【題目】

Goldfish have pretty boring lives, so maybe it’s a good thing they can only concentrate for nine seconds! But according to new research, humans are becoming like goldfish. Our attention span(時長) is getting shorter and it’s all because of technology.

“We move quickly from one site to another on the web,” says Dr. Ted Selker, a computer scientist from Massachusetts, “And we are losing the ability to concentrate.” With millions of websites to choose from, the attention span of the average Internet user is just seconds. There are other digital distractions(使人分心的事) too: emails, instant messaging and quickie movies on websites.

Some people are worried about the effect on young people. “You need time to understand and think about what you read,” says Julia Wood, from London. “Young people search the net all the time and their brains become full of useless information but there is no time to make sense of it. I am trying to persuade my pupils to read more books, so that they concentrate on one subject for longer. ”

Other teachers are trying more unusual methods to improve students’ concentration. Anne Savan, from Wales, was so worried about her students that she started playing Mozart during her science lessons. She says that it had an amazing effect, “The music made them calmer, and their concentration was much better.”

But not everyone believes that there is a problem. Ray Cole, an educational psychologist says, “On the web, young people learn to make quick decisions about what is and isn’t worth reading. They might look at five unhelpful websites very quickly, before stopping and reading a sixth useful website more carefully. In a world with so much information available, this is an important skill. ”

【1】According to new research, why humans are becoming like goldfish?

A. Because we have pretty boring lives like goldfish.

B. Because our attention span(時長) is getting shorter like goldfish.

C. Because we can only concentrate for nine seconds like goldfish.

D. Because we are hard to learn new things like goldfish.

【2】What may cause a shorter attention span according to Dr. Ted Selker?

A. We move quickly from one site to another on the web.

B. We become more and more busy.

C. Our traditional methods of reading is losing.

D. We spend much time in making decisions.

【3】What will help students overcome a short attention span?

A. Receiving emails.B. Texting messages.

C. Reading more books.D. Watching quickie movies.

【4】What is the best title for this passage?

A. Computer Games are Monsters

B. Goldfish and Human Beings

C. Short Attention Span

D. Thinking about Skipping on the Websites.

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】C

【4】D

【解析】

本文是一篇說明文，介紹了有人認為隨著科技的發(fā)展, 人們將大量時間花在瀏覽網(wǎng)站上, 快速不斷地瀏覽網(wǎng)站使人們的注意力時長越來越短，但是也有人認為, 瀏覽網(wǎng)站可以提高年輕人的判斷能力。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段中的“humans are becoming like goldfish. Our attention span(時長) is getting shorter”可知, 人類正變得像金魚一樣是因為我們的注意力時長正變得越來越短，故B項正確。

【2】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段中的“We move quickly from one site to another on the web. . . And we are losing the ability to concentrate. ”可知, Ted Selker認為, 由于快速瀏覽網(wǎng)站, 人們正在喪失集中注意力的能力，故A項正確。

【3】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段中的“I am trying to persuade my pupils to read more books, so that they concentrate on one subject for longer.”可知, 多讀書將有助于學(xué)生克服注意力時間短的問題，故C項正確。

【4】主旨大意題。通讀全文可知，本文介紹了有人認為隨著科技的發(fā)展, 人們將大量時間花在瀏覽網(wǎng)站上, 快速不斷地瀏覽網(wǎng)站使人們的注意力時長越來越短; 但是也有人認為, 瀏覽網(wǎng)站可以提高年輕人的判斷能力，因此文章主要介紹的是人們對瀏覽網(wǎng)站的不同觀點，故D項（好好考慮一下是否瀏覽網(wǎng)站）作標(biāo)題最能概括出文章內(nèi)容。

文章標(biāo)題形式的主旨大意題的難度較大，被選選項要具有高度的概括性，準(zhǔn)確地概括出全文內(nèi)容，因此抓住文章主題是關(guān)鍵，例如本篇第4題，通讀全文可知，本文介紹了有人認為隨著科技的發(fā)展, 人們將大量時間花在瀏覽網(wǎng)站上, 快速不斷地瀏覽網(wǎng)站使人們的注意力時長越來越短; 但是也有人認為, 瀏覽網(wǎng)站可以提高年輕人的判斷能力，因此將文章的主題概括為：人們對瀏覽網(wǎng)站的不同觀點，故D項（好好考慮一下是否瀏覽網(wǎng)站）作標(biāo)題最能體現(xiàn)出人們對快速瀏覽網(wǎng)站的不同觀點，最能概括出文章內(nèi)容。

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