We can't remember clearly since when we have started to take our mobiles to a dinner table. This happens a lot,especially when we eat out. Once a dish comes,instead of lifting our chopsticks,we take out our mobiles and click. Later, we post the photos onto Weibo or Wechat,waiting to be "liked". Then we check our mobiles from time to time during the meal,to see whether we get "liked" or not. We just cannot leave our mobiles for only a meal.

Does that sound familiar to yours? Do you do that often? If not,how do you feel when others do that when having dinner with you?

A recent study suggests that what we are used to doing is not so good. Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less pleasant. To test this,some researchers did an experiment. Some people were asked to take photos before they could enjoy food. As a result,it showed that the more photos they took, the less delicious the food seemed to them.

Besides the scientific result, there are also some other bad influences of taking photos of food before meals. After posting the photos onto the Internet,one will not be able to control himself and check his mobile many times. "Does everyone like my photos" It seems that your mobile secretly calls your name all the time, even when you are with real people.

So, next time you go out to have dinner with your family or friends, how about not taking photos of food? Let the food be delicious as it is and share your life with people around you. Trust me. It will be a wonderful time.

1.What happens a lot at the dinner table nowadays?

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2.What does the recent study tell us about taking photos of food?

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3.Do you often take photos of food before meals? Why or why not?

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To most of us, school means classes, teachers. schedule,grades and tests. But for the children at Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts, school is very ______ .

Firstly, there are no ______ . All the children, aged between 4 and 19,do whatever they want. There are no teachers, only "staff members(管理人员) ". The idea behind this is that you do not need to make children learn because children want to learn anyway. "You do not need to say to three-year-old kids, Go to ______ the secrets of nature. You can't stop them!" says Daniel Greenberg, a founder(创始人)of the school. "But if you make children do what you want all day, they will lose all ______ for learning. "

At Sudbury Valley School,you will find children talking, reading, painting, playing the piano, climbing trees, ______ just running around. Two boys spent three years just fishing!

The other way that Sudbury Valley School is different is that the children can ______ the rules. Every week, there is a school ______ where both children and staff have one vote each-even the four-year-olds. They decide the school rules. ______ to spend the school budget(预算),and even which staff they want and do not want any more.

When the school first opened in 1968,people said it would ______ work. But today, the school has 200 students, and 80% of its students ______ to college. Even the two boys who went fishing all the time have become successful today. One of them is a musician and the other is a computer scientist.

1.A. boring B. important C. common D. different

2.A. lessons B. students C. books D. playgrounds

3.A. create B. discover C. hide D. represent

4.A. value B. taste C. importance D. energy

5.A. and B. but C. or D. so

6.A. break B. keep C. decide D. obey

7.A. meeting B. experiment C. experience D. club

8.A. when B. how C. that D. why

9.A. never B. always C. often D. sometimes

10.A. go up B. go down C. go on D. go back

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