We encourage students to ____________ fu...

The police ____________ the man enter the bank.

A. observed B. obtained

C. operated D. offended

Most people said that pay was their main ______________ for working.

A. movement B. mention

C. method D. motivation

They were lost at sea at the ___________ of wind and weather.

A. mess B. mercy

C. moment D. mixture

请根据你对以下两幅图的理解，以“Many Hands Make Light Work.”为题，用英语写一篇作文。

参考词汇:

wind-blown trees (被风刮倒的树) lift up (扶起来)

你的作文应包括以下内容:

1. 简要描述两幅图的内容；

2. 概述你对两幅图中不同做法的理解；

3. 举例说明两幅图对你的启示。

注意:

1. 短文应该包括以上所提供的主要信息,可适当发挥；

2. 词数:150 左右;

3. 作文中不得提及有关考生个人身份的任何信息，如校名、人名等。

Many Hands Make Light Work

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请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。   注意:每个空格只填 1 个单词。请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上。

The urge to share our lives on social media

People have long used media to see reflections of themselves. Long before mobile phones or even photography, diaries were kept as a way to understand oneself and the world in which one lives. In the 18th and 19th centuries, as diaries became more popular, middle-class New Englanders, particularly white women, wrote about their everyday lives and the world around them.

These diaries were not a place into which they poured their innermost thoughts and desires, but rather a place to chronicle (记录) the social world around them. The diaries captured the everyday routines of mid-19th-century life, and women diarists in particular focused not on themselves but on their families and their communities.

Diaries today are, for the most part, private. But things were different for these New England diaries. Young women who were married would send their diaries home to their parents as a way of maintaining kin (血缘) relations. When family or friends came to visit, it was not uncommon to sit down and go through one’s journal together.

Diaries are not the only media that people have used to document lives and share them with others. We have long used media like photo albums, baby books and even slide shows as a means of creating traces ( 痕 迹 ) of our lives. We do this to understand ourselves and to see trends in our behaviour. We create traces as part of our identity and part of our memory.

Sharing everyday life events can strengthen social connection and intimacy ( 亲密感). For example, you take a picture of your child’s first birthday. It is not only a developmental milestone: the photo also strengthen the identity of the family unit itself. The act of taking the photo and  proudly sharing it further reaffirms (再次证实) one as a good and attentive parent. In other words, the media traces of others figure in our own identities.

Today’s social media platforms are, by and large, free to use, unlike historical diaries, which people had to buy. Today, advertising subsidises (补贴) our use of networked platforms. Therefore these platforms encourage use of their networks to build larger audiences and to better target them. Our pictures, our posts, and our likes are commodified—that is, they are used to create value through increasingly targeted advertising.

Instead of social media merely connecting us, it has become a craze ( 狂 热 ) for information, continually trying to draw us in with the promise of social connectivity—it’s someone’s birthday, someone liked your picture, etc. There’s a multibillion-dollar industry pulling us into our smartphones, relying on a longstanding human need for communication.

The urge to be present on social media is much more complex than simply narcissism (自恋).

Social media of all kinds not only enable people to see their reflections, but to feel their connection as well.