in the city |
【推荐1】It is common to see most live streamers (主播) sitting in front of a desk in a well-decorated room. But Zeng Qinghuan, a 30-year-old from Xinhua County in Loudi, Hunan, has turned her whole village into alive streaming set. Her goal is to use e-commerce to help her people live a better life.
Known as “Xiangmei Xinbao” on Douyin, Zeng now has more than 3 million followers. One of her videos about traditional ways of planting and harvesting rice has attracted more than 300,000 followers.
At the beginning, she didn’t make any money. Zeng’s parents didn’t give her any support until she could stand on her own feet and help people sell their products. She has now sold local agricultural products worth tens of millions of yuan, like fermented tofu, preserved pork and dried sweet potatoes.
“I’m a daughter of the great mountains. I can also be a contributor to rural development in this new times,” she said.
Zeng hopes her experience can encourage more young people to return to their rural hometowns and start their own businesses. In 2021, after she became a deputy (代表) of the Loudi Municipal People’s Congress, she put forward a proposal to ensure that “each village has one product and one live streaming host of its own”, She plans to help cultivate 100 social media influencers from her county within three years, and two villages have taken part in the project. “I believe that the rural areas will become a big stage, and being a farmer will be seen as a respectable job too,” said Zeng.
1. What does Zeng mainly introduce on Douyin?| A．Fashion trends in her village. | B．The education in her hometown. |
| C．Traditional customs of her village. | D．Agricultural products of her hometown. |
| A．Invite more young people to her hometown. |
| B．Expand her business to make more money. |
| C．Train more social media influencers in her county. |
| D．Produce more agricultural products to help the farmers. |
| A．Responsible and lovely. | B．Gifted and rich. |
| C．Caring and fashionable. | D．Down-to-earth and ambitious. |
| A．Lifestyle. | B．Travel. | C．Science Study. | D．World Today. |
【推荐2】Daniel Lamplugh remembers going shopping with his dad on Black Friday." Waking up at 6 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving is what I grew up doing," says the University of New Orleans film student.
A lot has changed since those childhood days. Online retailers(零售商)have forced many chains out of business. Consumers are increasingly shopping with their smart-phones. But a funny thing happened on the way to the future: Most shoppers are not going all-digital. Surveys show they're eager for good experiences at retail stores.
This November and December, for the first time ever retailer websites will get more traffic from mobile users than computer users, predicts Adobe Digital In sights." We live our lives with a combination of the physical and the digital." says Kit Yarrow, author of book Decoding the New Consumer Mind. Retailers have to understand it's not a question of either/or. It's a question of combining the two.
Heather Howe, an MBA student, said," Consumers like shopping on their phones and online because it's more convenient and because there are more options. I went to the Vans store to try on shoes and then I actually purchased them online while I was in the store.
While mobile sales are growing, the widest use smart-phones in stores is researching products or looking up product information(58 percent), closely followed checking or comparing prices(54 percent), according to a survey.
"My phone plays a huge role in online shopping, because I am on the email list for all of my favorite brand. so I get many emails daily informing me of sales, "s Rachel Lynch, who works at a Boston public-relation agency." Also, a store has an app that allows me to chat with other users about the products, and read reviews Online reviews are one of the first things I look at when I am about to buy a new product.”
“Electronics and kitchen equipment are definitely online purchases for me, since they're heavy to get home on the subway and often cheaper online," says Michael Miller-Ernest, a manager in Brooklyn,N.Y.
1. What do most shoppers tend to do now?| A．Do shopping all-digitally. |
| B．Use computers to do online shopping. |
| C．Do window shopping in shopping malls. |
| D．Go to physical stores with their smart-phones. |
| A．Reaching both online and offline consumers. |
| B．Focusing on either the physical or the digital. |
| C．Encouraging consumers to use smart-phones. |
| D．Providing more convenience for computer users. |
| A．They offer wider choices. |
| B．They sell high quality goods. |
| C．They will replace physical stores. |
| D．They are burning shoppers' patience. |
| A．She buys heavy goods online. |
| B．She often writes users' reviews. |
| C．She is fond of sending producers emails. |
| D．She tries to learn about other users' experience. |
【推荐3】If you haven’t started live stream (网络直播) commerce on social media, maybe you should.
“Livestream commerce is fast becoming a medium of choice,” said Thomas S. Robertson, a marketing professor. In an article he wrote for Harvard Business Review, he examines the rise of livestream commerce and offers guidance for companies that want to jump on the trend.
What should brands be thinking about as they jump into livestream commerce?
| A．Why is livestream commerce becoming so popular? |
| B．Livestream commerce is the hottest trend in the online business. |
| C．They must test whether they are able to achieve those goals. |
| D．The option to buy from the live stream was added shortly afterwards. |
| E．What is the role of the social media influencer in livestream sales? |
| F．They have to integrate livestream commerce with other marketing strategies. |
| G．It’s definitely a challenge, even for companies that were built for digital shopping. |
