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新东方XDF.CN新东方考研英语经典系列芳研英识2024阅读提分训川练100篇(强化版)新东方考试研究中心编著精选题源文章，囊括新大纲话题，有效强化阅读水平！试题册命题思路严格仿照真题，助你理清思路，把握答题技巧题目设置具有挑战性，尤其适合阅读基础较好的考生全书划分为5个单元，每个单元4篇文章，与真题实考形式一致考研英语（一）和英语（二)均适用与RUNYAN PRESS目录CONTENTSUnit 11Unit 26Unit 312Unit 418Unit 524Unit 629微Unit 735Unit 840Unit 9.46Unit 1051Unit 1157Unit 1263Unit 1368Unit 1474Unit 1580Unit 1686Unit 1791Unit 1897Unit 19103Unit 20108Unit 21114Unit 22120Unit 23126Unit 24132Unit 25136答案速查144Unit 1微信公众号：dk66(Text 1)For those who dont think Zoom meetings are a good enough substitute for the real thing,Facebook has another idea:a virtual reality app that lets you and your coworkers feel like youresitting around a table in a conference room.On Thursday,Facebook unveiled Horizon Workrooms,anapp standing out as the companys most ambitious effort yet to enable groups to socialize in VR andmove the medium beyond entertainment uses such as gaming.Workrooms allows up to 16 VR headset users to meet in a virtual conference room,with eachof them represented by a customizable cartoon-like avatar that appears as just an upper body floatingslightly above a virtual chair at a table.The app supports up to 50 participants in a single meeting,withthe rest able to join as video callers who appear in a grid-like flat screen inside the virtual meetingroom.Headset-wearing meeting participants can use their actual fingers and hands to gesticulate inVR,and their avatarsmouths appear to move in lifelike ways while they speak.A virtual whiteboardlets people share pictures or make presentations.In recent weeks,Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other tech industry executives have spokenwith increasing fervor about visions for ametaverse.The term draws inspiration from a decades-old dystopian sci-fi idea for a virtual world that provides an escape from the realities of everyday life.Despite its bleak origins,tech executives speak optimistically about what such a metaverse could be,with Facebook going so far as to create aMetaverse product groupunder Andrew Bosworth,VP ofFacebook Reality Labs.Workrooms may look like a step toward a more social virtual world,which employs a range oftechnologies and tricks to make the experience feel as in-person as it can be when youre representedin virtual space by an animated approximation of yourself.Even with the rollout of Workrooms,Facebook continues to suffer from some of the problemsplaguing VR:it must convince people(or perhaps in this case,companies)to buy its headsets,usethem regularly,and adapt to new methods of interaction-both with the virtual world and with otherswithin that world-that remain far from perfect.Then theres the headset itself.Bosworth said heexpects people will use the app for about 30 minutes at a time,and that another team at Facebook isworking on improving the ergonomics and weight of VR headsets.The headset currently weighs a bitover a pound,which may not sound like much but was definitely noticeable throughout the course of ahalf-hour meeting.One thing Bosworth noted that the app cant improve on,however,is how engaging meetings are.Even VR cannot make your boring meeting less boring,he said.Unit I1.The phrasestanding out(Line 4,Para.1)is closest in meaning toAimproving salesBmissing the markCreceiving ridiculeDcatching attention2.Facebook developed Horizon Workrooms toAenhance the user experience of its games Bmeet specific customer requirementsCput VR technology into wider useDreplace face-to-face meetings completely3.The concept ofmetaverseis mentioned in Paragraph 3 toAintroduce the background to the launch of the appBshow the market positioning of the appCanalyze Facebooks organizational structureDexplain the process of the app development4.Which of the following might be the flaw of the new app?AThe selling price of the app.BThe weight of the VR headsets.CThe tediousness of the meetings.DThe length of virtual conferences.5.Which of the following would be the best title for the text?ATo Realize the Concept of Metaversein Meeting RoomsBTransformation from Real Dialogue to Virtual InteractionCFaeebook Wants You to Hol Your Next Meeting i VRDWill the Consumers Welcome the Virtual Conference?Text 2)Our use of social media,specifically our efforts to maximizelikes,follows a pattern ofrewardlearning,concludes a new study by an international team of scientists.Its findings,which appearin the journal Nature Communications,reveal parallels with the behavior of animals,such as rats,inseeking food rewards.These results establish that social media engagement follows basic,cross-species principles ofreward learning,explains one of the papers authors.These findings may help us understand whysocial media comes to dominate daily life for many people and provide clues,borrowed from researchon reward learning and addiction,to how troubling online engagement may be addressed.In 2020,more than four billion people spent several hours per day,on average,on platforms suchas Instagram,Facebook,Twitter,and other more specialized forums.This widespread social mediaengagement has been likened by many to an addiction,in which people are driven to pursue positiveonline social feedback,such aslikes,over direct social interaction and even basic needs like eatingand drinking.While social media usage has been studied extensively,what actually drives people toengage,sometimes obsessively,with others on social media is less clear.To examine these motivations,the Nature Communications study directly tested,for the first time,whether social media use can be explained by the way our minds process and learn from rewardsTo do so,the authors analyzed more than one million social media posts from over 4,000 userson Instagram and other sites.They found that people space their posts in a way that maximizes how考研英语阅读提分训练100篇（强化版）】many likesthey receive on average:they post more frequently in response to a high rate of likesand less frequently when they receive fewer likes.The researchers then used computational models toreveal that this pattern conforms closely to known mechanisms of reward learning,a long-establishedpsychological concept that posits behavior may be driven and reinforced by rewards.More specifically,their analysis suggested that social media engagement is driven by similarprinciples that lead non-human animals,such as rats,to maximize their food rewards in a SkinnerBox-a commonly used experimental tool in which animal subjects,placed in a compartment,accessfood by taking certain actions.The researchers then confirmed these results with an online experiment,in which humanparticipants could post funny images with phrases,or memes,and receive likes as feedback on anInstagram-like platform.Consistent with the studys quantitative analysis,the results showed thatpeople posted more often when they received more likes-on average.Our findings can help lead to a better understanding of why social media dominates so manypeoples daily lives and can also provide leads for ways of tackling excessive online behavior,saysthe papers lead author.众号：dy666.According to the author,the study attempts to understandAthe principles of reward learningBthe significance of social mediaCthe motive of online engagementDthe behavior of seeking rewards7.The data cited in Paragraph 3 is to showAthe development of specialized forumsBthe popularity of social mediaCthe diversification of online social platformsDthe harm of Internet addiction8.What is the reward that people get in social media interaction?ALikes.BPosts.CLearning.DFeedback.9.What do we know about the mechanisms of reward learning?AIt is the basis of human social communication.BIt highlights the uniqueness of human behavior.CIt reveals the link between behavior and reward.DIt is summarized from animal foraging behavior.10.The significance of this study lies in that itAquantitatively analyzes online social behaviorBpoints out the dominance of social mediaCputs forward a reasonable plan of daily lifeDhelps solve the problem of Internet addiction(Text 3)President 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