Alibaba Group’s communication app DingTalk, 【小题1】 (original) designed for China’s white collar workers, adapted to the virus outbreak by 【小题2】 (offer) the service to help educate students nationwide. A sudden increase in demand once even led to a temporary breakdown of the software.

Last Sunday, in the Apple store for Chinese mainland 【小题3】 (user), the average rating for DingTalk 【小题4】 (be) 2.5 stars out of 5. Days before that, its rating even dropped to 【小题5】 low as 1.3.

The primary reason was unexpected: pupils. For some pupils, they could have enjoyed 【小题6】 extended holiday but have now narrowly missed that. Both DingTalk and Tencent Meeting are among the apps 【小题7】 (use) in live-streaming classes and that’s 【小题8】 they got the low ratings.

To respond to the 【小题9】 (fair) and unreasonable ratings and comments from naughty pupils, DingTalk released a video twice on 【小题10】 (it) official Weibo account, with the theme: Young master, I beg you for your mercy!

LARP games are role-playing games where the participants physically act out their characters’ actions, the most popular form of 【小题1】 is jubensha. LARP games are adapted from the Murder & Mystery Party that 【小题2】 (be) popular in Western countries over the past years. The games gain popularity among younger consumers in countries.

The number of registered companies related to LARP games saw 【小题3】 explosive growth last year, 【小题4】 (cause) a multibillion dollar business. Tuili Dashi, 【小题5】 (found) in late 2017, started with online mini programs where the system acts as a guide to help offline game players process the whole game. Last year, the company opened its first offline store in Beijing.

In many LARP games, there are some NPC, or non-player characters, to interact 【小题6】 participants and make the game 【小题7】 (true) immersive (沉浸式的). As for the game 【小题8】 (organize), they need to diversify contents and develop more stories that have 【小题9】 (educate) significance.

Public security authorities from Shanghai conducted investigations recently into offline LARP game stores 【小题10】 (reduce) potential risks.

An American novelist Jonathan Franzen tells readers that he appreciated real, printed newspapers more “as the Internet rose to power, disseminating information that could be trusted as little as it cost to read it.”

That’s 【小题1】 turn of phrase that we could apply to the discussion of Internet rumors(谣言)and their impact: this kind of information can 【小题2】 (trust) as little as it costs to read it. That is, we can’t trust it at all. Franzen may be overstating the case to make a point. There are, after all, plenty of ways that the Internet has provided access to information that is trustworthy and accurate, not to mention helpful. The problem is 【小题3】 the Internet also has flooded our lives with less accurate and less trustworthy material.

“Digital literacy” is the name for this 21st century skill, and it is becoming as fundamentally important as literacy itself. So 【小题4】 do we tell the real from the false?

Like anything, it takes practice at asking questions and, above all, paying attention to details 【小题5】 (give) already. Who is the author? Do you know a real name or just a username(用户名)? Why 【小题6】 you trust this person? Does he or she provide some credentials (证明)? There are big differences in the domains, and it is important to understand 【小题7】.

It was 【小题8】 (easy) to tell a trustworthy source in the days before the Internet. Then, we all knew which newspapers had the highest standards and which ones were more for sensation and entertainment than for real news and commentary.