上海市2021年高考英语冲刺模拟试卷分类汇编：六选四专题 含答案.docVIP

上海市2021年高考英语冲刺模拟试卷分类汇编 六选四专题 2021届上海高考英语冲刺模拟试卷1 Section C Directions: Read the following passages. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. It catches your attention and immerses you in chewing it. They want your eyeballs and don’t care how you’re feeling. C. Yet, that didn’t necessarily mean people preferred positive news. D. The best articles are just like magnets, dragging readers to share them with each other. E. They needed to be aroused one way or the other, and they preferred good news to bad. F. But now that information is being spread and monitored in different ways, researchers are discovering new rules. Bad news sells. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news. Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers. ______67______ By tracking people’s e-mails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sad stories. “The ‘if it bleeds’ rule works for mass media,” says Jonah Berger, a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. “______68______ But when you share a story with your friends, you care a lot more how they react. You don’t want them to think of you as a Debbie Downer.” Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communication—e-mails, Web posts and reviews, face-to-face conversations—found that it tended to be more positive than negative. ______69______ Was positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things? To test for that possibility, Dr. Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on New York Times’ website. He and a Penn colleague analyzed the “most e-mailed” list for six months. One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than non-science articles. He found that s