Don’t boast, but be proud of what you’ve done. These two pieces of advice were tough to balance long before Facebook existed, and the share-it-all nature of today’s social media world hasn’t made it any easier. It’s just difficult to draw a line between a modest boast and straight-up boasting. But one thing we know for sure is that oversharing doesn’t do your friendships any favors—a new study out of Carnegie Mellon University proves it.
To find out how social sharing impacts our relationships, Professor George Loewenstein and his colleagues surveyed Amazon employees, dividing them into groups: self-promoters and those who received that self-promotion. Both groups told stories about past experiences with boasting, and how it made them feel. The results? When we inform our peers about our good experiences, we tend to predict their reactions incorrectly. So telling your friends about your great new job or early college admission decision might make them proud of you, but not nearly as proud as you might think. On the other hand, even if you know your news might bother your friends, you probably don’t know just how much.
So your sharing behavior could easily be considered annoying or even narcissistic（自恋）. 【写作内容】
1. 用约30个单词写出上文概要；
2. 用约120个单词发表你的观点，内容包括：
(1) 举一到二个例子说明你所经历的社交分享以及它们的影响；
(2) 在社交分享中要注意的问题以及方法。
【写作要求】
1. 可以支持文中任一观点，但必须提供理由或论据； 2. 阐述观点或提供论据时，不能直接引用原文语句； 3. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称； 4. 不必写标题。 【评分标准】
内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
泰州市2015届高三预测卷参考答案
1—5 ACADB 16—20 CDBAB 36—38 DAB
6—10 DBCBC 21—25 CADBB 39—41 BCA
11—15 DCDAA 26—30 DABDC
31—35 BABCC
47—50 DCCBA
53. engagement/ involvement 55. existence 58. harmonious
42—45 ACDB
51. contradicted 52. Significance/ Importance
54. revealed/ disclosed/ exposed 59. moral
56. offensive/ aggressive 57. protection
60. civilization
One possible version:
As is illustrated in the passage above, it is crucial to draw a balance between a modest boast and a straight-up boasting because social sharing in different ways will influence our relationships.
That reminds me of an experience. I was very excited to tell my friend that I had won the first prize in the math competition and how proud my parents were at the news, only to be received
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with a cold smile, saying I was lucky enough. Not well prepared for her causal response, I stared at her. Worse still, she was weeping with anger. Seeing her sadness, I regretted having told her my result without taking her feeling into consideration.
In my mind, sharing information in a proper way really counts, neither boasting nor assuming. Too much social sharing will have bad effects on the receivers and the givers, making both embarrassed. Dealt with improperly, social information can be misunderstood easily. Hopefully we will handle it well.（160 words）
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