When the news that people
Douban is a Chinese social networking platform
We are drowning in a sea of free information. The Internet is in our businesses, homes and our bedrooms. An army of designers and data engineers spend their working life
1. 你是否支持选秀类节目；
2. 你支持或者反对的原因及依据。
参考词汇：talent show
注意：
1. 词数：100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
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Gather a couple of friends and take a leisurely walk through the streets—this is
When Kylie
Today’s children spend an average of four and a half hours a day
Nowadays, many people have more than one job, or a slash career. For people encouraging slash careers, secondary jobs will become
Crystal breathed in the sweet January air. It was a cold, sunny day. Sunlight shone between the branches and fell onto the street.
It was so quiet, this neighborhood. Wandering down the road at a leisurely pace, Crystal noticed an open curtain in the window of one neighbor. They were busily typing on their home network. Remote workers, obviously.
Crystal’s glance shifted to a kid who had just come home from school. He looked down to the cell phone in his hand.
“Hey，kid!” Crystal waved.
The boy didn’t raise head, some game keeping his attention.
Crystal sighed and closed her eyes. It took her back to when she was a little girl back in the late 1980s. Neighbors knew each other by name then. Crystal’s best friend Anne was the next door neighbor. They often played for hours using imaginary names for far-off places, pretending to be or do something they hoped someday they could be or do.
Nowadays, to pretend to be somewhere else, you could just click on some random program for a virtual reality video of Italy or Australia, and your wish was instantly satisfied. You could do that alone. And if you needed a person to chat with, you could pick a random person in your interest group online.
“You don’t need neighbors anymore,” Crystal commented to herself.
And yet, there is so much that can be missed for the simpler times. Those who grow up not knowing the invisible person-to-person simplicity of being a good neighbor, have missed an entire piece in their maturity. It’s not about personal space. It’s about being there for another person. How could a metal chip replace a life? Crystal could never understand.
As she turned onto her home sidewalk, she noticed a little girl about 5 years old looking confused and afraid. There was no coat on her thin arms. Must be some neighbor’s girl. Crystal was very concerned. W here were her parents?
“Are you alright, honey?” Crystal asked.
1. Why did the boy give no response to Crystal?2. What did Crystal do with her next door neighbor in her childhood?
3. Decide which part of the following statement is wrong. Underline it and explain why.
▶Crystal believed that technology advanced and the relationship with neighbors mattered less than before.
4. What do you think the relationship between neighbors should be like nowadays?(In about 40 words)
10 . They say procrastination (拖延) is the thief of time, but actually deadlines are. New research has found that if you want someone to help you out with something, it is best not to set a deadline at all. But if you do set a deadline, make it short.
Professor Stephen Knowles tested the effect of deadline length on task completion for their research. Participants were invited to complete an online survey concerning a charity donation. They were given either one week, one month, or no deadline to respond. Professor Knowles says although the topic of the survey was about charity, the results are true of any situation where someone asks another person for help.
The study found responses to the survey were lowest for the one-month deadline and highest when no deadline was specified. No deadline and the one-week deadline led to many early responses, while a long deadline appeared to give people permission to procrastinate, and then forget. Professor Knowles wasn’t surprised to find that specifying a shorter deadline increased the chances of receiving a response compared to a longer deadline. However, he did find it interesting that they received the most responses when no deadline was specified.
“We interpret this as evidence that specifying a longer deadline, as opposed to a short deadline or no deadline at all, removes the urgency to act,” he says. “People therefore put off undertaking the task, and since they are inattentive or forget, postponing it results in lower response rates.”
He says of the research that it is possible that not specifying a deadline might still have led participants to assume that there is an unspoken deadline. Professor Knowles hopes his research can help reduce the amount of procrastinating people do. “Many people procrastinate. They have the best intentions of helping someone out, but just do not get around to doing it.”
1. Why did Professor Knowles do the research?| A．To find out whether people are interested in charity. |
| B．To study the role a deadline plays in procrastination. |
| C．To test the effect of procrastination on task completion. |
| D．To attract public attention to the effects of procrastination. |
| A．They oppose the deadline. | B．They are unwilling to act. |
| C．They lack a sense of urgency. | D．They are too busy to remember. |
| A．Procrastination—the Thief of Time |
| B．Procrastination—an Urgent Problem to Solve |
| C．Deadline—a Result of Procrastination |
| D．Deadline—the Key to Managing Procrastination |
