第十六周英语作业
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Social media
friends
How important is social media for
teenagers today? Although they may have become a part of teenagers’
lives, teenagers still consider real-life relationships far more
important than online ones, according to a
recent online survey in the UK.
The findings come from British
company ComRes, which surveyed 1,015 British teenagers aged 15 to
18 online.
The survey shows that British
teenagers are keen social network users. Only 1 percent of
people said they never checked social networks. They also actively
make friends on social media. One-third of the teenagers
have met someone in person they originally met through social
media.
But when asked which group of friends is more
important to them, most people chose friends they knew in
person.
Like their peers in the
UK, Chinese teenagers also widely use social networks. A 2012
report by China Youth & Children Research Center shows that
over 90 percent of the Chinese youth have social media
accounts.
But Chinese teenagers
seem not so active in making friends through social media.
One of the concerns is security
(安全).
“It’s not safe to talk
to strangers online,” Pan Jiachen, a 14-year-old Beijinger
said. “I wouldn’t really befriend anyone that I don’t know from
someone else.”
Dr Emma Short, a
psychologist (心理学家) at the
University of Bedfordshire in the UK, also expressed her worry over
the number of British teenagers meeting up with people they first
befriended online.
“It’s not safe
because they may not be who they say they are,” she said. “You know
nothing about them apart from the conversation you’ve had
online – which is a very small part of the person
they may be.”
Other numbers from the
ComRes survey
25% of teenagers said they were addicted
(上瘾的) to social media but
62% thought their friends were instead.
25% wished they could give up social
media.
13% said their online friends knew them
better than their real-life friends.
51% of the people said they felt it
important to check a message as soon as it came
through.
Thanks for Turkey Day
What was the last thing you felt grateful for?
Here is a special day for you to say thanks. The day is
Thanksgiving. It is about expressing your gratitude to the
important people and all the good things in your
life.
Thanksgiving is
celebrated in the US and Canada. In the US, it falls on the fourth
Thursday of November every year. This year it is on Nov 27. Kids
are happy because they get the day off school. They have time to
stay with family and, more importantly, enjoy a big
dinner.
Like China’s Spring
Festival, preparing a big meal and bringing the family together at
home is a long-standing tradition of Thanksgiving.
Turkey is the most
traditional food of the dinner. Ever since Thanksgiving was made an
official holiday in 1863 in the US, turkey has always been on the
menu. This is why Thanksgiving is also called Turkey Day.
Parents usually stuff (填塞)
the turkey and then roast (烤) it in an oven. This gives you juicy meat with a rich
flavor. But as time has passed, many families now prepare this
traditional dinner in new ways, such as deep-frying or smoking the
turkey.
Many other foods
also come with the main dish. Pumpkin pie is a popular dessert for
the day. The largest pumpkin pie has a recorded weight of 3,699
pounds (1,678 kilograms) in 2010 in the US. People also eat sweet
potatoes with brown sugar or maple syrup
(枫糖浆). What a sweet
taste!
With so much food, the
meal usually starts early in the afternoon. It may last a few hours
until everyone is stuffed with turkey.
However, one
should never forget to express what he or she is thankful for.
as the proverb goes: Who does not thank for little
will not thank for much.
Traditions of Thanksgiving
Breaking the wishbone
(如愿骨)
The wishbone is a V-shaped bone in the breast
meat of a turkey’s chest. After roasting, the wishbone becomes dry
and brittle (脆的). Two people
take each end of the bone, make a wish, and then pull. It is said
that whoever ends up with the larger part of the bone will have
good luck.
The turkey pardon
(赦免)
Every year, there are more than 45 million
turkeys that are cooked and eaten in the US. But two lucky turkeys
are released on that day: National Thanksgiving Turkey and the
alternate (代替的) turkey (in
case something happens to the official turkey). At a White House
ceremony, the US president will give them an official “pardon” by
patting one of them on the head. Then, they will live
happily on a farm.
Helping others
Many people in the US use Thanksgiving as an
opportunity to help the poor. Some people volunteer to serve food
at homeless shelters (收容所)
on Thanksgiving Day. Others donate to shelters or hold events for
collecting canned food and help those in need.
Did you know?
The first Thanksgiving was in 1621. When the
early Europeans settled in the US, they experienced a hard winter
without food. Luckily, with the help of Native American Indians,
the Europeans got a big harvest later. So they had a great meal
with Native American Indians and thanked God for their good luck.
The celebration lasted for three days.
Can we have too many
friends?
How many friends do you have? Making a lot of
friends makes you popular at school. Also, whenever you want to
find someone for help, there is always a certain friend there. Now
scientists suggest that parts of the brain in those with a higher
number of friends are larger than those with fewer
friends.
Scientists have studied the connection between
brain size and social interactions
(互动) on monkeys. They found
that parts of the brain in more sociable monkeys were larger. They
were better at predicting the intentions
(意图) of other
monkeys.
As for humans, the researchers at McGill
University, Canada, studied the differences between those with
larger social groups, and those with smaller groups. The
researchers studied 18 people. In order to find out the size of
each person’s social group, the people were asked how many social
interactions they’d had in the past month.
Then researchers looked at brain scans
(扫描). They found that, just
like monkeys, parts of the brain in humans with larger social
groups were larger.
Although long-term studies are needed to figure
out whether social interaction caused these changes in the brain,
scientists were sure about one thing: Some brain regions
that are larger suggests other regions might be smaller, lead
scientist Mary Ann Noonan said to LiveScience.
For example, if you’re spending a lot of time
with friends, you won’t have much free time to learn other skills,
such as playing the piano, Noonan said. These parts of the brain
stay small.
Having too many friends is not always good.
What’s more, it’s difficult to maintain a lot of meaningful
relationships. Maybe we should stick to a smaller, but closer,
group of friends.
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