Do you want to know what young people like now?
A 12-year-old user named Xiao qianyu has 2. 6 million fans on Douyin. The girl often uploads videos about how she learnt jazz dance and finger dance.
Some people use short videos to get information. “Because I can’t spend many hours watching a TV show or a long video.
Do you like short video apps? Why?
| A．How do you feel about them? |
| B．You can not miss short videos. |
| C．However, some young people get bored with short videos. |
| D．One of the videos won her about one million fans . |
| E．I’d like to know more about the world from the short videos. |
Nowadays WeChat is more and more popular. I often talk
3 . Do you know mukbang? It is a South Korean word and is about the eating shows in front of the camera on the Internet. In the shows, mukbangers eat food and sometimes talk to their viewers.
Mukbang started in South Korea in around 2010 and has spread all over the world. Why did mukbang first appear in this country? According to Jeff Yang, an Asian-American culture expert, eating on one’s own can be hard in a country like South Korea because it has the culture of eating together. But eating alone is quite common in the country. Watching mukbang can be a way to havesomeone to eat with. It allows people to connect with others even though they are at home alone.
This is one of the reasons why many people around the world like watching mukbang. However, mukbang has its dark sides. The way mukbangers eat food in some shows isn’t healthy. This can encourage（鼓励）bad habits and bring serious health problems. To attract people’s attention, some mukbangers prepare a lot of food in front of the camera. But they throw away much food secretly during the show or throw up food after the show to make viewers believe they have eaten up everything. These mukbangers waste a lot of food.
Such shows have been criticized（批评）by many people. Food waste is a serious problem around the world, and stopping food waste has special meaning for our country. Thus, our countryhas done a lot of things to solve the problem and asked short-video platforms, such as TiTok and Kuaishou, to regulate（管理）their eating shows.
1. What is “mukbang” ?________| A．It is about the eating shows in front of the camera on the Internet. |
| B．It is a talk show. |
| C．It is about taking photos with cameras. |
| A．Just people in South Korea like watching mukbang |
| B．It is quite common for people in South Korea to eat alone |
| C．Mukbang helps people to eat with their friends |
| A．Mukbangers help people to have good habits. |
| B．Mukbang has some bad influence. |
| C．Mukbangers always eat up everything |
| A．Criticize people who have bad habits. |
| B．Stop mukbangers making short videos. |
| C．Regulate their eating shows. |
Blogs are online diaries. They are a type of website which is very easy to change.
Everyone can write comments on blogs.
Most bloggers are just normal people. They write because they have something to tell the world. They don’t get paid to write, but the best bloggers can still make money. For example, some bloggers also write books.
Blogs have many advantages. They are a good way to find out about very technical subjects like science and technology. They are also very up-to-date.
However, not all blogs are as good as others. Some people don’t know anything about a subject but they still write about it! However, if you are careful and you follow blogs that lots of other people follow, you’ll probably find it very useful.
| A．The writers are often experts and their ideas can be very creative. |
| B．Often the conversations in the comments are the most interesting part of a blog. |
| C．New stories appear at the top but you can still see older stories at the bottom of the page. |
| D．If you write comments on other people’s blogs, you’ll meet some great people, too. |
| E．People buy these books because they know the bloggers and like their work. |
5 . Do you know which social app is popular with Chinese young people now? “Short videos” are certainly the most popular. A large number of young people use Tik Tok(抖音) and Kuaishou. They think it is fun to share their lives by short videos, while others have other purposes as well.
A 12-year-old user named Elsa has about 2.7 million fans on Tik Tok. The girl has shared her dancing studies on Tik Tok since last July. One of the videos won her about one million fans. “I feel really glad to share happiness with people by short videos,” said Elsa.
To some other young people, they use short videos to have a quick look at the hot programs. “Because I don’t like to spend many hours watching a whole program, I hate waiting for a program to end, and I prefer to watch short videos of wonderful parts of hot programs,” said Wang Zhihao.
However, some young people feel bored with short videos. “Killing time is the main reason for me to watch short videos, and many short videos are almost the same, so I think they are not so useful or interesting. What’s more, I really don’t like the videos about strange and dangerous things,” said Wen Nan, another college student.
Recently, something else has appeared. Some videos are telling people what commodities are worth buying. Some short videos even sell bad commodities, and it’s hard for customers to get their money back. So we should think twice before we want to buy the commodities by short videos.
1. Why does Elsa share her short videos?| A．To share joy with people. | B．To make friends with people around. |
| C．To depend on them to get information. | D．To watch wonderful parts in programs. |
| A．Short videos of strange and dangerous things. |
| B．Short videos of science programs. |
| C．Short videos of wonderful parts of hot programs. |
| D．Short videos of people’s life in different countries. |
| A．Useful and interesting. | B．Not exciting or moving. |
| C．Not useful or interesting. | D．Exciting and moving. |
| A．products | B．projects | C．planets | D．programs |
| A．The advantages of short videos. | B．Different types of short videos. |
| C．The disadvantages of short videos. | D．Different opinions on short videos. |
6 . We can see the mobile phone freaks (狂热爱好者) everywhere nowadays. Can you remember when we started to take our mobiles to a dinner table? This happens a lot,
After that, we post the photos on Weibo or WeChat to be “liked”. Then we may check our mobiles from time to time during the meal, to see whether we get “liked” or not. We just
Does that sound familiar to you? Do you do that often? If not, how do you feel when
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Besides (除了) the result, there are also some other bad
| A．especially | B．luckily | C．however |
| A．chopsticks | B．hands | C．mobiles |
| A．can’t | B．mustn’t | C．needn’t |
| A．other | B．another | C．others |
| A．news | B．study | C．information |
| A．when | B．before | C．after |
| A．less delicious | B．delicious | C．more delicious |
| A．disadvantages | B．expressions | C．effects |
| A．is | B．likes | C．seems |
| A．to | B．with | C．at |
