As more people across the world are encouraged to work from home, televised news, social media and online forums     1    (combine) can either be an enlightening or fear-mongering source of information.

    2     social distancing now a thing, one can only look at their phone or laptop so many times a day for accurate updates about the spread of COVID-19. Fortunately, a few tech enthusiasts are looking to make a contribution     3    (eradicate) the spread of the virus, using an app backed by data from official health organizations and medical institutes.

Rtr Nipuna Rambukkanage, President of The Rotary District 3220, noted that he and his team pondered over the situation of the nation and came up with     4     they recognized as the ‘deal solution’ —   a mobile application system called ‘Track the Spread’.

The system can be used to support the Government to control COVID-19 by storing and analyzing details of the quarantined persons, and the public health officials (PHI). PHIs can use their app to check the location of the quarantined persons and monitor their activities. Health officials will get the opportunity     5     the ability to monitor quarantined people without physically visiting them, give instructions and keep in touch with them.

The main challenge Rambukkanage and his team     6    (face) in building ‘Track the Spread’ was in finding talented undergraduates     7     reading degrees are related to Computer Science. They also needed to get the green light from the Government to put this app into practice. After visiting the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Defence, Medical Officers for Health and Public Health Inspectors. they finally triumphed on their well-deserved victory.

“We wanted to make the lives of people in quarantine easier,     8    (provide) them various benefits because people in quarantine have many needs and they need constant care. Therefore, we wanted to present them a mobile application to fulfill their day-to-day needs such as banking, ordering medicine and checking their health status daily. And the second objective was to reduce the risk of Public Health Inspectors     9     monitoring quarantined people. To increase the effectiveness of their service, we wanted to provide them with a mobile application to effectively do their investigations.

The team     10    (apply) for copyrights for the software system and are hoping to receive the copyrights soon.

Recently, Chinese people from all walks of life    1    (discover)their daily lives are filled with an academic term; involution(内卷). In agricultural economics, involution originally means that    2    (add) work is put into agricultural production for higher output,    3    yet doesn’t increase proportionally(成比例地).

Our society is becoming increasingly competitive when population outgrows resources. Accordingly,    4    we used to achieve easily requires more efforts now. The level of competition we have in our society is often compared to millions of troops    5    (cross) a single wooden bridge. The    6    (major) of us are trying hard to get ahead of the troops.

Netizens now use involution to describe their current conditions, especially in the study of children. Parents feel stressed    7    (provide) their children with the best, and children must keep    8    in the race. Though great efforts have been made, they find it much    9    (hard) to go to the schools that they have been looking forward to.

Too much pressure is bound to do harm to children physically and mentally. Parents should cool down firstly and relieve their own anxiety, taking    10    (measure) to rid their children of heavy burden from involution.

BYD (比亚迪) claimed the title of World’s Best-Selling EV maker in    1     hard-fought battle with Tesla.

Both companies    2     (beat) analysts’ estimates for the numbers of EVs that they sold in the final three months of last year, and both benefited from cutting prices on their vehicles    3     a bid to grab market share. BYD sold a little over 3 million vehicles last year—     4     (most) in China. Tesla sold 1.8 million vehicles,    5     (fall) just short of CEO Elon Musk’s target of 2 million, but still beating analysts’ estimates. Tesla delivered 484,507 pure EVs between October and December,     6     BYD sold 526,409.

How did BYD overtake Tesla before the year-end finish line? Partly it is the price war which     7     (go) on in the EV sector—particularly here in China—for the last 12 months. Tesla started it last January by slashing prices on several     8     (model) and every other automaker followed suit. But it quickly became obvious that Tesla wasn’t going to win that price war.

While BYD has high-end types of its own, it also has cheaper ones. A cheaper car, which requires a smaller loan from the bank, can look a lot     9     (attract). And some analysts have said that tax credits in the US may have pushed some Tesla-buyers     10     (get) their cars in 2023 instead of 2024.

Most people suffer from     1     is known as “Just-me-ism” sometimes. As a result, they think their actions, for example, leaving the tap     2    (run) while they brush their teeth, leaving a light burning when they go out or dropping a piece of litter and not being bothered     3    (pick) it up, won’t be harmful     4     the environment or their community. But, in fact, they will and they could matter. Roots & Shoots was established in the early 1990s by Dr. Jane Goodall, who’s well-known     5     an expert on wild chimpanzees. Its purpose is     6    (educate) young people to build a future that is secure and live together in peace     7    nature. The idea is that if you educate enough individuals, they can change the world and make it a     8    (good) place for people, animals and the environment because as Dr. Jane Goodall says: “It is by     9    (act) together, in this exciting way,     10    we can involve thousands-millions-of people, and this is what is going to change the world.”