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2 . You can tell a lot about people’s general state of mind based on their social media feeds. Are they always tweeting（发微博）about their biggest annoyances or posting pictures of particularly cute kitties? In a similar fashion, researchers are turning to Twitter for clues about the overall happiness of entire geographic communities.
What they’re finding is that regional variation in the use of common phrases produces predictions that don’t always reflect the local state of well being. But removing from their analyses just three specific terms -- good, love and LOL - greatly improves the accuracy of the methods.
“We’re living in a crazy COVID-19 era. And now more than ever, we’re using social media to adapt to a new normal and reach out to the friends and family that we can’t meet face-to-face.” Kokil Jaidka studies computational linguistics at the National University of Singapore. “But our words aren’t useful just to understand what we, as individuals, think and feel. They’re also useful clues about the community we live in.”
One of the simpler methods that many scientists use to analyze the data involves correlating words with positive or negative emotions. But when those records are compared with phone surveys that assess regional well-being, Jaidka says, they don’t paint an accurate picture of the local zeitgeist（时代精神）.
Being able to get an accurate read on the mood of the population is no laughing matter. “That’s particularly important now, in the time of COVID, where we’re expecting a mental health crisis and we’re already seeing in survey data the largest decrease in subjective well-being in 10 years at least, if not ever.”
To find out why , Jaidka and her team analyzed billions of tweets from around the United States. And they found that among the most frequently used terms on Twitter are LOL, love and good. And they actually throw the analysis off. Why the disconnect?
“Internet language is really a different beast than regular spoken language. We’ve adapted words from the English vocabulary to mean different things in different situations.” says Jaidka. “Take, for example, LOL. I’ve tweeted the word LOL to express irony, annoyance and sometimes just pure surprise. When the methods for measuring LOL as a marker of happiness were created in the 1990s, it still meant laughing out loud.”
“There are plenty of terms that are less misleading,” says Jaidka. “Our models tell us that words like excited, fun, great, opportunity, interesting, fantastic and those are better words for measuring subjective well-being.”
1. The researchers turn to social media feeds to ________.| A．help with the analysis of people’s subjective well-being |
| B．integrate into a mainstreamed lifestyle more quickly |
| C．prove the disconnect between language and emotions |
| D．collect specific terms associated with specific zeitgeist. |
| A．It didn’t reflect the mood of the entire geographic community |
| B．It didn’t match the assessment result of the phone surveys. |
| C．It didn’t consider the features of Internet language. |
| D．It didn’t take the regional variations into account. |
| A．Face-to-face communication is never replaced to ensure happiness. |
| B．Internet use is to blame for the decrease in subjective well-being. |
| C．Internet language should be originally used as a source of scientific analysis. |
| D．Less misleading words should be used in assessing subjective well-being. |
| A．Internet Shock Need A Break | B．Underlying LOL Never Fade Away |
| C．Virtual Mirror Of Era Being | D．Gulf Between Old And New |
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1. Which holds the largest number of students?| A．Arden University. | B．University of York. |
| C．Lloyd's Maritime Academy. | D．University of London International Programmes. |
| A．How to be a training teacher. | B．How to be a good programmer. |
| C．How to be a professional in shipping industry. | D．How to be an excellent shipbuilder. |
| A．They all offer online courses. | B．They are only accessible to the British. |
| C．They are all top ten schools in the world. | D．They were all built in the early 20th century. |
4 . The Bad of Online Communication
Today, online services and products are where most development in communication is happening.
Apart from dependency, there are other objections and worries about the Internet.
| A．Actually, going online has good points. |
| B．Why do many think going online is worth trying? |
| C．Then there is the problem of information being stolen. |
| D．they will forget how to get on with people face to face. |
| E．there are rules of polite behavior in face-to-face meetings. |
| F．Not all people seeking relationships online have innocent intentions. |
| G．With all these dangers, is going online to communicate really worthwhile? |
5 . Just Scream! a hotline which was created by elementary school teacher whose name is Chris Gollmar aimed to reduce tension for those who need an outlet. All you had to do was call the hotline and scream as loud as you wanted.
Chris Gollmar spends his free time working on art projects that invite people to call a phone number and leave a voicemail for other people to hear. He thought that it would be funny and unique to create a phone line just for screaming，and thus he came up with the creative project in September, 2020.
After people dialed in, their calls would be recorded and then put on the website that Chris Gollmar created. “Why should 1 call you?” the website asked “To scream! You might be unhappy, terrified or frustrated. All of these are perfectly good reasons to call the hotline and scream.”
Personal phone numbers were not stored, and all calls went to an answering machine — interacting with a real person wasn’t required.
Chris Gollmar got a large number of recordings after he launched the hotline. “Never in my life would I have expected so many people to actually pick up the phone, dial a number and record themselves for the world to hear,” he said. ‘‘But we’re all screaming on the inside right now. The hotline stopped accepting calls in January, 2021. After that, Chris Gollmar said he would pick a new project to work on."
1. Chris Gollmar invented the hotline with the purpose of________.| A．responding to people’s demands | B．relieving people from pressure |
| C．creating a way of communication | D．helping deal with conflicts |
| A．banned | B．popular | C．negative | D．common |
| A．How the incoming calls were answered. | B．Where the incoming calls were stored. |
| C．The time when people could get through. | D．The way of dealing with the records. |
| A．To share his or her opinion on Chris Gollmar. |
| B．To arouse readers’ interest in new technology. |
| C．To give some information on Just Scream. |
| D．To show how Just Scream! came into being. |
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7 . A first grade teacher from Suffolk, Virginia found a way to teach her students about black history by taking them back in time to meet celebrated black figures. For each day of Black History Month, LaToya McGriff has dressed up like a famous African-American pioneer and taught her students about their significant contributions to the U.S.
On Monday, February 3, she dressed up as Virginian native Mary Jackson and began her creative class. “She was a mathematician who worked as an aeronautical (航空的) engineer whom people referred to as a human computer,” McGriff wrote on Facebook. She shared a photo of herself in 1960s clothing, like Jackson would have worn when she worked for NASA.
Jackson was one of the three “human computers” described in the book and film Hidden Figures, which revealed the African-American female mathematicians whose efforts helped put men on the moon.
Once McGriff started dressing up, she kept going. By February 18, McGriff's Black History Month lessons were starting to gain attention online. She was interviewed by CBS News, and said she works at a majority-black school and “wanted students to see that people who look like them contribute”.
She said that the seeds for this project were planted in her years ago by a teacher who did something similar. “That’s what I remember, having a teacher come dressed as a storybook character. Well, I could dress up as a different figure, an African-American figure from the past or present so they can see themselves represented,” McGriff said.
“My students will want to know who I will be tomorrow. Today, they just said ‘Are you going to be so-and-so?’ Because they want to know and kind of prepare themselves for it so that they can tell me something they know about the person,” she said.
McGriff said bringing history alive kept her students curious and asking questions, and she’s hoping the overall project will give them the confidence to know that, like these historic figures, they can be great, too.
1. What can we learn about LaToya McGriff from the text?| A．Her students are all black. |
| B．She is a primary school teacher. |
| C．Her lessons receive little attention online. |
| D．She posted a 1960s-style photo of Mary Jackson on Facebook. |
| A．The result of McGriff's project. |
| B．McGriff’s reflections on teaching. |
| C．How McGriff came up with this teaching method. |
| D．Why McGriff’s students can see themselves represented. |
| A．They have a lot of energy and determination. |
| B．They have a strong desire to know about something. |
| C．They give serious attention to what is quite challenging. |
| D．They show the ability to invent and develop original ideas. |
| A．To help her students get high grades. |
| B．To introduce African history to her students. |
| C．To stress big figures’ contributions to the US. |
| D．To encourage her students to trust themselves to do better. |
What would you do if the Internet suddenly disappeared? A recent survey has shown that
The research also showed that more than 70 percent of these people said that they were not
More and more people are getting broadband(宽带) and high speed net
With the cost of getting online going down and internet speeds increasing, many net refuseniks begin to reconsider the
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修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
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Having taught English in an senior high school for 26 years, my teacher has developed the habit of trying to make his students to get good marks in exams. But some textbooks who include dozens of mistakes will have a seriously bad influence in students. Since he's found out over 30 real mistakes in your last 3 textbooks nothing, I firm believe that he can still find out other mistakes in your next textbook for free. Wishing us to use good textbooks than before, he's willing to proofread（校对）it before it was printed. Frankly spoken, my honest and responsible teacher has no intention of looking down upon you textbooks.
10 . A 2020 study by Balbix found that 99% of the people surveyed reused their passwords between work accounts or between work and personal accounts.
For example, a 2019 study by Google found that 59% of the people they surveyed used a name or a birthday in their password. And 24% admitted using a password like one of these below: 1234, 12345, 123456, etc.
It's more secure to require your employees to use more than one authentication (身份验证) factor to access mobile company applications.
Finally, you can also perform passwordless authentication.
| A．Passwords are commonly shared in the workplace. |
| B．It will help you to root out password risks altogether. |
| C．Many employees still create weak and simple passwords. |
| D．These bad password habits present a threat to organizations. |
| E．That helps reduce the risk that a bad actor gains access to your systems. |
| F．Unfortunately, the passwords that employees are reusing are often weak. |
| G．However, that's not to say there is no way to reduce or uproot password threats. |
