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Test for 21
st
Teens,
Issue 647
A 10’
Many of you may want to
study abroad after graduating from high school
because we tend to
think overseas
universities are better than domestic ones. But at
the same time,
more and more
international students are coming to
study in China.
A record-
breaking 397,635 international students came to
China in 2015, and China is now
the
third 1____ (popular) destination for overseas
students behind the US and the UK, according
to
a
report
2____
(release)
by
the
website
on
Sept
12.
The
site
provides
accommodation 3____
international students.
More
and
more
international
students
are
coming
to
China
4____
(get)
master’s
and
doctorate degrees. According to the
report, of the international students 5____ (seek)
a degree in
China, 71 percent are
undergraduates. However, the strongest growth in
the number of students
can
be
seen
in
master’s
and
doctorate
degrees.
This
suggests
that
China
6____
(become)
more
attractive for research.
In
addition, the international standing of Chinese
universities 7____ (improve) a lot. 8____
number of Chinese universities included
in major global university rankings has risen by a
large
amount.
The Chinese
government has also given a large amount of
support to encourage international
students
to
come
to
China.
According
to
the
report,
the
Chinese
government
granted
40,600
scholarships to international students
in 2015, 9____ (mean) that international students
get nearly
five times the amount of
scholarships they would have received 10 years
ago.
“10____ its government continues
to invest in improving the quality of the
education system
and
its
universities
keep
rising
in
the
global
rankings,
we
expect
China
to
attract
students
in
greater numbers and diversity,” the
report commen
ted.
1.
________
2.
________
3.
________
4.
________
5.
________
6. ________
7. ________
8. ________
9. ________
10. _______
B 10’
If you have
spent any time living in or visiting a big city in
China, you have most likely used
the
service that Didi provides.
The
convenient ride-sharing company, now 11____ (know)
as Didi Chuxing, was praised last
month
by
Fortune
magazine.
According
to
the
magazine,
it
is
changing
the
world
with
its
environmentally friendly
solution to 12 ____ (get) around in major cities.
13____ the magazine reported, “Didi
estimated that last year its
car
-pooling services helped
reduce total car trips in the country
14____ 1 million a day, which saved 500 million
liters of gas,
which cut 13.5 million
tons of carbon
emissions per
day.”
The transport
service was the only Chinese company to make the
important magazine’s list,
and its
impact 15____ be felt in many parts of Chinese
society.
Didi
is
just
one
example
of
16____
is
being
called
the
“sharing
economy”.
The
sharing
economy is one 17____ ____ regular
people exchange goods and services, usually 18____
(use)
an online marketplace. 19____
similar companies include companies 20____ allow
people to rent
out their homes to
strangers like Airbnb and Couchsurfing, and
similar ride sharing services like
Uber
and Lyft.
11. ________
12. ________
13.
________
14. ________
15. ________
16.
________
17. ________
18. ________
19. ________
20.
________
C
10’
A.
audiences
B. remark
C. exchanging
D. stress
AB.
quality
AC. move
AD. negative
BC. feature
BD.
enhancing
CD. declaration
ABC. key
【
1
】
Autumn Phillips
had had enough.
【
2
】
On
Aug 19, the executive editor of the Quad-City
Times in Iowa, and Illinois, US visited her
website,
,
and
saw
a
story
about
a
man
who
had
been
stabbed
to
death
the
night
before
in a local park. When she got to the readers’
comments section at the end, she was shocked
by what she saw.
【
3
】
“Below the
LeClaire Park story was a growing string of
comm
ents
–
a
racist 21____ about
Democratic voters,
a 22____ comment about police, then something
about Hillary Clinton taking
our guns
away,” the editor wrote.
【
4
】
And
so Phillips decided to do something she had been
thinking about for a long time: She
shut d
own the comments
section, which she described as “a sea of
ridiculousness, hate speech and
online
bullying”.
【
5
】
Phillips
was
not
alone
in
making
such
a
23____.
Last
week,
NPR
announced
it
too
was
closing its online
comments section.
【
6
】
The
decisions don’
t mean that the news
outlets are no longer interested in what their
24___
are thinking. Both 25____ their
eagerness to hear from readers and listeners on
social networks.
【
7
】
But
both agreed that comments had run their course.
And so they have.
【
8
】
In
the early days of digital journalism, comments
were seen as a 26____ part of this new
media, a terrific opportunity for
27____ the dialogue between news creators and
their audiences.
A welcome change, as
for over the years many news organizations were
far too walled off from
their readers.
More engagement and much more back and forth
conversation seemed like a healthy
and
welcome evolution.
【
9
】
Sadly, that’s not the
way things turned out. Comments sections too often
were taken over by
a small, unkind part
of the audience. Rather than a place for 28____
ideas, they became the home
of ugly
name-calling, intimidation, racism and anti-women
language.
【
10
】
The website gave its opinion
in 2013, saying, “Comments can be bad
for
science.”
Others
follo
wing
suit
included
CNN,
Reuters
(except
for
opinion
pieces)
and
the
Chicago
Sun-Times.
【
11
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Besides their poisonous
29____, comments seem out of place today,
overtaken by events.
They are a 30____
designed for desktop computers in a world
dominated by mobile, a world in
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