With the development of modern technology, people can stay     1     (connect) with their families and friends easily, however far apart they are from each other. WeChat is one of the most     2     (frequent) used means of communication in China. It is reported that the number of the WeChat users     3     (reach) over 1.1 billion so far.

Once joining the WeChat, people can find more and more people start to add them     4     fiends. They don’t have to consider time     5     (zone) when communicating. Another reason why it is so popular is that it costs nothing. It’s also very convenient for people to immediately update     6     they are doing by WeChat.

However, addiction to WeChat will rob people of the time that should otherwise     7     (spend) on something more important. And the many so-called friends on it are not really friends at all, who simply want     8     (put) ads or sell items on Moments. Besides, people on the WeChat are more likely to compare     9     (they) with others, which will make them feel bad when finding some people seem to be     10     (success).

Environmentalists are getting more     1     (worry) about the effects of fast fashion on the environment. Fast fashion is the mass     2     (produce) of clothes at a low cost. They are put in shops and online quickly     3     (create) a high demand. Factories make 100 billion items of clothing every year. The fast fashion business model is having     4     bad effect on the environment. Many of the clothes end up in landfills and are not recycled. Another bad effect on the environment     5     (cause) by the chemicals used to make the clothes. These cause health problems for people     6     (work) in clothes factories. The way people buy clothes is adding to the problem of clothing waste. Many years ago, people went to stores and tried clothes     7    . People took more time and thought more     8     (careful) before they bought clothes. They also wore them for longer. Today, people order cheap clothes on the Internet and if they don’t like     9     (they), they throw them away. Every year in Europe, four million tons of clothing ends up in the trash, less than one percent of     10     is recycled.

Pay-for-knowledge platforms and apps, including Weibo, Fenda and Zhihu Live,     1     allow people to pay money to have their questions answered by professionals or see online answers provided to others,     2    (be) becoming popular in China now.

Wang Sicong, the son of Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin, was reported    3    (receive) 80, 000 yuan for offering a four Chinese character answer on a pay-for-knowledge platform.

The price for that question was    4    (origin) 5,000 yuan. However, Wang’s answer attracted more than 180, 000 Internet users, keen to see the response, who each pay l yuan. The income would     5    (share) between the platform, Wang and the question raiser, according to    6    (regulation) set by the platform    7    (involve).

Questions about finance and economics as well as health attract the most people and offer a new way for celebrities (名人) to translate    8     (they) fame into cash.

Prices for celebrity answers also increased with more people    9    (ask) questions online. Yang Lu, the co-founder of Fenda, said the price depended    10    supply and demand. Online celebrities received so many questions that they couldn’t answer them one by one, so the price increased.

In addition, people asking questions could have a share in the income if the question attracted a lot of netizen to hear the answer. The model stimulated (刺激) people to ask more questions.

Born in 551 BC, Confucius is considered a great     1     (philosophy) in the history of China. He founded Confucianism, a school of thought     2     deeply influenced later generations. He was also the first Chinese person     3     (set) up private schools and enroll students from all walks of life. His ideas were bused on the principle of “Ren” or “Loving others” while practicing self-control. He believed that “Ren” could be put into action by using the Golden Rule. “Do not do to others     4     you do not wish for yourself.” He     5     (assume) that all men were equal at birth, though some had more potential than others, and that     6     was knowledge that set men apart.

Last Friday     7     ceremony took place in eastern China’s Shandong Province to celebrate the 2,569th birthday of Confucius. The ceremony,     8     (hold) in the city of Qufu, Confucius’ hometown, attracted government officials, LNESCO officials, scholars, students and descendants of Confucius.

Preetema, director of the Confucius Institute at the Anton de Kom University of Suriname, said she     9     (fascinate) by the wisdom of the ancient Chinese thinker. “    10     a country having so much respect and admiration for Confucius, China is bound to bring more positive changes to the world,” said Preetema.

Nowadays, social networking addiction has become a rising concern. Social networking addiction is a phrase sometimes used     1    (refer) to someone spending too much time using social media and it     2    (influence) their daily life profoundly.

Addiction usually refers to habitual     3    (behave) that is difficult to control and it may lead to negative effects. In most addictions, people feel forced to do certain activities so often that they become harmful habits,     4     then affect other important activities such as work and study.

In that context, a social networking addict could     5    (consider) someone with a powerful inner drive to use social media repeatedly—     6    (constant) checking status updates or following people’s     7    (profile) on Weibo, for example, for hours on end..

But it is hard to tell when fondness for     8     activity becomes dependency and crosses the line into a damaging habit or addiction. Does     9    (spend) three hours a day on Weibo reading random information of strangers mean you’re addicted     10     Weibo? How about five hours? You could argue you are reading headline news or need to stay current in your field for work, right?