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体裁说明文题材消息的传播词数387 Bad news travels fast—when you watch the evening news or read

the morning papers, it seems that things that get the most coverage

are all tragedies like wars, earthquakes, floods, fires and murders.

This is the classic rule for mass media. “They want your eyeballs

and don’t care how you’re feeling, ”Jonah Berger, a psychologist

at the University of Pennsylvania, the US, told The New York Times.

But with social media getting increasingly popular, information is now being spread in different ways, and researchers are discovering new rules — good news can actually spread faster and farther than disasters and other sad stories.

Berger and his colleague Katherine Milkman looked at thousands of articles on The New York Times’website and analyzed the“most e-mailed”list for six months.

One of his findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list. Those stories aroused feelings of awe and made the readers want to share this positive emotion with others.

Besides science stories, readers were also found to be likely to share articles that were exciting or funny. “The more positive an article, the more likely it was to be shared, ”Berger wrote in his new book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On. For example, “stories about newcomers falling in love with New York City”, he writes, tend to be shared more than“the death of a popular zookeeper”.

The difference between the two is due to the fact that the mass media prefers news that gets atte ntion, while when you share a story with your friends“you care a lot more about how they react”, Berger explained.

But does all this good news actually make the audience feel better? Not necessarily.

According to a study by researchers at Harvard University, people tend to say more positive things about themselves when they’re talking to a bigger audience, rather than just one person, which helps explain all the perfect vacations that keep showing up on micro blogs. This,

researchers found, makes people t hink that life is unfair and that they’re less happy than their“friends”.

But no worries. There’s a quick and easy way to relieve the depression you get from viewing other people’s seemingly perfect lives - turn on the television and watch the news. There is always someone doing worse than you are.

1. Why do mass media like to report bad news according to the article?

A. They want to attract the attention of readers.

B. They care a lot about how readers react.

C. They think bad news spreads faster than good news.

D. They want to show concern for people in disaster-hit areas.

2. Which of the following is TRUE about Berger’s and his colleague’s study?

A. They found that articles on science are more likely to be shared.

B. Sad news tended to arouse the audience’s feelings of awe and sympathy.

C. It was aimed at finding out whether mass media should cover more tragedies.

D. Good news usually helps the audience relieve their negative emotions.

3. We can conclude from the last three paragraphs that .

A. watching news is good for people’s health

B. people shouldn’t be jealous of their friends

C. sharing good news with friends will double your happiness

D. people might not be as happy as they suggest on their micro blogs

4. What’s the article mainly abo ut?

A. Why bad news is covered most often.

B. Why good news spreads faster than bad news.

C. How people react differently to bad and good news.

D. Which kind of news makes the audience feel better.

B

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