The first skill many people have lost is remembering phone numbers. Because phone numbers are stored in smartphone contacts, there’s now no need to dial a number or look at it again.
And some people may also have lost their sense of direction because some apps can guide people anywhere they want. People get so dependent on them that when they can’t use their smartphones, they get lost and anxious.
But the worst lost skills may be social ones, meaning that some people are becoming socially inept (无能的). People often bury themselves in their smartphones. As we’re too absent-minded by what’s happening in the virtual (虚拟的) some of us have lost conversational skills and sometimes can’t even tell whether a person is happy or not.
Last August, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, studied 51 students aged 11 and 12 who had over five hours’ screen time every day. Their task was to tell the emotions of 48 pictures of faces that were happy, sad, angry or scared.
The children made an average of 14.02 mistakes at the beginning. But after a five-day camp without electronic (电子的) products, they made only 9.41 mistakes on average.
Luckily, people still have a chance to get these abilities back. You should try to keep your parents’ numbers in mind for emergencies. You should also pay more attention to street signs and stores, which will help you to draw a mind map and stop you from getting lost. And the easiest solution to social skill loss is to take a break from electronic products.
1. The underlined sentence in the second paragraph implies that ______.
| A．you are able to turn to others for help |
| B．others are able to call you anytime and anywhere |
| C．others are unable to get in touch with you by smartphone |
| D．you are unable to contact others without your smartphone |
| A．recognize more facial expressions correctly |
| B．lose the sense of direction frequently |
| C．tell different emotions immediately |
| D．tell more pictures of faces easily |
| A．have no sense of numbers |
| B．fail to find their destination |
| C．lose face-to-face communication skills |
| D．weaken their senses of hearing and sight |
| A．Objective. | B．Critical. |
| C．Supportive. | D．Optimistic. |
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【推荐1】Are you at least 17 years old? Do you weigh more than 110 pounds? Do you consider yourself fairly healthy?
If you answered yes to all of these questions, you should be donating(捐赠) blood every two months. n my survey of my schoolmates, I found that only 50 percent of them have ever donated blood and that only 1 out of 13 of them donate regularly. The lack of blood donors is a serious problem that requires immediate action.
According to the American Red Cross Web pages, in the United States alone someone receives a blood transfusion(输血) once every three seconds. People who benefit from donations include cancer patients as well as babies. The need for blood never takes a vacation and neither should donors.
Let me tell you about Brooke, a three-year-old girl with cancer. Brooke has spent about half of her life in the hospital receiving treatments. Her treatment will require about 500 units of blood in total, of which only 250 units have been replaced. She still needs the other half of the total amount to continue her treatment. If she doesn’t receive this blood, she will not live to start kindergarten.
Examples like Brooke’s are becoming all too common these days, with only 1 in 20 Americans donating blood and this number keeps dropping each year. These facts are extremely worrying considering that nearly half of us here will need blood sometime in our lives.
You can now see the seriousness of the problem with the lack of blood donations. Fortunately， it is a problem that can be easily solved. Each and every one of you can be part of the solution. All you have to do is go to the nearest Red Cross and donate your blood.
1. How does the author explain the problem mentioned in Paragraph2?| A．By making comparisons. | B．By answering questions. |
| C．By describing his own experiences. | D．By presenting research findings. |
| A．The strong need for blood. | B．The suffering of patients. |
| C．The benefits of taking vacations | D．The efforts of the Red Cross. |
| A．can’t wait to start kindergarten |
| B．stays alive by receiving blood daily |
| C．doesn't get fair treatment in the hospital |
| D．will need another 250 units of blood |
| A．To present some new medical results. | B．To persuade people to donate blood. |
| C．To explain the risks of blood donation. | D．To call on people to save a little girl. |
【推荐2】The China Banking Association together with the National Internet Finance Association of China issued a notice on Tuesday forbidding financial companies and payment-service providers from running virtual currency-related businesses.
A virtual currency has many advantages including decentralization and distributed accounting. However, some venture capitalists have hyped up its value to make profits.
A virtual currency is not a legal negotiable instrument, that is, a real currency, even if huge amounts of funds are invested in it. It has no real value support, and should venture capitalists hype up its price and exit, other investors, especially the small ones, will be badly hit. It is necessary to strictly regulate virtual currencies to prevent them from being used as a tool for capital speculation.
Market regulators, too, should guard against virtual currencies.
Unregulated growth of a virtual currency will deal a huge blow to traditional global currency systems and create systemic risks for the global financial and capital markets. So appropriate measures should be taken to minimize the risks posed by virtual currencies.
| A．If not regulated, virtual currencies can undermine the traditional monetary system. |
| B．As much as 76% of all transactions are carried out in virtual currencies, amounting to more than a half of the total value of all payments, |
| C．Among the world’s major economies, China has relatively strict regulations. |
| D．The notice said virtual currencies have no real value support and their prices can be easily manipulated, creating bubbles and false assets leading to business failures. |
| E．Stored and transacted through designated software, mobile, or computer applications, a virtual currency is a digital representation of value only available in electronic form. |
| F．Yet a global consensus (共识) on how to regulate them is still lacking. |
【推荐3】The FIFA World Cup 2022, the world’s greatest football tournament, is set to begin in Qatar on November 21, 2022.
The FIFA World Cup is being held in the Middle East for the first time and is being hosted by an Asian country for the second time. The nation, which draws visitors from all around the world, promises to host the most expensive World Cup ever.
By land size, Qatar is the smallest nation to have ever hosted a FIFA World Cup. Switzerland, which hosted the 1954 FIFA World Cup, is the next-smallest nation. Qatar became the second nation to host the major competition without ever making it to an earlier round of competition. Qatar has a population of 2.8 million, which is comparable to that of Yorkshire. However, because of its size, it has the highest per capita income in the world.
A FIFA World Cup is an expensive event, and since 1994, there has been a general upward trend in the costs connected with hosting the most famous tournament.
The nation has already spent around $200 billion. The nation spends $500 million per week on infrastructure(基础设施) projects, new stadiums, hotels, hospitals, and airports. According to Qatar’s finance minister, Ali Shareef AI-Emadi, preparations for the World Cup are almost complete.
A huge amount of soccer fans are expected to arrive in the country (about 1.2— 1.5 million). Due to concerns about a shortage of housing, the nation has already spent $40 million on hotels.
The estimated cost of Qatar’s 2022 FIFA World Cup is $220 billion. The historic tournament’s most costly edition is expected to be this one. Fans are surprised with the World Cup’s luxury and fascination, but there is also plenty of controversy(争议).
1. What do we know about the FIFA World Cup?| A．Yorkshire hosted the 1954 FIFA World Cup. |
| B．The FIFA World Cup is the world’s greatest tournament. |
| C．It’s the second time the FIFA World Cup has been held in an Asian country. |
| D．The overall cost of hosting FIFA World Cup has been on the rise since 1954. |
| A．People’s warmth for Qatar. | B．Qatar’s preparations for World Cup. |
| C．Qatar’s goals for the World Cup. | D．Qatar’s main financial situation in 2022. |
| A．$40 million. | B．$200 million. | C．$500 million. | D．$20 billion. |
| A．How soccer fans plan to go to watch the World Cup of Qatar. |
| B．What the stadiums of the 2022 World Cup look like. |
| C．How people view differently on the Qatar’s luxurious behavior. |
| D．What other surprises does Qatar offer soccer fans. |
