One day, I took an underground to work, I saw something that made me very sad. On the tube( underground in London), a mother kept looking at her phone screen and playing a game with her daughter sitting beside her. The little girl, about 5 years old, was talking to her mother about herday, repeating the next stop's name cheerfully, praising her mother's long nails--trying to draw her mother's attention. Her mother just nodded and mumbled "Mm, hm" with her eyes glued to the screen, busy passing the levels of the game. I watched the girl give a final try to at least get her mum to look at her, but it was no use. Then the little girl turned silent. It was a shame the mother didn't notice that.

It broke my heart and got me wondering--what kind of game would make the mother forget she has the most beautiful thing in the world, the human she created, the person she loves with all her heart? What it meant when she couldn't look into her daughter's eyes and even stop to listen to the girl?

Some parents are almost like the teenagers, always on their phones with mindless games or going through Facebook. Perhaps parents have many things to deal with, but sometimes they are everything to their kids.

This is not an isolated example. I've seen too many such examples. I might not be a parent myself, and probably still have a long way before becoming one, but I know what I saw isn't right.

The scene used to be seen among teenagers very often when parents complained how their children were crazy about their mobile phones. Look how the situation has changed! The parents have become "technology slaves", that is to say, they can't control themselves while using mobile phones. Now some middle-aged parents hold the best iPhones or Samsung phones, which are probably the only two brands they know. They are playing the simple games with so expensive mobile phones. I'm uncertain whether to laugh or to cry. But my hope is that this storm passes.

1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The girl failed to attract her mother's attention.

B. The mother felt sorry after her daughter turned silent.

C. The writer has much experience about being a parent.

D. Middle-aged parents know many brands of mobile phones.

2.The underlined word "isolated" in Paragraph 4 means .

A. spreading fast B. happening once

C. increasing quickly D. appearing suddenly

3.In the passage, the writer mainly wants to express .

A. the worries that children are crazy about mobile phones

B. the happiness that parents are now able to use modern technology

C. the sadness that the best smart pldones cost parents too much money

D. the hope that parents use new technology4ike smart phones properly

4.What's the best title of the passage?

A. Middle-aged parents B. A scene on the tube

C. Technology slaves D. Mindless phone games

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The Internet nowadays opens a wide world to people, including teenagers, but many parents worry that their children may meet with something unhealthy when searching online. In order to solve this problem, a new search engine for children called Kiddle has appeared.

Search results are filtered(过滤),so only safe website are shown and descriptions are written in simple language. Searches with bad words are shut off, too.

Kiddles uses the same colors as Google in its logo and a similar design on its homepage, too--with an extra robot picture.

The top three Kiddle search results show safe websites and pages written specially for kids, and those websites and pages are well chosen and checked by Kiddle developers.

The fourth to seventh results will be safe and trusted websites that are not written specially for kids, but have content written in a simple way. These results are also chosen and checked.

Results on the eighth and owwards pages are safe and famous websites that are written for adults. They provide expert content, but are harder for kids to understand.

Unlike on Google, most results appear along with large thumbnail pictures(缩略图)to make it easier for children to find what they are looking for. For example, when searching for "meow meow". Google produces pages for information about a drug(毒品)that has "meow meow" as its nickname(绰号),but Kiddle lists information only about cats, even with some cartoon pictures.

The company explained, "Websites which appear in Kiddle search results satisfy family-friendly requirements, as we filter websites with unhealthy content."

Kiddle—a Child-Friendly Search Engine

Characteristics

? Only safe websites are shown.

? Descriptions are written in simple language.

?1._____ bad words appear.

Logo

It uses the same colors as Google with a robot picture.

Content

The top three search results

Websites and pages are written 2._____ for kids, after being well chosen and checked.

The fourth to seventh results

Websites are also worth 3._____ and have content written in a simple way.

The eighth and onwards results

Websites are safe and famous, written for adults, and they are not 4.____ for kids to understand.

5.______ from Google

? Kiddle has many thumbnail pictures.

? Kiddle only gives safe information.

Advantage

Kiddle satisfies family-friendly requirements.

Emojis(表情符号)

Have you found that more and more people are using emojis to communicate online? For example. "Happy Birthday" has become a cake with lit candles. And "I’m happy" has become a smiling face.

Emojis have been warmly welcomed since they were invented in the 1990s in Japan. According to a survey of a mobile technology company, 6 billion emojis are used in text messages around the world every day. Last year,20 percent of all emojis used in the UK and 17 percent of those used in the US was the icon.It became the most widely-used icon in 2015.

Emojis are now used as % new fo~ of expression", and one which can cross language barriers(障碍). "'Emojis are popular among millennials who were born between late 1980s and early 2000s, because they welcome new technology and new things and they think emojis are ' flexible(灵活的 ) and show meanings beautifully'", president of Oxford Dictionaries told The Wall Street Joural.

Since millennials became the biggest part in the American workforce(劳动 ), emojis have been more accepted in the workplace. For many people, the tiny pictures also show that the users are part of mainstream(主流) society. In the digital age, emojis are "how most people communicate and show their personality many times every day. "

But not everyone thinks the use of emojis is a good thing. Jonathan Jones of The Guardian said that the success of emojis is "a step back for humans", hurting people's ability to use languages.

"There are strict limits on what you can say with pictures--the written word is necessary to express your ideas and feelings to their highest level," he said.

Do you feelorabout emojis?

1.What emoji is "Happy Birthday" according to the passage?

A. B. C. D.

2.Where were emojis invented?

A. In Japan B. In China.

C In the UK. D. In the US.

3.What does the underlined word "millennials" in the 3rd paragraph mean in Chinese?

A. 80后 B. 00后 C. 独生子女 D. 千禧一代

4.Why are emojis popular among millennials?

A. Because emojis limit what they say with pictures.

B. Because they think emojis are a step back for humans.

C. Because 6 billion emojis are used in text messages eve~ day.

D. Because young people are easily attracted by new technology and new things.

5. The writer makes us learn about the emojis in Paragraph 2 by______.

A. telling stories

B. explaining the word "emojis"

C. listing numbers

D. making comparisons(比较)

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