题型:阅读选择 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
北京市石景山区2016届九年级上学期英语期末测试
Bad news travels fast – when you watch the evening news or read the morning papers, it seems that things that get the most coverage are all sad events or situations like wars, earthquakes, floods, fires and murders.
This is the classic rule for mass media (大众传媒). ―They want your eyeballs and don't care how you're feeling, Jonah Berger, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, US, told The New York Times.
But with social media getting more and more popular, information is now being spread in different ways, and researchers are discovering new rules – good news can actually spread faster and farther than bad accidents and other sad stories.
Berger and his colleague Katherine Milkman looked at thousands of articles on The New York Times' website and analyzed (分析) the ―most e-mailed‖ list for six months.
One of his findings was that articles in the science part were much more likely to make the list. Those science stories waked up feelings of awe (敬畏) and made the readers want to share this positive emotion with others.
Besides science stories, readers were also found to be likely to share articles that were exciting or funny. “The more positive an article was, the more likely it was to be shared,” Berger wrote in his new book. “For example, stories about newcomers falling in love with New York City,” he writes, “seemed to be shared more than the death of a popular zookeeper.”
But does all this good news actually make the readers feel better? Not necessarily.
According to a study by researchers at Harvard University, people are more likely to say more positive things about themselves when they're talking to a bigger audience, rather than just one person, which helps explain all the perfect vacations that keep showing up on micro blogs. This, researchers found, makes people think that life is unfair and that they're less happy than their friends.
But no worries. There's a quick and easy way to take the despair from you that you get from viewing other people's seemingly perfect lives – turn on the television and watch the news. There is always someone doing worse than you are.
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The World Earth Day is on April 22nd. Here at Greenpeace, we know how much you want to make a positive(积极的) difference to our world! So, read on to find out how to protect our earth.
http://www. greenpeace. org. cn/ Have a greener, healthier and more peaceful planet. | |
Saveenergy and water! ◇Before leaving home, make sure to turn off the electricity. Take great effort to develop wind power and so on. ◇If you can, try bicycling, walking, or using public transportation to get out instead of using the car. ◇Don't let water run while brushing your teeth, and take short showers for four minutes or less! | Be a pioneer! ◇Share your knowledge with others, and help them become eco-heroes too! It needs lots of people to work together to make changes happen, so share, share, share! ◇Volunteer with more friends. Write to some companies to stop them working together with people who are harmful to the forest. |
Reduce, reuse, recycle! ◇Before you throw something away, stop and think about what else it could be used for! ◇ If you don't want to keep some things, try to find out who else needs them. Our goal is to keep usable things out of landfills(填埋场). | Be friendly to wildlife! ◇Make your garden wildlife-friendly! You could build a bee hotel, provide some food or even create a pool. ◇If you own a cat that goes outdoors, put a bell around its neck so that little wildlife can hear it coming and run away quickly! |
What else can you do to make the world better? You can visit the website or scan the QR code to know more.
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South African Safari 8:00 p. m. Start and end in Johannesburg 7:30 p. m. Saturday | Trek in Canada We leave the airport at 10:00 p. m. Start and end in Toronto Dinner: 6:30 p. m. Party: Friday evening |
Surfing in Spanish seas Flight leaves at 5:30 a. m. Start and end in Barcelona Dinner is at 6:00 p. m. every day. There is a party every Saturday at the hotel. |
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