近来，国家发布防止青少年沉迷网络游戏的禁令，规定所有网络游戏企业不得在周一至周四向青少年提供游戏服务。作为一名高中生，你是支持还是反对这一禁令？请表明观点，并阐述理由。
（沉迷于 be addicted to......）
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2 . Douglas Webber is known as a “numbers guy” at Temple University in Pennsylvania. His latest research offers guidance on how to keep students on target to earn a degree from a college or university.
Among his findings: It is important, whenever possible, for college students to complete their degree program in four years.
“For any number of reasons, it is in your best interest to try to get out as soon as possible.” It is not only that students staying in school more than four years are more likely to drop out before earning a degree, but also that it’s another year or two out of the labor market, which means lost earnings, Webber said.
Besides, it is also important that students have enough time to complete their college classes, Webber added. His research suggests part-time work of 15 hours or less will not cause harm to the student’s scholastic performance.
His belief is that students active in college athletic programs would face the same problem. It is common, he said, for student athletes to spend 20 hours or more for training, travel and to compete against athletes or teams from other schools.
| A．What about struggling students? |
| B．Why is finishing college in four years so important? |
| C．Also, getting a part-time job is probably a good thing to help finance a college education. |
| D．Students who work 20 hours or more a week are about 15 percent less likely to graduate on time, or to graduate at all. |
| E．That means the longer you stay in college, the more likely that some unexpected event will affect your studies. |
| F．Latest information shows a majority of college students are not earning a degree in four years. |
3 . Kids take risks.
According to Laurence Hammerstein, professor of psychology at Temple University, there’s not much parents can do to stop that.
Trying to get kids not to take risks, he says. “is an uphill battle against evolution, and we’re not going to
To start with, it’s never too early for parents to encourage kids to think about
Middle school kids are approaching adolescence, when body chemistry makes them more likely to
The risks high school kids are likely to take might seem
| A．Problem-solving | B．Science-learning | C．Risk-taking | D．Brain-washing |
| A．win | B．afford | C．take | D．start |
| A．extremely | B．naturally | C．amazingly | D．disappointingly |
| A．instructions | B．requests | C．explanations | D．conversations |
| A．wishes | B．solutions | C．results | D．measures |
| A．answer | B．discover | C．ask | D．discuss |
| A．engage in | B．suffer from | C．turn down | D．show up |
| A．tell | B．wonder | C．express | D．admit |
| A．cause | B．forbid | C．encourage | D．order |
| A．go wrong | B．take place | C．work well | D．prove itself |
| A．courageous | B．unpleasant | C．endangered | D．incomprehensible |
| A．visible | B．practical | C．hidden | D．available |
| A．select | B．avoid | C．affect | D．arouse |
| A．in fact | B．in total | C．in theory | D．in detail |
| A．Otherwise | B．Similarly | C．Therefore | D．However |
短视频（short videos）一般是指在互联网新媒体上传播的时长在5分钟以内的视频；随着移动设备的普及和网络的提速，短视频近来倍受人们的欢迎，成为许多人的茶余饭后的娱乐消遣方式之一，许多人甚至自行创作拍摄，并且更有甚者以此谋生。常见的短视频平台有抖音（TikTok）和哔哩哔哩（Bilibili）等。请撰写一篇文章，谈谈你对短视频的态度，并对比其与传统视频（纪录片、电影、电视剧等）的区别。
内容包括：1.陈述你对短视频的态度。
2.结合你对短视频的态度，对比短视频和传统视频的区别。
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5 . More Clarity Needed on Wage Debate
These days, the minimum wage has become something of a big issue in America.
Gap Inc. has decided to increase the minimum hourly rate it pays employees to $9 this year and then S10 next year. The company's announcement will effect 65.000 Gap employees by 2017. Clearly (iap officials believe the money they invest in higher wages will pay off in increased sales and customer satisfaction. There's certainly nothing wrong with that.
Also last week, Wal-Mart found itself at the center of the wages gossip when it was reported that the company was looking at supporting an increase in the minimum wage.
Wal-Mart spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan said the company remains neutral on the idea of a minimum wage increase, but "obviously it’s something that we look at closely, as any other company would". She said that more than 99 percent of company associates are paid above the cunent minimum wage. It has been discussed how increased income ibr low-wage workers might translate into increased spending. So it's reasonable to say that a company like Wal-Mart could see a jump in sales if the minimum wage rose.
| A．That turned out to be not exactly correct. |
| B．But Buchanan warned against such an assumption. |
| C．But a number of business organizations say it should remain untouched. |
| D．But what works for a clothing company might not work for a different one. |
| E．Raising the minimum wage is identified as a key way to address the income gap. |
| F．For opponents a wage increase, increasing the minimum wage could reduce total employment by about 500.000 jobs. |
6 . A warning from science
When you're bored of some very boring task, what do you do? If you're like many, the answer is a no brainer: You reach for your phone. If that sounds familiar, a new unpublished study has bad news.
The problem isn't taking a break. Previous studies show that we get more done overall if we take regular, short breaks. The problem is your phone. Dutch research shows most of us carry around a boredom-increasing machine in our pockets. To figure out the relationship between phones and boredom, A Dutch research team fixed an app on the phones of 83 volunteers to track how often they used their devices. They also asked these volunteers to keep diaries for three days, recording their level of tiredness and boredom every hour.
Equally unsurprising was the second finding:
This one study can't definitively say if either of these explanations is right, but the idea it communicates is clear. You think a glance at your phone is going to make you feel less bored, but it's actually going to make your brain feel more tired.
| A．The researchers' first discovery was no shocker. |
| B．The research team made guesses why this might be so. |
| C．Reaching for your phone is likely to leave you feeling more bored. |
| D．The more tired we are, the more likely we are to reach for our phones. |
7 . Talking to human-like devices can be great fun - just ask Siri to tell you a joke. But it may also lead to problems.
A recent study by scientists from the University of Kansas (KU) in the US found that human-like devices keep people from seeking out normal human interaction when they feel lonely.
During a series of experiments, participants were asked to write about a time when they felt lonely. They also took part in an online game of “catch” against a computer program that was designed to “throw” the ball other player more often, but participants believed they were playing with real people online.
Participants were then introduced to human-like products, including a vacuum cleaner (真空吸尘器) designed to appear as if it were smiling. They were also asked to think about their phone in human-like terms, considering questions like “how much does it help you?”
The results showed that the participants were happy with the comfort they got from the machines and didn’t need to seek out normal human interaction.
Generally, when people feel socially excluded, they seek out other ways to reduce the feeling of loneliness. Normal ways include increasing their number of social media friends or engaging in behaviors to seek out interaction with other people, according to Jenny Olson, assistant professor of marketing at KU.
But it wasn’t all bad news, as the team found that there were limits to how far this effect would extend.
“As soon as we tell people we know that it looks like the [vacuum cleaner] is smiling, they seemed to realize it was a machine and not a person,” Olson told Daily Mail. “The effect goes away. This seems to happening on a very subconscious level.”
Researchers believe the results are important for consumers to realize how these types of products could affect their social interaction with real people, especially because so many new products feature interactivity.
“If someone notices they are talking more to Siri lately, maybe that has something to do with felling lonely,” Olson said. “From that standpoint, it’s important to be aware of it.”
The study could also help companies design products that can increase the well-being of people who feel lonely, without sacrificing normal social interaction.
“Maybe it is more about improving our current relationships,” Olson said, “such as taking a break from screen time and focusing on developing your real personal connections.”
1. Researcher from the University of Kansas found that _______.| A．human-like devices may help people interact with others. |
| B．interaction with human-like devices may make people feel lonely. |
| C．lonely people may easily become addicted to human-like devices. |
| D．human-like devices may reduce people’s social interaction in real life. |
| A．were allowed to talk with human-like devices. |
| B．were shown devices with human features. |
| C．played online games with both machines and real people. |
| D．were encouraged to engage in normal human interaction. |
| A．lonely people are more likely to seek out interaction with other people. |
| B．lonely people are content to only interact with human-like machines. |
| C．the feeling of loneliness deepens as people interact more with human-like devices. |
| D．People who are socially excluded would get uninterested in socializing. |
| A．It shows people why human-like products make them feel lonely. |
| B．It warns people to stop using human-like devices completely and focus on real social interaction. |
| C．It may help the well-being of people who fell lonely and improve their current relationships. |
| D．It points out the effects of human-like devices and could help companies improve their products. |
