A. Once.
B. Twice.
C.Three times.
D. Four times.
36. According to the story, Penny probably feel in the end.
A. sad and worried
B. anxious and sorry
C. relaxed and excited
D. surprised and happy
37. We can infer from the passage that Penny’s father wants to tell her that ___________.
A. it’s not easy to get something valuable
B. to give means to receive something better
C. pocket money should be earned with effort
D. nothing can be achieved without effort
C
We can’t remember clearly since when we started to take our mobiles to a dinner table. This happens a lot, especially when we eat out. Once a dish comes, instead of lifting our
chopsticks, we take out our mobiles and click. Later, we post the photos onto Weibo or Wechat, waiting to be “liked.”Then we check our mobiles from time to time du ring the meal, to see whether we get “liked” or not. We just cannot leave our mobiles for simply a meal.
Does that sound familiar to you? Do you do that often? If not, how do you feel when others do that when having dinner with you?
A recent study suggests that what we are used to doing is not that good. Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less pleasant. To test this, some researchers did an experiment. Some people were asked to take photos before they could enjoy food. It turned out that the m ore photos they took, ▲ . So, why not stop taking photos and just enjoy the food ahead of you?
Besides the scientific result, there are also some other bad influences of taking photos of food before meals. After po sting the photos onto the Internet, one will be unable to control himself and check his mobile many times. “Does everyone accept my photo? I hope a lot of people like it!” It seems like your mobile secretly calls your
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