【推荐2】Things Could Happen If You Keep Rubbing Your Eyes

Rubbing eyes can often result in significant damage, from causing eye disease to making existing conditions worse and increasing your risk of infection. Here are things that can happen if you keep rubbing your eyes.

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People who are nearsighted may find that rubbing eyes results in worse eyesight. Nearly 9.6 million people are what is known as highly nearsighted and their eyes degraded over time, according to research from the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

•You'll give yourself an infection

    2    they can still pick up thousands of germs every day. Touching your eyes with your hands, especially when you never wash your hands can transfer bacteria that can cause eye disease, for example, pink eye, according to the American Optometric Association.    3    , a warm press may help calm it. Don't miss these easy ways to improve your vision.

•You'll make your eyelid go loose

    4    It may also make the eyelid lose flexibility over time. That's a less serious problem, but still not something we want to happen. Is there any safe amount of rubbing your eyes？It is recommended that you apply the same amount of pressure to your eyes that you would if you are drying your face with a towel.

•You'll get bloodshot eyes and dark circles

If you rub your eyes hard enough, you might cause tiny blood vessels in your eyes to break. That could result in bloodshot eyes. The blood will then flow to surrounding tissue.    5    

A．If your eyes get infected

B．No matter how often you wash your hands

C．You'll lose your eyesight and become blind

D．Since not all know the harm of rubbing eyes

E．You'll make your nearsightedness much worse

F．Rubbing eyes can injure more than your eyeballs

G．This might give you those dark circles under your eyes

【推荐2】It’s never easy to explain exactly when a specific language began, and in the case of English we can hardly regard it as a separate language before the Anglo-Saxons came to Britain. Germanic invaders (入侵者) came and settled in Britain from the north-western coastline of continental Europe in the fifth centuries. The invaders all spoke a language that was Germanic (related to Dutch, Frisian, German and the Scandinavian languages), but we’ll probably never know how different their speech was from that of their continental neighbors.

The reason that we know so little about the language in this period is that we do not have much in the way of written records from any of the Germanic languages until several centuries later. When Old English writings began to appear in the seventh and eighth centuries there was a good deal of regional variation (变化), but not more than that found in later periods.

The Celts already lived in Britain when the Anglo-Saxons arrived, but there are few obvious signs of their language in English today. Some scholars have suggested that the Celtic tongue might have had some influence on the grammatical development of English, particularly in some parts of the country, but this is highly speculative (猜测). The number of borrowed words that have entered Old English from this language is very small. Those that survive in modern English include “comb” (a type of valley), alongside some place names.

1. When did the English language begin?

A．After the Anglo-Saxons came to Britain.

B．Before the Germanic invaders settled in Britain.

C．At a time that no one will know for certain.

D．At the same time as Germanic languages began.

2. “Continental neighbors” in Paragraph 1 refer to people living in _____.

A．Great Britain	B．Africa
C．Europe	D．Ireland

3. Why do people know so little about the language in Britain in the Anglo-Saxon period?

A．There are no written records from the Germanic languages.

B．Old English didn’t have any written system.

C．Much of the written records have been lost.

D．There was a good deal of variation in the records.

4. What does the author think about the Celtic language?

A．It influenced the grammatical development of English.

B．It had little influence on modern English.

C．It borrowed a few words from Old English.

D．It greatly enriched modern English vocabulary.

【推荐3】Jason, a straight-A student from the University of Pennsylvania, uses the term “pseudo-working” to describe how many of us study. The pseudo-worker looks and feels like someone who is working bard - he or she spends a long time in the library and is not afraid to push on late into the night – but, because of a lack of focus and concentration, he or she doesn’t actually achieve much.

This phenomenon cam be seen in most colleges. For example, at Dartmouth there was a section of the main library that was open twenty-four hours a day and the students I used to see in there late at night crowded in groups, drinking coffee, were definitely pseudo-working. The roommate who looks through her chemistry notes on the couch while watching TV is pseudo-working. The guy who brings three meals, a blanket. and six-pack of Red Bull to the study zone in preparation for an all-day paper-writing marathon is also pseudo-working.

By placing themselves in distracting environments and insisting on working long hours, these students are damaging their brain’s ability to think clearly and efficiently to achieve the task at hand. In the end they get half the results with twice the effort.

The bigger problem here is that most students don’t even realize that they’re pseudo-working. To them pseudo-working is work - it’s how they’ve always done it, and it’s how all of their friends do it. Ii never crosses their mind that there might be a better way. Straight-A students. on the other hand, know all about pseudo-working. They fear it, and for good reason It not only wastes time, but it’s also mentally tiring.

In fact, the most important skill in becoming a better student is the ability to get work done quickly and with a smallest amount of wasted effort. Some cognitive science research concludes that about 50 minutes is the optimal learning period to maximize the material integrated per time unit. So how do these students achieve this goal? To understand their way to success, consider the following simple formula(公式): work achieved = time spent * intensity of focus.

Pseudo-working features a very low intensity of focus. Therefore, to achieve something by pseudo-working. You need to spend a lot of time. The straight-A approach, on the other hand, increases intensity in order to use less time.

1. Which of the following phenomenon is pseudo-working?

A．Tom is busy taking notes while attending a lecture.

B．Mike is sitting at a study lounge in preparation for a final exam quietly.

C．Jack spends a long time in the library on his essay while listening to music.

D．Alice and Sara are sitting on the couth reading their favorite books.

2. Compared with straight-A students, the major problem of most students is that they _____

A．want to spend more time on study.

B．are eager to follow their friends’ way.

C．have gotten used to their study approach.

D．are unaware of their pseudo-working.

3. What does the underlined word “optimal” mean in paragraph 5?

A．Possible.

B．Best.

C．Least.

D．Accurate.

4. Why does the author mention the formula in the text?

A．To show the benefit of working hard.

B．To prove the necessity of achieving work.

C．To emphasize the importance of concentration.

D．To explain the reason for spending much time.