According to a new study by Israel researchers from University of Haifa, posting blogs to express feelings and emotions is therapeutic for children aged 13-17. Psychology professors Meyran Boniel-Nissim and Azy Barak have found that a teenager writing a publicly-viewed blog on the Internet is more effective for relieving stress rather than keeping a private diary. The study, published in the journal Psychological Services, supports that expressing oneself through writing can be therapeutic.
To conduct the research, Boniel-Nissim and Barak randomly selected Israeli high school students who displayed a certain degree of stress. The teenagers were then divided into six groups. Two groups were asked to post blogs twice a week about their social difficulties, but only one of them was asked to open the blogs for ments. The next set of groups were also asked to blog twice a week to post about whatever was going on in their mind, again with one group allowing ments. The two control groups were asked to keep an old-fashioned private diary.
The researchers then collected the blog posts and diaries to discuss the adolescents’ emotional and social position. From the research, they saw that the greatest improvement in mood was with the bloggers who wrote about their personal troubles and allowed people to interact with their posts. The research also noted that the ments were mostly positive and constructive. Boniel-Nissim and Barak said that the mentators’ interactions helped the bloggers while they were distressed. The conclusive research noted that expressing yourself on the Internet not only let others know what was personally going on with you, but also helped you figure out some things about yourself too.
【小题1】The underlined word “therapeutic” in Paragraph 1 can be best explained as “ ”.A．attractive to teensB．addictive for childrenC．making people feel calm and relaxedD．able to be easily hurt【小题2】 were selected for the research.A．Those who blogged regularly.B．Those who suffered from stress. C．Those who had never blogged before.D．Those who had poor social skills.【小题3】The research shows that teens benefit most when .A．they blog and allow mentsB．they discuss their study on the blogC．they keep a traditional diaryD．they ment on someone else’s blog【小题4】We can infer from the last paragraph that blogging .A．should not always be opened to mentsB．is most useful in improving one’s moodC．is not an effective way to express one’s feelings D．can help students see their problems betterC
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(答案→)C
解析：文章主要讲的当对一些有压力的人来说在博客中写下自己的烦恼并和别人一起讨论会让减轻自己的压力，比写私密日记更有用。
【小题1】细节理解题 根据第一段中“...have found that a teenager writing a publicly-viewed blog on the Internet is more effective for relieving stress rather than keeping a private diary...”可知把自己的想法表达出来会有积极的作用，会让人感到放松。因此选C。
【小题2】细节理解题 根据第二段中“...selected Israeli high school students who displayed a certain degree of stress...”可知选的都是有压力的孩子。
【小题3】细节理解题 根据最后一段“...they saw that the greatest improvement in mood was with the bloggers who wrote about their personal troubles and allowed people to interact with their posts....”可知当把他们自己事情公开并和别人进行讨论后他们的心情变得更好了。
【小题4】推理判断题 根据最后一句话“...The conclusive research noted that expressing yourself on the Internet not only let others know what was personally going on with you, but also helped you figure out some things about yourself too.”可知blogging可以帮助人们解决有关自己的一些问题。因此选D。