Time to Upgrade Phone? You Bet!

“Is it high time to buy a 5G phone now should I wait?” this question     1     (throw) at me constantly by friends ever since China commercialized 5G last October.

First of all, China now has a wide 5G coverage, which makes     2     convenient for consumers to use 5G smartphones. Currently, 5G signals are available in all prefecture-level cities in China, and     3    (consume) in more than 300 cities are able to access 5G signals when they are in subways,     4     (take) a walk in parks or shopping at malls.

Moreover, telecom carriers have announced their plans to cover key counties and towns     5     5G signals next year, which will attract more people to 5G smartphones:

At the same time, the pries of 5G data packages are also dropping     6     (significant) from the starting price of more than 120 yuan ($18.3) per month at the start of this year to about 90 yuan now, making the tech     7     (afford) for more people to enjoy the 5G service. There are more 5G smartphone models to choose from—some of them, may remain much too expensive,     8     the cheapest one now costs only 99 yuan.

China's big three telecom carriers are also working on a new 5G-enabled messaging service, which is designed to replace current short messages with a system     9     is richer, provides phone book polling, and can transmit in-call multimedia. So, yes, it's high time that I     10     (buy) a 5G smartphone indeed.

Global warming could make humans shorter.Scientists claim to have found evidence that it caused the world's first horses     1     (become) smaller nearly 50 million years ago.In fact，a team from the universities of Florida and Nebraska says,     2     has found a link between the earth heating up and the size of horses，during the last time the world heated up.The scientists used fossils to follow the evolution of horses from their earliest     3     (appear)56 million years ago.As temperatures went up，their size went     4    . The scientists say that the current warming could have the same effect     5     mammals and could even make humans     6    (small)．“Horses started out small，about the size of a small dog.What's     7    (surprise) is that after they first appeared，they then became even smaller and then dramatically increased in size，and that     8     (exact)corresponds to(符合)the global warming event，followed by cooling.”“It had been known that mammals     9     (be) small during the last warm time，    10     we hadn't realised that temperature specifically was driving the evolution of body size，”Dr Bloch said in the Science journal.

Most of us relate wealth to a     1     (success) career, a big house and expensive clothes.However, a recent study,     2    (carry) out by a US-based bank and brokerage company , showed that more than six     3    ten of the people surveyed treasured time withtheir family in daily lives.

Not long ago, a spokesman for UK company Luxury Family Hotel told the Daily Mail,Society is     4    (gradual) becoming a materialistic (物质主义的) place where the message from modern famous people.    5    (seem) to be that fashion, and foreign holidays as well as expensive jewels are of great    6       (important) . However, the study shows that many people still feel things such as family and relationships, compared to    7     (spend) money,are much    8     (value) regardless of their race, age and nationality. Indeed,     9    is often the case, we leave home to seek our fortune and, when we get    10    , we go home and share with our family.

Did you know that what you think you like and don’t like is often the result of false beliefs? As humans, we tend to be     1     (easy) influenced when it comes to liking or   disliking something, and we’re happy to have our existing beliefs confirmed. But once these beliefs became fixed, we often lose our ability to be     2     (object) and we don’t like to have our ideas challenged.   Generally speaking, human beings are not good at taking a     3     (balance) view of things. For instance, we unconsciously start to listen for and select information that     4     (match) our beliefs and turn a blind eye to information that doesn’t,     5     (reject) it out of hand. We don’t always like to accept new information that doesn’t match up with what we already believe.

As a result, we often don’t even consider the reasons behind     6     opposing point of view. Instead, we look for evidence that confirms     7     we had already thought, and which conforms to our own point of view. We’re more likely     8     (give) meaning to information that matches the beliefs we already have. In other words, we are biased (偏见) towards certain information.     9     can come as a shock when information we       10     (trust) is actually exposed to be untrue.

Up to 82 percent of children with healthy mothers are not easy to be obese（肥胖的）, according to research. A mother,     1     has a healthy weight, exercises regularly, eats a healthy diet, doesn’t smoke and only     2    (drink) wine in moderation, is significantly less likely     3    (have)a fat child, scientists say.

And research suggests it could be more to do with nurture(养育)    4     nature, as a mother's lifestyle appears     5    (direct) linked to the health of her child. When both mother and child follow a healthy lifestyle, the risk of obesity     6    (reduce)even more, the study of more than 24,000 children found.

The study examined the medical history and lifestyles of more than 24,000 children aged nine     7     fourteen, born to almost 17,000 women in the US. Researchers looked at the link between overall mother health and likelihood of a child     8    (be) obese.

The mother's health was judged on her height-to-weight ratio(比例), her diet, amount of physical     9    (active), smoking status and how much alcohol she drank. A healthy weight and diet, regular exercise, no smoking and moderate drinking all reduce the chance of a woman having     10     obese child.