Wendy Martin is an ordinary university student who used to love surfing the Internet and chatting with friends online. She often spent much of her free time talking with her family and making new friends online. Then something a    1     happened. It completely changed Wendy’s feeling about the Internet.

One of Wendy’s favourite things to do online was to visit the chat rooms on music website. Everyone there loved chatting about recent concerts and what the famous s    2     were going to do next. It was here that Wendy first met Anne. The two women liked each other immediately. Soon they exchanged e-mail addresses and were communicating online every day.

Wendy e    3     talking to her new friend. They both liked the same music, the same clothes and the same films, but they also had the same worries about studying and the future. Anne had e-mailed her a picture of herself—she even looked s    4     to Wendy. So, when Anne asked Wendy for her address and phone number, Wendy thought her new friend was a person she could trust.

It was only when Wendy got a letter from the bank that she realized something was wrong. Anne was not who she said she was. She was not a university student, she was not young and she was not even a woman. Anne was really a 45-year-old man called Tim Histanon. He p    5     to like the same things as Wendy. He had used Wendy’s personal information to spend all the money in her bank account.

This situation is actually quite common, and affects（影响） thousands of people every year. Fortunately for Wendy, Tim Histanon was finally caught by the police, so Wendy got most of her money back. Many people, h    6    , have not been so lucky.

Everyone can learn from the mistakes that Wendy made. N    7     give out personal information while chatting online, and always make sure your user name is different from your real name. Nobody wants to make the same mistakes as Wendy.

Tina is a 15-year-old girl. Every night, she     1     (surf) the Internet and chats with her friends. She said, “I don’t meet my friends every day, but I still know     2     they’re doing. I also have lots of friends from other     3     (country). I always talk with Ann about     4     (we) favorite subjects at school. She is from Japan. Ann told me she likes Chinese best and often gets the     5     (high) marks in Chinese. If there were no Internet, I would have never had the chance     6     (meet) her.” In fact, with the Internet it’s getting easier     7     people to share their hobbies, opinions and so on with each other.     8    , not everyone is excited about the Internet. Mrs. Lee, a mother of two sons from Nanjing, said it was a bad idea     9     (buy) a computer for her sons. “They spend every free minute     10     (play) computer games and often chat with their friends online,” she complained. “They hardly ever speak to me these days. I think their friends on the other side of the world probably know more about my sons than I do.”