新版PET考试大的变化就是阅读与写作模块分离,各自有45分钟答题时间;听、说、读、写4个模块分值占比均为25%。PET阅读完形填空主要考查考生对词汇与语法点的应用,包括词义辨析、固定搭配等。 Technology and the Internet in particular,are not inherently antisocial.They can weaken our empathy—the ability to understand another person’s feelings and experience,1 used differently,they could become a world-sized magnifying glass for our better angels.Many corners of the Internet already allow people to 2their empathy and share collective goodwill. People’s ability to connect is the3 that holds our culture together.By thinning out our interactions and shattering our media landscape,the Internet has 4the common ground we need to understand one another.Empathy requires us to 5that even people who disagree with us have a lived experience as deep as our own.But in the fractured landscape of social media,we have little choice but to see the 6side as dumb,dishonest or both.7we reverse this trend and 8empathy,we have little chance of mending the tears in our social fabric. Technology’s socially exhausting effects are not coincidental;they reflect how platforms 9Facebook and Twitter are designed—and such platforms are,10,shaped by financial incentives.These sites 11shareholders not by making users healthy or happy but by keeping them online.This imperative favors extremism,vanity,fear—whatever 12us and holds on.About 70 percent of YouTube views now come from the site’s 13,which are optimized to generate clicks.The result is a massive flow of eyeballs to conspiracy theories,prejudice,and 14. Life online 15how we see others and how we are seen.16we’re not seen at all—our face and name is 17by a symbol and an anonymous character string.Anonymity can be 18—for instance,by allowing people to safely 19protests in authoritarian nations.But it also cuts the brake lines on social interactions,encouraging people to try cruelty on like a mask,knowing it won’t 20them.