Nov 21 is United Nations' World Television Day. While many of us today take the television for granted, it's actually one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century.
But there is undoubtedly a bad side to TV.
Still, the United Nations says that TV "continually invites people to explore beyond their living rooms," and that is undoubtedly true.
While television is indeed a brilliant tool, let's not forget about the people sitting next to us on the couch. After all, what good is watching something interesting if you don't want to share your opinions on it?
| A．Think about life before television. |
| B．What would our life be like without TV? |
| C．As we know, information is of great value to our life. |
| D．TV changed the way that we relate to the world forever. |
| E．People were able to communicate better and address issues faster. E. It could be said to have destroyed communication as much as it strengthened it. G. But sometimes, this "exploration" is at the expense of ignoring the people closest to us. |
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【推荐1】Few people knew about online food delivery apps ten years ago, but today, many would find it hard to live without them. In China alone, over 400 million people use such apps. For better or for worse, online food delivery services have changed the way we eat, and they are also having a huge impact on our society.
These services have no doubt brought us many benefits. They provide jobs for millions of people and help restaurants find more customers. Since the apps are very convenient, they also benefit consumers: we can now have meals delivered at any time of day, despite bad weather or busy schedules. This is especially important for people who work long hours, since they might not have time to cook. Not only do these apps save time, they also provide us with a wide variety of restaurants to choose from. They have proved to be useful for retired people as well: seniors who live far away from restaurants and supermarkets can now get hold of meals and groceries more easily.
However, we must not forget the drawbacks of online food delivery services. For one thing, they make it even easier to order unhealthy food, high in sugar, fat and salt. Food safety is another problem: it can be hard to establish where the food actually comes from, and whether the owner is legally permitted to run a restaurant. As couriers need to deliver the orders as quickly as possible, some pay little regard to traffic rules. In recent years, there have been a number of terrible traffic accidents because of this. Moreover, the industry is creating unbelievable amounts of packaging waste: over a million tons of online food delivery boxes are thrown away every year. Experts assume that this number will continue to grow in the future, and this will have a negative impact on the environment.
1. What can we learn from paragraph 1?| A．Many people knew about online food delivery apps ten years ago. |
| B．The online food delivery apps are wildly welcomed now. |
| C．Chinese people don't speak highly of the online food delivery apps. |
| D．The online food delivery apps are having a positive impact on us. |
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
| A．Bosses. | B．Consumers. | C．Policemen. | D．Deliverymen. |
| A．Objective. | B．Opposed. | C．Supportive. | D．Indifferent. |
【推荐2】New technologies are typically thought of as improving productivity, however, which is not always the case. When technology is multipurpose, such as cellphones, it can be both distracting and destructive.
The influence of banning phones for these students is equal to an additional hour a week in school, or to increasing the school year by five days. Banning cellphones caused a significant growth in student achievement in classrooms, with student test scores improving by 6.41 percent points. This made them 2 percentage points more likely to pass the required exams at the end of high school.
Low-achieving students benefited most from the ban, with test scores increasing by 14.23 percent points. Likewise, the ban greatly benefitted special-education-needs students and those qualified for free school meals, improving exam scores 10 and 12 percent points respectively.
However, strict cellphone policies had little effect on both high-achieving students and 14-year-olds, suggesting that high achievers are less distracted by mobile phones and younger teens own and use phones less often.
This means allowing phones into schools would be the most damaging to low-achieving and low-income students — those qualified for free school meals, worsening any existing learning inequalities.
However, these findings do not ignore the possibility that mobile phones could be a useful learning tool in school if their use is properly structured.
1. What makes students more likely to pass the required exams?| A．More time in study. | B．More tests for students. |
| C．A ban on cellphone selling. | D．Cleverness of students. |
| A．Special educators for students. | B．Free school meal providers. |
| C．Low-income students. | D．High-achieving students. |
| A．Because they use phones less often. |
| B．Because they have already mastered the course. |
| C．Because they have set higher goals for themselves. |
| D．Because they get less distraction from cellphones. |
| A．Approving. | B．Critical. | C．Anxious. | D．Objective. |
【推荐3】The “selfie” is not new; many people have always produced self-portraits (自画像). Personally I didn’t enjoy art at school, but I did remember that we were always drawing pictures of our faces. However, I think this shows just how old the self-portrait is. The only thing that has really changed is the technology which we use to create self-portraits. We have gone from pencil to the digital camera. The digital version has now become “selfie” (a word now so popular that it is named the Oxford English Dictionary Online’s “Word of the Year”).
Traditionally, the best way to take a selfie was to stand in front of a mirror. This was fine though it did look a little silly as, no matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t hide the camera. Of course, phones now have cameras on both the back and the front so you don’t need a mirror to guide you. The drawback (缺点) to this more modern method is that you can usually see the photographer’s arm in the photo.
I don’t really understand the attraction of the selfie. Taking a photo of yourself in the bathroom doesn’t provide the best scenery (especially if you forget to put the toilet seat down, gentlemen).At famous tourist attractions, it always saddens me to see people take selfies; travelling on your own is fine, but are you so mistrustful of strangers that you cannot ask a passer-by to take the photo for you?
However, there have been a lot of arguments over the selfie. Recently, one New York tourist took a selfie with a man threatening to commit suicide (自杀) on the edge of a bridge behind her; and, even more recently, Barack Obama, along with David Cameron and the Danish prime minister, Thorning Schmidt, took a “group selfie at Nelson Mandela’s funeral.
1. Why is the word “selfie” named the Oxford English Dictionary Online’s “Word of the Year”?| A．It can be written in pencil easily. |
| B．It is very important in the dictionary. |
| C．It means the development of technology. |
| D．It is a new word used widely and popularly. |
| A．There are arms in the picture. |
| B．The camera is always in the picture. |
| C．The picture is often not very clear. |
| D．The mirror can hardly be avoided. |
| A．may lead to commit suicide |
| B．may bring unlucky things to us |
| C．is not suitable at some moments |
| D．is popular on the ledge of a bridge |
| A．Doubtful. |
| B．Negative. |
| C．Objective. |
| D．Optimistic. |
