1 . In simpler times, we never had to consider a loved one’s privacy when gift-buying. But as technology has continued its high-speed advance and growth at all costs, many companies and the products they create have long been skirting (回避) adequate data and privacy protection, leaving users at risk. For example, the audiobook reader you give to your children to send them to sleep at night now captures data on what they like.
As we continue to integrate (整合) the Internet into more of our devices and cover our homes and lives with cameras, microphones and trackers, the lack of data protection and privacy is becoming dangerous. Very few companies are being honest about how they collect, store and use data, and the only loser is the very individuals who use these products.
But that, right there, is the one chance consumers have to turn the tide (扭转局势).
The change starts with us. Buying a small device isn’t simply buying a product any more; it’s a conscious decision about whether you trust the company behind it to work in your best interests and keep you safe. It’s your responsibility as a consumer to be aware of this choice and act on it. In an ideal future, it won’t require hours of research — whether done by the buyer or by organizations — to buy safe, responsible products. But for now, it’s the best option available as these companies continue to get a free pass.
We can demand more. We must demand more. We can demand that privacy and security be taken seriously by the companies who build the products we buy. Yes, technology has vastly improved our lives, but that shouldn’t come at the cost of our safety. So if you want to give someone a gift, give them the gift of privacy. It’s the only way to make the Internet — and our lives — a little safer in this digital world.
1. What does the writer try to tell us in the first paragraph?| A．Gift-buying nowadays is much more complicated. |
| B．Many products nowadays put users’ privacy at risk. |
| C．Companies are expanding their businesses rapidly. |
| D．Audio-book readers are popular with young children. |
| A．We can better protect our privacy. | B．They will make our life more convenient. |
| C．We are more likely to reveal our privacy. | D．More companies will keep watch on them. |
| A．Do as they wish. | B．Mislead the users. |
| C．Shift the responsibility. | D．Offer services free of charge. |
| A．To introduce a new trend in gift-buying. |
| B．To analyse the causes of users’ privacy leak. |
| C．To raise people’s awareness of privacy protection. |
| D．To explain the reasons for privacy abuse. |
2 . At the present time, the Internet is a major part of our lives. It’s always in our hands or pockets. Whatever we are doing is somehow linked(连接) to the Internet. We start finding our connections online as well, which is quite impressive. We find a person on a social media platform (社交媒体平台),see we have a shared interest and start chatting!
Online friendships in the past were doubted and not considered reliable because you didn’t know who was behind the screen. But now, when we can go shopping online, clear bills in online banks, and virtually attend schools, why can’t we find some real friends online?
With online friends, there are several advantages. When we find something catchy in someone — the very first quality of our online friend, we only then encourage ourselves to find ways to talk to them. We can share with them our everyday things, and what’s better than texting our friends our secrets? We can be present together with them on interested forums(论坛). We can share looks just through a click. And the best part is that we can shoot them a real quick message whenever we need their expert advice.
With all these strengths of an online friend, also come some weak points which make some people afraid to find their friends online. Some people believe that the person they are talking to on the screen is not real or trying to get information about their private life. They feel uncomfortable sharing and chatting with a person who they’ve never met in real life. Another problem that comes in the way of online friends is hanging out. People can’t really hang out with their online friends. The other problem is miscommunication, which sometimes leads to the end of a friendship.
Despite all these problems, online company is a perfect form of relationship between two or more. After all, we would notice these problems in any other kind of relationship or friendship. Miscommunication or a trust issue is always present even in face-to-face communication.
1. What is paragraph 1 mainly about?| A．How the Internet has changed our daily life. |
| B．whether people should make online friends. |
| C．Why a good friendship is difficult to develop. |
| D．What made making friends online a reality. |
| A．Easy. | B．Possible. | C．Dependable. | D．Lasting. |
| A．By telling stories. | B．By making comparisons. |
| C．By explaining general rules. | D．By providing research results. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Neutral. | C．Unclear. | D．Supportive |
Recent literature has put the spotlight on how technology and social media are shaping the next generation, and the consensus(共识)seems to be that it’s a sharp double-edged sword. New research published in Computers in Human Behavior is no exception.The study,led by faculty at Wellesley Centers for Women, found that
The team surveyed over 750 middle schoolers in the Northeast United States, and found that those who joined these platforms at or below age 10 had more internet buddies that parents would disapprove of, and visited more social websites that
And it's not all bad: According to the research, those who joined social media before age 11also showed
As the first children raised in the social-media era grow into their 20s and 30s,the effects of the internet revolution will likely become more profound, and we can expect that the need
Losing a parent is one of the most painful parts of life. No matter how old we are when they leave us, it can be a heartbroken experience. Our memories are all that is left of them and happy reminders of their love turn into our most valuable treasures. That's how Mara Soriano feels about the teddy bear that she tragically lost in her recent move to a new apartment.
Diagnosed with cancer, Mara Soriano's mother, Marilyn, gave her daughter the bear as a gift in 2017. After her mother's death last June, the gift became even more special. "That bear was basically the last reminder of my mom. It was her voice that accompanied me," she said in an interview.
The plush (长毛制的) toy didn't cost a lot, but it contained a recording of her mother's voice telling her that she loved her and was proud of her. The bear, called Mama Bear, was in the backpack that contained electronics like an iPad and a Nintendo Switch. When the bag was stolen last week during the move, the 28 -year-old was heartbroken-- not for the gadgets(小装置), but for Mama Bear.
Mara posted a photo of her and her Mama Bear on Instagram, explaining the importance of the bear. Millions of users were touched by the story. More and more people were talking about the bear, but there was no good news for Mara. So again and again she posted online about the item and the story behind it, hoping it could catch more viewers' attention in a big way.
Actor Ryan Reynolds was moved by Mara's story and then posted an appeal(请求)for Mama Bear's safe return. "I think we all need this bear to come home," he wrote. Along with the message, he also offered a 
reward for the people who found the bear.
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Paragraph 1: Luckily, the Internet did its thing.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Paragraph 2: The email was from the woman who sent the bear back.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________1. 网络安全的重要性；
2. 安全上网的具体建议；
3. 号召大家重视网络安全。
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Staying Safe on the Internet
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6 . Millions of people go online each day only for fun or to pass the time. Besides the list of things like books, music, movies and televisions, you can now add surfing the Internet as a primary way of entertainment and passing the time.
So how many people actually use the Internet today? According to some reports, about 40% of the world’s population has a connection with the Internet. That’s a huge increase from only 1% in 1995.
The number of Internet users continues to grow. In 2005, the number of Internet users was more than one billion. Just five years later, that number doubled to over two billion. In 2014 that number passed the three billion mark!
Today, about 75% of all Internet users live in the top 20 countries. The other 25% are spread out amongst the remaining countries. The country with the most Internet users is China with over 640 million users. The total is more than the next three countries—the United States, India and Japan—combined.
Of all those billions of Internet users, a large part of users are children. From computers in schools to mobile devices, children are growing up in a connected world. Studies have shown that over 75% of children spend more than two hours each day of “screen time”, which means time is spent in front of a computer or mobile device.
Too much “screen time” can be harmful to children. For example, too much screen time has been linked to many problems, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol（胆固醇） and overweight. What’s more, school-age children who use a computer more than two hours per day are more likely to have emotional, social, and attention problems. Thus, if you’re one of the 75% that spend more than two hours per day in front of a screen, consider cutting back and getting outside to enjoy the natural world.
1. How does the author prove that more and more people use the Internet?| A．By explaining a rule. |
| B．By telling an interesting story. |
| C．By introducing an experiment. |
| D．By showing the changes of numbers. |
| A．put up | B．taken up | C．added up | D．made up |
| A．To explain why “screen time” is useful. |
| B．To stress the importance of “screen time”. |
| C．To voice his view on less “screen time”. |
| D．To show the difficulty of quitting “screen time”. |
7 . I realized this spring that I have spent far too much time on the internet this past year, for obvious reasons, I suspect I'm not alone. And just like magic, Suzanne park's Sunny Song will never Be Famous came across my desk, a story about a 17-year old Korean American influencer who ends up in a digital detox (脱瘾) camp. My first reaction was to shrink (退缩), worried about how much of my social media self I would see in this book, and how much relative cure I would undoubtedly require as a result. But Sunny Song is such an amazing character that I was laughing out loud by page 10.
Sunny was literally born an influencer. Thanks to a video of Sunny dancing as a child, “Goggle Girl” became internet famous. She kept up the character as she grew older, obtaining almost 10,000 subscribers to her You Tube channel alone. But disaster strikes when she forgets to turn off the camera one afternoon during a live stream and a brownie ( a cake ) cooking video turns into an unprepared show with Sunny in underwear. The widely spread “Brownie Gate” will result in Sunny's being kicked out from her L A. private school-unless her parents send her to a digital detox camp, under the principal's request.
The customers in the camp are internet addicts ranging from fantasy sports and gaming players to mean girl internet celebrities. Sunny is forced to spend a month in the cornfields of Iowa on this historic family farm among these celebrities with no digital devices whatsoever, except the burner phone she brought secretly in because she's in the running for an influencer competition, and she actually has a shot!
Sunny Song Will never Be Famous was a total joy to read. I appreciate that Park does not approach social media as the enemy in this book, and for that reason I can enthusiastically recommend it to any young folks who are particularly skillful at web. Sunny reminds readers of the power of internet fare, and the consequences if that power isn't used widely.
1. How did the author feel when first seeing the book?| A．Amazed | B．Excited | C．Confident | D．Concerned. |
| A．To promote her popular videos, | B．To experience a life as a celebrity, |
| C．To avoid being removed from her school. | D．To acquire more knowledge about social media. |
| A．People there are physically abused | B．Life there is cut off from the outside. |
| C．It holds many competitions monthly | D．It is specially designed for internet celebrities. |
| A．To review a book. | B．To introduce a great camp, |
| C．To record an unforgettable experience | D．To stress the advantage of social medin. |
8 . Electronic media such as email, instant messaging, video games, and television, has influenced almost every aspect of our daily lives.
Screen time becomes a particularly important issue when discussing children’s use of media. Experts now recommend children’s screen time should be limited to no more than 2 hours per day, including television and non—school related computer usage.
Unfortunately, it appears that this recommendation is not followed in most families. One recent study found that children between the ages of 8 and 18 spend nearly 45 hours per week watching television, playing video games, and surfing the Internet.
It’s important to serve as a model of healthy electronics use for your children.
| A．Most children know more about electronics than adults do. |
| B．Kids easily grow dependent on technology for entertainment. |
| C．Parents should think of ways to manage their children’s screen time. |
| D．This is more time than they spend doing homework, or reading for pleasure. |
| E．However, the effect of being all the time in front of a screen is not entirely positive. |
| F．So before you watch your favorite TV series, remember to set a good example. |
| G．Children under the age of 2 are generally encouraged to have no screen time at all. |
The Chinese technology company will use a new system to keep an eye
‘We will conduct a face recognition for players
Tencent will first launch this system for over 60 popular games,
Chen Lina,
‘Facial recognition could be a way to prevent gaming addiction.’ She said.
A recent survey by China Youth Daily found that 60 percent of respondents spend a daily average of more than an hour
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