What is the most popular communication tool today? {#blank#}1{#/blank#}your answer is QQ or MSN, I must say you're a bit old fashioned. Today, a new form of communication “Wechat”, which {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (own) a Chinese name Weixin, is becoming the most influential text and voicing tool all over the world.

What advantages does Wechat have? First, Wechat is {#blank#}3{#/blank#}relatively cheap way of communication; that is to say, it uses network traffic instead of telephone fare. Next, we can know {#blank#}4{#/blank#} is going on at any time. And we can have {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (easily) access to information available than other messaging tools.

What roles does it play in our daily life? According to the latest report, the number of the {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (register) users on Wechat platform has topped 200 million and it has expanded its business to overseas market. Can you imagine that a mobile phone ‘app' works so {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (power) that it reaches 200 million users within 8 months? Wechat itself has become the most popular mobile chat application in the world. A large number of people have become “Wechataholic”, which means they keep staring at the mobile phone all the time and can't live {#blank#}8{#/blank#} it.

However, while enjoying its great {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (convenient), people should not ignore the danger of  {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (cheat), for information on Wechat is publicly known.

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    Our parakeet (长尾鹦鹉) Chip and Goldie, a stray tortoiseshell kitten we took in{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (grow) to be best friends, eating and playing together. I was a member{#blank#}2{#/blank#}a bird conservation organization at the time, so we often took care of injured {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(bird). Goldie helped raise dozens of injured and orphaned native birds{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (act) as a watchful guardian. One day, it was Chip who needed Goldie's supervision. I had left a large bowl of pancake batter (面糊){#blank#}5{#/blank#} (cover) in the kitchen. But while I was out of the room, Chip climbed onto the bowl to have {#blank#}6{#/blank#} taste but soon fell in and sank{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (luck), Goldie was on hand and stuck her face in the bowl to fish Chip out. She cleaned his face and beak so he could breathe before running to alert me with a loud meow. I followed Goldie{#blank#}8{#/blank#} was also covered in batter, back into the kitchen {#blank#}9{#/blank#} found a battered budgie on the floor. After being washed, dried and warmed, Chip made a full {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (recover). Bowls were always covered in future and Goldie and Chip remained the best of friends.

    A free program {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (help) Milwaukee Public High School students realize their theater dreams at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts.

    "My mom put me in acting classes {#blank#}2{#/blank#} I was seven because I was {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (extreme) shy," says 17-year-old Beatrice Low.

    "And I just {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (take) to it like a duck to water, I guess."

    Today, she's having the chance {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (work) one-on-one with a professional, touring actress through program at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts.

    "I can't describe it, it's amazing, I love it," Low says.

    It {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (call) "Arts Connect" and pairs a class of young actors with theater professionals for a weeklong workshop.

    During one session, Beatrice works with actress Teri Hansen. She was in Milwaukee for the Marcus Center's recent touring {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (produce) of "An American in Paris."

    "It's the favorite thing that I do, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (work) with aspiring artists," Hansen says.

    Together they work {#blank#}9{#/blank#} a song from the Andrew Loyd Weber musical "Tell Me on a Sunday," with an audience of Beatrice's young peers. No pressure.

    The Marcus Center makes the Arts Connect program free for students from three Milwaukee public high schools. It's has been {#blank#}10{#/blank#} invaluable—even life-changing—experience, Beatrice says.

    Some years ago, SARS broke out in the mainland of China, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (cause) some people to be killed or nearly got to death. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} severe was the situation that there was no time to debate who was {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (blame). The most important thing for the government to do was find out the cause of this {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (dead) disease. They invited all the top experts in this field to have a discussion and quite a few {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (suggestion) were put forward. Some of the top experts picked out those suggestions and tested them to see whether they were available. Doctor Zhong Nanshan chose one patient {#blank#}6{#/blank#} was seriously ill and had little hope of picking up and had the new medicine {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (test) on him. To his great joy, this patient recovered! He made his way to his office and telephoned the top official, telling him the exciting news. For {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (convenient), he moved to live in his office. His method did make sense. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} wasn't long before the other hospitals also controlled this terrible disease and kicked it out finally. If no efforts {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (make), China couldn't have defeated SARS.