Social media platforms (平台) from the Chinese mainland are getting popular among young people in Taiwan Province, according to Xinhua Daily.

A student named Wang Li ______ at Taipei First Girls High School. Two years ago, she downloaded Xiaohongshu, ______ popular lifestyle-sharing platform. “I think it is a great helper ______ I can learn some makeup skills to improve myself.” On Feb 11, Xiaohongshu ranked first on the list of popular apps in the Google Play Store in Taiwan Province, with more than five ______ downloads. Most of its users were in their twenties, Xinhua Daily reported. ______ popular app among the young in Taiwan Province is Douyin. Nearly 70 percent of users are at the age of 24. There are so many live-streams (直播) that they ______ as platforms to do online shopping, too.

Zhang Hongyuan, a professor from a university in Taiwan Province, said that ______ using the same social media platforms, young people from both the Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province feel closer to each other. ______ amazing the technology is!

“This helps them ______ understand each other than before and encourages them to join hands for the development of Mainland-Taiwan relations,” said Zhang. Though many people from Taiwan Province have never been to the mainland, the apps have made them ______ much about the mainland.

3 . A new video series (系列) called Escape from the British Museum came out on August 30th, 2023. It has caused heated discussions in China’s social media recently.

The three-part series was created by two Chinese video vloggers. It features a woman who plays the role of an ancient jade teapot, a beautiful piece of China’s history. Her partner is a reporter who helps the jade teapot return to China. Together, they tell a tale of how the teapot, a symbol of Chinese artistry, escapes from the British Museum and finds its way back to China.

The videos were inspired (赋予灵感) by an Internet friend. He suggested making a video to record the hard way of Chinese cultural relics (文物) returning home from the UK to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year and to raise awareness about the importance of cultural heritage (遗产).

To bring this story to life, the two loggers travelled all the way to the UK and spent three whole months shooting the videos. The story they created is based on real events and facts, and aims to draw attention to the Chinese relics that are kept in museums far away from their home country.

The British Museum is known to have a total of 23,000 Chinese relics, while about 2,000 Chinese relics are on long-term display. The Chinese objects, from the New Stone Age to the present, include paintings, prints, jades and so on.

For long, the British has said that the cultural relics are safer and better protected at the British Museum, to refuse their return. But the British Museum was reported to have lost some cultural relics, which has caused a lot of concern around the world.

The videos are not only fun to watch but also serve as a reminder of the rich history and culture of China. The creators of the series hope that their work will inspire a love for Chinese heritage.

Though there is still a long way to go to return the cultural relics, China’s search for the lost cultural relics abroad will not stop.

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	Lara: There will be many parks and enough green space because people will take the environment more seriously. People will live a happy and healthy life. Maybe people will have a much healthier diet.
	Bob: I think computers will be very small in the future. We will put them in our clothes and use our voices to control them. We’ll meet our teachers and friends in a cool virtual (虚拟的) place to learn about the world.
	Jenny: I think the earth will become a cleaner place in the future because we will drive cars with the energy (能源) from the sun. What’s more, perhaps cars will be very fast, and some cars can even fly in the air.
	Jim: There won’t be much land, so there will be big cities underwater, and we will travel in submarines (潜艇). I want to live in an underwater house with glass walls. I will see fish swimming around!

Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in his life, he might write them in the diary. But now a teenager may go online and write his     1     (每日的) feelings in a micro blog(博客). Diaries and micro blogs     2     (两者都) remind the writers of what happened to them     3     (在) a certain day. But what makes micro blogs different from diaries?

One of the biggest differences is that micro blogs attract more attention, while diaries are too     4     (私人的). Nowadays people are     5     (积极的) in writing micro blogs than diaries. They want others to read the things about them as many as possible. Also, a few special or interesting micro blogs can be     6     (传播) widely and become famous. As they write more micro blogs, their fans may     7     (增加) as well. Therefore, some people may show the moments when they feel happy, some may share the     8     (幽默的) stories or experiences, and some even write     9     (小说) in their micro blogs.

If people are caring about what they write and     10     (谁) may read it, micro blogs are without doubt a good way to write about their life.

In China, if you want to know which social app young people use a lot now,you cannot miss “short videos”. Some users use apps like Tik Tok (抖音) and Kuaishou because they think it is fun     1     (share) short videos about their lives, while others have different     2     (purpose) as well.

A 12-year-old user named Elsa has a lot of supporters on Tik Tok. The girl     3     (share) videos about her dancing studies since last July. One of the videos won her about one million     4     (fan).” I feel really happy to go on sharing     5     (happy) with other people by short videos,” said Elsa. As some videos are about the     6     (late) news, a group of users depend on     7     (they) to get information. For some other users, they have a different purpose. “Because I can’t spend many hours     8     (watch) a long video and I am not a patient person. I don’t like waiting for a program to end,” said Wang Zhihao.

However, some young Chinese feel     9     (bore) with some short videos. “Killing time is the main reason for me to watch the short videos, but many are almost the same, so I think it is a waste of time,” said Wen Nan, another college student.

Recently, something else has happened. Some videos are telling people to buy things. Some users buy them after watching, but they should think twice. If they don’t think     10     (care), they may regret (后悔) soon. Some short videos even sell fake (假) products, but these sellers won’t let you give them back, or deal with your trouble.