17、r? Not necessarily. A recent study has found spending too much time comparing your life to the seemingly perfect lives of your friends on social media can cause depressive symptoms.Weve all done i t browsing through our Wechat friends updates while feeling thatgreen-eyed monster rearing its head in。

18、our minds. Are my friends boyfriends more handsome than mine? Are their homes bigger and more tasteful? Are their vacations more expensive and exciting? Are their careers more successful and rewarding?“Comparison is the thief of joy.” The more time you spend on so cial media, the more likely it is f 。

19、or you to feel depressive symptoms, according to a new study led by Mai-Ly streets, which examines the potential impact online social comparison can have on a persons mental health.“The basic mechanism(机制) is social com parison.“ Streets told The Washington Post in an interview.This social compariso 。

【2021|2021年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试】20、n theory was popularized by US psychologist Leon Festinger in the 1950s. Festinger argued that people have born tendencies to track their progress and measure their self-worth by comparing themselves to other people. That social comparison leads to feelings of insignificance and insecurity. Research 。

21、 has since found that making social comparisons, especially “upward” comparisons (to people we consider above us for whatever reason), are associated with bad health results like depressive symptoms and decreasedself-respect.“Its important to basically recognize: If the images of our fabulous friend 。

22、 are causing us to feel more depressed, maybe we need to step away.” Streets told The Washington Post.So if you are the jealous type, maybe think about signing off your WeChat for a while. Your well-being may depend on it.28. What feeling does ”feeling that green-eyed monster rearing its head in our 。

23、 minds” refer to?A. EnviousB. MercilessC. NormalD. Curious29. What should people do if theyve developed depressive symptoms?A. Listen to happy music.B. Take exercise activelyC. Stay away from social mediaD. Chat with friends face to face30. According to the passage, the social comparison theory_____ 。

24、.A. is aimed to record ones developmentB. can give motivation for a persons progressC. was established by Mai-Ly Streets in the 1950sD. was made understandable to the general public in the 1950sDThe first drawing on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks。

25、wrote their names and poems on buildings. Modern graffiti(涂鸦) seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York. The new art from really took off in the 1970s, when people began writing their names, or “tags”(标记), on buildings all over the cit 。

26、y. In the mid-seventies it was sometimes hard to see out of a subway car window, because the trains were completely covered in spray paintings known as “masterpieces”.In the early days, the “taggers” were part of street gangs who were concerned with making their territory. The term “graffiti” was fi 。

27、rst used by the New York Times and the novelist Norman Mailer. But at the same time when it began to be regarded as an art form in the early seventies, John Lindsay, the then mayor of New York, declare the first war on graffiti. By the 1980s it became much harder to write on subway trains without be 。

28、ing caught , and instead many of the more established graffiti artists began using roofs of buildings.The debate over whether graffiti is art or illegal behavior is still going on. Peter Vallone, a New York city councilor, thinks that graffiti done with permission can be art, but if it is on someone 。

29、 elses property it becomes a crime. On the other hand, Felix, a member of the Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City, says that artists are reclaiming cities for the public from advertisers, and that graffiti represents freedom and makes cities more lively.For decades graffiti has been helpful to inte 。

30、rnational fame for a few. The Frenchman Blek le Rat and the British artist Banksy have achived international fame by producing complex works with stencils(模版), often making political or humorous points. Works by Banksy have been sold for over 100,000.Graffiti is now sometimes big businesss.32. What。

31、was the motivation for the street gang to write tags?A. Showing which streets belonged to which gangs.B. Creating a strong visual effect for them.C. Sending secret massages to other gangs.D. Drawing the public attention to them.33. What does New York city councilor Peter Vallone say about graffiti?A 。

32、. Graffiti should be banned because of its bad effects.B. Graffiti can be beautiful if it is done by a skilled artist.C. Graffiti is a crime if the artist does not have permission.D. Graffiti can be good for cities as long as conveys positive messages.34. The Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City hol 。

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