Let’s rid the fast-food monster of its teeth
Do you like cheeseburgers and french fries as much as I do? How about dumplings or tacos? Do you like any of them enough to reach into a shark’s mouth to get them, knowing full well that you might be hurt by razor-sharp teeth on the way in or out?
The intention is good, because securely closing the bag helps ensure food safety.
Why don’t we put an end to this practice and ensure that rice and bread remain our only “staple foods”, and not french fries? Let’s defang the fast-food monster and just use tape to seal the deal.
| A．And they pose another danger |
| B．It also requires a bit more effort to open the bag |
| C．Besides, we should pay attention to other effects |
| D．Our hands and the environment will be glad we did |
| E．But surely the use of tape is safer by far than staples |
| F．So I make it a habit to remove the staples before recycling a bag |
| G．That’s what you have to do these days when takeout food is delivered |
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【推荐1】Children’s heavy digital media use is associated with a risk of being overweight later in adolescence. A recent study shows that six hours of leisure-time physical activity per week at the age of 11 reduces the risk of being overweight at 14 years of age associated with heavy use of digital media.
Obesity (肥胖) in children and adolescents is one of the most significant health-related challenges globally. A study carried out by the Folkhalsan Research Center investigated whether a link exists between the digital media use of Finnish school-age children and the risk of being overweight later in adolescence. In addition, the study looked into whether children’s physical activity has an effect on this potential link.
The study involved 4,661 children who reported how much time they spent on sedentary (久坐的) digital media use and physical activity outside school hours. The study indicated that heavy use of digital media at 11 years of age was associated with a heightened risk of being overweight at 14 years of age in children who reported taking part in under six hours per week of physical activity in their leisure time. In children who reported being physically active for six or more hours per week, such a link was not observed.
The study also took into account other factors potentially impacting obesity, such as childhood eating habits and the amount of sleep, as well as the amount of digital media use and physical activity in adolescence. In spite of the confounding (混杂的) factors, the protective role of childhood physical activity in the connection between digital media use in childhood and being overweight later in life was successfully confirmed.
“The effect of physical activity on the association between digital media use and being overweight has not been further investigated in follow-up studies so far,” says Postdoctoral Researcher Elina Engberg. “In this study, the amount of physical activity and use of digital media was reported by the children themselves, and the level of their activity was not surveyed, so there is a need for further studies.”
1. The subjects of the study were ________.| A．surveyed three years later after the first one |
| B．those who kept sitting and used digital media a lot |
| C．4,661 school-aged children suffering from obesity |
| D．lacking in sufficient leisure-time physical activity |
| A．Major | B．Particular. |
| C．Increasing. | D．Slight. |
| A．Different factors contributing to kids’ overweight problem. |
| B．The influence of childhood eating habits on children’s obesity. |
| C．The relationship among kids’ exercise, digital media use and obesity. |
| D．Children’s academic challenges resulting from heavy digital media use. |
| A．Reasons for carrying out further studies. |
| B．Guidelines for children and adolescents. |
| C．Approaches to solving teens’ weight problems. |
| D．Connections between obesity and physical activity. |
【推荐2】As you wander the shops this holiday season, you’re likely to encounter the number 9 everywhere. There’s $4. 99 for that box of Christmas candy, $299 for that TV, and $99. 99 for those stylish headphones.
The trick of using 9s to price items is so common that we rarely think about it, and if we do, it’s likely to pity the poor suckers(易上当受骗的人)who don’t know＄99. 99 is the same as $100.
But the truth is you’ve probably been tripped up by 9-ending prices without even realizing it. A number of researchers have found something surprising about 9-ending prices. It’s not just that $9.99 isn’t a better deal than $10; it’s that it’s often1 actually a bad deal.
“The 9-ending does some magic to us, ” said Daniel Levy, an economics professor. In a 2021 paper, Mr. Levy and Avichai Snir of Netanya Academic College found that when items’ prices ended in 9, they were on average 18% higher than when those same items’ prices had different endings. The finding held across a range of items such as cheese, crackers, bottled juices, canned soups, dish detergents, painkillers, cigarettes and so on.
The strategy, called “just below” pricing, as in “$9.99 is just below $10, ” as well as psychological, odd or charm pricing, has been around so long that no one is sure of its origins. One theory is that the use of the cash register, which was originally marketed as a device to stop employees from stealing.
Robert Schindler, a marketing professor at the Rutgers School of Business-Camden, is skeptical of the cash-register theory because he’s found Macy’s newspaper advertisements as early as 1880 touting prices like $.99 and $1. 99 and proclaiming them “positively the best bargains ever offered, and cannot be equaled by any other house:” He believes the origin was always the psychological trick.
Mr. Schindler, 15 years ago, proposed the existence of a “99-meaning paradox””: Consumers strongly associate prices ending in . 99 as being low, but that this cannot be due to a correlation(相关性)between the 99-ending and low prices because such a correlation doesn’t exist.
Yet, if consumers know by now that $9. 99 is basically the same as $10, why do retailers, who after all put serious thought into their pricing strategy, still use it?
1. Why do consumers tend to give little thought to 9-ending prices?| A．They are not the poor suckers. |
| B．They are so used to such prices. |
| C．They think it’s just a simple trick. |
| D．They think $99. 99 is the same as $100. |
| A．$9. 99 isn’t a worse deal in the least. |
| B．If the price ended in .99, you probably overpaid. |
| C．People preferred to choose items with no 9-ending prices. |
| D．Different endings of prices make no difference to consumers. |
| A．Rising. | B．Changing. |
| C．Advertising. | D．Collapsing. |
| A．How people can avoid being fooled. |
| B．What other theories there were in history. |
| C．What kind of products people should purchase. |
| D．Why such a pricing strategy still exists nowadays. |
【推荐3】Although Facebook offers various privacy settings that can be improved, there is no way to guarantee that your photos will not be seen by people you didn’t intend to share with.
Exposure to Sexual Predators
Posting photos of your children on Facebook could bring them to the attention of sexual predators, even if you set the privacy settings so that only friends and family are able to see the photos.
Set a Bad Example
Young children should be taught from an early age about the dangers of revealing too much information to strangers. With smartphones and other electronic devices making it easy to post photos online, it is important that children understand the dangers of uploading the wrong kind of pictures.
Identity Theft
After you post photos of your children online on sites such as Facebook, you no longer have any control over what the images are used for. Even with strict privacy settings these photos can be viewed, downloaded, modified and uploaded elsewhere by other people if they are determined enough.
While posting embarrassing photos of your children on Facebook might seem like harmless fun, it can expose them to bullying and intimidation. If someone distributes these photos to online forums and websites as a joke it can cause a lot of emotional trauma for your child. In some severe cases, teens have committed suicide after threats and bullying online.
| A．Open Children To Bullying&Intimidation(恐吓) |
| B．Photos of your child could be used for advertising |
| C．Although posting children’s picture online has become a trend |
| D．Avoid circulating children’s photos containing privacy online. |
| E．Well-meaning relatives can republish the photos, with less strict privacy settings. |
| F．While the risk of sexual predators stalking(跟踪)children after seeing their Facebook photos is small, |
| G．If you upload lots of photos of your children to Facebook. |
