1 . Women interpret emojis differently to men, research suggests. Scientists say this is because these small digital emojis, used to express an idea or emotion, can be ambiguous and be understood differently by different people.
The researchers recruited 523 adults (49% men and 51% women) to review 24 different emojis. Each emoji — taken from Apple, Windows, Android, and WeChat platforms — represented one of the six emotional states labelled by the team: happy, disgusted, fearful, sad, surprised, and angry.
They found women were able to more accurately interpret happy, fearful, sad and angry emoji labels compared to men. No gender differences were observed for surprised or disgusted emoji, the team said. Dr Ruth Filik, associate professor in the School of Psychology at The University of Nottingham, said: “What I found most interesting and surprising is that there are so many individual differences in how people interpret these emojis.
“It is important to note that the results reflect how often participants labelled the emoji in the same way as the researchers. So, we should think of the results in terms of there being differences across people in how they interpret emojis, rather than some people being better at it than others. We should keep these differences in mind when using emojis in our messages.”
The researchers said that those emojis can add both slight differences as well as potential ambiguity to messages sent via texts, emails or even social media. To understand more about how emojis are interpreted, the team recruited 270 people from the UK and 253 from China, who were aged between 18 to 84 years old.
Each emoji was assigned an emotion label by the researchers, which they say may not correspond exactly with the emoji as used in real life. In addition to gender, the team also found age to play a role in how emoji are interpreted, with younger adults faring better than the older ones in matching the emoji with their assigned labels. Those in the UK were also better at labelling the emoji in the same way as the researchers compared to their Chinese counterparts.
The researchers say ambiguity of emojis is worth further research, “especially when communicating across gender, age, or cultures.”
1. Which aspect of the team’s research is NOT mentioned in paragraph 2 and 3?A.Its participants. | B.Its samples. | C.Its conclusion. | D.Its significance. |
A.Researchers are not better at labelling emojis than participants. |
B.Females are better at perceiving the meanings of emojis than males. |
C.Proper caution is necessary when sending emojis to different people. |
D.Males and females have different understandings of disgusted emojis. |
A.To make ambiguous emojis have concrete and clear meanings. |
B.To explore how emojis are interpreted by extending research angles. |
C.To figure out how young adults do well in matching emojis with labels. |
D.To prove that Britons are better at labelling emojis than Chinese people. |
A.Ambiguity of emojis deserves further research. |
B.Age and culture play a role in how emojis are perceived. |
C.Secrets behind different understandings towards emojis. |
D.Pay attention to differences of emojis when sending messages. |
2 . Anger has a bad reputation.
But what if anger is a valuable-friend, not an adversary (对手) to be defeated?
Anger has one main purpose — to secure our safety and survival. We respond with anger when we are threatened or when our boundaries are violated (侵犯).
What we need is a willingness to experience anger without suppressing it or discharging it immediately. When we have the courage to remain present with our anger, we can look directly at it. We can investigate and come to understand it, and we can extract its wisdom.
Anger, like a fire, is a force. Left unchecked, it can be destructive.
A.Uncovering the wisdom of anger begins with feeling it fully. |
B.It gives us energy and power to overcome threatening situations. |
C.Yet when it is used wisely, it can be powerful beneficial instrument. |
D.When you come to see anger as a friend, you change your relationship with it. |
E.While anger sometimes involves aggressive tendencies, it also carries great wisdom. |
F.When we have the courage to remain present with our anger, we can look directly at it. |
G.When it bursts out, it can take control of our body, our thoughts, our senses, and our actions. |
3 . Higher levels of optimism (乐观主义) are related lo a longer lifetime. People with the highest levels of optimism have 11 % to 15% longer lifetime than those who practice little positive thinking. The optimists may live to age 85 or beyond.
Optimism doesn’t mean ignoring life’s stress. But when negative things happen, optimistic people are less likely to blame themselves.
Optimism can be improved by training. Studies have found only about 25% of our optimism is programmed by genes (基因).
It’s not easy to carry out optimism exercises. Like exercise, they will need to be practiced regularly to keep the brain positive.
A.It may also lengthen your life. |
B.The rest is up to your attitude to life. |
C.Being optimistic also improves your health. |
D.The optimism exercises may be a hard process. |
E.The focus on the positive can reshape your brain. |
F.Practicing this daily can significantly improve your positive feelings. |
G.They are more likely to see the barrier as a good chance to turn positive. |
1. How does Alina look to the man?
A.Upset. | B.Curious. | C.Delighted. |
A.A little girl. | B.An old lady. | C.A boy. |
5 . Kyra Peralte thought keeping a diary during the pandemic (流行病) might help her sort out her feelings. In April 2020, the mother of two in Montclair, New Jersey, now 46, started writing about the challenges of work, marriage and motherhood during a global crisis. She invited women from near and far to fill the notebook with their own pandemic tales.She named the project The Traveling Diary.
Peralte created a website for people to add their names to the queue. Each person gets to keep the diary for three days and fill as many pages as she wishes. Then she is responsible for mailing it to the next person, whose address Peralte provides. So far, more than 2, 000 women from 30 countries have joined in.
The diary reached Colleen Martin in Florham Park, New Jersey, in November 2020. “I had just recently lost my brother. By the time I actually got it and wrote in it, it was much more of a relief,” she says. Adding to the diary, she says, helped her look for meaning and “the growth and development that occurs in terrible times.”
Martin shipped off the diary to the next person, and Dior Sarr, 35, received it at her home in Toronto just before the new year. “I wrote about my ambitions(抱负), my goals and how I wanted to step into the new year, ” she says, “It felt meaningful to pass on something so personal. It felt like these were women that I had known even though I didn’t know them at all.”
Like many of the women who wrote in her diary, Peralte feels a strong bond with the people who filled its pages, none of whom she would have otherwise known. Her idea, Peralte says, has had a great effect on her and, she hopes, the other women who were part of it.
1. Why did Peralte start the project “The Traveling Diary”?A.To become famous online. |
B.To offer women an emotion outlet. |
C.To meet more people on the Internet. |
D.To popularize medical knowledge of pandemic. |
A.Achieving her goals. |
B.Receiving timely help. |
C.Promoting personal growth. |
D.Improving her writing skills. |
A.Connection. | B.Competition. |
C.Impression. | D.Need. |
A.The Power of Unity |
B.Warmth in a Global Crisis |
C.The Sisterhood of the Traveling Diary |
D.Friendship on the Internet |
As the bell was about to ring, our teacher announced a special assignment for next Monday: to share our gratitude for someone instead of giving a daily report. Hearing this, anxiety crawled over my body as the last thing I would do was speaking in front of the entire class! I couldn’t help complaining to my best friend Jenny.
“You are the chief violinist in our school orchestra, aren’t you?” she said. “So what’s the point of being afraid of speaking to a few our own classmates since you can handle acting in front of a large audience?”
Her point made sense, but being in a performance meant being part of a team. I shook my head. Besides, there were so many people I was grateful to, and choosing just one seemed difficult. Even if I could pick someone, I wouldn’t know how to say thank you. And even if I figured out what to say, I was sure I’d stumble(结巴地说) on my words when speaking aloud! Standing there, with everyone’s eyes on me, I would feel the spot light was wholly on me, and there would be no place for me to hide! “Oh no!” I covered my face with my hands and said, “I can’t do it, just can’t!” Real friends, the ones who know you well, don’t just do exactly what you ask. Jenny, always supportive and helpful, wrote something on a piece of paper and gently removed my hands from my face. She had drawn a cute cat with the word “CALM” written below it.
“Nice meeting you; I am the ‘everything will be fine’ cat,” Jenny laughed and sounded exactly like a cat. Pretending to listen to the cat, she asked, “Well, kitty, you think my friend should come to my house tomorrow, so we can prepare our speeches together I laughed out loud and relaxed a lot. I have to say Jenny was there for me, always!”
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The next day, I went to Jenny’s house.
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Before the speech, however, I changed my mind and wrote “Jenny” on the blackboard.
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7 . Everyone wants to be happy.
See the light in all situations. There’s a bright side to everything.
Stop comparing yourself with others. Comparing yourself to others is a waste of who you are.
Be confident. Your confidence can uplift your mood. Whether it’s your posture, smile, eye contact, or voice, work on it and you will not only feel better but be better. Write yourself five things that you love about yourself and put it on your wall or read it every morning you wake up.
You really are the one who can make this world better. As you work on all these steps to become happier, you will see the world a lot better than it used to be.
A.Just be yourself. |
B.It can really count. |
C.On the darkest of days, the moon still shines. |
D.Spend time with people that make you better. |
E.What makes you feel like you’re flying in the sky? |
F.However, happiness doesn’t come to you naturally. |
G.You can create your own happiness and spread it to others. |
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