TikTok is known for is viral videos. But for Gen Zers, those born     1     1995 and 2010, the app is increasingly becoming     2    search engine, too.

Nearly 40 percent of Gen Z     3     (member) prefer TikTok for online searches, according to recent data    4     (report) by the TechCrunch website. Gen Zers use TikTok for many search queries (查询), including recipes to cook, films to watch, hotels to stay at and nearby activities to try.

The main factor     5     makes TikTok a favorite among Gen Zers is     6     (it) speed and the added convenience. When search engines like Google take paragraphs     7    (explain) something, TikTok does the same thing in a few seconds through a short video. “In a generation that is behind instant solutions, the     8    (popular) of an app like TikTok is reasonable,” the website TechStory noted.

TikTok’s rise as a discovery tool is part of a broader transformation in the digital world. While Google remains the world’s most used search engine, people in Western countries are     9    (typical) tuming to Amazon to search for products and Instagram to stay updated on trends. “As the digital world continues growing, the way to find information in it     10     (expand),” News Cinema commented.

On November 15th, 2022, the world’s population reached 8 billion people, a milestone in human development. While it took the global population 12 years to grow from 7 to 8 billion, it     1     (take) approximately 15 years—until 2037—to reach 9 billion,     2     sign that the overall growth rate of the global population is slowing down.

    3     (current), China and India are the most populated countries in the world,     4     1. 4 billion people in each country. However,     5     (base) on UN projections, India will surpass

China for the first time in 2023. More than half of the predicted increase in the global population up to 2050 will be concentrated in eight countries. On November 15th, China Daily published United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s article,

    6     title was “Eight billion people, one humanity”.     7     he puts it, with our human family growing larger, our world is growing more divided, challenged by food insecurity, deepening inequalities, the climate crisis and an unequal COVID-19     8     (recover). He stresses that global gatherings in November— COP 27 and the G20—are chances     9     (bridge)divides,

Restore trust, and ensure that our 8-billion-strong world could yield enormous     10     (opportunity) for some of the poorest countries.

Does eating when watching videos affect our diets?

A spoonful of pickles (榨菜) can sometimes make a meal taste better. These days, a new type of pickle     1    (discuss): “digital pickled vegetables”. It refers     2    the videos people watch when eating that make their food more appetizing.

The topic received more than 16 million clicks on Sina Weibo and about 100,000 people participated in the discussion. Instead of     3    (accompany) by friends and family during a meal, many young people in China are kept company by TV shows or short videos. Many believe that their food is     4    (tasty) with the “digital pickles”.

According to a research paper published in 2019, this habit     5    affect your diet and you will eat more unconsciously. The international research team asked 62 volunteers to follow different eating patterns on four different days. The patterns included eating while looking at the mobile phone, reading magazines and without distraction. After analyzing their diets, the team discovered that eating with a distraction increased caloric ingestion (卡路里摄入) by about 15 percent.

    6    (explore) the reason, the team also invited two groups of people: one group ate when listening to an audio clip (音频) about another person eating,     7     the other listened to a clip that helped them imagine themselves eating. The results showed that the second group ate less since they were more focused on their meals. When eating with the “digital pickles”, our attention can be distracted, which leads to eating more than expected.

This works not only for eating meals but other demanding tasks as well. A research project     8    (lead) by the University of Sussex, UK, pointed out that activities     9    lots of attention is required trick many participants into overeating. The team invited 120 participants to do various tasks while providing them with drinks and snacks. “Our study suggests that if you’re eating or drinking while your attention is distracted by a highly engaging task, you’re less likely to be able to tell     10    full you feel,” one of the authors Martin Yeomans explained.

Many teens dream about leaving home, but the truth can often be much     1     (hard)than they imagine. Many have been thinking about it, off and on, for some     2    (year); some have been dreaming of independence since they were twelve, or even younger. Leaving home is part of the teenage dream.

Recently, a survey of “Young People’s Social Attitudes” asked British teenagers for their view     3     leaving home. Forty-nine percent of 12-to 15-year-olds thought that teenagers should be allowed     4    (leave) home at the age of 16; another 12% said 17, and 8% said “when they want”. Only 23% of young teenagers thought that they should live at home     5     they were 18!

Yet the teenage dream seems to conflict with the experience of real life. When the same question     6    (put) to 18- and 19-year-olds, almost half of them replied that teenagers should not leave home before the age of 18.

Nevertheless, leaving home is part of a teen’s     7    (grow). Many teenagers leave to study or train or look for a job in a different town or city,     8    (return) home when the money runs out. Others leave because they    9    (simple) want to get out. Most, especially younger ones, are happy to go home again later; for    10     small number, leaving home is a definitive break.

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Can shopping relieve stress?

According to a study     1    (do) by University of Michigan researchers, shopping to relieve stress was up to 40 times more effective at giving people a sense of control and shoppers were three times less sad compared to those    2    only browsed for items.

More than half of the 1,000     3     (consumer) said they had impulsively (冲动地) shopped to deal with feelings of stress,     4    (anxious) or depression. Twenty-three percent of respondents (受访者) said they had maxed     5     a credit card in the past year.

In fact, shopping to reduce stress can actually help you live a     6     (healthy) life by making sure that your blood pressure is lowered.

Shopping to relieve stress     7    (know) as “retail therapy”. The survey found that 82 percent had positive feelings about     8     (they) purchases and the positive mood that followed those purchases was long-lasting.

However, the side effect of “retail therapy”, for many, can start out as a relatively harmless mood booster but could     9    (possible) grow into a compulsion (强迫心理) that spends all income, causing conflict. As     10     result, it adds a significant amount of stress to a person’s life.

Jennifer Jones, a15-ycar-old teenage girl, fainted in her PE class and then     1     (rush)to hospital. Her worried parents told the doctor that their daughter had missed breakfast that day. Fortunately, she was out of danger and would make a full     2     (recover) soon. She had struggled with eating problems for a long time, for she thought     3    (skip) meals would be a simple way to reach her target weight.

Jennifer’s case is a reminder of the dangers of the     4     (healthy) weight-loss habits which have become common among teenagers. Extremely concerned，a health expert has warned them     5     using such extreme methods and stressed that having a balanced diet     6     (be) necessary since teenagers are still growing and their bodies need a lot of nutrition    7     (function) well. He also points out that it is important for teenagers to keep regular hours and get    8     large amount of exercise to stay energetic and fit.

Anyway living well is the safest and most effective way to get into shape. If we all do so, our society     9     being thin is often seen as being beautiful will     10     (hopeful) change in the near future.

Cheng Yiting, a 21-year-old student, is not surprised that the video she     1     (post) on social media of people sprinting in Tian’anmen Square, Beijing, to secure a place in the front row to watch the flag-raising ceremony became a hit.

“Everyone wants to watch the ceremony in the front row to see the national flag being raised as the sun comes up,     2     makes Chinese people feel proud, ”she said.

Cheng said she was     3     (true) touched by the ceremony     4     (hold) in the heart of the capital and the nation’s political center, which     5     (watch) by countless people from China and elsewhere over the years.

The flag-raising is considered by many Chinese to be     6     event they must attend at least once in their lifetime, especially since the number of honor guards was greatly increased and additional ceremony was introduced     7     the occasion on May 1, 1991.

“This daily event sends a powerful signal that a strong nation is always behind its people. In addition to     8     (feel) proud of China, I felt a strong sense of     9     (secure) while watching the ceremony,” Cheng said.

According to the white paper Youth of China in the New Era released by the State Council Information Office in April,     10     young Chinese sometimes experience conflicting ideas, they always love the country sincerely and continue to pursue lofty values and ideals.