In modem times, many teenagers have idols of their own who are always some stars on TV on the Internet, etc. These stars always think that a slimmer figure may be perfect for themselves. However, does size really matter? Are teenage fans trying hard to become like their idols? Do famous stars really have the power to influence people especially teenagers?
For the longest time, many parents blame (责备) teen idols for influencing the way their kids act. Have you noticed how teens idolize the stars these days? Even, their personal affairs are being followed by kids these days. Take for example the case of Lindsay Lohan or Mary Kate Ashley, They are definitely famous teen stars. However, since they are trying to project an image to satisfy a lot of people in show business their health and body suffer. Many kids are aware of this problem. But they are easily influenced by these stars to exercise and eat less.
It is a fact that the media and especially famous teen stars can influence people powerfully. But teenagers are easily influenced because teenage years are the period when our personality and identity developments take place. Teens watching TV shows and reading magazines are easily pulled into the dieting and harmful eating habits because the media have some ways to pull these acts. They use thin models and stars to endorse (宣传) products or to star in an up-and-coming shows or movies. With fierce competition, stars are forced to eat less and do extreme exercise routines to get the roles or offers that come their way.
Living in today’s time and generation is a bit disturbing to a lot of parents. Media, especially as well as the stars, have a very powerful influence to drive teenagers to good or bad. It’s good that we can control ourselves to avoid bad things from happening. If not, parents should really be aware and guide their teens to determine what’s in and what’s out.
1. According to the passage, we can learn that Lindsay Lohan .A.lives a rich and happy life | B.lives an unhealthy lifestyle |
C.doesn’t get any exercise | D.sets a good example for teenagers |
A.to keep healthy to face competition | B.to keep a slim size |
C.to survive under pressure | D.to satisfy their teenage fans |
A.They are in their development period. | B.They are tired of school. |
C.Their idols often appear in many TV shows. | D.They have nothing to do in their spare time. |
A.Parent’s Responsibilities | B.Advice on Self-control |
C.Media’s Bad Influences | D.Bad Influences of idols |
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【推荐1】It's not easy feeling like you're always under the spotlight being judged for each little mistake you make. Your mind is in an endless circle playing what you said and did over and over again. You wish you had a time capsule to go back and make things fight if you find mistakes. You fear what others will think about you and that they will reject and dislike you. You seek to be socially perfect.
Academically,you work long endless hours just to make those excellent marks. Although most would say "it's good to have high standards,"they have no idea about the internal hell you put yourself through to achieve perfection. If you come up less than your desired goal you feel as though you have failed, but you're far from failing, you just don't see it that way. So instead you are telling yourself that you're stupid, and not smart. The pressure you place on yourself weighs you down and you wear the "not good enough" label each and every day.
You not only have high standards for yourself but you also have them for others. If people don't perform up to your expectations, then you think them incompetent. This causes a lot of frustration because you can't trust anyone to get things right. So instead of being a team player you fly solo(单飞)and try to do two or three jobs at once. Your unrealistic expectations cause you to criticize and judge others and that leads to problems in other areas of your life.
The attempt to be perfect is called perfectionism and it's the unachievable American dream that's damaging our emotional and mental health. We strive for perfection with our body, in our performance,and in our relationships. In a society that overstates mistakes, is it any wonder that so many young people attempt the impossible task of being perfect?
We all have flaws, fears, and make mistakes, and that's perfectly OK. It's our imperfections that make life interesting and they help us grow into a stronger more adaptable person. We don't have to strive to achieve the impossible. We are designed to be perfectly imperfect.
1. Where is this text most likely from?A.A diary. | B.A magazine. | C.A novel. | D.A guide book. |
A.Be generous with praise. |
B.Nobody is perfect. |
C.There is no best, only better. |
D.A contented mind is an everlasting feast. |
A.The society is partly to blame for perfectionism. |
B.More and more people are tolerating mistakes. |
C.Many young people find it impossible to be perfect. |
D.It's unusual for a society to seek perfectionism nowadays. |
A.It's unbearable. |
B.It's part of our life. |
C.It deserves to be overcome. |
D.It does harm to our mental health. |
【推荐2】A school in London made a rule that students aren't allowed to use slang (俚语)in the classroom. The school has said that it’s important for students to express themselves "clearly and correctly".
Yes - slang doesn't belong in school
Slang doesn't belong in school. When students are in the classroom, they should learn how to use language properly, so that they can better express themselves in the future. Although people use slang in everyday life, it's not proper in all situations.
No - it's part of the English language
Language is developing. Words always come and go.
A.They are not proper situations. |
B.Slang is a valuable part of this process. |
C.They might be misunderstood by others. |
D.Slang is words or phrases that are informal. |
E.However, some language experts say this is unfair. |
F.Banning slang could make them feel uncomfortable. |
G.For example, slang is not suitable in workplaces. |
【推荐3】Men have long been puzzled by the amount women pack, when they go on holiday. They despair as they watch their beloved spend much money on extra baggage charge. Nearly half of these women admitted to lying about the weight of their case to their partner before leaving for the airport, in fear of being made to unload some unnecessary items.
But it’s a fact that women pack more than they need. On average, a woman needs around 57 items in suitcase for a two-week holiday, yet most women pack nearer to 150 items, ranging from skirts, tops, underwear and high heels. In addition, women pack more sun cream, make-up and hair appliances than they are likely to need. They all take up space in the suitcase, only a third of them will see the light of day once at the holiday place.
79 percent of women admitted to taking extra items with them, with the reason for this being “just in case”. Women plan their holiday wardrobe months in advance. Packing enough clothes and other items to last a month is not enough for some women. They’d take a chance to shop for new items while holidaying abroad. So they’ll return with even more luggage in their cases.
Professor Karen Pine said, “Women are tempted to take familiar items with them on holiday, often everything except the kitchen sink. Some people find traveling stressful, particularly when they’re unsure about the home comforts available at their holiday place. They over-pack to help cope with those feelings of stress and reduce the uncertainty.”
This will come as no surprise to some men, who are used to trying to squeeze their partner’s luggage into the boot of the car with their own, smaller case. On the other hand, men pack very lightly, with only an average of 40 items for a two-week holiday.
1. What is the main idea of the passage?A.Women are good at picking holiday suitcase. |
B.Women over-pack by two third when on holiday. |
C.Women will go shopping every time they go on holiday. |
D.Women take good care of themselves while holidaying. |
A.Opposed. | B.Supportive. |
C.Positive. | D.Concerned. |
A.they want to show off their items |
B.they prefer a more comfortable holiday |
C.they are afraid they’ll need them during the holiday |
D.they would like to clean their clothes wardrobe very much |
A.Going on holiday will cost a lot. |
B.Women don’t prefer to go on a holiday. |
C.People tend to feel tired and stressed on holiday. |
D.It’s understandable that women over-pack in a sense. |
【推荐1】What if AI could interpret your imagination, turning images in your mind into reality? While that sounds like a detail in a science fiction, researchers have now accomplished exactly this. Researchers found that they could reconstruct highly accurate images from brain activity by using the popular stable diffusion (扩散) image generation model. The authors wrote that unlike previous studies, they didn’t need to train the AI models to create these images.
The researchers said that they first predicted a potential representation, which is a model of the image’s data, from fMRI (功能性磁共振成像) signals. Then, the model was processed and noise was added to it through the diffusion process. Finally, the researchers decoded (解码) text representations from fMRI signals and used them as input to produce a final constructed image.
The researchers wrote that a few studies have produced good reconstructions of images but it was only after training. This resulted in limitations because training complex models are challenging and there are not many samples to work with. Prior to this new study, no other researchers had tried using diffusion models for visual reconstruction.
In the past, we’ve seen other examples of how brainwaves and brain functions can create images. In 2014, a Shanghai - based artist Jody Xiong used sensors to connect sixteen people with disabilities to balloons of paint. The people would then use their thoughts to burst specific balloons and create their own paintings.
With the advancement of AI, more and more researchers have been testing the ways AI models can work with the human brain. In a January 2022 study, researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands trained an AI network on fMRI data from 1, 050 unique faces and converted the brain imaging results into actual images. The study found that the AI was able to perform reconstruction. In the latest study, the researchers found that current diffusion models can now achieve high-quality visual reconstruction.
1. How did researchers make images from brain activity in the previous research?A.By using generation model. | B.By training AI models. |
C.By reconstructing mind. | D.By predicting people’s imagination. |
A.The fMRI signals | B.The diffusion text. |
C.The processed model. | D.The text representation. |
A.Their training work is very challenging. |
B.They’ve made training models less complex. |
C.Nobody has reconstructed images by brainwaves. |
D.They can reconstruct accurate images from brain activity. |
A.Few researchers have used AI to make reconstruct images. |
B.Scientists should do more to make high - quality reconstruction. |
C.The AI models should be improved to work with fMRI data. |
D.The AI contributes a lot to good visual reconstruction. |
【推荐2】In 1954, computer scientists from Georgetown University and IBM invented a machine that could translate sentences from Russian into English. The machine translator became known as Georgetown-IBM experiment and it was the first electronic translator in the world.
The scientists believed that a universal translator was just around the corner. Leon Dostert, who led the experiment, even suggested that people might be able to use electronic translators to bridge several languages within five years, or even less. However, the process proved far slower and more than 60 years later, a true universal translator is still the stuff of science fiction.
Then how far are we from inventing a real one? Experts’ opinions vary. “We’re very close to turning science fiction into a reality,” says Vikram Dendi, the technical adviser to Microsoft. “Microsoft has produced apps that can translate voice to voice and voice to text in addition to the familiar text to text in different languages.”
Microsoft, of course, is far from alone. Google, in addition to its familiar text translations, has just introduced a feature in its Translate app that uses the phone camera to scan an image of foreign text and display the translation.
“All these apps are based on the so-called neural networks which can learn similarly to the way humans learn,” adds Vikram Dendi.
However, early on, scientists had to teach computers to translate by typing in every rule for every language pair they wanted them to translate. In the face of the large number of rules and exceptions in every language pair, the approach quickly became impractical. In the 1980s, scientists began moving toward a statistical-based model. Neural networks, which became a popular tool for machine translation researchers in the 21st century, greatly improved the quality of translations.
“But neural networks still face some limits,” says Yoshua Bengio, a computer science professor at the University of Montreal. “One of them is the amount of data required. Children need far less to learn the basics of a language than these machines do. But the more you use these machine translators, the better they become.”
1. What can we learn about the first electronic translator?A.It is able to translate between several languages. |
B.It is one of the best universal translators in the world. |
C.It has become the first computer ever invented in the world. |
D.It can only translate simple sentences from Russian into English. |
A.Leon Dostert’s prediction is wrong. |
B.Scientists are usually too conservative. |
C.It is very easy to train a universal translator. |
D.It is unrealistic to invent an electronic translator. |
A.text to text | B.picture to text | C.voice to text | D.voice to voice |
A.Their statistical-based models are not accurate. |
B.Their ability to learn on their own is very limited. |
C.They need too much data to learn the basics of a language. |
D.They still have to rely on step-by-step rules set by programmers. |
【推荐3】When you think of a national park, you generally picture fresh air and wild animals, right? Well, now you’re going to have to add tea shops and something called “the Tube” to your definition, because London England has signed up to be the first “National Park City”.
London was established by the Romans around 2,000 years ago and has been continually inhabited (居住于) since then. In all that time, however, nobody had the idea to replace all the parks with big box stores or high buildings, which means London already has a much lower urban density (密度) than most of the world’s cities. Nowadays about a third of the city is green space.
In July 2019, London announced its willingness to become the world’s first National Park City. Now the city is moving toward the goal of achieving 50% green space by the year 2050 by connecting and expanding public parks, greening up unused parking lots and the private yards of existing and new houses, fixing-some green roofs on existing buildings and even cutting holes in fences for wildlife to pass through.
Inspired by the aims and values of our precious rural national parks, the London National Park City is basically about making life better in the capital through both small everyday things and long-term strategies thinking,” Raven-Ellison, who began the campaign to make London a National Park City six years ago said in a press release. “We’ve been doing that in London for centuries, which is why London is so green and diverse.
London will have a much easier job achieving this type of green transformation than more densely-urbanized cities like Paris and New York, which have 10% and 27% green space, respectively. But that doesn’t mean it’s not possible—the National Park City Foundation hopes to employ 25 more cities in addition to London by the year 2025. Glasgow, Scotland and Newcastle upon Tyne in northeast England are both currently considering becoming National Park Cities.
1. Why does London have a much lower density than most of the world’s cities?A.Because people in London don’t have the idea of transforming the parks into buildings. |
B.Because London has been continually inhabited. |
C.Because a third of the city is green space. |
D.Because London has signed up to be the first “National Park City”. |
A.Joining and extending public parks. |
B.Making holes in fences for wild animals to go through. |
C.Building green roofs on buildings. |
D.Greening up all the parking lots and private yards, |
A.It is much easier for London to achieve this kind of green transformation. |
B.The National Park City Foundation has employed 25 more cities. |
C.National parks cities are making improvements to our life. |
D.Trying to become a national park city is turning a new trend. |