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湖北省武汉市江汉区 2024-2025学年九年级上学期四校十月考英语试题
Time flies when you play on your smartphone. But when you get down to the real business of work and study, one hour feels like a year. Why are we so attracted by smartphones but easily bored by studying?
It all boils down to something small and hard to see: dopamine(多巴胺). Dopamine is a" pleasure chemical" that makes people feels good. Our brains give it out when we eat yummy food, after we exercise or when we get a prize.
Compared with studying, playing on smartphones causes our brains to give out more dopamine. For example, checking your phone for a text leads to a 400 percent increase in dopamine. But why?
When we visit social media, we don't know what we'll see next, or who will give opinions about things we post. This" magic of maybe", makes the dopamine system active. We get excited wondering if we have messages from our friends. When our expectations are met, dopamine is given out.
And to find more dopamine, we continue checking our phones. Studying doesn't provide such magic. Without this excitement, we get bored much more easily.
Can we do something to change that? According to scientists, apps can become less attractive if we turn off notifications or change the screen colors to black and white. We can also set time limits on apps to avoid overusing them.
" As for studying, you could check your progress daily or weekly and reward yourself for it" said Daniel Wong, writer of The Happy Student," You could also search for interesting topics connected with your textbook. Use what you' ve learned to make an influence in the real world. This will make knowledge much more interesting to learn".
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| China started the 2018 China beautiful countryside tourism activities in April, with "spring flowers" as the main topic. 56 places of interest and 60 national demonstration counties(示范县) have been introduced on this conference. |
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| The number of China's "red tourism" was almost three times in the first half of 2017, as compared with the same period in 2016. Meanwhile, an increasing number of young people are visiting such places, with those born in the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s. |
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| Pingtan is famous for its island tourism. Shipaiyang, one of the greatest natural wonders in Pingtan, is shaped like two large ships sailing on the sea. Facing east, Longfengtou Beach is the largest natural bathing beach in China. |
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