This morning, I saw the shocking headline: “Passenger Dies When Car Crashes in Driverless Mode”. In the article,     1    (vary) people said that the public should oppose the idea of developing driverless cars. They said that some     2    (advance) in technology were unnecessary and could even be dangerous. Hence, we should cease     3    (accept) technology just because it is new. The newspaper reported that the car company had already apologized for the accident,     4     the families of the deceased said it was not enough. Nevertheless, the company still claimed that most people would be travelling in driverless cars one day soon.

    5     the one hand, there are many different groups of people around the world     6     live happily in the absence of new technology. Probably the most well known are the Amish, a group of Christians     7    (live) in rural America. They do not own or drive cars, watch TV, or use the Internet. They     8    (live) mainly as farmers since the 18th century, and they will probably be living the same way in the distant future. They advocate     9     simple life with an emphasis on hard work, family, and community. They think that is better than caring about luxuries or following the lives of the rich and famous. It could even be argued     10     the Amish’s quality of life is better since they live in and appreciate the natural environment rather than living in large, polluted cities.

China's TikTok, which     1     (take) the world by storm in the past three years, is working its magic in its home nation, too.

In the annual report of     2     (it) parent company ByteDance this week, the Chinese version of TikTok,     3     (call) Douyin, has accumulated 400 million daily active users. This is an     4     (impress) growth for the addictive video app,     5     had 250 million daily active users in January last year.

The report not only describes the user behavior and trends but also illustrates the cultural difference     6     China and the US. For example, knowledge-based content is     7     (extreme) popular in China, and less so in the US. Also, in the US, it seems that it's mostly teenagers who are creating the dances, but in China those who produce the most dance videos are users born in     8     1960s.

With Douyin, users can record videos, edit them and share them online. It is a great way     9     (spend) the leisure time browsing these funny videos. Now, Douyin has established itself as one of the largest knowledge, culture and art     10     (platform) in China.

4 . Which do you prefer to use when you are studying, iPads or books? Here is     1     survey about it.

Some students think that iPads are     2     (good),    3     iPads can give them more choices. They can search for information in an iPad easily instead of     4     (look) everything up in different books. At the same time, students can send pictures     5     (direct) to a printer to photocopy them. With an iPad, they can keep all their work in it. And homework will not be     6     (forget) easily because teachers can send all the homework to their iPads.

But     7     (other) think that books     8    (be) more helpful for learning. Besides, reading books won’t hurt their eyes. Second, what they read in books can leave a deeper     9     (impress) on them. What’s more, some students usually use iPads to play games at school, which is bad     10     their study. So they prefer to use books.