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Tim Berners-Lee

If you don’t know his name very well, you’ve surely used his famous     1     (invent). The World Wide Web     2    (create) by the British scientist for more than thirty years. On Oct.29, the Internet     3    (official) turned 50 years old. To mark the day, Berners-Lee wrote online, “The Internet and the web have changed billions of lives for     4    better. But their power for good is under threat.”

    5     (speak) at the University of California, Los Angeles(UCLA), he pointed out three problems affecting today’s web — criminal behavior, ad-filled websites, and offensive online communication,     6     led Berners-Lee to create the Web Foundation and a contract for the web. Both aim     7    (protect) Internet users. In the contract, he mentioned the need for companies to make sure that everyone has web access, called for a reduction in offensive material,and more     8    (person) data privacy. The latter is a hot topic right now. Big companies have misused users’ private information by     9     (share) it with advertisers.

In the next 30 years, if we give up on trying to build a better web, we will have failed it. We need to come together     10     a global community.

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Tik Tok,     1     launched in China as “Douyin” in September 2016, describes     2     (it)   as a forum to capture and present the world’s creativity, knowledge, and precious life moments    3     (direct) from the mobile phone. It is owned by Bytedance, a startup     4     (base) in China that is considered one of the world’s most valuable private companies.

Tik Tok users tap and hold    5     (record) a short video and can add music and visual effects. The videos can then be uploaded with hashtags to join a variety of topics and trends.

Most of the videos, which tend to last around 15 seconds, show someone dancing, lip-syncing (对口型)     6     a song or a video clip, or pulling some kind of running gag (笑料),     7     the app has also gained followings among some particular groups, especially military personnel.

Part of the charm and     8     (attract) of Tik Tok is that its younger users have embraced it as a place to experiment with the kind of Internet humor that     9     ( not succeed) on other platforms yet. Kevin Roose in the New York Times called the app a refreshing outlier in the social media universe that brought him     10     rare sensation of “happiness”.

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Meet Alexa, Your Digital Roommate

Who is Alexa? She is a digital assistant that is part of the voice-activated Echo Dot “smart speaker” produced by Amazon. This year Saint Louis University in Missouri has placed one of the speakers in every dorm room       1     its campus. Students can ask the virtual assistant anything from “When are the football teams playing?” to “What’s the square root of 1440?”

SLU student Brendan McGuire said: “Instead of searching on the Internet while I     2     (tap) away at my computer, I can just ask Alexa: Hey Alexa, ask SLU what’s the molecular(分子的)weight of water? And I can have the answer without     3    (interrupt) my process.” That’s exactly     4     school officials had in mind when they decided to provide the smart speakers free of charge for students.

“The students we attract     5     (drive) to achieve success in and out of the classroom,” David Hakanson, SLU’s vice president, said. “Every minute we can save our students from having to search for the information online is another minute     6     (commit) to their education.’

Saint Louis University is the first in the U.S.       7     (include) an Echo Dot smart speaker in every campus living space. Other colleges have also found ways to offer the technology to students. This year Northeastern University in Boston installed 60 speakers in public places       8     students could get answers to common questions.

At Arizona State University, engineering students living in the brand-new residence hall have the option of adding an Amazon Echo Dot to their rooms. “Our focus is putting this technology into the hands of our students in a way    9     will build an ecosystem.    10     supports voice technologies throughout the ASU campus,” said Heredia, a director at ASU.