初中英语早读阅读理解练习TheWorstDayoftheWeek课文原文

初中英语早读阅读理解练习TheWorstDayoftheWeek课文
原文
The Worst Day of the Week
Ask someone who goes to school from Monday to Friday what the worst day of their week is. Most people will say Monday. The fun of the weekend has just finished and the week has just begun. Everyone is back at school or work, and the next weekend is five days away.
However, two math professors in the USA believe this isn’t true, and they can explain why. Peter Dodds and Christopher Danforth studied ten million sentences on social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter. The sentences all included the phrase “feel” or “I’m feeling”. Then, they invented a system of scores for words, between 1 and 9. Positive words like “hopeful” and “cheerful” had high scores. Words like “stressed” and “tired” had low scores. They used the scores of each sentence to decide how happy people were on each day.
Their surprising results may change your life — or at least your week! According to the professors, Sunday is the happiest day of the week. On Sunday, people think and write about the fun things they did on Saturday. Monday is actually the second happiest day of the week. People haven't forgotten about their weekends yet. However, Wednesda y is most people’s worst day of the week. They have already been at school or work for two days. Their memory of the previous weekend has gone and there are two more days before the next one.
Dodds and Danforth found another interesting fact: people between
45 and 60 are the happiest people online, while the most
unhappy group is ... teenagers!。