Nowadays, it is common that more and more high school students open their own micro blogs on the Internet. For one thing, it can provide a colorful platform to show their talent. For{#blank#}1{#/blank#}, it is a useful way {#blank#}2{#/blank#}（release） their pressure. And all these make it more and more popular with high school students. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} many parents and teachers hold a different view. They think that {#blank#}4{#/blank#}（manage） one's micro blogs will take a lot of time and energy, {#blank#}5{#/blank#}should be used to study．

    In my view, I am in favor{#blank#}6{#/blank#} the activity. Today the Internet is playing an important role in our life. {#blank#}7{#/blank#}, as high school students of the Information Age, we need to learn to make use of this meaningful tool to communicate and display {#blank#}8{#/blank#}（us）.What's more, opening and organizing micro blogs need various abilities such as writing, designing, being skillful at computer and so on. Only if we master those abilities can we make a successful micro blog. {#blank#}9{#/blank#}a result, we improve ourselves while organizing our micro blogs.

    In fact, micro blog itself is of little harm．It is your attitude towards it {#blank#}10{#/blank#} matters. We should take the advantages and avoid some bad effects.

    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.

    I first met Steve Jobs years ago at a yard pool party. I was {#blank#}1{#/blank#} excited and embarrassed by the chance to meet him in person that I could hardly whisper my name when we {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(introduce). I watched as he swam in the pool with his son, like a regular guy, a good dad {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(have) fun with his kids.

    The second time I met him was when our children started going to school together. He was sitting in the classroom while {#blank#}4{#/blank#}rest of us were pretending that having Steve Jobs in the room was {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (total) normal. It was one Halloween when I realized he actually knew my name, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} made me a little surprised. {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(dress) like a monster, he was decorating a scary house with his wife. As I walked by with my son, Steve smiled and said, “Hi, Lisen”, My son thought I was the {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(cool)mom in town when he realized Steve Jobs knew me.

    {#blank#}9{#/blank#} then on, when I saw him holding his meetings in our neighborhood, I didn't hesitate to smile and say hi. Steve always {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (return) the greetings, proving that while he may have been a genius, he was also a good neighbor.

    I got laid off at 53 from a senior management position in a restaurant. And I knew it was going to be hard to find another job in the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (competition) working market. My age put me at {#blank#}2{#/blank#} disadvantage. But I also knew it was time for me{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(realize) my lifelong dream of owning a restaurant.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} was most difficult was that in order to make this happen, I needed to find an{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (exist) café that wasn't doing well. It couldn't be better if its owner was ready to quit his business. With great{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (lucky) I found just what I wanted eight blocks from home. Since I had never financially planned for this day, I had to borrow money from friends as well as {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (relative). I, together with my wife,{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (be) ready to start off. We changed the name to Black Dog Coffee, the menu, the recipes and the look of the cafe, and my wife did great job of designing. Eighteen years later, we're still here and doing{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (well) than ever. I'm grateful{#blank#}10{#/blank#}the layoff and the opportunity to pursue my dream.

    Bank of China and Alibaba are the dream employers for Chinese students, according to a new survey.

    The survey of more than 55,000 students, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(conduct) by a research firm Universum, found that {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(rough)a quarter want to work for an international company, while only 9% want to work for a start-up. Five percent want to start {#blank#}3{#/blank#}own business.

    When it comes to desirable companies, business students{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(name)Bank of China the top choice for seven years, and it shows no signs of {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(give)up its lead.

    William Wu, manager of Universum, said that banking remains{#blank#}6{#/blank#}attractive industry for young Chinese. “China's government is now emphasizing the revolution of finance industry, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}leaves the younger generation with the impression that though banking is a {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(tradition)industry, there are still a lot of development {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(opportunity),” Wu said.

    Alibaba improved six places from 2014, {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(rank)second among business students. It held a record-breaking $25 billion IPO in September.

Photographers Turn Their Cameras on Pets

In 2019 photographers Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks visited 14 countries on assignment. When the couple described the adventures {#blank#}1{#/blank#}they had experienced when photographing, people invariably asked, "But who takes care of your four cats and dogs?" They joked that the pet siter made a lot of money.

But 2020 couldn't have been {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(different). Due to COVID-19, Brinson and Banks never left the United States. Often, they didn't even leave their Los Angeles neighborhood. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} {#blank#}4{#/blank#}spending long hours in airport security lines and waiting-for the perfect lighting, the pair stayed along with dogs Tux and Tia and cats Rex and Kudzu. "Our pets became emotional therapy animals, and our only friends we could safely hug in a world {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(strike) by a deadly pandemic," Banks said.

As COVID-19 lockdowns swept across the world in March of 2020, the change made an especially great impact on photographers, who are accustomed to {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(spend) long periods abroad. And so many cameras {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(turn) on a domestic subject: the pet.

Research suggests that pets have offered emotional support during the pandemic, helping {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(make) the long days of isolation more bearable, says Emily MeCobb, a clinical associate professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. In fact, the pandemic has sped up a trend, according to McCobb's and other scientists' observation, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the pet is becoming a member of the family. "In the past 20 to 30 years, the role of the pet in the family {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(take) on a whole new role," says MeCobb." It really hasn't been that long {#blank#}11{#/blank#}these furry child substitutes gained this kind of importance in American society."