1 . What will happen if a family is without the Internet for a month? One     1     (America) family decided to find out, so they sent an     2     (invite) to a leading US television station, expecting that it would send a film group to record their everyday life without technology for a month.

When the film group met     3     Smiths, they noticed that Mr. Smit, Mrs. Smith and their two sons were so crazy about technology     4     they hardly did things together. At mealtimes, no one was prepared     5     (sit) at the dining table for their food. “Everyone just runs into the kitchen, takes their food and then goes back to their bedrooms and then their eyes are fixed on their screen.” Mrs. Smith explained. “Our family will become strangers to each other     6     we make a change.”

Returning to the normal life without the Internet was not very     7     (easy), especially when all the family members lost     8     (they) in it. They had to make many changes. For example, the two brothers had to go to the school library to borrow books for their scientific projects, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith needed to go out shopping because they couldn’t buy things online. Since the family picked up the new lifestyle, they     9     (find) that they can spend more time talking over meals instead of doing their own things     10     (silent).

Would they be able to go for long without using the Internet after the challenge?

2 . Do you know what your friends watched on TV last night? Do your friends know what you had for breakfast today? Do you think you are using social media (社交媒体) too much?

    1     It is reported that around 2,800 million people often use social media. That’s almost 40 percent of the world’s population. But how much time do we really spend on social media? And what exactly do we spend that time doing?

Research shows that, worldwide, the average person spends two hours and 19 minutes on social media each day.     2     An average person there spends four hours and 17 minutes a day on social media. Research also shows that women use social media more than men. In the United States, for example, women spend around two hours more than men on social media each week.

    3     In general, it seems we spend more time looking at other people’s pages than adding to our own. According to one survey, the most common social media activities are visiting friends’ pages, reading their news, and commenting (评论) on their posts.

    4     It has over 2,000 million users. In second place, however, is the Chinese site Qzone. In 2017, Qzone was China’s most popular social media site, with around 600 million users worldwide. That’s more than Twitter and Instagram.

Social media continues to grow.     5     And as Internet access (通道) becomes available to even more people around the world, this growth won’t stop anytime soon.