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Many old temple structures were built by______.
A、monks
B、Thai kings
C、engineers
D、foreign experts
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A、monks
B、Thai kings
C、engineers
D、foreign experts
A、monks
B、Thai kings
C、engineers
D、foreign experts
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
Photography was once an expensive, laborious ordeal reserved for life&39;s greatest milestones. Now, the only apparent cost to taking infinite photos of something as common as a meal is the space on your hard drive and your dining companion&39;s patience.
But is there another cost, a deeper cost, to documenting a life experience instead of simply enjoying it? “You hear that you shouldn&39;t take all these photos and interrupt the experience, and it&39;s bad for you, and we&39;re not living in the present moment,” says Kristin Diehl, associate professor of marketing at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.
Diehl and her fellow researchers wanted to find out if that was true, so they embarked on a series of nine experiments in the lab and in the field testing people&39;s enjoyment in the presence or absence of a camera. The results, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, surprised them. Taking photos actually makes people enjoy what they&39;re doing more, not less.
“What we find is you actually look at the world slightly differently, because you&39;re looking for things you want to capture, that you may want to hang onto,” Diehl explains. “That gets people more engaged in the experience, and they tend to enjoy it more.”Take sightseeing. In one experiment, nearly 200 participants boarded a double-decker bus for a tour of Philadelphia. Both bus tours forbade the use of cell phones but one tour provided digital cameras and encouraged people to take photos. The people who took photos enjoyed the experience significantly more, and said they were more engaged, than those who didn&39;t.
Snapping a photo directs attention, which heightens the pleasure you get from whatever you&39;re looking at, Diehl says. It works for things as boring as archaeological(考古的)museums, where people were given eye-tracking glasses and instructed either to take photos or not. “People look longer at things they want to photograph,” Diehl says. They report liking the exhibits more, too.
To the relief of Instagrammers(Instagram用户)everywhere, it can even makes meals more enjoyable. When people were encouraged to take at least three photos while they ate lunch, they were more immersed in their meals than those who weren&39;t told to take photos.
Was it the satisfying click of the camera? The physical act of the snap? No, they found; just the act of planning to take a photo—and not actually taking it—had the same joy-boosting effect. “If you want to take mental photos, that works the same way,” Diehl says. “Thinking about what you would want to photograph also gets you more engaged.”
What does the author say about photo-taking in the past?
A.It was a painstaking effort for recording life‘s major events.
B.It was a luxury that only a few wealthy people could enjoy.
C.It was a good way to preserve one‘s precious images.
D.It was a skill that required lots of practice to master.
Kristin Diehl conducted a series of experiments on photo-taking to find out __________.A.what kind of pleasure it would actually bring to photo-takers
B.whether people enjoyed it when they did sightseeing
C.how it could help to enrich people‘s life experiences
D.Whether it prevented people enjoying what they were doing
What do the results of Diehl‘s experiments show that people taking photos?A.They are distracted from what they are doing.
B.They can better remember what they see or do.
C.They are more absorbed in what catches their eye.
D.They can have a better understanding of the world.
What is found about museum visitors with the aid of eye-tracking glasses?A.They come out with better photographs of the exhibits.
B.They focus more on the exhibits when taking pictures.
C.They have a better view of what are on display.
D.They follow the historical events more easily.
What do we learn from the last paragraph?A.It is better to make plans before taking photos.
B.Mental photos can be as beautiful as snapshots.
C.Photographers can derive great joy from the click of the camera.
D.Even the very thought of taking a photo can have a positive effect.
You probably know about the Titanic, but it was actually just one of three state-of-the-art (先进的) ocean ships back in the day. The Olympic class ships were built by the Harland & Wolff ship makers in Northern Ireland for the White Star Line company. The Olympic class included the Olympic, the Britannic and the Titanic. What you may not know is that the Titanic wasn't even the flagship of this class. All in all, the Olympic class ships were marvels of sea engineering, but they seemed cursed to suffer disastrous fates. The Olympic launched first in 1910, followed by the Titanic in 1911, and lastly the Britannic in 1914. The ships had nine decks, and White Star Line decided to focus on making them the most luxurious ships on the water. Stretching 269.13 meters, the Olympic class ships were wonders of naval technology, and everyone thought that they would continue to be so for quite some time. However, all suffered terrible accidents on the open seas. The Olympic got wrecked before the Titanic did, but it was the only one to survive and maintain a successful career of 24 years. The Titanic was the first to sink after famously hitting a huge iceberg in 1912. Following this disaster, the Britannic hit a naval mine in 1916 and subsequently sank as well. Each ship was coal-powered by several boilers constantly kept running by exhausted crews below deck. Most recognizable of the ship designs are the ship's smoke stacks, but the fourth stack was actually just artistic in nature and served no functional purpose. While two of these ships sank, they were all designed with double hulls (船体) believed to make them "unsinkable", perhaps a mistaken idea that led to the Titanic's and the Britannic's tragic end. The Olympic suffered two crashes with other ships and went on to serve as a hospital ship and troop transport in World War I. Eventually, she was taken out of service in 1935, ending the era of the luxurious Olympic class ocean liners. 1.What does the passage say about the three Olympic class ships?
A、They performed marvellously on the sea.
B、They could all break the ice in their way.
C、They all experienced terrible misfortunes.
D、They were models of modern engineering.
A、ugly
B、plumpish
C、proud
D、weak
B、sixth
C、seventh
D、eighth
B、end
C、go away
D、come
B、nicely
C、harshly
D、kindly
B、innovation
C、celebration
D、renewal
B、In the second session.
C、In the third session.
D、In the fifth session.
B、It’s on the 27th September each year.
C、It’s on the 28th September each year.
D、It’s on the 29th September each year.
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