1 . Cyber-bullying (网络欺凌) may take place in the online world, but it is no less damaging than in the real world. The Internet has become a kindness desert, a place where few flowers bloom. Bullying is pretty common.
Being bullied is a frustrating and painful experience. Online bullying can really hurt others, and it can have serious consequences.
Don’t blame yourself.
Stay away from bullies. Bullies hope you interact with them so that they have an excuse to keep picking on you. When the bully starts orally attacking you, remove yourself from the situation if you can, simply by walking away.
Speak out. Nobody has the right to make you feel unsafe, uncomfortable or unhappy. Find someone you can talk to, your teacher or your parent and tell them what’s going on.
A.Keep track of bullies. |
B.Be sure you’re wonderful. |
C.Adults can offer help if they know about the problem. |
D.Being bullied can make you feel alone, scared, and hopeless. |
E.Your parents are willing to help you when recognizing your problem. |
F.If you are being bullied, it’s essential to know that it is never your fault. |
G.Studies have found that nearly one-third of all students are bullied each year. |
2 . Imagine having the opportunity to sing together with hundreds of other people while you are at home alone. You can do this in a virtual choir. Virtual choir members record themselves while they perform alone on video. These videos are uploaded onto the Internet, and then they are put together into one video that you can see online—a virtual choir. Anyone can take part in a virtual choir from anywhere—all you need is a video camera and an Internet connection. A virtual choir enables people to add their voices to those of other individuals and become part of the global community. It has proved to be a positive influence on the lives of many people.
The virtual choir was the idea of award-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre. He fell in love with Mozart’s classical music when he sang for the university choir. Moved by this music, he said, “It was like seeing color for the first time.“ Over ten years after his graduation, Whitacre’s original compositions began to become quite popular among choirs and singers. This led to the creation of the virtual choir.
In 2009,Whitacre received a video of a girl who was singing one of his works. Inspired, he asked his fans to make videos, which he then joined together into one performance. His first virtual choir, “Lux Aurumque”, had 198 singers from 12 different countries. It has received millions of views on the Internet. Since then, the virtual choir has become a worldwide phenomenon. Whitacre’s next effort was the virtual Youth Choir for UNICEF, which was first seen on stage on 23 July 2014 in the UK. Altogether, 2,292 young people from 80 countries joined in to sing Whitacre’s song “What If”.
The virtual choir is a wonderful way for people around the world to sing with one voice and thus make the world a better place.
1. Which of the following is a virtual choir?A.Many members performing on their own. |
B.Hundreds of people singing together on a stage. |
C.Many people singing online together at the same time. |
D.Individual singing videos combined into one on the Internet. |
A.The popularity of Whitacre’s composition. |
B.The encouragement of Whitacre’s professor. |
C.Whitacre’s desire of being a famous composer. |
D.Whitacre’s love for communication with others. |
A.He had thousands of his fans make videos. |
B.He joined nearly two hundred videos together. |
C.He made his first virtual choir on stage in the UK. |
D.He asked a girl to sing his work to make it popular. |
A.To advertise Whitacre’s music composition. |
B.To introduce the influence of the virtual choir. |
C.To persuade people to join Whitacre’s choir team. |
D.To appeal to netizens to compose their own music. |
3 . Screen time includes all those hours you spend in front of your computer at work, and the time you spend playing with your cell phone or watching TV.
It's bad for your health. Being in front of a screen is almost always sedentary (久坐的) behavior, which relates to things like lower fitness levels. Turn this around by choosing something active. You do not have to do exercise at the gym.
It messes up your sleep. When teenagers have more than four hours of screen time per day, and especially when they use their screens before going to bed, they have trouble falling asleep. If you're not sleeping well, it will not only make you feel tired the next day, but it can also affect your performance at work or in school.
It hinders (妨碍) your brain’s performance.
A.It all adds up. |
B.Here comes a solution. |
C.If you should use a screen, try to do just that. |
D.It’s not good for developing communication skills. |
E.You can take a walk, or work on a project at home. |
F.Kids do better in school when they have less screen time. |
G.So it’s worth the effort to use your screen less and get more rest. |
4 . I realized this spring that I have spent far too much time on the internet this past year, for obvious reasons, I suspect I'm not alone. And just like magic, Suzanne park's Sunny Song will never Be Famous came across my desk, a story about a 17-year old Korean American influencer who ends up in a digital detox (脱瘾) camp. My first reaction was to shrink (退缩), worried about how much of my social media self I would see in this book, and how much relative cure I would undoubtedly require as a result. But Sunny Song is such an amazing character that I was laughing out loud by page 10.
Sunny was literally born an influencer. Thanks to a video of Sunny dancing as a child, “Goggle Girl” became internet famous. She kept up the character as she grew older, obtaining almost 10,000 subscribers to her You Tube channel alone. But disaster strikes when she forgets to turn off the camera one afternoon during a live stream and a brownie ( a cake ) cooking video turns into an unprepared show with Sunny in underwear. The widely spread “Brownie Gate” will result in Sunny's being kicked out from her L A. private school-unless her parents send her to a digital detox camp, under the principal's request.
The customers in the camp are internet addicts ranging from fantasy sports and gaming players to mean girl internet celebrities. Sunny is forced to spend a month in the cornfields of Iowa on this historic family farm among these celebrities with no digital devices whatsoever, except the burner phone she brought secretly in because she's in the running for an influencer competition, and she actually has a shot!
Sunny Song Will never Be Famous was a total joy to read. I appreciate that Park does not approach social media as the enemy in this book, and for that reason I can enthusiastically recommend it to any young folks who are particularly skillful at web. Sunny reminds readers of the power of internet fare, and the consequences if that power isn't used widely.
1. How did the author feel when first seeing the book?A.Amazed | B.Excited | C.Confident | D.Concerned. |
A.To promote her popular videos, | B.To experience a life as a celebrity, |
C.To avoid being removed from her school. | D.To acquire more knowledge about social media. |
A.People there are physically abused | B.Life there is cut off from the outside. |
C.It holds many competitions monthly | D.It is specially designed for internet celebrities. |
A.To review a book. | B.To introduce a great camp, |
C.To record an unforgettable experience | D.To stress the advantage of social medin. |