A
Duolingo — iOS/Android
Have you ever wanted to learn another foreign language? You might say: “English is hard enough I don’t want to go through that again.”
Relax — learning a foreign language doesn’t always mean you have to sit in class and take endless exams. An app named Duolingo has been designed to help you memorize new words and grammar in creative ways, such as online lessons, games and interesting exercises.
Named “the best language-learning app” by The Wall Street Journal, Duolingo currently offers 30 languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Irish, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish.
Headspace: Meditation & Sleep— iOS
With homework to finish tests to prepare, it can seem like you don’t have a moment to relax and gather your thoughts. What’s to be done?
Meditation(冥想)may help, and here’s an app to get you started. Headspace teaches you to face some of the toughest problems of everyday life. It has courses on work and productivity, personal growth and how to deal with troubling emotions like anger and fear. There are also courses designed specifically for kids and students about dealing with distraction and homesickness.
And, if that isn’t enough, Headspace can help us with the biggest single cause of stress and anxiety : lack of sleep. The combination of the app’s calming voices and relaxing music will help you get a good night’s rest, ready to face the challenge of the next day with optimism and energy.
Gentle Wakeup — Sleep & Alarm Clock with Sunrise — iOS/Android
Every device(仪器)has an alarm function these days. But what does this app have to offer?
The makers of Gentle Wakeup believe people can wake up w ell. The key is that the app wakes with light rather than sound. It offers a better move out of sleep through a “Sunrise” — a light slowly, gradually becomes brighter, just as the sun does. But the sunrise is only half of the waking process: The light grows for 20 minutes before you are eased out of your sleep by the natural early morning sounds of birdsongs. The makers believe users of the app will never wake up in the same w ay again: “Start getting awake by light and you will never w ant to wake up by sounds again”.
Forest: Stay focused — iOS/Android
Though phones make life more convenient, many people feel that they are addictive. Forest is a clever intervention(干预)designed to make people understand that there’s more to life than phones.
Here’s how it works: you plant a seed in the app and the longer you stay away from the phone, the more it grows. From a seed, it becomes a tree and then a forest at last. The makers say, the “sense of responsibility and achievement will encourage you to stay away from your phone and focus on w hat’s important in life”. And Forest has received some good review s from users, who say that’s exactly what it does: “It’s a phone game that gives you time rather than taking it away.”
21. From the passage, we can know that .
A. all the apps mentioned above are available to Android users
B. Duolingo can help users through online lessons, games and tests
C. Gentle Wakeup is designed to wake people up using light alone
D. if students miss their home, Headspace can help
22. If you are a user of Headspace, you can .
A. face some of the most difficult problems in your daily life
B. learn courses helping children how to focus their attention
C. solve the problem of stress, anxiety and lack of sleep
D. have a good sleep for the app’s calming voices and birdsongs
23. Forest users can help the trees to grow by .
A. keeping off their cellphones B. running the app on a regular basis
C. developing a sense of responsibility D. posting positive review s of the app
【答案】21. D 22. B 23. A
【解析】
这是一篇应用文。主要介绍了四款手机应用软件的情况。
【21题详解】
细节理解题。根据Headspace: Meditation & Sleep— iOS部分第二段最后一句There are also courses designed specifically for kids and students about dealing with distraction and homesickness.（也有专门为孩子和学生设计的课程来处理分心和思乡之情。）可知如果学生想念他们的家，Headspace可以帮助他们。故选D。
【22题详解】
细节理解题。根据Headspace: Meditation & Sleep— iOS部分第二段最后一句There are also courses designed specifically for kids and students about dealing with distraction and homesickness.（也有专门为孩子和学生设计的课程来处理分心和思乡之情。）可知如果你是Headspace的用户，你可以学习帮助孩子们集中注意力的课程。故选B。
【23题详解】
细节理解题。根据Forest: Stay focused — iOS/Android部分第二段第一句Here’s how it works: you plant a seed in the app and the longer you stay away from the phone, the more it grows. From a seed, it becomes a tree and then a forest at last.（它的工作原理是这样的:你在应用中植入一颗种子，你离开手机的时间越长，它就长得越多。从一粒种子，它变成了一棵树，最后变成了森林。）可知Forest用户可以通过远离手机来帮助树木生长。故选A。
