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【正文】 nstagram followers and 530,000likes on Facebook since bursting onto the scene in 2021. Owner Amanda Collado, 26, from New York, has been handling the large amount of requests fromfans and media for the past three years. She said, “There have definitely been situations where I havehad to ignore friends, family or work to take the time to do Sam39。m on my phone and not paying attention to them. I never thought Sam would be so popular.” Amanda39。t notice his eyebrows initially.” “He had about 800 followers at first—but in February someone posted his photo on Reddit and heblew up overnight—I woke up with 1600 followers. From there we made a Facebook and all other social media accounts.” Amanda posts pictures to Sam39。s social media has paid off— and she has bigger plans for Sam39。re trying to share him in a free way. Eventually we39。s business. 英語(yǔ)試題 第 3 頁(yè) 共 10 頁(yè) 22. How did Amanda get the cat called Sam? A. She bought it from her friend. B. One of her friends gave it to her. C. Her mother found it and adopted it. D. The text didn39。s photo on Reddit on the Inter. B. She plans to post pictures to Sam?s account every day. C. She plans to buy more cats. D. She plans to sell Sam products. B Whenever something looks interesting or beautiful, there is a natural desire of us to capture (捕捉 )and preserve it— which means, in this day and age, that we are likely to reach for our phones to take a picture. Though this would seem to be an ideal solution, there are two big problems associated with taking pictures. Firstly, we are likely to be so busy taking pictures that we fet to look at the world whose beauty and interest encourage us to take a photograph in the first place. And secondly, because we feelthe pictures are safely stored on our phones, we never get around to looking at them, so sure are we that we?ll get around to them one day. The first person to notice the problems was the English art critic(評(píng)論家 ), John Ruskin. He was a keen traveler who realized that most tourists make a poor job of noticing or remembering the beautiful things they see. He argued that humans have a natural tendency to respond to beauty and desire to have it, but there are better and worse expressions of this desire. At worse, we get into buying souvenirs or taking photographs. But, in Ruskin?s eyes, there?s just one thing we should do—attempting to draw the interesting things we see, regardless of whether we happen to have any talent for doing so. Ruskin said, “Drawing can teach us to see: to notice properly rather than gaze absentmindedly. In the process of recreating with our own hand what lies before our eyes, we naturally move from a position of observing beauty in a loose way to one where we acquire a deep understanding of its parts.” Ruskin deplored the blindness and hurry of modern tourists, especially those who prided themselves on travelling around the whole Europe in a week by train, “No changing of places at a hundred miles an hour will make us stronger, happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than men could see, if they ever walked slowly。d be creating a job of social media ambassador in the 21st century in China. On May 20, one lucky foreigner would be selected to bee the modernday Marco Polo, getting a free 15day trip to the scenic city of Hangzhou in China, and rewarded $55,000 in the next year for working parttime to promote the city to the global audience. Five finalists from Australia, Romania, ., Switzerland and France were in the final race. They came from a pool of 700 applicants from around the world, carefully selected by the Hangzhou Tourism Commission on their familiarity with China, social media presence and adventurous spirit. Located about 100 miles southwest to Shanghai, Hangzhou is home to 844 million population and among China?s richest cities as measures by percapita GDP. Traditionally, Hangzhou is known for its charming West Lake, a UNESCO world heritage site with traditional Chinese stories and tales, and the Grand Canal, which travels from Hangzhou to Beijing and was a key route of transportation in ancient China. The city?s mild climate and charming environment drew 97 million tourists last year, contributing to % of the city?s GDP. The lucky winner would start an allexpensepaid trip to Hangzhou, which, in addition to visits to tourist sites and tastings o
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