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In the 21st century, people often join a "group chat" on we Chat, share videos on Douyin and give opinions on Facebook. We live in a wholeheartedly. Being the international common language. English has lent itself willingly to be used on social media, experiencing many small but important changes during the process. What are the effects of the social media on the English language?

▲Old words but new meanings

When someone wants to post something on his "wall", why do we think of the homepage of his Facebook, but not the walls in his house? This is the magic of social media. We know "friend" is a noun, but now it's also used as a verb "Friended" "and "unfriended" mean the process of adding or deleting someone from your list of friends.

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Social media has invented new words like "selfie" or "emoji" to describe the new things. The most famous of these words perhaps is "google" which is used more than the old-fashioned simple word "search". Generally sneaking a new word should be in use for at least 10 years before being entered in the Oxford English Dictionary. However the dictionary officially included the word "tweet".

▲Introducing acronyms（缩略词)

LOL (Laugh Out Loud).OMG (Oh My God) and BRB (Be Right Back) are examples of acronyms, the same as (IDK) I Don't Know and (TTYL) Talk To You Later. We need them to be short in length on social media, so we use acronyms to take the place of these phrases.

Social media is without doubt here to stay. In the future, it's likely to develop to a greater degree and take the English language along with it on the road of development.

Every time you're online, you are bombarded (如炮轰) by pictures, articles, links and videos trying to tell their story.

Read these tips, and don't get fooled by fake news!

⒈ Check the source (来源)

Does it look real? Is the text well written? Fake news websites often use addresses that sound like real newspapers, but don't have many real stories about other topics.

⒉ Watch out for fake photos

Many fake news stories use images (图像) that are Photoshopped or taken from an unrelated site. Sometimes, if you just look closely at an image, you can see if it has been changed. Or use a tool like Google Reverse Image search.

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Look to see if the story you are reading is on other news sites that you know and trust. If you do find it on many other sites, then it probably isn't fake (although there are some exceptions).

⒋ Look for other signs

There are other methods that fake news uses. These include using ALL CAPS (全大写) and lots of ads that come out when you click on a link. If the news story makes you angry, it's probably designed to make you angry.

If you know these things about online news, and can use them in your everyday life, then you have the control over what to read and what to believe. If you find a news story that you know is fake, the most important advice is: don't share it!

I work in a bank from Monday to Friday. My house is about ten kilometers from my office. I usually go to work by subway. I usually get up at 6:30 a.m. and take the subway at 7:00 a.m. It takes me about thirty minutes to get to my office. I am never late for work.

Alice

I am a student. My house is near a beautiful park. My school is across from the park. l can walk to school across a bridge. It takes me about thirty minutes. But I often go to school by bike. It takes me about twenty minutes.

Bruce

I work in a restaurant from Monday to Saturday. I often go to work by bus. It's about five kilometers from my house to the restaurant. It takes me about twenty-five minutes to go to work. Because the traffic is very busy, sometimes l am late for work.

Jenny

If you bought some bread months ago but never ate it, how can you tell whether it is still safe to eat?The common way is to check the "use－by date". If that date has already passed, you're likely to throw the bread away. But is that really necessary?

According to a new report from the US Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), tons of food is wasted each year, largely because people don't fully understand what "use－by dates" actually mean.

Food dating was introduced in the 1970s because consumers wanted more information about the things that they were eating. When they first showed up, use－by dates were only supposed to show freshness because producers wanted their products to be tasted in their best conditions.

But the truth is that these dates aren't related to the risk of food illness, according to Time News. However, most customers misinterpreted use－by dates and related them to the safety of the food, and they still largely do now. Eggs, for example, can still be eaten three to five weeks after selling even though the use－by date is much earlier. When their use－by dates pass, strawberry drinks may lose their red color and biscuits may lose their crunch(松脆), but they are not harmful.

This is why scientists are calling for a standard(标准的)explanation to be printed following the use－by dates. "We want this to be clearly communicated so consumers are not misunderstanding and causing a lot of waste, " said Dana Ganders, a staff scientist with the NRDC. But this won't be a mistake that is easy to correct since people have believed it for so long. Another problem is that the quality levels of different foods change differently—some are still safe to eat long after their use－by date while others are not.

As a result, food industry officials are now thinking of changing the use－by date to a date indicating(指示)when food is most likely to go bad.

Not everyone is successful in making their dreams come true.  Walt Disney was. Usually,  (mouse) are not popular, but Mickey Mouse wins many   (people) hearts. Movies about Mickey Mouse are popular almost everywhere in the world for (many) than eighty years. Walt Disney (make) this famous cartoon character. When he was young, Walt Disney was interested drawing cartoons. And he tried his best (find) better ways of making cartoons move. At that time, some movies just started to use sound. So Disney decided to put sound in his cartoons, . People were excited when they saw Mickey Mouse talk (wonderful) on the movie screen. Mickey became popular with young and old.

Replacing （替换） some things in your house at the right time can make you healthier. Some researchers show us when and why the following things should be replaced.

China is a great country with 5,000 years of history. The are many places of interest which attract1tourists from all over the world every year. Some of them are fantastic lakes, beautiful mountains and long rivers.

Many mountains, such as Mount Tai, Mount Emei, Mount Hua are very famous. People go to Mount Tai 2 the sunrise.

3 the rivers the Yangtze River is the longest one and the second 4one is the Yellow River . They are the birthplaces of Chinese culture.

Have you5 the love story about Xu Xian and White snake? It is said that the story happened on the West Lake. The West Lake is the most fantastic place the I have ever visited. It 6 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. It is surrounded on three sides by mountains. Many tourist attractions there are well worth visiting , such as Sudi Causeway , the Broken Bridge and Leifeng Pagoda. The scenery is so attractive that visitors often lose 7 in it

The West Lake has become 8 its special scenery as well as some beautiful poems. These poems were written by Bai Juy and Su Dongpo. 9, the surrounding area of the West Lake the home of the famous Dragon Well Tea.

Have you ever10 the West Lake? If not ever, look for chance to go to the fantastic place!

    Many of the things we use every day, like paper bags, cola bottles, and others, are made out of materials(材料) that can be recycled. That makes it1to create new products out of the materials from the old ones.

    Besides recycling the things you buy, you can help protect the2by buying products that include recycled materials. Many paper towels (纸巾), rubbish bags and greeting cards are made from3materials.

    In some towns you can leave your4in rubbish boxes outside your home, and a truck will come and collect them usually. Other towns have recycling centres where you can5the materials you've collected. Things like paper and plastic bags, and some cola bottles can6be brought to the waste-collecting store for recycling.

    7the waste you produce is the best way to protect the environment. There are lots of8to do this. For example:

    Buy products that don't have a lot of packaging (包装).

    Instead of9something you're not going to use very often, see if you can borrow it from someone you know.

    Cars use up energy and cause10. Walk, take the bus, or ride your bike instead of driving.

Nowadays, cell phones are part of our lives. Many people have cell phones. They can help us easily find people anywhere at any time. However, using cell phones too often may cause cancer(癌症). It's reported that people who use a cell phone for 10 years or more may get brain cancer.

The suggestions below may help you reduce(减少) the risk of cancer;

When using your cell phone, try to keep it away from your body as much as possible. Don't put it on the bedside table when you go to sleep.

When you're on the cell phone, use the speaker(扬声器). In this way, you have just 1/100th of the contact(接触) with radiation you have when you hold it to your ear. An earphone is also a good idea.

Try to keep your conversations short. If you need to talk longer, use an ordinary phone instead.

Change ears when you're using your cell phone. Before putting it to your ear, wait until the person you are calling picks up the phone.

Your phone gives out radiation when you talk or send messages, but not when you're listening or getting messages. Listening more and talking less can lower the risk of cancer.

Do not use your cell phone when the signal(信号) is weak or when moving at a high speed, for example in a car or on a train. At high speeds your phone is trying to pick up signals, and this increases the radiation it gives out.

This is a photo 1 my room. It's not beautiful, but it's very 2 You can 3a bed next to the wall（墙）. The photo on the wall is mine. There is a quilt4 a baseball cap on the bed. There 5 a clock on the table. It's my good friend. 6 morning it can 7 on time to wake（醒来）me up.

What's under the chair? It's my favorite football. My pencil case is on the desk. On the desk, you can also see 8 books. 9 is my schoolbag? Oh, it's on the floor. Do you know my 10? I'm Tom Brown.

    My mother's brother Uncle Mike got a violin from his father. His father got it from his grandfather and so on, back to the day when an earlier Mike had brought the violin from Italy to Cork. It lay in its bed of rich, shining green cloth within a worn black case. The violin was with a faded label： Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Facibat—Anno 17. It was in its accustomed shrine on the top of the china closet in the dining room.

    Once my father took a risk to open his own shop when he needed a mortgage, but my mother didn't not agree with him.

    She cried, "They could turn us into the street. We'd be beggars, Carl."

    "I tell you, Mary, there's no risk whatever," said my father. "It's only a matter of your signature on this loan application. I can pay three thousand dollars back in two years without any trouble."

    A quarrel broke out between my father and mother when Uncle Mike offered the violin to my father.

    "I've read where a Stradivarius violin has sold for as much as five thousand dollars. Take it out and sell it,Carl." His hands trembled a little, but his voice was perfectly calm.

    So my father went out to sell it, yet he came back later with the violin, saying "Up there where it is, it's just as if we had a strong box with fifty new one-hundred-dollar bills. And if we have that, a three—thousand—dollar loan needn't worry us."

    Uncle Mike left the violin to buy me a college education after his death. I went to sell it again the day before I left for my college where the old shop owner recognized it and told me something quite unexpected.

    "It's got a Strad label in it," he said gently. "Lots of violins have that. Not genuine. Never was genuine. This violin is maybe a hundred years old, but it is not, excuse me, a first—class violin." He peered at me curiously. "I have seen this instrument before. Aren't you Carl's girl?

Returning home, I decided to take the violin to the college and keep my father's white lie a secret, speaking to my mother,

    "You won't have to worry about me,if anything happens and I need money. It will be just as if I had a violin case filled with bank notes. Won't it, Papa?

    "It will, Marie, it will,'' my father said, avoiding my eye.

Creator of e-mail makes use of "@" sign

    Does your class use e-mail? Have you ever tried to write a story for our newspaper and send it in by e-mail? E-mail is used for everything, and it makes life easier. But do you know where e-mail came from?

    The man who invented it was Ray Tomlinson, a US engineer. He died early last month at the age of 74.

    Back in 1971, Tomlinson was working on something that could send messages from one computer to another. Tomlinson tried to find a way to separate users' name from the names of their computers. He needed some kind of symbol (符号). However, it couldn't be a popular one, and it couldn't be one that computers might know in a different context (语境). It also needed to be on keyboard at the same time. The "@" sign was there, and pretty much no one. used it. It was perfect.

    “The '@' sign made the most sense," he told Wired in 2012.“It said where the user was... at." For example, by writing “Alex at 2lst Century Teens” you can send a message to somebody named Alex who works at 21^st Century Teens. This was the early form of e-mail.

    The interesting thing is that Tomlinson didn't remember what the very first test message he sent was. “Probably the first message was QWERTYUIOP or something like that," Yahoo reported, guessing the first row of letters on the keyboard.

    Tomlinson, the father of e-mail, changed the way the world communicates and more importantly saved the symbol"@"

     Today, the "@" symbol is finding new life outside of our inboxes (收件箱)，Most famously, social media like weibo and WeChat use it at the beginning of user names. So even if we don't use e-mail some day, Tomlinson's contribution (贡献) will certainly live on.

As you know. washing your hands is an important way to stop the spread of germs(细菌). And another important way is to "cover your cough" Butt how can you do that and why are you supposed to do that? How to cover your cough

It's not difficult to cover your cough, but there is a right and wrong way to do it. You shouldn't put your hand in front of your mouth cover y our cough. If you cough with your hands, the germs will then spread onto everything you touch with your hands. You are supposed to cough with the inside of your elbow. That's because you probably won't try to open any doors with your elbow. If you happen to be standing next to a box of tissues(纸巾) when you need to cough, another choice is to cough with it, and then throw it away at once. If you do. you should clean your hands with some hand sanitizer(洗手液) or wash them just in case (以防any germs got by the tissue and onto your hands.

Why to cover your cough

It is important to cover your cough. It will greatly reduce(减少) the number of germs. These germs are able to spread to people and objects around vou. Even if your illness doesn't seem very bad to you, it could be much more serious for someone that catches your germs. Besides, it's also a very easy way to cover your cough. This step could protect many people from getting sick.

Be sure you cover your cough every time and help cut down the spread of airborne (空气传播的)illnesses.

Alex is reading a book about AI, artificial intelligence (人工智能). He finds the book a little difficult but very interesting. Though the word AI is very popular now, he enjoys reading it very much. He has learned a new idea about AI from the book.

When people ask AI a question, it answers the question in a very short time. So people may feel that AI can think and answer questions as human beings do. Before Alex read this book, he believed this, too. However, this book says it will never happen. Actually, AI only uses a lot of information to get the best answer. So when it has more information, the answer will be much closer to the perfect one. AI technologies will be clever tools for human beings to use. This book also says almost half of our jobs will be done by AI technologies in the near future. People will soon find more AI technologies in our lives, such as checking the tickets, the price, people's faces and fingers.

So, we believe that we will have much happier lives with these AI technologies around us.

Jenny is my friend. She has a happy family. In the morning, she gets up at five forty. She takes a shower and then eats breakfast at half past six. Her parents usually get up at five o'clock. They run for thirty minutes and go home to take showers. Then her mother makes breakfast at six o'clock, and her father watches news on TV.

After breakfast, Jenny's parents go to work and Jenny goes to school. They don't have lunch at home. In the afternoon, Jenny goes home at half past four. She always does her homework after she gets home. Her parents come back at five thirty. They have dinner at six thirty.

In the evening, she either reads books or watches TV, but she can only watch TV for twenty-five minutes. Her parents say it's bad for her eyes to watch TV too much. She has to go to bed at about nine o'clock.

Beijing is the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. In 2008, the 28th Summer Olympics(hold) in Beijing. So Beijing has become the first city to host both the Summer and the Winter Olympics.

The Winter Olympic Games are not just an opportunity for athletes to win(medal) and honor for their countries. The Games also offer a good chance to(we), as we can get to know more about winter sports. the Winter Olympic Games may not have as many players as the Summer Olympic Games, they sharesame Olympic spirit.

One of the (popular) sports of the Winter Olympic Games is skiing. Skiers compete in the short and long ski race. It was once a sport onlycold northern countries.now athletes from all over the world can compete in this sport, even those from countries without any snow.

Generally, the figure-skaters(花样滑冰运动员) are considered  (be) the ice kings. People think that they are not athletes but dancers, because these young people play so skillfully and(beautiful).

One afternoon, an old man took his telephone to a repair shop. Feeling1, he walked up to the technician (技术员) and said, "I have only had this telephone for a few2and it has not received any calls. If you can't fix it, I would like to buy a3one."

After checking the phone, the technician came back with good news, "Your phone works4, sir. I tested it several times. It sends and receives calls perfectly,5you have nothing to worry about. Is there anything else I can help you with?"

Hearing this, the old man began to cry. Then he asked, "Are you sure? Why didn't my6call me? It's already been a few months since I got this phone."

The technician didn't know what to say. The old man looked up and asked, "Do you call your parents?" Again, the technician had7to say.

After listening to the old man, the technician began to feel sorry. With long working hours, he did not call his parents as often as he should. He got tears in his eyes as he8his parents.

"Well, then, you can help me with one thing," said the old man. "9 your parents! Please don't get so busy that they think you have10them." Then he walked out of the store with his head hanging.

Humans have been inventing things from the beginning of time. Some of the most famous inventions are so common in our everyday lives that we no longer think of them as inventions. Here are some inventions from different centuries.

THE TELEPHONE

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell built the first telephone that transmitted (传输)human voice by electricity. Then telephones rapidly became an indispensable part of our lives.

THE COMPUTER

There were many important events in. the history of computers. In 1941, Konrad Zuse built the world's first programmable computer.

THE COTTON GIN(轧棉机)

A modem mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794. The cotton gin is a machine for separating the seeds of a cotton plant from the cotton.

THE SEWING MACHINE(缝纫机)

The first practical and widely used sewing machine was invented by a French tailor in 1829. Elias Howe patented an improved sewing machine in 1846.

PENICILLIN(盘尼西林)

Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming. People began using it to treat infections in 1942.

Inventions play an important part in our lives. They open the door to a new world for us and change the way we live.