【推荐1】Nowadays, it is common that parents buy     1     educational present for their children. A lot of personal computers are placed under the Christmas tree this year.     2    (believe) that computers are the key to success, parents are also insisting that children     3     (teach) to use them in school as early as possible. The problem for school is     4    when it comes to computers, parents don’t always know best. Teachers found themselves caught in the middle of the problem between parent     5    (press) and wise educational decisions. Many schools are giving in to parental impatience and are purchasing hardware     6     good educational planning. Educators do not even agree on how computers should be used. Even those     7     believe that all children should have access to computers warn of potential dangers to the very young. The temptation(诱惑) remains strong     8    (large) because young children adapt so well to computers. However, not every school can afford to go into computing, and that creates     9     problem: a division between the haves and the have-nots. Very few parents are agitating for(倡导) computer instruction in poor school districts,     10    there may be barely enough money to pay the teacher.

Amsterdam     1     (call) the “City of Bicycles” because of the convenience of riding bicycles there. In the 1960s, a group of cycling fans had     2     idea that it would be better for everybody if cars weren't allowed in the city centre and only bicycles were. They were     3     (hope) that this would help to save energy, reduce     4     (pollute) and provide free public transport. The group painted hundreds of bicycles white and placed them in lots of neighbourhoods around Amsterdam for people to use.

    5     (fortunate), it didn't work because     6     (thief) took all the bicycles within weeks! However, more than thirty years later, the “white bike” is back in town — this time with a computer chip to record its every move!    7     (take) a bicycle, you have to insert a special card. People who want to use the bikes     8     (park) at special parking places have to take them to another special parking place     9     has enough room. Thanks to the good ideas of lots of people, many people around the world have been enjoying city center streets     10     cars for many years.

On an otherwise ordinary afternoon in mid-December, the Hakata to Tokyo express pulled into Negoya and a thousand passengers were ordered     1     the train. The burning smell and unusual sound turned out to be cracks in the chassis（底盘）.

It was the first time that the Shinkansen（新干线），the country’s symbol of industrial power and“made in Japan”engineering quality,     2    （give）way to an officially called“serious incident”. Once upon a time, the cracks would have been unthinkable; the nation—    3    the outside world—has long been conditioned to think of Japanese manufacturing as perfect. But after suffering a succession of different scandals. Japan’s problem is that imperfection is far less untbinkable than it     4     be.

The bullet train breakdown marks the peak of months of public admissions by some of Japan’s greatest names—including Nissan Motor. Subaru, Toray Industries, Kobe Steel and Mitsubishi Materials—    5     they have either been cheating on quality tests or faking documents     6    （sell）products of a lower quality than stated. For an industrial economy that has built its global fame on its reputation for quality, these are nerve-racking times.

No one thought that Japanese companies were basically more honest than their competitors around the world, says one former Toshiba executive,     7     there was an assumption both inside and outside Japan that everyone on the factory floor was devoted to the perfection of monozukuri.     8     craftsmanship that represents what is arguably the proudest Japanese corporate boasts.“That assumption is     9     has taken the heaviest beating,”he said.

When Hiroya Kawasaki, the chief executive of Kobe Steel, first confessed that the company had been taking part in data falsification（伪造）    10    （data）back to the 1970s, his statement was almost apocalyptic（预示灾难的）.“Trust in our company has fallen to zero,”he said.

iPhone 7 being investigated after surfer claims it set his car on fire

Apple is investigating a report from an Australian man who claimed his iPhone 7 caught fire and destroyed his car, the company said on Friday.

Surfer Mat Jones told Channel 7 News that he     1     ( go ) into water off a New South Wales beach and left his new iPhone 7 bought last week,     2     ( wrap) in a pair of trousers in his car on the beach.

He said that     3     he returned from the water he saw smoke rising from the car. “As I looked into my car，I could not see inside the car, like all the windows were just black.”

A video footage(影像) taken from another phone showed the front seats, dashboard and stick melted and charred, and Jones said that he felt “pretty much like a big heat wave just came out of the car”.

Eventually the surfer was able to remove     4     was left of his clothes. “Ash was just coming from inside the pants. Once the pants were unwrapped, the phone was just melting inside.”

Jones said that he had not dropped the phone or physically damaged it,     5     happened to a Sydney man who fell off his bike and suffered burns from an iPhone. He also said that he had not used     6     non-Apple charging device.

A spokeswoman for Apple said the company was investigating the complaint. “We’re in touch with the customer and we’re looking into it,” she said.

Lithium-ion (锂离子) batteries     7     burst into flames because of physical damage or overheating. Apple’s     8    ( big )smartphone competitor, Samsung, has begun an international recall of 2.5m Galaxy Note 7 devices after more than 100 devices started smoking, sparking or caught fire—in some cases     9     ( cause ) fire damage and injury.

Several other companies, including Hewlett Packard, Tesla and the makers of so-called “hoverboards”, have also experienced problems     10     their lithium-ion batteries, though the vast majority work without problems.