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江苏省2020年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语模拟卷二
According to the recently published cultural mindset study from Culture Trip, 60% of people in the US and UK say that their outlook on life is shaped by influences from different cultures. At the same time, the economic landscape of the last decade has resulted in younger generations being more interested in collecting experiences than possessions.
Welcome to the "new culture economy"
The collision of the two trends—globalization and the experience economy—has caused a new travel concept with cultural curiosity at its heart. This is the "new culture economy". The phenomenon is having a profound impact on people's interactions and definitions of cultural exploration and presents an incredible commercial opportunity.
Education, travel, exposure to other customs and the cultural mashup that energes are the more influential social effects of globalization. More than half of respondents from the cultural mindset study have friends living overseas, while 78% have friends or family of different nationalities. Besides, the confines of student debt and unaffordable housing have created a shift in spending patterns, and so a new set of values has emerged in which experiences matter more than ownership.
Why we travel
People's social networks expose them to digital influencers and keep them connected to friends or family living in other parts of the world. The combination of these cultural, social and personal drivers has helped us to identify four cultural mindsets.
⒈Culturally aware—The motivation to travel among this group is anchored in pleasure. They seek out familiarity and select destinations close to home or reflective of their own culture.
⒉Culturally curious—Those with this mindset travel to discover new things and disrupt their everyday routines. They seek some familiarity, but also want to explore boundaries. They want to be seen as someone who is interested in culture, but this is often expressed in terms of visual interest and well－known sites.
⒊Culturally immersive—For this group, travel is all about adventure and personal growth. They want to be seen as highly cultured and as "explorers"; they are happy to celebrate when things go wrong, which they see as the key ingredient to making memories.
⒋Culturally fluid—The group's identity is shaped by their familiarity with travel. They feel at home everywhere and have adopted a hybrid cultural identity. Memories are often tied to experiences with people that represent the culture they are travelling to rather than sites.
The environmental trade－off
The cultural mindset research also sheds light on how people perceive the effect of tourism on the environment and the measures they take to reduce their impact. Two in five millennials—more than any other generation—worry that tourism has a negative impact on the environment and over a third limit how much they travel to reduce their impact.
While most people won't control their desire to travel entirely, good news is that those who see the world are also the ones taking measures in their everyday lives to reduce their impact on the environment.
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How Curiosity and Globalization Are Driving A New Approach to Travel |
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Introduction Being to different cultures has an impact on people's outlook on life. |
The economic situation of the past ten years can for young people's shift in values away from materialism. |
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Welcome to the "new culture economy" The collision of globalization and the experience economy has given birth to a new travel pattern, which cultural curiosity. |
A shift in spending patterns has appeared in that a trip is more than a house. |
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Why we travel How the cultural, social and personal factors helps the researchers identify different cultural mindsets. |
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Culturally aware |
People in this group travel for the fun of it and prefer close to where they live to seek some familiarity. |
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Culturally curious |
People with this mindset can be regarded as someone interested in culture and for exploring boundaries. |
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Culturally immersive |
People belonging to this group think travel will to personal growth and create something worth recalling. |
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Culturally fluid |
For this group, they are with travel and experiences with the local people representing the culture count. |
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The environmental trade－off |
of the negative effect tourism has on the environment, those travelling are willing to take measures like setting a limit to their travel. |
We all believe we listen well and yet many times we feel others are not listening to us. However, listening goes in both directions—you may believe you are listening well, but how often have you completely forgotten what was said to you? {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
Make eye contact.
{#blank#}2{#/blank#} when People talk, they put out visual clues that add to the conversation and meaning of their words.
Stop talking.
You can't listen, talk and at the same time completely receive the meaning of the other person's words. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}
React without words.
Let the other person know you are listening through physical reactions, such as head nods, smiles, frowns and eye movement.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}
Concentrate.
Concentrate on what the other person is saying. Clear your mind of other thoughts and emotions and focus on the conversation at hand. Be in the moment of that conversation, and don't think about what you want to say back.
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Behave as an effective listener. The more you continue to behave as a listener, the more you will be an effective listener.
A. Don't break in. B. Act as a listener. C. How to say back is also important. D. Make eye contact with the person who is talking to you. E. There are a few ways to become a more effective listener. F. Wait your turn and take in what has been said to you before you make a reply. G. These may also help to let the speaker know whether you are accurately (准确地) understanding his words. |
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We all need to feel understood, recognized and affirmed by our friends, family and romantic partners. We all need to find our tribe.
Research has shown that among the benefits that come with being in a relationship or group, feeling accepted is regarded as the most important driver of meaning. When other people think you matter and treat you as if you matter, you believe you matter, too.
Though we all share a need to belong, in the first decades of the 20th century, many influential psychologists and physicians did not acknowledge this fundamental aspect of human nature. The idea that children needed parental love and care to live a full and meaningful life was not only considered medically dangerous, but also dismissed as immoral and disgusting.
As behavioral psychology came into fashion and academic psychologists turned their attention to child- raising, this view shifted and they began to examine and affirm the vital importance of attachment in early life. They discovered that people, whatever their age, needed more than food and shelter to live full and healthy lives.
But, sadly, many of us lack close ties. At a time when we are more connected digitally than ever before, rates of social isolation are rising. The results of an Age UK poll published recently suggest that half a million people over the age of 60 usually spend each day alone, and it's not unusual for another half a million people to go without someone to speak to for five or six days. All these figures reveal more than a rise in loneliness — they reveal a lack of meaning in people's lives. In surveys, we list our close relationships as our most important sources of meaning. Research shows that people who are lonely and isolated feel their lives are less meaningful.
While close relationships are critical for living a meaningful life, they are not the only important social bonds we need to cultivate. Psychologists have also discovered the value of small moments of intimacy. “High-quality connections”, as one researcher calls them, are positive, short-term interactions between two people when a couple holds hands on a walk or when two strangers have an empathetic(移情作用的) conversation on a plane. High-quality connections have the potential to unlock meaning in our interactions with acquaintances, colleagues and strangers. We can't control whether someone will make a high-quality connection with us, but we can all choose to start one. We can say hello to a stranger on the street rather than look away. We can choose to value people rather than devalue them. We can invite people to belong.
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The need to belong |
*Everyone hopes to develop a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} of belonging in a group. *People's self-respect is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} by other people's opinion. |
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The changing {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to belonging |
*Many famous experts in the first decades of the 20th century {#blank#}4{#/blank#} that people had the need to belong. *Experts later came to realize that people, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} of their age, needed attachment to enjoy full and healthy lives. |
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Consequences of {#blank#}6{#/blank#} close ties |
*Many people are cut off from the world and feel {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. *People who do not have enough close relationships find their lives are less {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. |
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Another way to meet the need |
*High-quality connections make a {#blank#}9{#/blank#} in helping satisfy our need to belong. *We should {#blank#}10{#/blank#} to make a high-quality connection. |
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