How Good Is Your English? Let’s Test It through a News Article! · English with Jennifer
通过一篇关于数字排毒的新闻文章，测试你的英语听力、词汇和语法。适合练习听力理解、词汇积累和语法运用。
Reading the news in English helps build vocabulary and grammar.
用英语阅读新闻有助于扩大词汇量并提高语法水平。
It can also help you think more in English if you reflect on what you read and react to it either by speaking or writing.
如果你通过口语或书面形式来思考自己所读的内容并对此作出反应，这也有助于你更多地用英语进行思考。
How good is your English?
你的英语水平如何？
Let's find out.
让我们来弄清楚吧。
Hi, I'm Jennifer and with the help of a news article from The Week magazine, I'm going to test your listening vocabulary and grammar.
嗨，我叫詹妮弗。借助《The Week》杂志上的一篇新闻文章，我将测试你们的听力词汇量和语法能力。
Later, I'll invite you to reflect and react to the article.
稍后，我会邀请你们思考这篇文章的内容，并对此发表自己的看法或反应。
So, stay with me until the end.
请坚持看完我的讲述，直到最后。
First, listen as I read from the Health and Science section in the May 1st, 2026 issue of The Week magazine.
首先，请听我朗读《The Week》杂志2026年5月1日刊中“健康与科学”板块的内容。
I'm not going to show you the text yet.
我暂时还不打算把文本展示给你们看。
Listen and try to answer these three questions.
请听仔细，然后试着回答这三个问题。
One, for how many days did the people in the study stop their use of the internet?
首先，研究中的参与者停止使用互联网的具体天数是多少？
Two, what were the effects?
其次，这些措施产生了哪些具体影响？
What exactly did the participants experience?
参与者究竟经历了什么？
And three, according to the article, how does phone use compare to computer use?
第三点，根据这篇文章的内容，手机的使用情况与电脑的使用情况相比如何呢？
Spring cleaning for the brain.
为大脑“进行一次大扫除”吧（即清理大脑中的杂乱信息或负面情绪）。
Put down your phone for two weeks and you could reverse a decade's worth of cognitive decline.
把手机放旁边两周，或许就能逆转十年来的认知能力衰退趋势。
That's the finding of one of the largest studies of its kind involving more than 450 people, reports the Washington Post.
据《华盛顿邮报》报道，这是同类研究中规模最大的一项研究的结论；该研究共有超过450名参与者参与其中。
For 14 days, the participants used an app called Freedom to block internet access on their phones.
在14天的时间里，参与者使用了一款名为“Freedom”的应用程序来阻止手机上的互联网连接。
Calls and texts were still allowed.
通话和短信发送仍然是被允许的。
their daily time online plummeted from more
他们每天上网的时间大幅下降（从之前的较多时间降到了现在的较少时间）。
than 5 hours to just over 2.5, and by the end of the period participants showed marked improvement in sustained attention,
从最初的 5 小时缩短到仅 2.5 小时左右；在该阶段结束时，参与者的持续注意力能力有了显著提升。
mental health, and well-being.
心理健康与幸福感。
The gain in attention was equivalent to
所获得的关注度提升相当于……
about 10 years of age related decline, and the effect on depression symptoms was comparable to that of cognitive behavioral therapy.
大约在10岁左右，个体的认知能力会开始出现下降；这种下降对抑郁症状的影响与认知行为疗法的效果相当。
Encouragingly, even those who cheated by borrowing a phone still benefited, and many reported that the positive effects lingered well after the experiment ended.
令人欣慰的是，即使是那些通过借手机来作弊的人也从中受益；许多人表示，这些积极的影响在实验结束后依然持续了很长时间。
The findings echo those of a separate Harvard study, which found that just a week of reduced smartphone use produced drops in anxiety,
这些研究结果与哈佛大学另一项研究的结果一致。那项研究发现，即使只是减少一周智能手机的使用时间，也能有效降低人们的焦虑情绪。
depression, and insomnia.
抑郁症、失眠症。
Phone use is far more damaging than computer use.
使用手机对健康的危害远大于使用电脑。
The researchers say because it tends to be compulsive and mindless.
研究人员表示，这种行为往往具有强迫性且缺乏理性思考（即行为发生时人们并未经过深思熟虑）。
People scroll while walking, eating, and talking, making those activities less satisfying and relationships less fulfilling.
人们在走路、吃饭或交谈时都会不停地刷手机，这使得这些活动本身的乐趣大打折扣，同时也削弱了人与人之间的情感联系（即让人际关系变得不那么充实或令人满足）。
You don't have to restrict yourself forever, says co-author Kostadin Kushlev from Georgetown University.
你不必永远限制自己的行为，”该研究的合著者、来自乔治城大学的科斯塔丁·库什列夫（Kostadin Kushlev）说道。
Even a partial digital detox, even for a few days, seems to work.
即使只是短暂地（哪怕只有几天）进行“数字排毒”（即减少对电子设备的依赖），似乎也能产生积极的效果。
Question one, for how many days did the people in the main study stop their use of the internet?
第一个问题：在主要研究中，参与者停止使用互联网的具体天数是多少？
14 days.
14天。
For 2 weeks, more than 450 people agreed to block their use of the internet on their phones.
在两周的时间里，有超过450人同意暂时停止使用手机上的互联网服务。
Two, what were the effects?
其次，这些措施产生了哪些具体影响？
Do you remember any?
你还记得其中任何一件事吗？
What about the time spent online?
那么，在网上花费的时间呢？
Their daily online time decreased.
他们每天上网的时间减少了。
More specifically, it went from more than 5 hours to just over 2.5 hours.
更具体地说，使用时间从原来的 5 小时以上缩短到了现在的 2.5 小时多一点。