I love my Blackberry mobile phone – it’s my little connection to the larger world that can go anywhere with me. I also love my computer, as it holds all of my writing and thoughts. However, I know there are times when I need to move away from these things and truly communicate with others.

I teach a course called History Matters in college. My goals for the class include a deep discussion of historical subjects and ideas. Because I want students to fully study the material and discuss with each other in the classroom, I have a rule – no computers, iPads, phones, etc. When students were told my rule, some of them were not happy.

Most students think my reasons for this rule include negative experiences in the past when students made wrong use of technology. There’s a bit of truth to that. I’ve seldom had students make wrong use of technology in my classes; however, I have been e-mailed by students while they were in other teachers’ classrooms.

Some students think that I am anti-technology. There’s no truth in that at all. As I noted above, I love technology and try to keep up with it.

The real reason why I ask students to leave technology at the door is I think there are very few places in which we can have deep conversations. Interruptions (中断) by technology often break students’ thoughts and make them depend too much on outside information for ideas. I want students to dig deep in themselves for ideas. I want them to push each other to think differently and to make connections between the course material and the class discussion.

I have been teaching my history class in this way for many years and the evaluations (评价) show student satisfaction with the environment that I create. Students realize with deep conversation and difficult tasks, they learn at a deeper level – a level that helps them keep the course material beyond the classroom.

I am not saying that I won’t ever change my mind about technology use in my history class, but until I hear a really good reason for the change, I will continue my plan. A few hours of technology-free dialogue is just too sweet to give up.

1.The writer’s rule for his History Matters class is ____.

A.discussing historical ideas deeply

B.studying and discussing the materials

C.leaving technology out of the classroom

D.making right use of technology in class

2.The word “negative” in Paragraph 3 means ____.

A.similar B.unforgettable C.special D.unpleasant

3.What can we infer from the passage?

A.Students make right use of technology in other teachers’ classes.

B.The classroom is one of the good places to have deep conversations.

C.The writer encourages students to agree with others after discussion.

D.Students are unhappy with the writer’s way of teaching history.

4.The writer wants to tell us that ____.

A.technology has different influences in different classes in college

B.technology makes it difficult to have true communication in class

C.history classes can help students to develop their deep thinking

D.it is time for him to give up his teaching method in history class

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What do you think being beauty really means? All answers to that question are correct, because there are no right or wrong replies. Despite(不管) what society tries to make us believe, there is no “ideal” beauty. There are exact standards—hair colour, or eye colour—that make someone beautiful. Think about it: did you consider someone to be really beautiful, but your friend didn’t see it? That’s because what’s attractive to one person isn’t necessarily going to be attractive to another. So how can we believe that there’s a standard for beauty? It makes no sense.

Weight-loss companies and clothing industries seem to have made it their goal to get us believe that we are not enough and that we need all kinds of things to be prettier. It’s not true! Companies sell us this ideas for their products to make money. I’m not saying that buying beauty products is bad, but what would be bad is using them because you feel like you have to look a certain way in order to be “beautiful”.

Remember, the people wear tons of make-up and are photoshopped in order to look perfect. When you see a girl who society considers as a “great body”, you have to remember that people have different body types and everyone’s body is different. We’re all beautiful, whether we’re slim, thickset or anywhere in between. If you want to lose weight, go ahead, but do it in a healthy way and do it for the right reason—not because you want to fit in. Being comfortable with yourself is really important, and being with others who accept you as you are and don’t ask you to change to look a specific(特定的) way is important too.

Beauty standards

What being

beautiful means

●It’s not 1. to give an answer to the question.

●One’s beauty cannot be decided by exact standards.

●People have 2. ideas about beauty.

Social factors

●Weight-loss companies and clothing industries 3. our ideas about beauty for the sales of their products.

●It’s bad to use products in order to fit in with a certain standard.

4.

●People have different body types and each of us has our own beauty.

●It’s OK to lose weight but remember to do it 5..

●It’s important for you to accept the way you are and spend time with people who don’t ask you to change the way you look.

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