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第四部分 任务型阅读(共10小题；每小题1分, 满分10分）
请认真阅读下列短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。 注意：请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只填一个单词。
Escape from FoMO
Here’s a test you might enjoy: rate these situations on a number scale, ranging from 1 for mild discomfort to 7 for unbearable distress.
Situation 1: you, re visiting New York City and realize there’s no way you’ll be able to get to all the exhibits, see all the recommended plays or take in even part of the “musts”. How do you feel now? Something like 5?
Situation 2: you, re at dinner with friends, and you’ve all agreed to make it a strictly phone-free evening. But your smartphone won’t stop beeping Twitter and text alerts. Something is obviously up in your social network, but you can’t check. Even 7 wouldn’t match the stress you’re feeling now.
Welcome to FoMO (Fear of Missing Out), the latest mental disorder caused by social media connections sharing updates that leaves individuals feeling that they are missing out on something more exciting, important, or interesting going on somewhere else. It is an outcome of technological advancement and booming social information. According to a recent study, 56 per cent of those who use social networks suffer this.
It is not uncommon that at night when you’ve sworn again to put the phone aside or turn off the computer, you cast one last glance at the screen on your way to bed in case you miss some titbit (趣闻)supplied by mere acquaintances or even strangers’ requesting your “friendship”.
We all know the studies showing that end-of-life regrets centre on what we didn’t do, rather than on what we did. If so, constantly watching others doing things that we are not is rich ground for a future of looking back in sorrow. Attractive online images—so charming from afar—make FoMO more destructive. Technology has become the major construct through which we define intimacy (亲密).You may look on in wonder as someone taps out an endless text message instead of actually talking to the person they’re with. Being connected to everyone, all the time, is a new human experience; we, re just not equipped to cope with it yet.
Researchers say our dependence on technology can be reduced if we manage to separate ourselves, even for short periods of time, from our gadgets. However, the problem can only be settled when we grasp that our brains and our humanity—not our technologies—enable this addiction. We cannot seek solutions without honestly asking ourselves why we are so afraid of missing out. Researchers find FoMO occurs mostly in people with unfulfilled psychological needs in fields such as love, respect and security. FoMO levels are highest in young people, in particular young men.
What, then, can we do about something so damaging to our quality of life? The best way to cope with FoMO is to recognize that, at our fast-paced life, we are sometimes bound to miss out. Instead of trying to maximize our benefits, we seek a merely “good enough” result. If you still doubt that”good enough” is the best cure for FoMO, the words of the American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson might strike the right chord,” For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
Escape from FoMO
Main Points Details
Concept of FoMO FoMO, constantly (71) ▲ our peace of mind, refers to the unease of feeling that we are not part of social connection.
Examples of FoMO ? When having dinner with friends, we feel extremely depressed when
(72) ▲ to check our social network.
Determined as we are to put aside phones, we can’t shift our (73) ▲ from them until we go to bed.
(74) ▲ behind FoMO ? Technology develops and social information explodes.
Images of online friends (75) ▲ more to us, compared to our real world friends.
Some of us attempt to feel(76) ▲ A fulfilled on social network.
Bad effects of FoMO ? We are constantly (77) ▲ for things that we didn’t do.
Communicating with friends in the virtual world gives(78) ▲ to the decline of important relationships with friends and family.
Suggestions on avoiding
FoMo ? Get (79) ▲ from the modern technology.
Recognize that missing out is part of our life.
Accept that (80) ▲ can sometimes be “a blessing in disguise”.
第五部分 书面表达（满分25分)
81.下面这幅图展现了我国大学热门专业的变迁。请根据你对这幅图的理解用英语写一篇短文。
你的短文应包含以下内容：
1.简要描述上图中热门专业的变迁（30词左右)；
2.分析变迁的原因（1-2个)；
3.介绍你未来的专业选择并说明原因（1-2个)。
注意：
1.可参照图片中文字及下面文章开头所给提示作必要发挥。
2.词数150左右。开头部分已写好, 不计入词数。
3.作文中不得提及考生所在学校和本人姓名。
Over the past 30 years, China has witnessed great changes in popular university majors.
