Reading C1 – Bài 1: Essay – The Attention Economy

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1. The phrase 'attention economy' is now so familiar that its implications are rarely examined.

2. If attention is a commodity, then distraction is not a side effect but a business model.

3. Platforms optimise for engagement, a metric that rewards intensity of feeling over accuracy of content.

4. The consequence is not merely wasted time but a gradual reshaping of what feels worth thinking about.

5. Critics who frame this as a failure of individual willpower miss the asymmetry involved.

6. A user has finite self-control; a recommendation system has effectively unlimited patience.

7. Meaningful reform, therefore, is more likely to come from design regulation than from personal discipline.

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1. 1. What does the writer say distraction is?

   A side effectA business modelA personal failingA myth

2. 2. What does engagement reward?

   AccuracyIntensity of feelingLengthOriginality

3. 3. The writer blames individual willpower.

   ĐúngSai

4. 4. Điền từ: a user has finite ______-control.

5. 5. Where does the writer expect reform to come from?

   Personal disciplineDesign regulationEducationAdvertising