Nowadays, the Internet plays an important role in our daily life.【小题1】, it also gives us many bad influences.

Some people think the Internet 【小题2】 makes us search for various kinds of information 【小题3】 can make us send e-mails to our families and friends for free.【小题4】, the Internet is 【小题5】a good study tool 【小题6】 we can read thousands of books and learn English by ourselves. 【小题7】, some other people think it is a waste of time to spend much time playing computer games, 【小题8】 will affect our study.【小题9】, it’s harmful to our physical and psychological health to search unhealthy websites.

【小题10】, the advantages of the Internet are more than its disadvantages.【小题11】 we are able to balance the relationships among the Internet, life and study, we will enjoy the great joy that the Internet brings to us.

Most men and women feel that a dinner bill should be split down the middle, how fair is this it really? A new app aims to answer this question, and for others who fall 【小题1】 to income inequality, by dividing the check-up according to each person's race and gender.

Equipay uses Bureau of Labor Statistics and math to calculate how much is【小题2】 from each person , but it will only give you statistics about the wage【小题3】.

'Equipay helps you avoid the firm discrimination that exists in our society. It doesn't work out an equal split of the bill but a 【小题4】one.' the company's site says. 'You pay what you should to balance out the wage diversity.' The app is the brain child of Luna Malbroux, a diversity educator and comedian from California, who wanted to 'make the touchy subject' of racial and gender inequalities more 【小题5】, The problem is expected to catch people’s eye easily.

“I hope that this, more than anything, starts a discussion and helps people to start thinking a little bit differently about how we can use technology and innovation to【小题6】 inequality and wage inequality, ” Malbroux said.

The app has a built in 'diversity tool' that allows you to【小题7】 how diverse your friends really are, the list also displays the level of diversity for each person.

Type in the amount of the entire bill at the top, tip included, and the software will begin calculating the split based on who your【小题8】 is. Finally it will show you the list again, but now with how much each person owes.

Before paying your share, there is the【小题9】 to protest, in which the app will ask 'what's your excuse' and lists reasons for you to choose from. You can say 'I was a middle child' or 'I'm unaware of my privilege'.Equipay will find the best reply possible, whether it is facts regarding income inequalities or something seemingly【小题10】 but also makes you think twice before disagreeing with what you have to pay.

Internet English

Twenty years ago this week the British inventor Tim Berners-Lee created the world’s first webpage. It is worth pausing to consider the【小题1】 impact that his invention has had on the English language.

Everyday words like google, unfriend and app simply didn’t【小题2】 in 1990.

Even more words have had【小题3】 shifts in meaning in those two decades. If you had mentioned tweeting to an English-speaker a few years ago, he would have assumed you were talking about bird noises, not the use of the microblogging site Twitter.

Long ago, if someone lived online, it didn’t mean they spent every【小题4】 minute on the internet, but that they travelled around with the rail network.

And wireless still means, to anyone of a【小题5】 age, a radio, not the system for retrieving (找回) internet pages without wires.

“The internet is an amazing【小题6】 for languages,” said David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor. “Language itself changes slowly but the internet has【小题7】 up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.”

English is a【小题8】 inclusive language, and if words continue to be used for at least five years they generally end up in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Grammatically correct? An LOLcat.

But less accepted are the peculiar dialects that have【小题9】 up amongst some users. For example, “LOLcat” is a phonetic, grammatically-incorrect caption (说明文字) that accompanies a picture of a cat, like “I’m in ur bed zleeping”.

In an article called “Cats Can Has Grammar”, the blogger Anil Dash referred to LOLcat as “kitty pidgin”. But does something like LOLcat have the staying【小题10】 to become an accepted form of English?

Not according to Professor Crystal. “They are all clever little developments used by a very small number of people — thousands rather than millions. Will they be around in 50 years’ time? I would be very surprised.”