【推荐2】In the 2lst century people often join a“group chat”on Wechat, share videos on Douyin and give opinions on Facebook. We live in a world that has accepted the social media(媒体)wholeheartedly. Being the international common language, English has lent itself willingly to be used on social media, experiencing many small but important changes during the process.What are the effects of the social media on the English language?

♦ Old words but new meanings

When someone wants to post something on his“wall”, why do we think of the homepage of his Facebook, and not the walls in his house? This is the magic of social media. We know“friend”is a noun, but now it's also used as a verb. “friended”and“unfriended”mean the process of adding or deleting someone from your list of friends.

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Social media has invented new words like“selfie”or“emoji”to describe the new things. The most famous of these words perhaps is “google”which is used more than the old-fashioned simple word“search”.Generally speaking, a new word should be in use for at least 10 years before being entered in the Oxford English Dictionary. However, the dictionary officially included the word“tweet”.

♦Introducing acronyms(缩略词)

LOL (Laugh Out Loud). OMG (Oh My God) and BRB(Be Right Back)are examples of acronyms, the same as IDK(I Don’t Know)and TTYL(Talk To You Later). We need them to be short in length on social media, so we use acronyms to take the place of these phrases.

Social media is without doubt here to stay. In the future, it's likely to develop to a greater degree and take the English language along with it on the road of development.

【推荐1】During the outbreak of COVID-19, Chinese students use online software to continue their studies. Apart from anxiety, the novel coronavirus outbreak has also brought opportunities for some industries and changes to our lifestyles. According to the market research company International Data Corp, praises and applauds(掌声) are given to high-tech applications like 5G. New mode for various online activities, like remote offices. Online education, and unmanned commerce(商业)and services, has also come to light. Months of staying at home have changed our lifestyles. Online activities have boomed（急速发展）during the epidemic, from telecommuting（远程办公）and online education to online shopping and remote medical services. For employees, especially white-collar workers, telecommuting tools such as video conferences and online office software make working from home more feasible. According to China Daily, Alibaba's al-in-one mobile workplace DingTalk has served more than 10 million enterprises(企业)and over 200 million people. Tencent Meeting can provide free use for over 300 participants per audio or video conference.

Meanwhile, like DingTalk, many apps have been used by students and their teachers for online classes. "Cloud platforms" have also been provided by the Ministry of Education as an approach to continuing education among students across the country.

Internet companies, such as NetEase, recently opened a full chain of contactless recruitment(招募)through online resume submission(提交)and online interviews. The candidates(候选人)can also sign contracts(合同), attend training workshops, and even begin work over the internet.

Many museums and galleries in China have also been closed to visitors, but they have launched various online exhibitions to provide a creative touring experience for the country's vast number of stay-at-home visitors.

To help prevent possible cross-infection(交叉感染)during the fight against the novel coronavirus, virtual(虚拟的)hospitals have been established. For instance, the Tianjin Medical University General Internet Hospital has rolled out(开展)a series of services, including online inquiry(问诊), online prescribing(开处方)and drug delivery.

According to Raymond Wang, partner at global consultancy firm Roland Berger, the outbreak has further proved the importance of the internet and digital economy. He said that the outbreak would improve social efficiency and the digital economy, remote working, and online education. "This is also a big opportunity for China's technology and business model innovation(创新)—the foundations of the digital economy, " he added.

【推荐2】Can you always find what you want to find on the Internet? These easy-to-remember ways will help you to become a safe and smart searcher!

Several keywords will help to find better results. Use more than one keyword when you are doing a search. If you want to find out about seagulls, for example, search for bird seagull and not just seagull because seagull might also be the name of just about anything else, from a hotel to a documentary film.

Exact information can help you find what you are looking for. If you are looking for an exact sentence, e.g. “seagulls are very clever”, type (打字) it between inverted commas (“”), and only exact matches will be shown. This is very useful when you want to find something that you’ve already seen but lost.

Avoid common words like “a” or “the” in a search. These aren’t always helpful and usually unnecessary.

Add a minus symbol (—) if you don’t want some of the results. For example, “seagull-hotel-film” will leave out all information of hotels and films in the result.

Check out your spelling. Make sure that you spell every word in the search box correctly. The smallest typing mistakes can bring unwanted results, especially when the mis-typed word appears.

Have a filter(过滤软件). It’s a good idea to filter your online searches, especially when you are searching pictures. Ask an adult to help you add a filter. There are many kinds of them available.

Try different search engines(搜索引擎) until you find the one that’s best for you. Some search engines personalize(个性化) the results. So if you want to get different results, you’d better check out the search engines which don’t do this.

It has more than 845 million users worldwide. If it were a country, it would have the third largest population in the world, behind China and India. This is Facebook, a popular website from the US. It is similar to Renren in China.

Mark Zuckerber was born on May 14, 1984. As a little kid, he loved creating little fun computer programs. He set up the network in February of 2004. He was then a second-year student at Harvard University. One day, he had the idea of building a website for Harvard students to get to know each other. He set up the Facebook website.        Harvard students could share photos and their personal information there. Soon, the website became very famous. Zuckerberg decided to leave Harvard to run Facebook full time. It was the biggest adventure in his life and later brought him great success. Now, the service is popular around the world.

Greetings such as “Have you checked your Facebook page today?” became a part of young people’s everyday language in the US. People can exchange message and get the latest information about their friends on Facebook. Zuckerberg 5s dream is to connect people through the Internet. “Facebook is to make the world more open and connected,” he said.

What’s the young man’s secret to success? Zuckerberg believes it’s important to have an open mind and be ready to try new things. “The riskiest thing is to take no risks,” he once said in an open letter. Sometimes the simplest ideas go furthest. We hope Mar Zuckerberg can go much further, maybe even further than Bill Gates.

a. Zuckerberg studied in Harvard University.

b. Facebook is popular around the world.

c. Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard.

d. Zuckerberg set up the Facebook website.

【推荐1】Everyone wants to be healthy. How to be healthy? Food and vegetables are very important. There are many healthy food and many green vegetables around us. You can eat more apples. But you can’t eat much chocolate. It’s not good and healthy food. Too much chocolate can make you fatter and fatter. Healthy food can make you grow and make you strong and happy. Remember there is a saying（谚语）, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Sports can also keep you healthy. Get up early and do some sports every day. Don’t be lazy（懒惰的）! You will be healthy and happy.

Want to be luckier? Some people believe that finding a heads-up penny is good luck. The odds that a found penny will be heads up are one in two.

Good-luck seekers(探求者) can also break a wishbone(叉骨，如愿骨). Two people hold a wishbone, make a wish, then break it. It is said that the person who gets the bigger piece will get his or her wish. The odds of getting the bigger piece are one in two.

According to Irish tradition, finding a four-leaf clover(三叶草) will bring you good luck. But just how hard is it to find one? For every ten thousand clovers you look at, the odds are that one of them will have four leaves instead of three.

When I was a kid, I once found a four-leaf clover in our backyard. I knew that four-leaf clovers are rare, but I didn’t know how “lucky” I was to find one until I read What Are the Odds? If I had known, I might have been more careful with it. I lost it soon afterwards — along with a lucky key chain and a lucky coin.

It’s fun to pretend that things like four-leaf clovers can bring us good luck. But I believe that we make our own good luck with hard work. Sometimes our hard work leads to success in ways we don’t expect. And often we are “lucky” when someone else takes the time to give us the help we need.

It’s fun to find a four-leaf clover and hope for good luck. But it’s more fun when we work hard and do our best and when we lend a helping hand to others — we can make true magic.

【推荐3】How to Make a New Year Card

New Year cards are a great way to wish your friends a happy New Year. Here are the steps to make your own one.

1. Get your paper ready.

Choose a piece of thick paper in your favorite color. Then, fold (折叠) it in half.

2. Start with the cover.

Write “Happy New Year” or the number of the year on the cover of the card. This helps to give your card a festive feel. Write the words in beautiful lettering. You can also cut out the letters or numbers and stick(粘贴) them to your card.

3. Stick a photo on to the cover.

It is a great way to share sweet memories (记忆). It could be a photo of you and your friends. Anyway, be creative and make it in your own style.

4. Make the cover shine with glitter (发光粉).

Put some glitter around your card. It can give your card a bright and festive look.

5. Decorate (装饰) the inside of the card.

Place a picture of fireworks or beautiful flowers inside and make it jump up when it is opened. Your friends will really get amazed.

6. Write your wishes inside.

A New Year card is a good chance to wish your friends all the best for the year to come. For example, you can write “We wish you a wonderful year to come”, or “Hope all is well with you and your family”.