Since its launch in 1981, China Daily has grown rapidly to become the nation’s leading English-language newspaper. With the online and mobile readership of more than 350 million, it serves     1     a vital role in telling the world about China, providing valuable insight into the world’s second-largest economy     2     witnessing China’s rapid development.     3     (consequent), it is quoted more often by overseas media than any other Chinese publication.

Besides the flagship edition on Chinese mainland and Hong Kong edition,     4     (report) news not only domestically but also globally, China Daily publishes an international edition     5     (cover) North and South America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific and Africa on various digital platforms.

Chinadaily.com.cn,     6     leading national website, is China’s most     7     (influence) English-language platform. More than 36 million readers from 180 countries     8     (download) the China Daily app so far, and its PV reaches 52 million. China Daily also has accounts on well-known social     9     (medium) such as Sina Weibo, WeChat, Facebook and Twitter. By the end of April 2022, its Facebook followers had reached 104 million, and Twitter followers 4.25 million.

China Daily plays a key role in the Asia news network through joint and constant efforts of the continent’s leading newspapers. China Watch, a China Daily supplement (副刊),     10     (issue) one year ago as an insert of more than 20 major international newspapers in 18 countries.

    1     (million) of young people are writing blogs (博客). Millions of others are reading them. They have been an     2     (attract) to young people.

Many popular Websites now offer free, easy ways to create personal Web pages and fill them    3     writings and pictures. Websites such    4     “Facebook” and “Myspace” are some of the most popular blog sites for young.

Blogs offer young people a place     5    (show) their writings and feelings. They can also be     6     (help) to connect young people with others. But blogs can become    7    (danger) when they are read on the Internet by millions of people all over the world.

Recent studies show that young people often tell their names, ages and where they live on the Internet. That may not be safe for them. The personal information puts them in danger when found out by dangerous people     8    want to hurt them. Students can also get into trouble when they put information about others on their blog.

As     9    result, many schools don’t allow using blogging websites on school computers. Many schools have also begun teaching parents about the websites. Parents should know what their children are doing online and help their children escape     10     (give) away personal information.

Videos of 77-year-old Xu Xiuzhen,     1     speaks different languages with foreigners while working at a scenic spot selling water, postcards and headdress flowers, have brought her instant fame.

Xu’s village is located at the base of Moon Hill,     2     popular tourist destination in Yangsuo, Guangxi, which is famed for a moon-shaped hole at the summit.

    3     (support) her family, Xu, who dropped out of junior school in the third grade, began to learn different languages in order to attract more foreign customers. Xu said she would change words in any language into Chinese characters     4     (base) on their pronunciation and then memorize them. Repeating the words in her head before going to bed and immediately after waking up has given her     5     (fluent) in basic conversations with foreigners, she said.

Over the past two decades, Xu     6     (teach) herself 11 foreign languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. In addition to     7     (make) her incredibly popular, her linguistic prowess has made     8     easier for her to communicate with foreign tourists.

Xu has also become one of the busiest tour guides in Yangsuo. Not content to     9     (simple) serve as a tour guide, she now owns a popular restaurant and operates a reputable hotel.“More and more foreign tourists are coming to Yangsuo, and I hope they will feel     10     home here with my help,” she said.

Social media usually means a website or an app     1     users can share their ideas, pictures, and videos with other users of the same service.

One thing that makes social media     2     (difference) from older kinds of media like newspapers and TV is that ordinary users are     3     ones that create the "content"—what gets     4    (show) on the website. People put information and pictures about what they are doing on the website. They can "follow" friends     5    (see) what they are doing or saying.

Social media companies save information about what their users do and like. This information is often called "data". User data is beneficial to companies offering products and services     6     the Internet when used as marketing research. Usually social media companies make money when other companies pay to show ads     7     videos to their users.

What does the future hold for social media? It's difficult to anticipate anything exactly and there is no exact     8    (conclude), but if one thing can     9    (say) about the future of social media, it will     10    (probable) be more personalized and less noisy. Over-sharing will be less of a problem and filtering out (过滤) unwanted information will become a stronger trend.