Angela Zou hardly writes text messages now. Sitting at her office desk, Zou asks her iPhone, where they should go to eat. When it buzzes seconds later, she lifts it to her ear for her friend's reply. The conversation goes back and forth through these pieces of words before they decide on the place for lunch.
Like millions of others across Asia, Zou is using WeChat, a smartphone app（应用程序）developed in China, to send voice messages, snapshots（快照）and emoticons（表情符号）to her friends. Now that its walkietalkie-style（对讲机式）messages have become everywhere, she said typing feels like hard work.
WeChat's popularity has grown quickly since it came into use in 2011. Tencent, the company that developed the app, announced in September that its users had doubled in six months to 200 million. Most users are in China, though WeChat is being used across Asia and already has users in the US and the UK.
Historically, it has proved difficult for Chinese internet firms to develop in foreign countries. But WeChat is becoming the first Chinese social media application with the possibility to go to the whole world.
WeChat is similar to the popular US-based mobile messaging service WhatsApp, but it does more. It comes in eight languages including English, Arabic and Russian.
"I used WhatsApp before I came back to China from studying abroad and found all my friends were using WeChat," said Zou, who is 25. "Now when I want to contact someone I use WeChat first." The app's features include Look Around, which allows users to chat to strangers nearby, while Moments works like Instagram（图片分享）.
1.Why does Angela Zou hardly write text messages now?
2.What is WeChat used to do?
3.Which company of China developed WeChat?
4.Where is WeChat used?
5.What do you think of WeChat?
请认真阅读下面短文，并根据各题所给首字母的提示，写出一个合适的英语单词完整、正确的形式，使短文通顺。
An 8-year-old Miami boy, Joshua Williams, is president of his own non-profit organization---Joshua’s Save the World. His organization provides food and clothes for p1. people and families in Miami and the neighboring areas.
Joshua has r 2. thousands of dollars for his organization. He started to help the hungry when he was just 5. He was in his mother’s car when they passed a beggar. Joshua asked his mother to stop so that he could give him $20. “It’s my pocket m 3. . I want to help him, Mum,” Joshua recalled. One year later, he created his organization with the help of his mother and Francine Hanna, a local businesswoman. “He just thought that was what he wanted to do,” his mother said. “And there was nothing that could s 4. him.”
The organization now provides clothing, furniture and food for the poor people in America. At the same time, Joshua never misses a c 5. to ask other people to follow what he did whether at church or on the streets. Earl Laird l 6. his job two years ago and hasn’t managed to get a n 7. one. Without money, he can’t p 8. for the flat and has to live on the street. He depends on food from Joshua’s Save the World. “Joshua is an angel (天使) from God,” he said.
Joshua has won Miami’s “Do the Right Thing” award and the “Kids Who Care” competition, which awarded him a $1,000 note. Even though he has a 9. done a lot, he said that his mission (使命)to provide for the poor is f 10. from finished. “I want to get a team together,” Joshua said. “I want my team to go out and give food to people who have a need for it. I want to spread love to countries in Africa.”
请根据要求改写下列句子，每空一词。
1.His father has already been to France already. （改为否定句）
His father been to France .
2.Yesterday Tom got up early so that he could catch the early bus. （保持句意基本不变）
Yesterday Tom got up early to catch the early bus.
3.The witness noticed a man walking into the building at 11:00 p.m.（改为被动语态）
A man noticed into the building at 11:00 p.m. by the witness.
4.The doctor said to him, “ Take the medicine three times a day.” （改为间接引语）
The doctor told him the medicine three times a day.
5.The students watched a very interesting TV programme yesterday. （改为感叹句）
interesting TV programme the students watched yesterday!
词汇(本题共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
A. 请根据括号中的中文提示、英文释义或句意，写出句中所缺单词，使句子通顺。
1.Everyone came to the meeting late for (different) reasons.
2.What a great (建议) the teacher gave me. It is always good for my study.
3.Now the student has begun to (get to know and understand ) that he was wrong.
4.My teachers often ( 鼓励 ) me not to give up when I face difficulty.
5.Bill Gates’ achievements go setting up Microsoft Corporation. He has also donated lots of money to charity.
B. 请根据句意从方框中选择合适的单词，并用其适当形式填空，使句子通顺。
three safe health they educate |
6.In the modern world, we should pay more attention to food. We should eat very .
7.Today is Children’s Day. The children are enjoying festival now.
8.To support a big family, his father has to look for a job besides delivering newspapers and milk.
9.For your , you mustn’t stand under the tree when it’s raining in summer.
10.Last month, Mrs Obama, U.S. First Lady, paid a week-long visit to China focusing on . She visited some schools and universities.
C. 请根据句意从方框中选择合适的动词，并用其适当时态填空，使句子通顺。
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11.My teacher over ten books out of the classroom when I came in just now.
12.The rain . Let’s go out to take a walk.
13.—Sam, come downstairs, please. I need your help.
—Just a minute, Mum. I the floor.
14.—Why didn’t you hand in your homework yesterday?
—Sorry, I it at home. I have brought it here today.
15.His grandma singing Beijing opera in her free time.
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Some people make you feel comfortable when they are around. You spend an hour with them and feel as if you have known them half your life. These people have something in common. And once we know what it is, we can try to do it ourselves.
How is it done? Here are several skills that good talkers have. If you follow the skills, they'll help people feel relaxed and make friends with them quickly.
First of all, good talkers ask questions. Almost anyone, no matter how shy he is, will answer a question. One well-known businesswoman says, "At business lunches, I always ask people what they did that morning. It's a common question, but it will get things going." From there you can move on to other matters—sometimes to really personal questions. And how he answers will let you know how far you can go.
Second, once good talkers have asked questions, they listen to the answers. This point seems clear, but it isn't. Your questions should have a point and help to tell what sort of person you are talking to. And to find out, you really have to listen carefully and attentively. Real listening at least means some things. First it means not to change the subject of conversation. If someone sticks to one topic, you can take it as a fact that he's really interested in it. Real listening also means not just listening to words, but to tones of voice. If the voice sounds dull, then, it's time for you to change the subject.
Finally, good talkers know well how to deal with the moment of parting. If you're saying good-bye, you may give him a firm handshake and say, "I've really enjoyed meeting you." If you want to see that person again, don't keep it a secret. Let people know what you feel, and they may walk away feeling as if they've known you half their life.
1.Asking questions might be a quite good and suitable way _______.
A. for you to make more and more new friends
B. to begin your business talks
C. to get the conversation going smoothly
D. for you to make a deep and lasting impression on others
2.After having asked somebody a question, it'll be polite of you to _______.
A. make clear what kind of person he is
B. listen to his reply attentively
C. wait quietly and patiently for his answer
D. go on asking him more questions
3.Generally speaking, good talkers are persons who _______.
A. are good at making any topic interesting
B. never talk too much or too little
C. always speak in a gentle way
D. know how and when they should change the topic of the talk
4.If you really want to meet someone again, _______.
A. you may take him as your lifelong true friend
B. it seems necessary for you to let him know it
C. it's proper for you to give him a second handshake
D. it'll be helpful for you to have further understanding of him
