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.

A short video blogger, known as “Working Girl Little Zhang”, has got popular on Douyin. In her videos, she offers practical advice on     1    (live) easily in big cities. And people named her “the expert of social survival”.

Zhang Mengzhen,     2     native of Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, has got one million followers in a month for the “How to…” video series. The series includes instructions on basic social situations, such as how to take the Metro, visit the doctor alone, and place orders at McDonald’s or Starbucks.

The     3    (comment) have been largely positive. One Douyin user wrote, “You really have saved some people,     4     have only a little life experience!”

“Not everyone was born and grew up in big cities     5     high-speed railways and planes. It is necessary for me     6    (share) some experience with the people that are new to city life,” Zhang said. “My videos might not cover everything, and what I try to say is: don’t be     7    (frighten) to face anything you haven’t met.”

    8    (obvious), Zhang’s growing popularity is the result of the fast spread of the Internet in rural (农村的) areas. According to the China Internet Network Information Center, the     9    (country) rural Internet penetration (普及) rate was 58.8 percent, and the user base for short videos     10    (touch) 963 million in 2022.

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.

Famous Chinese vlogger Li Ziqi has reached 14100,000 subscribers on YouTube,     1    (break)the Guinness World Records title for the most subscribers for a Chinese language channel on YouTube

Li Ziqi released her first YouTube video in 2017 titled "Making a dress out of grape skins",     2    (follow)by a number of short video works she created and shot.    3    Li Ziqi shot has attracted fans from all over the world who love to watch her seemingly idyllic(诗情画意的)life in the countryside that shows     4    (tradition)Chinese culture.

She     5    (pick)up many of her skills such as weaving(编织), cooking and farming before she was a middle school student, learning from her grandparents who lived in the countryside. These     6    (process)have become important elements of her videos.

She puts a lot of time into each video, with most taking days to shoot. Although     7    (original)she shot all the videos herself, she now works     8    the help of a personal assistant and a videographer. One series     9    took a particularly long time was showing the process of making the "scholar's four jewels" from ancient China—the writing brush, ink stick, ink slab(砚)and paper. It took her an entire year     10    (create)these items which were made from scratch(从零开始)by Li Ziqi herself.