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Ⅴ. Reading expression.（阅读表达。）
How do you spend your free time? Do you keep watching a screen for about 10 hours from morning to night? Well, you're not alone. A new report says Chinese people spend five and a half hours on the Internet every day! In the report, not just in China, 69% of the people in the world usually watch short videos online. Not like reading books or learning, these short videos make us stop thinking for ourselves. The Oxford Word of the Year—“brain rot(脑腐)” best shows this global problem.
But how do we get here? Watching these types of short videos is like eating your favourite food. Once you start, it's hard to stop. It's exactly an easy way to kill time. But this “easy fun” costs us a lot. The more time we spend on our screens, the less real-life happiness we experience. While we are having a “good” time on the Internet, we are missing the wonders of the real world. Over time, we feel our lives are becoming more and more boring.
What can we do to make a change? It's time to bring back “free fun”. Go out with your friends or family and enjoy the beauty of nature. Take in the fresh air. Bathe in the warm sunlight. Light up your day with the pleasant birdsong. Just don't let your screens take up your free time and leave your brain “rotting”!
1. How many hours do Chinese spend online every day according to the report?
2. Which word(s) can we use to show the global problem?
3. Why does the writer compare “watching short videos” to “eating your favourite food”?
4. What will people miss when they are watching screens according to the passage?
5. What can you do for “free fun” instead of watching a screen?(Please give two examples)
How do you spend your free time? Do you keep watching a screen for about 10 hours from morning to night? Well, you're not alone. A new report says Chinese people spend five and a half hours on the Internet every day! In the report, not just in China, 69% of the people in the world usually watch short videos online. Not like reading books or learning, these short videos make us stop thinking for ourselves. The Oxford Word of the Year—“brain rot(脑腐)” best shows this global problem.
But how do we get here? Watching these types of short videos is like eating your favourite food. Once you start, it's hard to stop. It's exactly an easy way to kill time. But this “easy fun” costs us a lot. The more time we spend on our screens, the less real-life happiness we experience. While we are having a “good” time on the Internet, we are missing the wonders of the real world. Over time, we feel our lives are becoming more and more boring.
What can we do to make a change? It's time to bring back “free fun”. Go out with your friends or family and enjoy the beauty of nature. Take in the fresh air. Bathe in the warm sunlight. Light up your day with the pleasant birdsong. Just don't let your screens take up your free time and leave your brain “rotting”!
1. How many hours do Chinese spend online every day according to the report?
Five and a half hours.
2. Which word(s) can we use to show the global problem?
Brain rot.
3. Why does the writer compare “watching short videos” to “eating your favourite food”?
Because once you start, it's hard to stop.
4. What will people miss when they are watching screens according to the passage?
They will miss the wonders of the real world, such as the beauty of nature and time with family and friends.
5. What can you do for “free fun” instead of watching a screen?(Please give two examples)
I can go for a walk in the park with my parents, or do calligraphy at weekends.（答案不唯一，合理即可）
答案
1. Five and a half hours. 2. Brain rot. 3. Because once you start, it's hard to stop. 4. They will miss the wonders of the real world, such as the beauty of nature and time with family and friends. 5. I can go for a walk in the park with my parents, or do calligraphy at weekends.（答案不唯一，合理即可）
