【正文】 apps from my iPhone. I didn’t touch a single free newspaper and deliberately looked the other way when someone tried to offer me any such reading material. The first weeks were hard. Very hard! I was constantly afraid of missing something. But after a while, I had a new understanding. The result after three years: clearer thoughts, more valuable ideas, better decisions, and much more time. And the best thing? I haven’t missed anything important.A dozen reasons exist to ____. Here are the top three: First, our brain reacts differently to different types of information. Shocking, peoplebased, fastchanging details all appeal to us. News producers capitalize on this. The result: Everything plex, abstract, and profound(深刻的) must be systematically singled out, even though such stories are much more relevant to our lives and to our understanding of the world. As a result, we walk around with a misrepresented mental map of the risks and threats we actually face.Second, news is irrelevant. In the past year, you have probably consumed about ten thousand pieces of news. Be very honest: Name one of them, just one that helped you make a better decision—for your life, your career, or your business—pared with not having this piece of news. No one I have asked has been able to name more than two useful news stories—out of ten thousand. News organizations claim that their information gives you a petitive advantage. Too many fall for this. If news really helped people advance, journalists would be at the top of the ine pyramid.Third, news is a waste of time. An average human being spends half a day each week reading about current affairs. This is a huge loss of productivity. Take the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai. Let’s say a billion people viewed the minutebyminute updates and listened to the chatter of a few “experts” and “mentators.” Thus our conservative calculation: One billion people multiplied by an hour’s distraction equals one billion hours of work stoppage. News wasted around two thousand lives—ten times more than the attack.I would predict that turning your back on news will benefit you as much as removing any of the other ninetyeight errors we have covered in the pages of this book. Read long background articles and books. Nothing beats books for understanding the world.【語(yǔ)篇導(dǎo)讀】本篇是一篇說(shuō)明文，作者介紹了閱讀新聞是沒有用并且浪費(fèi)時(shí)間的，認(rèn)為讀書才是獲取知識(shí)的重要方法。你的英國(guó)朋友Jim即將過(guò)生日。請(qǐng)給他寫封信，內(nèi)容包括：；2. 禮物介紹；3. 選擇該禮物的原因。Dear Jim,Yours,Li Hua。請(qǐng)你按照以下四幅圖的先后順序，以“Preparations for New Year’s Party”為題，給?？瘜懸黄⑽母寮?，介紹準(zhǔn)備聯(lián)歡會(huì)的全過(guò)程。補(bǔ)全信息 （本大題共5小題，每小題____分，共____分。professional image. Theybelieve dressing down at work is one of the signs that the society is loweringits standards of everything. Czardas and John T. Malloy, author of Dress for Success, say psychologicalchanges occur when people dress up. “There is no question what you wear affectswhat you do, your performance, and your attitude,” says Malloy.Will the dressdown trendlast?B. 答案單選題 C D A D D B D B B C C A A C B 完型填空 D A B C B A B C A D B C A D D C B A D C 簡(jiǎn)答題 C B C A C D A B D D B A A C B Dear Jim, It’s a lacquerengraving handicraft plate. Lacquer engraving is a traditional Chinese folkcraft art. The engraving is done on layers of red lacquer painted on a woodenbase. You know, the color of red stands for happiness and good fortune and isespecially favored by Chinese people. I hope you’ll like birthday again! Last Monday, realizingthe new year of 2017 was ing, some of my classmates and I came up with anidea that we should hold a party to celebrate it. 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