3 . “People have been 53 there and standing there and taking pictures of each other，” Ro says. “The town square was totally full ...”

5 . What literature can do is more than helping readers escape from reality. It has gone beyond time and is still with us, placing an important impact on the development of society. So, what connection does literature have with modern society?

For the majority of people around the world, our first serious encounter with literature comes from school. Reading and writing skills have been trained in all of us from an early age and this is set in motion with the start of examinations. Being able to empathise with a group of characters written on a page is an important and necessary skill from a student’s point of view. Additionally, the ability to sense themes and messages opens up another way of thinking. All the published books around the world are guides for readers and generate a bridge for them to learn something new.

The impact of literature on modern society is undeniable. Literature acts as a form of expression for each individual author. Some books mirror the society and allow us to better understand the world we live in. For instance, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is a reflection of his experiences and opinions of America during the 1920s.

We are easily connected to the thoughts of authors through their stories. However, literature also allows us to raise questions and gives us a deeper understanding of issues and situations like human conflict. A Gulf News’ article says, “In an era of modern media, people are misled into thinking that every question or problem has its quick answer or solution. However, literature confirms the real complexity of human experience. ”

Literature is a reflection of human nature and a way for us to understand each other. By listening to the voice of another person we can begin to figure out how that individual thinks. Have we inspired you to learn literature a little more? If yes, just do it now!

6 . When romantic partners argue over things like finances, jealousy, or other interpersonal issues, they tend to employ their current feelings as fuel for a heated argument. But thinking about the future helps overcome relationship conflicts, according to a University of Waterloo study just published online in Social Psychological and Personality Science. Alex Huynh, a doctoral candidate in psychology is the lead author of the study, which he published with Igor Grossmann from the University of Waterloo, and Daniel Yang from Yale University.

Previous research has shown that third-perspective reasoning can be a positive strategy for reconciliation (调解) of interpersonal struggles. Huynh and his collaborators investigated whether similar benefit can be induced by simply thinking about the future. Study participants were instructed to reflect on a recent conflict with a romantic partner or a close friend. One group of participants were then asked to describe how they would feel about the conflict one year in the future, while another group was asked to describe how they feel in the present.

The team examined participants’ written responses through a text-analysis program for their use of pronouns — such as I, me, she, he. These choices of pronouns were used to capture participants’ focus on the feelings and behaviour of those involved in the conflict. Written responses were also examined for forgiveness and reinterpreting the conflict more positively, both of which implied the participants’ use of reasoning strategies.

The researchers found that envisioning future relationship affected both participants’ focus on their feelings, and their reasoning strategies. As a result, participants reported more positivity about their relationship altogether, especially when study participants extended their thinking about the relationship a year into the future.

“Our study demonstrates that adopting a future-oriented perspective in the context of a relationship conflict — reflecting on how one might feel a year from now — may be a valuable coping tool for one’s psychological happiness and relationship well-being,” said Huynh.

7 . When I grew up and entered the ________ circles, I remember hearing my first boss say, “We all need to think like ________. ” But it didn’t completely ________. My dad never once said, “If you want to catch a fish you need to think like a fisherman. ”Years later, with great efforts to promote ________ services to people much older and richer than me, I came to ________ what we all need is to think more like customers.

8 . While working as a graduate student in New York City, Vanessa Bohns was given the much ________ job of collecting survey data in Penn Station as part of an academic research project. Each time she________ a passer-by, she thought she would hear them tell her how________they were. Yet the bad responses rarely came; many more people were________to answer the questionnaires than she had ________.

Was it possible, she wondered, that most of us are________about whether people want to respond to our requests? Over the following decade, she________ multiple studies that confirmed this was indeed the________: in many different situations, people are often far more likely to ________than we assume.

________, it seemed that the results provided a refreshingly________view of human nature. “It started as a positive thing, like, isn’t it ________that people are more likely to do things for you than you think?” However, with time going by and more reflection on the results, Bohns has come to________ that her results reflect a broader tendency that we usually ________ how much influence our words can have over others, whether we’re asking them to________actions that are good or bad. People often________to do what they are asked because they find it too awkward to say no, even when they feel________with our requests.

Knowing this can help us understand how our requests might________other people — particularly in the workplace — and help us adjust our requests________ , in ways that respect people’s ________ and without taking what they have done for us for granted.

9 . There is a difference between being an acquaintance（熟人）and being a friend. An acquaintance is someone whose name you know, who you see every now and then, who you probably have something in common with and who you feel comfortable around. It's a person that you can invite to your home and share things with. But they are the people who you don't share your life with, and whose actions sometimes you don't understand because you don't know enough about them.