高中二年级 · 阅读系列
Lesson 20 · One Day without a Score
文体:学习日记 · 朗读音轨 20

先听一遍
听听没有分数的阅读,为何让主人公更记得故事。
展开英文短文,再悬停查词
My language app gave me a daily score, a streak, and a place on a class leaderboard. At first these numbers encouraged me. Later, I found myself opening the app simply to protect the streak, even when I was too tired to understand the lesson.
On a Sunday I turned off the display and read an English comic borrowed from a friend. I looked up a few expressions and laughed at a scene I would have missed before. There was no score for that hour. Yet I remembered the story better than many exercises I had completed quickly.
The next week I returned to the app. I still used its reminders, but I checked the score less often. I wrote a note beside it: “What did I understand today?” Sometimes the answer was a grammar pattern; sometimes it was why a character had changed her mind.
A number can help track practice. It cannot contain every kind of learning. I wanted the score to serve my reading, rather than my reading to serve the score.
逐句跟读
点击任意一句听 Dicvo 的 Jenny 英语语音;开始连续播放前可选择每句播放次数。同一句的每遍之间、切换到下一句之前,都会留出约一遍句子时长供你跟读。原有整篇朗读仍可在上方播放。
请选择一句开始。
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My language app gave me a daily score, a streak, and a place on a class leaderboard.
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At first these numbers encouraged me.
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Later, I found myself opening the app simply to protect the streak, even when I was too tired to understand the lesson.
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On a Sunday I turned off the display and read an English comic borrowed from a friend.
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I looked up a few expressions and laughed at a scene I would have missed before.
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There was no score for that hour.
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Yet I remembered the story better than many exercises I had completed quickly.
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The next week I returned to the app.
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I still used its reminders, but I checked the score less often.
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I wrote a note beside it: “What did I understand today?”
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Sometimes the answer was a grammar pattern; sometimes it was why a character had changed her mind.
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A number can help track practice.
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It cannot contain every kind of learning.
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I wanted the score to serve my reading, rather than my reading to serve the score.
读懂了什么?
读完后,试着用一句话说出本文的主要意思,并从原文找出支持它的一句话。
查看中文译文
语言学习应用每天给我分数、连续打卡天数和班级排行榜名次。起初,这些数字鼓励了我。后来,即使疲惫得看不懂课程,我也只为保住连续打卡而打开应用。
一个星期天,我关掉这些数据显示,读起朋友借我的英文漫画。查了几个表达后,我被一幕情节逗笑了;以前我也许根本看不懂。那一小时没有分数,我却比匆匆做完许多练习时更记得故事。
下周,我又回到应用,仍使用它的提醒功能,却不那么频繁地看分数。我在分数旁写下:‘今天我理解了什么?’有时答案是一个语法规律,有时是某个人物为什么改变主意。
数字能帮助记录练习,却装不下所有学习收获。我想让分数为阅读服务,而不是让阅读为分数服务。
本课重点词语
以下是本课重点词语的中文讲解;英文正文中有虚线的单词可悬停查看词义和发音。
- daily score
- 每日得分;应用量化练习。
- streak
- 连续打卡;主人公想保住纪录。
- leaderboard
- 排行榜;显示班级名次。
- encouraged
- 鼓励;数字起初有激励作用。
- protect
- 保住;后来只为维持打卡。
- expressions
- 表达;读漫画时查了几个。
- exercises
- 练习;匆匆做完不一定记得牢。
- pattern
- 规律;可以是当天的收获。
- track
- 记录;分数可追踪练习量。
- contain
- 包含;数字装不下所有学习。
背景知识
打卡、积分可以帮助维持练习,却可能让目标变成保住数字。主人公重新把理解故事和语言表达放在中心,保留有用提醒而降低对排名的依赖。