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Online voting has become so     1     (increase) popular that many people get involved in it. It is beneficial to some people, while it puts others into a dilemma over whether to vote or not.

In my opinion, online voting is     2     inseparable part of modern life and should be welcomed, since it is no     3     (much) than a way to participate in public life. There is very little     4     (different) between it and ordinary voting events, in     5     candidates go around to seek supports. In addition, the Internet makes     6     (survey) and voting easy and convenient, regardless of time and place. Furthermore, voting on the Internet makes instant feedback     7     (possibility).

To be honest, voters sometimes feel annoyed,     8     because they hate voting, but because they are divided between emotion and fairness. Things     9     (turn) for the better if we can work out some participation rules for people     10     (obey). Therefore, I hold a positive attitude toward online voting.

When my friends ask me    1    (take) pictures of them, I will take a lot of pictures but they only keep a few of them because they are not    2    (satisfy) with most pictures, and they think they are not perfect.     3     fact, when I look at the pictures, there is nothing     4    (difference) in my eyes. Every picture I take looks almost the same.

People run after the perfect side and that's     5    more and more people choose to take the plastic surgery（整形手术）．Take many stars for example. In order to make themselves look perfect, most of them take the plastic surgery,    6    makes them look unnatural. Meanwhile,many people spend too much time     7    (go) after the perfect side,     8     no one is perfect.They always focus    9    what they want instead of what they have. If we accept our imperfect sides, we will live    10    (comfortable) and enjoy the life.

By December of this year, students in Jiangsu     1     (select) a new way to pay tuition fees: paying by the digital yuan, or e-CNY. This is     2     Jiangsu province will encourage the use of e-CNY in its education system, according to a piece of news recently     3    (prove) by the Jiangsu Education Department. Students will     4    (probable) pay examination registration fees and receive scholarships in digital yuan. They are also encouraged to pay in digital yuan for ordinary consumption (消费) on campus. China started     5    (create) the digital version of the renminbi in 2014. Liu Ting is a resident of Suzhou, one of the first pilot     6    (city) for e-CNY announced by the People’s Bank of China in April 2020. “If you want to use e-CNY to buy something, you just need to download the e-CNY app and open     7     account,” Liu told Teens. “Then you can use it to scan the payment code in off line shops.”

One benefit of e-CNY is that it is safer compared to Alipay and WeChat payment. E-commerce (电子商务) platforms     8     accept payments by e-CNY will not have access to users’ personal information. In addition, “the use of e-CNY can reduce trade costs for smaller businesses,” said Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank. At present, third-party payment platforms such as Alipay and WeChat require certain fees when money is transferred (转账) through them. E-CNY payment,     9    , can transfer money directly from buyers to sellers, which will greatly reduce trade costs.

The     10    (develop) of e-CNY has progressed steadily. Data from the central bank shows that the value of digital yuan in circulation (流通) reached 13.61 billion yuan by the end of 2022. China is still working to expand its usage in more areas.

China, once famous for four inventions in ancient times, has once again showed its ability     1     (change) the world with its “new four great inventions”: electronic payments, shared bicycles, high-speed railways and online shopping.

With electronic payments, people can buy and eat     2     they want simply with a tap of their phones. Electronic payments are so convenient that they are really popular with folks. Even pancake sellers are found     3    (use) Alipay. The bikes themselves are not new,     4    the operating model of bike-sharing is innovative. Chinese companies have surprised the world with the business model of bike-sharing which     5     (include) high technologies, and are entering overseas markets such as Singapore and Britain. The launch of high-speed trains has a       6    (big) influence on people’s choice of traveling than expected. The newly launched Fuxing Hao can travel at an    7     (amaze) speed of 300 km/h, making the 1,318km joumey in five and three-quarter hours. China also takes the lead in online shopping with various e-commerce platforms.     8     the 11.11 shopping day in 2018, sales hit 10 billion yuan in the first 2 minutes after midnight and     9    (reach) 213. 5 billion by the end of the day.

Thanks to the large amounts of capital (资金) China has invested in encouraging inmovation (创新), China has entered     10     new innovative time.