told her it was for her, she wept.
25. What is the purpose of the women’s conference? A. To help others in a practical way. B. To win equal rights for women. C. To get together to dance and sing. D. To exchange gifts with each other.
26. Why did Lilith go to America?
A. To attend the women’s conference. B. To find safety.
C. To find her family. D. To find a better job. 27. From this passage, we know
that
the
writer
is____________.
A. enthusiastic B. sympathetic C. intelligent D. talented 28. What is the meaning of the underlined word?
A. a place of interest
B.
a
place
of
danger
C. a place of conference
D. a place of shelter
C
You know the feeling that you have left your phone at home and feel anxious, as if you have lost your connection
to the
world.
“Nomophobia” (无手机恐惧症) affects teenagers and adults alike. You can even do an online test to see if you
have it. Last week, researchers from Hong Kong warned that nomophobia
is
infecting
everyone. Their study found that people who use their phones to store, share and access
personal memories
suffer most. When users were asked to describe how they felt about their phones, words such as “hurt” (neck pain was often reported) and “alone” predicted higher levels of nomophobia.
“The findings of our study suggest that users regard smartphones as their extended selves and get attached to the devices,” said Dr. Kim Ki Joon. “People
experience feelings of anxiety and
unpleasantness
when separated from their phones.”
Meanwhile,
an
American study shows that smartphone separation can lead to an increase in heart rate and blood pressure.
So can being without your phone
really
give
you
separation anxiety? Professor Mark Griffiths, psychologist and
director
of
the
International Gaming
Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University, says it is what is
on
the
phone
that
counts-the social networking that creates Fomo (fear of missing out).
“We are talking about an internet-connected
device
that allows people to deal with lots of aspects of their lives,” says Griffiths. “You would have to surgically remove a phone from a teenager because their whole life is rooted in this device.”
Griffiths
thinks
attachment theory, where we develop
emotional
dependency on the phone because it holds details of our lives, is a small part of nomophobia.
For
“screenagers”, it is Fomo that
creates
the
most
separation anxiety. If they can’t see what’s happening
on Snapchat or Instagram, they become panic-stricken about not knowing what’s going on socially. “But they adapt very quickly if you take them on holiday and there’s no internet,” says Griffiths. 29. Which of the following may Dr. Kim Ki Joon agree with?
A. We waste too much time on phones.
B. Phones have become part of some users.
C. Addiction to phones makes memories suffer. D.
Phones
and
blood
pressure are closely linked. 30. According to Giffiths, we get
nomophobia
because .
A. we are accustomed to having a phone on us
B. we need our phones to help us store information C. we worry we may miss out what our friends are doing D. we fear without phones we will run into a lot of trouble 31. Where can you probably find the above passage? A. In a research report.
B. In a fashion brochure. C. In a science textbook.
D. In a popular science
magazine.
D
Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed
by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To some degree our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring
environment
will
develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a
number of ways.
It is easy to show that intelligence is to some degree something we are born with. The
closer
the blood relationship
between
two
people, the closer they are likely to be intelligent. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from population, it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be completely different. If, on the other hand, we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually
have
similar
intelligence, and this clearly
suggests that intelligence
depends on birth. Imagine now that we take two identical twins
and
put
them
in
different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences
in
intelligence
developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence. 32. The writer is in favor of the
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