Wrong Reasons for Going to College

    A college education can be priceless.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}If any of these following factors had abig influence on your decision, you're probably right to second-guess yourself.

   Because all your friends are going.

    In only a few weeks' time, the whole friend group will be scattered to a half dozen different colleges in a half dozen different places. Not to go will set yourself apart.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Because someone else expects it from you.

    Perhaps you come from a family where everyone goes to college,or maybe you're the kid that everyone is proud to believe will be the first toget there.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}It's become so mucha part of the air you breathe that you've never stopped to consider whether you want to go or whether you're ready to go.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#}It's beentough to find even a summer job. You don't have an alternative plan. Everyone else is doing it (see above). You think you might as well go to school. That isthe lamest（无说服力的）of reasons tospend $ 20,000 or more in the next year.

    Because you are afraid you'll regret it if you don't go.

    Your uncle tells you that he regrets that he didn't go tocollege. Others tell you they could have gone so much further in their career if only they had a college education.  {#blank#}5{#/blank#} So this is not a persuasive reason for you togo to college.

a. A. Because you don't want to work.

b. Friends will wonder what's wrong with you.

c. Because you don't know what else to do.

d. Everyone seems more excited than you are.

e. It seems that for years everyone has just thought that ofcourse you'll go.

f. Whatever the story is, there are always people who regretdecisions they've made.

g. But maybe in your heart you know that you are going forthe wrong reasons.

    Right now you are reading English. That means that you are using your brain in a very active way. Reading is a very active process. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} When you read a text, you have to do some or all of these:

    Imagine a scene in your head

    Understand clearly what the writer is trying to say

    Agree or disagree with the writer

    There are also many advantages associated with reading, including:

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    You will usually meet with new words when you read. If there are too many new words for you, then the level is too high and you should read something simpler. But if there are, say, a maximum of five new words per page, you will learn this vocabulary easily. You may not even need to use a pocket dictionary because you can guess the meaning from the rest of the text. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

    A model for writing

    When you read, it gives you a good example for writing. Texts that you read show you structures and expressions that you can use when you write.

    Seeing “correctly structured” English

    When people write, they usually use “correct” English with a proper grammatical structure. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} So, by reading you see and learn grammatical English naturally.

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    You can read as fast or as slowly as you like. You can read ten pages in 30 minutes, or take one hour to explore just one page. It doesn't matter. The choice is yours. You can not easily do this when speaking or listening. This is one of the big advantages of reading because different people work at different speeds.

A. Working at your own speed

B. Learning vocabulary in context (语境)

C. This is not always true when people speak

D. Focusing on exactly what you want to learn

E. you should write down unknown vocabulary in whole sentences

F. Not only do you learn new words, but you see them being used naturally

G. It is true that the writer does a lot of work, but the reader also has to work hard

    The days of the hunter are almost over in India. This is partly because there is practically nothing left to kill, and partly because some steps have been taken, mainly by banning tiger-shooting, to protect those animals which still survive.

    Some people say that Man is naturally a hunter. I disagree with this view. Surely our earliest forefathers, who at first possessed no weapons, spent their time digging for roots, and were no doubt themselves often hunted by meat-eating animals.

    I believe the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that he thinks people will admire his courage in overpowering dangerous animals. Of course, there are some who truly believe that the killing is not really the important thing, and that the chief pleasure lies in the joy of the hunt and the beauties of the wild countryside. There are also those for whom hunting in fact offers a chance to prove themselves and risk death by design; these men go out after dangerous animals like tigers, even if they say they only do it to rid the countryside of a threat. I can respect reasons like these, but they are clearly different from the need to strengthen your high opinion of yourself.

    The greatest big-game hunters expressed in their writings something of these finer motives. One of them wrote.

    “You must properly respect what you are after and shoot it cleanly and on the animal's own territory(领地). You must fix forever in your mind all the wonders of that particular day. This is better than letting him grow a few years older to be attacked and wounded by his own son and eventually eaten, half alive, by other animals, Hunting is not a cruel and senseless killing - not if you respect the thing you kill, not if you kill to enrich your memories, not if you kill to feed your people.”

    I can understand such beliefs, and can compare these hunters with those who hunted lions with spears(矛) and bravely caught them by the tail. But this is very different from many tiger-shoots I have seen, in which modern weapons were used. The so-called hunters fired from tall trees or from the backs of trained elephants. Such methods made tigers seem no more dangerous than rabbits.

    We all need to eat. So, meals could be a chance to stop what we're doing and spend time with the people in our lives. A recent study from a team of South Korea suggests that eating together has many good effects on children and teenagers while frequently eating alone may lead to poor eating habits and poor food choices. People who eat alone more than twice a week have a greater risk of developing high blood pressure.

    There are benefits of family dinners on children and teenagers.

    In 2014, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) looked at data from nearly three-quarters of the world's countries. Among its findings is the fact that students who share a main meal with their families are less likely to hate school. Children who eat a main meal with their families are also less likely to take drugs (毒品).

    In the report, titled "The Importance of Family Dinners (VIII)," researchers say that teens who have frequent family dinners are more likely to say their parents know a lot about what's going on in their lives.

    Another study from the University of Montreal finds that children who eat with their families experience long-term physical and mental health benefits. These children are physically in better shape and drink fewer sugary soft drinks. These children also seem to have better social skills and are less violent.

    One of the researchers, Pagane, involved in this study is a professor at the university. She says that mealtimes with parents possibly provide young children with firsthand social events, which helps them have better communication skills.

    We have heard some interesting ways that 5G wireless technology might change our lives in the future.

    5G, short for the 5th generation mobile communication technology, promises Internet speeds between 50 to 100 times faster than current 4G systems. While 5G is set to be used in some limited areas of America this year, much of the world is not expected to receive widely available service until 2023.

    One project in Britain, however, is already testing this superfast technology on an unlikely group of Internet users-cows. The project was developed by American technology company Cisco Systems. It also receives money from the British government. Cisco says the program seeks to explore the future of 5G connectivity in rural areas around the world.

    Testing areas were set up at farms in three rural areas of England. The cows are equipped with 5G-connected devices (装置) that link up to a robotic milking system, which uses sensors and machine learning to fully automate the process. System designers say technology takes over after a cow feels ready to be milked and walks toward an automatic gate. The device is designed to recognize each individual cow. It then positions equipment to the right body position for milking. During the process, machines release food for the cow as a reward.

    Other 5G technology tools include automated brushes that turn on when the cow rubs up against them. Sensors also control the amount of light to the cows' living areas depending on the weather. And, an automatic feeding system makes sure the animals always get enough to eat.

    Duncan Forbes, head of the project, told Reuters that the project shows the farm's cow operations can be greatly improved with 5G technology and that the experiment provides strong evidence that 5G technology can be widely used in the future, not just on farms in Britain, but in rural communities across the world.

When it comes to commemorating a child's first year of life, the traditional approach often involves presenting an exquisitely adorned confectionery masterpiece to the young celebrant. By simply setting this visually striking sugar creation before the infant and activating the recording devices, one can capture the ensuing delightfully chaotic scene, replete with smiles and smears of frosting.

However, this will not be the method I choose to honor my daughter's initial 12 months of existence—not because the sweet treat will be absent, but because my spouse and I have resolved to abstain from sharing her images on social platforms for an entire year, and we are determined to maintain this practice for the foreseeable future.

I understand that I am part of a select few. Research indicates that approximately seventy-five percent of parents habitually upload photographs of their offspring to the internet. Pixsy, a platform that assists photographers in identifying unauthorized usage of their work, discovered that parents in the age bracket of 20 to 25 are twice as likely as their older counterparts to disseminate images of their little ones on social media platforms.

Yet, I am not the only one who feels this way. A woman instrumental in the creation of Big Little Feelings—an Instagram account with 2.8 million followers that provides guidance to new mothers—recently decided to remove all the pictures she had previously posted of her children.

The discourse surrounding "sharenthood," or the inclination of parents to broadcast their children's lives online, has been fervently ongoing for some time. The everyday choices made by parents have a significant, yet often undervalued, impact on the digital legacy of young individuals and their subsequent life trajectory.

Technological advancements have introduced fresh challenges for parents. The latest development in artificial intelligence is the emergence of image-generating tools. By inputting a series of descriptive terms into a text field, AI can generate a visual representation of the described subject. The datasets for these AI-driven generative systems are frequently sourced from the open internet.

While it is improbable that my daughter's Instagram photos would be processed through such an AI assembly line, resulting in her likeness appearing in someone's creative AI-generated artwork, once images are disseminated on the web, they can be exceedingly difficult to eradicate completely.

I do share photographs with friends and family via secure, private messaging applications. However, these closed networks are fundamentally distinct from public postings on the open internet.