1 . Despite common concerns that the social is competitive, cooperation (合作) among strangers has gradually increased in the U.S. since the 1950s, according to the research published by the American Psychological Association.
“We were surprised by our findings that Americans became more cooperative over the last six decades because many people believe U.S. society is becoming less socially connected and less trusting,” said lead researcher Yu Kou, PhD, a professor of social psychology at Beijing Normal University.
The researchers analyzed 511 studies conducted in the United States between 1956 and 2017 with a total of more than 63,000 participants(参与者). Those studies included lab experiments measuring cooperation among strangers. The study found a small, gradual increase in cooperation across the 61-year period, which the researchers said may be linked to great changes in U.S. society. The increase in cooperation was related with increases in social wealth, income inequality and the number of people living alone.
Increased cooperation has been linked with market competitiveness and economic growth in former research. As more people live in cities and on their own, they may be forced to cooperate with strangers, said study co-author Paul Van Lange, PhD. He said, “U.S. society may have become more self-centered, but people have not.”
The researchers note that former studies have found that levels of cooperation do not differ by sex or race in the U.S. However, the studies were conducted in lab settings primarily with only college students as participants, so the findings may not be representative (代表性的) of real-life situations or of U.S. society as a whole.
1. How did the researchers draw the conclusion?A.By doing street surveys. |
B.By conducting lab experiments. |
C.By analyzing collected examples. |
D.By interviewing different strangers. |
A.The finding was predicted. |
B.The data before 1956 could not be found. |
C.The cause for the increase in cooperation was not clear at all. |
D.Increase in cooperation was connected with many fields of society. |
A.A magazine. |
B.A newspaper. |
C.A diary. |
D.A website. |
A.Conducting more experiments in the real-life situations. |
B.Finding the period when cooperation among strangers increased. |
C.Making sure levels of cooperation may be different by sex or race in the U.S. |
D.Discovering the connection between increase in cooperation and changes in U.S. society. |
2 . LOS ANGELES ( AP ) — Hollywood’s response to climate change includes donations, protests and other social activities, but it’s apparently missing out on an approach close to home. Only 2.8% of screen fiction refers to climate change-related words, according to a new study of 37.453 film and TV scripts from 2016 to 2020. A blueprint for ways to turn that around was released Tuesday.
“ Good Energy: A Playbook for Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change ” was created with feedback from more than 100 film and TV writers, said Anna Jane Joyner, editor-in-chief of the playbook and founder of Good Energy, a nonprofit consulting company. “ A big barrier that we encountered was that writers were associating climate stories with disaster stories, ” she said in an interview. “ The main purpose of the playbook is to expand that menu of possibilities … to a larger range of how it would be showing up in our real life. ”
Dorothy Fortenberry, a TV writer and playwright, said the industry needs to broaden its view of who it writes about, not just what. “ Climate change is something that right now is affecting people who aren’t necessarily the people that Hollywood tends to write stories about. It’s affecting farmers in Bangladesh, farmers in Peru, farmers in Kentucky, ” Fortenberry said. “ If we told stories about different kinds of people, there would be opportunities to smoothly integrate climate in. ”
The entertainment industry’s failure to use its storytelling powers more effectively on the issue seems unsurprising to Joyner, who’s been working on climate-change communications in various sectors and communities for 15 years. For the first decade, it felt like “ screaming into the empty space ” because of the lack of response, Joyner said. But there is evidence of increasing concern among Americans regarding climate change, including those who are in Hollywood. “ We’ve all gone through a kind of awakening, ” she said. There are a number of documentaries and news programs about climate change, she said, expressing optimism that fiction creators will make steady progress.
1. What does the underlined word “ that ” in paragraph 1 refer to?A.Hollywood failing to react to climate change. |
B.Hollywood overlooking screen fiction about home. |
C.Hollywood missing the screen fiction about climate change. |
D.Hollywood lacking approaches to solving climate problems. |
A.Hollywood should expand its perspective. |
B.Hollywood should tell real disaster stories. |
C.Hollywood should provide much more entertainment. |
D.Hollywood should cover climate stories of average people. |
A.Positive. | B.Tolerant. | C.Indifferent. | D.Doubtful. |
A.A news report. | B.A short story. | C.A movie review. | D.An advertisement. |
A.Fifty | B.Five | C.Fifteen |
4 . Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, public health and government officials have put social distancing rules in place and advised people to stay at home as much as possible. Many schools around the world started online learning.
Do teenagers have it easy being home all the time? Not necessarily. They can’t connect with teachers and friends in person and do outdoor activities. They are even concerned about the deadly disease. These have caused a rise in anxiety among young people.
In a study of about 1,500 teens last spring, 70% kids said that they were struggling with anxiety and 45% had felt more stressed than usual. Poncin, a professor of clinical child psychiatry (精神病学), said that it’s difficult to show exactly what is causing the increased stress. Some factors focus on our communities and families, while others are individual (个别的). “There are many stress factors that teens are worried about, like their parents losing jobs, family members getting sick, parents not being home, not talking with friends, and more,” Poncin said. “Teens need to learn how to be together and how to talk and be with people.”
Thinking about something over and over also builds stress. To help ease (缓解) their worries, teens can bike, walk the dog or even pick up a new hobby.
In my home state of North Carolina, Roy Goode, head of the local educational agency, is especially concerned about students who don’t have the resources they need to learn at home. “Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders,” he said. “We need to make sure they all have a chance to succeed so we can overcome any challenge that comes our way.”
1. Why does the author list the numbers in paragraph 3?A.To tell the reasons leading to anxiety. | B.To stress the importance of being together. |
C.To show teens’ increased mental problems. | D.To stress the need for dealing with sadness. |
A.He believes chatting online helps. | B.He thinks teens should learn at home. |
C.He thinks there are different reasons for teens’ stress. | D.He believes government is responsible for Covid-19. |
A.Stay at home alone. | B.Develop new hobbies. |
C.Play computer games. | D.Have a walk with friends. |
A.A diary. | B.A magazine. | C.A guidebook. | D.A novel. |
5 . These days, it's not unusual to see middle-aged men collecting Star Wars action characters, office workers wearing Hello Kitty decorations, or famous people like David Beckham playing with Lego bricks. It's becoming more and more common to see adult taking an interest in toys, books and the activities that are traditionally designed for children. This phenomenon has led to a new word: kidult.
What lies behind the phenomenon? One is that adults miss their happy days of childhood, and this is especially true with today's fast-paced, stressful lifestyles. Another is that adults have more time and money to spend on themselves. Some adults could only window-shop for their dream toys when they were kids, but now they can afford that radio-controlled car or high-priced doll they have always wanted.
Society traditionally disapproves of adults who continue their childhood interests, viewing it as a sign of irresponsibility. Those who agree with this view sometimes believe that kidults are suffering from Peter Pan Syndrome, a state of mind where people do not want to grow up.
From the view of kidults, though, this phenomenon is seen as nothing but harmless fun. Kidults think that having youthful interests keeps them young, happy and creative, and their refusal to meet with society's acceptable tastes shows independent thinking. Besides, they argue that being a kidult is not just a personal choice. The real causes include expensive housing, increased educational requirements for work and poor work opportunities.
1. According to the text, a kidult is________.A.an adult who hasn't grown up | B.a kid who lives with an adult |
C.an adult who has a simple mind | D.an adult who takes up childhood interests |
A.Refuses. | B.Forgives. | C.Encourages. | D.Respects. |
A.To introduce a rising phenomenon. | B.To complain about strange people |
C.To encourage studies on kidult culture | D.To present reasons for the kidult culture. |
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7 . Psychologists take opposing views of how external (外部的) rewards, from warm praise to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity. Behaviorists, who study the relation between actions and their consequences, argue that rewards can improve performance at work and school. Some other researchers who study various aspects of mental life, state that rewards often destroy creativity by encouraging dependence on approval and gifts from others.
The latter view has gained many supporters, especially among educators. But the careful use of small monetary rewards inspires creativity in grade-school children, according to a study in the June Journal Personality and Social Psychology.
“If they know they're working for a reward and can focus on a relatively challenging task, they show the most creativity,” says Robert Esenberger of the University of Delaware in Newark. “But it's easy to kill creativity by giving rewards for poor performance or creating too much expectation for rewards.”
Esenberger holds the view that a teacher who continually draws attention to rewards or who hands out high grades for ordinary achievement ends up with uninspired students. As an example of the latter point, he notes growing efforts to tighten grading standards and restore falling grades at major universities.
In earlier grades, the use of so-called token economics, in which students handle challenging problems and receive performance-based points towards valued rewards, shows promise in raising effort and creativity, the Delaware psychologist claims.
1. Psychologists are divided about their attitudes toward ________.A.the appropriate amount of external rewards |
B.the effects of external rewards on students' performance |
C.the study of relationship between actions and consequences |
D.the choice between moral encouragement and monetary rewards |
A.Students’ grading standards. | B.The performance of problems. |
C.Students’ expectation for rewards. | D.The careful use of rewarding system. |
A.Giving them rewards they expect. |
B.Giving them rewards they really deserve. |
C.Assigning them tasks which require inventiveness. |
D.Assigning them tasks they have not dealt with before. |
A.Opposed | B.Supportive | C.Objective | D.Doubtful |
California is burning.In recent weeks, hundreds of fires
Fire has always been a part of life California.
The forces working in concert to spark and spread wildfires pose
9 . Are you a tea drinker? If so, you’re not alone. Every day around the world millions of cups of this popular brew (酿造) are drunk.
Most tea bags are made from paper, with a small amount of plastic used to seal (封) them shut – made from oil.
Tea bag producers might be doing their bit to reduce plastic pollution. Meanwhile, the consumers’ efforts count.
A.Tea is consumed in many ways. |
B.It has a long history of thousands of years. |
C.We can also try many kinds of drinks like milk tea. |
D.This has led to debate about whether they can be recycled. |
E.Why not try none-packaged tea, which can have a better flavour? |
F.The oldest discovered tea dates back to the Han Dynasty from 206BC to 220AD. |
G.However, the WHO says such micro-plastics in drinking water do not appear to pose a risk. |
10 . Forgotten Password? Never Again!
Passwords don’t have to be a pain.
Passwords should be complex and varied enough to be secure, yet still memorable.
The following system uses letters, numbers and symbols, so it will please even the strictest website. And the random-looking codes it produces would be extremely difficult for someone to crack, but just enough of a challenge for your brain.
First, choose a short quotation, one that no one would have any reason to associate with you.
Next, choose a meaningful date—again, one that can’t be guessed or easily researched. Maybe the year of a favourite holiday, 86, say.
Then add a random element by picking any two keyboard symbols: for example, & and £.
Finally, organise these building blocks in any order you like. And strengthen the code further by making some of the letters lower case, and some upper: maybe 86&£PiAs.
A.A much better idea is to follow a system |
B.With a system like this, you’ve got a basic rule to follow |
C.But with so many to keep track of, this can be hard to achieve |
D.There’s a way to choose and remember them with confidence |
E.And then start using it as the basis for every new password you set |
F.Pick out the initial letters (首字母) — creating the first “building block” for you passwords |
G.Add two or three extra letters each time to remind you of what this particular password is for |