1 . As we know, queues (队列) have always been related to the theme park experience. Disliked by many, attractions do their best to stop them from having a bad influence on the guest experience. However, queues remain a necessity for gated attractions with popular rides.
The most obvious problem with queues is that they waste time, and for guests, wasting their limited time during their visit leads to a poor experience. For attraction operators, queues can be a letdown too. Even though long queues might be a sign that business is good, the more time guests spend tied up in long lines, the less opportunity they have to spend money on on-site retail and food offerings.
Thankfully, technology is developing to meet changing guest expectations. Many theme parks are taking guests out of physical queues and putting them into virtual queues through an app or wearable device.
Free from queues, guests are likely to spend their time and money far more freely around the attraction. Even though no one has to wait in line, attractions can still offer queue upgrades within a virtual queue system. According to a recent survey done by Attractions.io, over 84% of theme park visitors said they would rather use virtual queuing.
But queuing isn’t all bad, either. Making a queue part of the experience can also create an opportunity for better guest management. For example, Disney observes queues on many of their rides to give worried kids a space to relax. For smaller attractions, physical queues can be useful for judging how busy different rides are likely to be.
So to queue or not to queue? We say, why not both. In an ideal world, every attraction will have both virtual and physical queues. While virtual queuing can ensure that no one has to stand in line for hours, not every ride will need one. Short physical queues may still work for smaller or less popular rides, which guests can even enjoy while they wait in line virtually for another ride.
1. What does the underlined word “them” in paragraph 1 refer to?A.Guests. | B.Queues. |
C.Attractions. | D.Experiences. |
A.The disadvantages of physical queuing. |
B.The changing ways of queuing in theme parks. |
C.The influence of physical queuing on attractions. |
D.Guest expectations for theme park queue systems. |
A.Virtual queuing actually saves people’s money. |
B.Most attractions find virtual queue systems helpful. |
C.A majority of theme park visitors prefer to wait online. |
D.Virtual queuing allows people to make the most of their time. |
A.It will replace physical queuing. |
B.It isn’t good for guest management. |
C.It isn’t useful for less popular rides. |
D.It should coexist with physical queuing. |
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There is no doubt that cell phones play a important part in our daily life. However, be addicted to cell phones does a lot of harms to the users. First, staring at a cell phone screen for hours can lead to dry eyes or other eye diseases. Second, if you always overuse your cellphone, your head as well as your neck ache, which will have a bad effect to your daily life. Beside, on your way home or to school, with your attention fully focus on the cell phone, you may fail to notice the traffic around you, which will be a great danger to you. Therefore, I strong suggest that everyone would use our cell phone wisely.
4 . When Amelia thinks about her freshman year two years ago, she remembers being tardy to her 8 a.m. first period class from time to time. “It was so hard to wake up in the morning,” she said. “I had to bike to school and I lived on the other side of the island.”
Like other teens, mornings area struggle because she had several hours of homework and extracurricular activities the night before, but research shows that’s not the entire story. According to psychotherapists, Heather Turgeon and Julie Wright in their book Generation Sleepless, today's teens are sleepier than ever and earlier school start time is disturbing their body's circadian (昼夜节律的) rhythm.
“One of the things that happens somewhere around age 12 is that their brain clock becomes set to a later pace,” said Turgeon, which put sateen about two hours behind the sleep schedule of a young child or an adult. “That means they want to go to sleep later and they want to wake up later,” she said.
“We consider adequate sleep —the very lowest amount—to be about eight hours,” said Wright. However, the average sleep time for high school students is usually about 6.5 hours. And missing out on just a couple hours of rest each night has negative consequences for developing teenage brains.
When a teen is tired, the amygdala—which is the part of the brain that responds to danger—will become more active. And the parts of the brain that are in charge of judgment become less active. Sleep issues are commonly associated with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder (双相情感障碍) and ADHD (多动症). “We see teens with very serious mental health issues and accidents and soon things that parents really worry about—and getting enough sleep addresses those issues.”
Even with research showing that letting students sleep well contributes to better academic performance, lower truancy (旷课) rates and improved mental health, there has been pushback from parents and school districts about delaying the start of the school day.
1. What does the underlined word “tardy” probably m can in paragraph 1?A.Late. | B.Busy. | C.Tired. | D.Excited. |
A.They feel more tired than ever | B.They sleep later and wakeup later. |
C.They have about 6.5 hours of sleep | D.They sleep about two hours later than adults. |
A.The teens are always feeling tired |
B.The amygdala becomes more active. |
C.The lack of sleep causes many problems. |
D.The teenagers have trouble sleeping |
A.Favorable | B.Doubtful | C.Ambiguous. | D.Disapproving |
5 . A new study published in The Journal of Positive Psychology found that performing acts of kindness can heal depression and anxiety. 123 young participants from all works of life were divided into three groups. Two of the groups were equipped with techniques often used in dealing with depression: planning social activities or cognitive (认知的) reassessment. Members of the third group were instructed to perform three acts of kindness a day for two days out of the week.
Participants followed their instructions for ten weeks. The findings showed that participants in all three groups showed an increase in life satisfaction and a reduction of depression and anxiety symptoms (症状). “These results are encouraging because they suggest that all three study methods are efficacious at reducing anxiety and improving satisfaction,” the study’s co-author David Cregg said.
However, the group performing acts of kindness led to improvements not seen in the two other groups. “The acts of kindness still showed an advantage over both social activities and cognitive reassessment by making people feel more connected to other people, which is an important part of well-being.” The acts of kindness technique was the only means tested that helped people feel more connected to others.
“Social connection is strongly associated with well-being. Performing acts of kindness seems to be one of the best ways to promote those connections,” Cregg said. The authors noted that just participating in social activities did not improve feelings of social connection in this study. “There’s something specific about performing acts of kindness that makes people feel connected to others. It’s not enough to just be around other people, participating in social activities,” said co-author Jennifer Cheavens.
Some of the acts of kindness that participants later said they did include baking cookies for friends, offering to give a friend a ride, and leaving notes for roommates with words of encouragement. “Something as simple as helping other people can go above and beyond other treatments in helping heal people with depression and anxiety,” Cregg added.
1. What can we infer from the first paragraph?A.Kind acts can solve all kinds of psychological problems. |
B.All participants selected were not university students. |
C.Planning social activities is the technique used in 3 groups. |
D.Members in group three need to show kindness every day. |
A.Productive. | B.Equal. | C.Useless. | D.Misty. |
A.It is the best way to lift spirit. | B.It brings participants satisfaction. |
C.It connects people to create happiness. | D.It is the easiest means to make friends. |
A.Doubtful. | B.Cautious. | C.Indifferent. | D.Favorable. |
6 . Whether you’re a citizen, consumer or investor, it is fast becoming a key life skill to make out greenwashing, a word meaning a company claims that its products are environmentally friendly but actually not green at all. Misleading, or not proved claims about benefits to climate can make it harder for people to make informed decisions. They can also weaken real efforts by companies to clean up their act and deal with the climate crisis.
The basic problem is a lack of clarity. Indeed, when it comes to spottıng greenwashing, it can actually be more helpful to focus on the color grey—because it is the many grey areas that have helped make greenwashing appear in particular places. These grey areas might be around measurements, definitions, best practice, standards or regulations. Even the language we use is very imprecıse, leaving lots of room for vagueness, confusion or complete cheating. For instance, what do words such as “green”, “sustainable” and “eco” even mean? You have no standards, measurements or definitions to judge by.
These problems are increasingly important when it comes to the greenwashing of investment products, such as pensions and investment funds. In recent years, there has been a sharp rise in consumer demand for funds that invest according to environmental, social and governance (管理) criteria, often referred to as ESG funds. According to the financial data provider Morningstar, the value of assets (资产) held in UK funds grew from £29bn at the beginning of 2017 to £71bn by the end of 2020.
With that much money at risk for high profits, misleading claims can effectively hamper the flow of money and resources into really green new plans and businesses, preventing global efforts from dealing with the climate emergency. “I describe it as the ‘teenage years’ of responsible investing, with a lot of experimentation, and a lot of people trying out new things.” says Ashley Hamilton Claxton.
1. Which of the following can be called greenwashing?A.A product that is claimed to benefit the climate. |
B.A product that is claimed to be green while not the case. |
C.A product that can be washed in a green way. |
D.A product that is absolutely environmentally friendly. |
A.There are no such words as “sustainable”. | B.The language isn’t grammatically right. |
C.The product’s description is not clear. | D.The company doesn’t say it’s “green” and “eco”. |
A.Stop. | B.Clarify. | C.Put. | D.Divide. |
A.Much money enables high profits. |
B.Responsible investing is still at its early stage. |
C.More money is invested in real green businesses. |
D.A lot of people are unwilling to try out new things. |
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Many students are unwilling to do housework at home, say that they are too busy studying. However, in my opinion, students should spend some time help with housework. Here are some reason. If we left all the housework to our parents, it will make them very much tired. For our part, being independent is really benefit . As a matter fact, the earlier we learn to be independent, the better our future will be. Doing housework can help us to learn to look after us. Now we are no long small children, but we ought to help with housework to reduce our parents’ burdens.
10 . A century ago, the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and travelers. Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay, and 7 million people arrived while about 2 million departed. About a quarter of all Italian immigrants, for example, eventually returned to Italy for good. They even had an affectionate nickname, “uccelli di passaggio”, birds of passage.
Today, we place more restrictions on immigrants. We divide newcomers into two categories: legal or illegal, good or bad. We acknowledge them as Americans in the making, or identify them as aliens to be kicked out. That framework has contributed a great deal to our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it. We don’t need more categories, but we need to change the way we think about categories. We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal. To start, we can recognize the new birds of passage, those living and thriving in the gray areas. We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.
Crop pickers, violinists, construction workers, entrepreneurs, engineers, home health-care aides and physicists are among today’s birds of passage. They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work, money and ideas. They prefer to come and go as opportunity calls them. They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.
With or without permission, they straddle (跨越) laws, jurisdictions and identities with ease. We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever. We need them to feel that home can be both here and there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.
Accommodating this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration battle. Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes, including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.
1. What does the underlined phrase “birds of passage” in Paragraph One indicate?A.People immigrating across the Atlantic. | B.People staying in a foreign country temporarily. |
C.People leaving their motherland for good. | D.People finding permanent jobs overseas. |
A.It needs new immigrant categories. | B.It has loosened control over immigrants. |
C.It should be reformed to meet challenges. | D.It has been fixed through political means. |
A.They should be treated with legal tolerance. | B.They should be treated with economic favors. |
C.They should be treated as faithful partners. | D.They should be treated as powerful competitors. |
A.Come and Go: Big Mistake | B.Living and Thriving: Great Risk |
C.With or Without: Great Risk | D.Legal or Illegal: Big Mistake |