The popularity of Chinese-owned video-sharing service TikTok (抖音) continues to grow among young people in the United States. In 2019, experts say the service more than doubled its American user base to 37 million. TikTok is especially popular with teens and young adults.
The service lets users create and share their short videos that they think interesting and useful, and many of them are under 15 seconds. The TikTok app offers a wide choice of sounds, brief parts of songs and special effects tools to help create a video. Some TikTok-based memes are very popular. Videos often include popular songs from well-known artists and TikTok has even helped launch the careers of new music stars.
TikTok is considered a competitor to the video-sharing app Snapchat, as well as Facebook’s Instagram service. Snapchat and Instagram also mainly interest young users with a wide mix of photos and videos centered largely on fashion, pop culture and humor.
Last year, TikTok was the second-most downloaded app from Apple and Google stores. Only WhatsApp was downloaded more. Research company Sensor Tower guesses people have downloaded the TikTok app 1.65 billion times.
TikTok has been used by many major companies to reach young people who use little or no traditional media. One of those companies is American-based e. l. f. Cosmetics. The makeup company’s chief marketer, Kory Marchisotto, said that TikTok is “where the Gen Z party is”. Gen Z is a name used to call the generation born between the late 1990s and the early 2000s. “That’s where they’re all hanging out,” Marchisotto said.
Companies appearing on TikTok can make money through advertising. Often, the companies create user “challenges” as part of their ad campaigns. In challenges, users are invited to publish their own videos in which they perform similar dance moves. One campaign by e. l. f. Cosmetics, for example, asked people to wink and move their lips while following a song. TikTok users created 3 million videos that received more than 4 billion view.
1.Which word can best describe the videos created on TikTok
A.Traditional. B.Formal. C.Various. D.serious.
2.Which was downloaded most from Apple and Google stores last year?
A.TikTok. B.Snapchat. C.Instagram. D.WhatsApp.
3.What can companies do on TikTok?
A.Challenge their competitors. B.Make advertisements.
C.Hold music concerts. D.Promote users’abilities to make videos.
4.What is the best title for the text?
A.China’s TikTok Keeps Growing Among US Youth
B.TikTok Helps Users Create and Share Short Videos
C.China-based TikTok achieves great Success
D.Companies Benefit Much from TikTok
I was dropping my mom and sister off at the train station after their holiday visit. On the way I saw a man in a wheelchair in an empty car park. It looked like he wasn’t wearing shoes.
After dropping off my family, I went back to the park and he was still there. His chair was on the incline (斜坡) that led to the street and it looked like he was struggling with his bare (赤裸的) feet to keep the wheelchair from sliding (滑) away into the street. I asked if he wanted me to pull him back up. He nodded. I asked him to pick up his feet and pulled him back up into the park. He didn’t react when I asked if this was far enough. Then, I opened the box I had brought with me. It was a shoe box with an old pair of shoes that I had kept in my car in case I found someone in need.
You could imagine the look on his face. First it was shock, then it was pure delight. When he spoke, I couldn’t understand what he said, but I knew he was thanking me.
On the way back to my car, I saw a couple who were in need and gave them a couple of my bags for the homeless. As I drove past the first man, I saw he had already put on one shoe and was working on the second.
Keeping old pairs of shoes in my car for situations like this is so much more important than throwing them out or selling them at a yard sale.
1.What caught the author’s attention while driving?
A.An empty park. B.A holiday visit experience.
C.A train station. D.A man with bare feet.
2.What was the disabled man doing when the author saw him for the second time?
A.He was putting on a shoe. B.He was asking passers-by for help.
C.He was preventing his chair going down. D.He was pulling himself into the street.
3.What made the man feel shocked?
A.The author’s beautiful car. B.The old shoes offered to him.
C.The questions asked by the author. D.The author’s effort to pull him back.
4.What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A.The author is always ready to help others. B.A homeless couple asked the author for help.
C.The author was praised for his kindness. D.The disabled man had difficulty putting on shoes.
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假定你是李华。你校将于下周六举行“我的拿手菜（My Special Recipe）”大赛，并举办健康饮食讲座。你的留学生朋友Jackson对中国饮食很感兴趣，请你用英语写一封email邀请他参加此次活动。内容包括以下要
点：
1.活动时间和地点；
2.活动的内容和意义。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Jackson,
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I’m looking forward to your coming.
Your sincerely
Li Hua
根据下列各句句意及所给的单词的首字母或汉字提示，用单词的恰当形式填空。
1.The two brothers are like each other in appearance, but d_________ widely in their tastes.
2.Surely, an i________ person like you can deal with any difficult situation.
3.He felt d_______ when he was told that he had failed in the exam.
4.I couldn’t sleep because the bed was so u________.
5.It is unfair for them if I r_______ silence on such an important matter.
6.The _______(设备)for the extreme sports, like bungee jumping, is very expensive.
7.His _______(祖先)came to America from Ireland.
8.Against all odds the child_______(幸存) in the world.
9.________(与...相比)with most of the women at the time, she was lucky.
10.We offer a course that________(与...相联系) English Literature to other sudjects.
Zhong Congrong, a successful businessman from Chongqing, China, has become known as the "the millionaire rubbish collector" for his longtime habit of picking up any garbage he finds in the streets of his city.
Zhong began____ the streets of Chongqing three years ago, ____ a family trip to southern China's Hai nan province. There, he_____ a retired (退休的) university professor who had reportedly been picking up rubbish from one of the local beaches every day, for the last four years. He was so______with the woman's dedication (奉献) to rubbish-collecting. Zhong _______ to copy her daily habit in his home city_____ he got back home from his vacation.
Interestingly, in the beginning, Zhong's rubbish- collecting habit received a lot of___ comments both from locals and the media. People just couldn't__ why a millionaire would do this. They thought it was nothing more than a stunt (噱头) to attract_____ , but Zhong didn't let this_____ him.
Even his family was confused by Zhong's____ at first. His wife and children were_____ by the media reports of his strange habit. And they even_____ to be seen with him in public._____, as time went by, people's _____ changed. They noticed that their neighborhood became_____ thanks to Zhong's efforts.
____ , they started to praise and. ____ him. His wife is now an anti-littering activist herself, and ____ anyone throwing rubbish on the street,
The millionaire rubbish collector has been doing his best to. ___ others as well. He wears an orange T-shirt with " anti-littering" words whenever he does his job" on the street." Whether we throw away or pick up rubbish has nothing to do with our academic degree, cultural background, age, or social status," Zhong said.
1.A.cleaning up B.worrying about C.looking for D.getting through
2.A.for B.after C.without D.before
3.A.recognized B.met C.interviewed D.greeted
4.A.impressed B.satisfied C.familiar D.bored
5.A.pretended B.agreed C.remembered D.determined
6.A.in case B.as long as C.as soon as D.even though
7.A.negative B.unusual C.unfair D.reasonable
8.A.explain B.understand C.admit D.prove
9.A.tourists B.cooperators C.attention D.business
10.A.ruin B.harm C.stop D.frighten
11.A.reflection B.questions C.words D.behavior
12.A.annoyed B.embarrassed C.moved D.shocked
13.A.failed B.managed C.expected D.refused
14.A.However B.Therefore C.Besides D.Instead
15.A.attitude B.life C.hope D.condition
16.A.larger B.quieter C.brighter D.tidier
17.A.Strangely B.Unluckily C.Gradually D.Immediately
18.A.bother B.support C.miss D.hate
19.A.cheats B.criticizes C.invites D.chooses
20.A.force B.amuse C.honor D.encourage
