2015-2016学年辽宁省沈阳二中高二下学期6月小班化阶段验收英语（解析版）.doc

2015-2016学年辽宁省沈阳二中高二下学期6月小班化阶段验收英语 Well, parents, surprise! Lots of us are using Twitter and Facebook to thumb rides, and not just to school. It’s awkward to be refused when you call a friend and ask for a ride. But with Twitter, you just look for other people heading the same way. It may sound risky, so many teens stay within their own social circles to find rides, and don抰 branch out beyond friends when asking on Twitter just like me, but to some young people, especially those taking longer trips, stranger danger is less of a concern. 揑 think the digital connection of young people is really key, because younger generations grew up sharing things on line, sharing files, photos, music, etc, so they抳e been very used to sharing,?said Juliet Schor, a soipsciology professor at Boston College. The sharing economy got big during the recession (经济衰退), allowing people to access more goods, services using technology and even to share costs. And that technology, for me, is what the car was for my mom, a gateway to more freedom, like what my friend Earl says, 揟he symbol of freedom isn抰 the car any more because there抯 technology out there connecting you to a car.? According to the researchers at the University of Michigan, 30 years ago, eight in ten American 18-year-olds had a driver抯 license compared to six in ten today. So it抯 not that surprising that on my 16th birthday I wasn抰 rushing to get a license but an EaiPhone. 揇riving, for young people, does mean they have to disconnect from their technology, and that抯 a negative. So if they could sit in the passage side and still be connected, that抯 going to be a plus.?Schor continued.I wa To me, another plus is that ride sharing represents something, something much bigger than trying to save money. I see it as evidence that people still depend on each other. My generation shares their cars and apartments the way neighbors used to share cups of sugar. For the system to work, some of us still need our own cars. But until I get