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问题详情:
Bad news travels fast—when you watch the evening news or read the morning papers, it seems that things that get the most coverage are all tragedies like wars, earthquakes, floods, fires and murders.
This is the classic rule for mass media. “They want your eyeballs and don’t care how you’ re feeling, ”Jonah Berger, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, the US, told The New York Times.
But with social media getting increasingly popular, information is now being spread in different ways, and researchers are discovering new rules - good news can actually spread faster and farther than disasters and other sad stories.
Berger and his colleague Katherine Milkman looked at thousands of articles on The New York Times’ website and analyzed the “most e-mailed” list for six months.
One of his findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list. Those stories aroused feelings of awe and made the readers want to share this positive emotion with others.
Besides science stories, readers were also found to be likely to share articles that were exciting or funny. “The more positive an article, the more likely it was to be shared, ”Berger wrote in his new book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On. For example, “stories about newcomers falling in love with New York City”, he writes, tend to be shared more than “the death of a popular zookeeper”.
The difference between the two is due to the fact that the mass media prefers news that gets attention, while when you share a story with your friends “you care a lot more about how they react”, Berger explained.
But does all this good news actually make the audience feel better? Not necessarily.
According to a study by researchers at Harvard University, people tend to say more positive things about themselves when they’re talking to a bigger audience, rather than just one person, which helps explain all the perfect vacations that keep showing up on micro blogs. This, researchers found, makes people think that life is unfair and that they’re less happy than their “friends” .
But no worries. There’s a quick and easy way to relieve the depression you get from viewing other people’s seemingly perfect lives - turn on the television and watch the news. There is always someone doing worse than you are.
12. Bad news covers most papers because __________.
A. the public care for reading tragedies
B. mass media want to attract the public’s attention
C. the public intend to express sympathy for victims
D. mass media appeal to the public to help victims
13. Which of the following might be e-mailed most according to Berger?
A. The perfect vacation of your friend. B. The death of a popular zookeeper.
C. The story of a determined inventor. D. The flood hitting a small town.
14. We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. bad news always makes people sad
B. people prefer to share bad news with a bigger audience
C. people can relieve the depression by reading good news
D. good news sometimes has negative influence
15. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Good News Spreads Fast B. Bad News Spreads Fast
C. The Effect of Bad News D. The Power of Good News
【回答】
BCDA
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