Women consistently lie on social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter to make their lives appear more exciting, a survey has found. The survey was asked to carried out by Pencourage, a new anonymous（匿名的）"diary-style" social media website.  

Researchers found that at least one in four women exaggerated or twisted what they are doing on social media once a month. The survey of 2000 women found they mostly pretended to be out on the town, when in fact they are home alone, and beautify about an exotic holiday or their job.

The most common reasons for women to write " fibs" included worrying their lives would seem “ boring", jealousy at seeing other people's more exciting posts and wanting to impress their friends and acquaintances.

Psychologists suggested that as people attempt to stay connected on social media, they can in fact be left more isolated. They also said that the more we try to make our lives seem perfect, the less perfect we feel. According to the OnePoll survey, one third of women surveyed admitted to dishonesty on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter at some stage. Almost one in four admitted to lying or exaggerating about key aspects of their life online between one and three times a month while almost one in 10 said they lied more than once a week. Nearly 30 percent of women lied about "doing something when I am home alone", almost a quarter overstated their alcohol consumption while one in five were not truthful about their holiday activities or their jobs. Almost one in five women even lied about their "relationship status".

"We work very hard presenting ourselves to the world online, pretending and attempting to be happy all the time which is exhausting and ultimately unfulfilling," said Dr Michael Sinclair, a leading British consultant psychologist. "Leaving out the less desirable imperfections of our lives from the conversations with our 'friends online leads to less opportunity to feel empathized(有同感的)with, resulting in a greater sense of disconnection from others. "

1.According to the passage, women tend to lie on social networking sites because         .

A. they have little fun in their daily lives

B. they are not satisfied with their present life

C. they want to entertain their friends and acquaintances

D. they don't want to go out and communicate with others

2.Which of the following words can best replace the underlined word in para. 3 ?

A. lies.          B. posts.        C. diaries.  D. impressions.

3.In the view of psychologists, people who attempt to stay connected on social media will

 eventually      .

A. feel better about their life            B. become a regular liar in the future

C. get more isolated in life      D. drink more alcohol in their daily life

4.In Dr Michael Sinclair's opinion,      .

A. we don't have to feel empathized with our "friends" online

B. we cannot get satisfaction by lying on social networking sites

C. it is worthwhile to work hard presenting ourselves to the world online

 D. the imperfections of our lives result in a sense of disconnection from others

 

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　　In the past few decades, the popular belief (相信) has been that happy workers are better workers. However, new research at the University of Alberta shows sad workers are more productive.

　　Psychologist Dr. Robert Sinclair and his former Ph. D student Carrie Lavis recently did a series (系列) of four studies on the effects of happiness or sadness on work productivity (生产率) by asking the workers to build circuit boards (电路板). In the first study, sad people made fewer mistakes than happy people did, about half the number of mistakes, but there was no difference in the number of boards completed.

　　In similar studies Sinclair and Lavis found the same results along with fact that happy people might not devote as much energy to the task in order to keep their happy moods (情绪). They thought of that task as something that might take away from their present feelings. On the contrary, sad people appeared to be devoting energy to the task in order to draw away themselves from their sad feelings.“It is important to know that the moods were not with the task,”said Sinclair, “Unhappiness is coming from something else.”

　　These finding are not surprising, said Sinclair, since there has been a growing body of literature (文学) in the area of social psychology (心理学) showing that sad moods lead to more deep thought and often more thoughtful or right judgements.

In Sinclair's studies afterwards, when people believed that the task would make them feel good, they devoted more energy to the job. The bottom line, which must be accepted, said Sinclair, is that it is important for organizations to consider the feelings of their employees (雇员). It seems it could be useful to create situations that lead people to believe that performing their jobs will cause them to feel good—this could cause increases in motivation (动机) and excellent performance.

1．In the passage the writer seems to suggest that ________.

[　　]

A．the company should try to make workers realize their jobs will make them feel good

B．the company should try as much as possible to make the workers feel happy

C．workers should devote more energy to their work when they are sad

D．workers should give excellent performance in their jobs

2．When the task makes sad workers feel good, they are ________.

[　　]

A．unlikely to feel sad again

B．likely to draw themselves from the sad moods

C．unlikely to make any error

D．likely to make more errors

3．In the last paragraph, the underlined phrase“the bottom line” means ________.

[　　]

A．the last important point

B．the result of the research

C．the fact you must accept

D．the lowest line

4．Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

[　　]

A．A meaningful research.

B．Creating pleasant situation for workers.

C．Moods are connected with workers' performance.

D．Sad workers may make better workers.

Miss Smith is a close friend of _____.

        A.Mary mother’s   B.Mary mother    C.Mary’s mother’s    D.Mary’s mother’s

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