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EVALUATION TEST
Read the questions and choose the best answer!
The text is for number 1-5
New research out of Notre Dame is digging into why social media isn’t always good for us,
especially if you’re young and female. Working as an educator, Carmen Papaluca observed a
worrying trend with her students.
In particular, social media was having a significant negative impacton her students’ mental
health.For anyone who is a regular user of social media which is most of us these days, this won’t
come as a surprise. With everyone sharing their ‘highlight reels’, Carmen observed, young women
find it particularly hard to see their own lives or even their own bodies as good enough. Wanting to
understand more about the issue and what could be done, Carmen began a Ph.D. at the University of
Notre Dame.
The focus of her research is Instagram use among young women aged 18 to 25. One of the
key findings of her work so far is that younger female Instagram users in her study, late teens and
early 20s, found that images on the app made them feel most badly about their bodies. However,
women who were slightly older (mid-20s) felt the inadequacy around their work and lifestyle. In
comparison to the images of the apparently fabulous social lives and careers of others on Instagram,
they felt that their own lives “lacked meaning”.
The blame of the perceived problems with new technologies gets put entirely on those new
technologies. But if we want to find a real solution to these problems, we need to dig a bit deeper. In
other words, it’s not just Instagram that is the problem. It’s the social pressures put on young
women that have been part of our culture for many years that are now becoming amplified by social
media.
Adapted from https://phys.org/news/2018-01-instagram-affecting- mental-health.html
1. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. How social media destruct females’ life.
B. Technology merely bears bad sides in a human’s social life.
C. Social media impacts negatively on young women’s mental health.
D. The use of social media apparently decreases people’s standard behavior.
E. A study about the relationship between social media impact and students’ achievement.
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