Be Careful on the Internet

Parents of boys at a Sydney private school have been urged to monitor their sons’ use of social networking website, with a warning 【小题1】 any mistakes made in teenage years could be permanently recorded on the Internet and catch up with them later in life.

The headmaster, Timothy Wright, wrote to parents on Thursday, 【小题2】(explain) that younger boys were too immature to fully understand the possible consequences of disclosing private information on social networking sites. “We now know that those parts of the brain 【小题3】 deal with decision-making are still developing in a man in his 20s,” he said. “But mistakes 【小题4】(commit) at fifteen may be still accessible to an employer ten years later.”

Modern technology means that a careless word, an ill-willed comment or an inappropriate photograph, are on permanent record and freely available to 【小题5】 has access. Stupidities that 【小题6】(forget) immediately before now last, spread and damage in ways unknown before this decade.

Dr Wright said that 【小题7】 words spoken in the playground could be more easily forgotten, those captured on the Internet or on mobile phone text messages could have far more lasting and more hurtful consequences.

He urged parents to set ground rules for use of mobile phones and the Internet and in particular to set boundaries on taking and sending images that 【小题8】 be used to bully others. “Parents who are paying for the Internet service have an unquestionable right 【小题9】(insist) they are a friend on social networking websites. I would certainly insist on this 【小题10】 at least the end of 16 if not later,” he wrote.

The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and the environment. These findings come from a new report 【小题1】 the journal Nature.

David Tilman, a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, America, 【小题2】(examine) information from 100 countries 【小题3】(identify) what people ate and how diet affected health. He noted a movement 【小题4】(begin) in the 1960s. He found that as nations industrialized (工业化), the population increased and earnings rose, more people began to adopt what 【小题5】(call)the Western diet.

The Western diet is high in sugar, fat, oil 【小题6】 meat. By eating these foods, people began to get fatter and sicker. David Tilman says overweight people are at【小题7】(great) risk of non-infectious diseases like diabetes (糖尿病) and heart disease.

【小题8】(unfortunate), when people adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these health problems, especially in developing countries in Asia. China is an example 【小题9】 the number of diabetes 【小题10】(case) has been jumping from less than one per cent to ten per cent of the population as they began to industrialize over a 20-year period. And that is happening all across the world, in Mexico, in Nigeria and so on.

China’s Good Samaritan Law (见义勇为法)Takes Effect

China’s Good Samaritan Law went into effect on October 1 to encourage people who are ready to help others. Under the law, people how voluntarily offer emergency assistance to those who are, or who they believe to be, injured, ill or in anger, will not have civil responsibility in the event of harm to the victims.

The new law aims to ease the reluctance people feel toward helping strangers for fear of legal consequences if they make mistakes in treatment. It is a response to the phenomenon of people 【小题1】 (hesitate) to help fallen senior citizens due to concern that they might be blackmailed(讹诈)later.

There has been no shortage of cases over the past decade 【小题2】people hesitated to offer assistance to those who are in need. And some good Samaritans have been blackmailed for charitable acts. In 2011, a two-year-old girl known as Xiao Yueyue was run over by two cars, and 18 people passed by 【小题3】offering emergency help. The girl died after days of medical treatment. In 2014, a man from Guangdong Province aided a senior citizen, but 【小题4】(accuse) of knocking him down. The man committed suicide when 【小题5】(face)with demands for a large sum of money.

These cases 【小题6】(arouse) debate about morality and heroism in China in recent years. “If you don’t provide help, you will blame yourself, but if you do help, you are likely 【小题7】(hurt)by the people you help. It is really a difficult choice,” one netizen said on Sina Weibo.

【小题8】there had been calls for a national Good Samaritan law, only a few cities pushed ahead with such laws before the nationwide law came into effect.

However, some experts are concerned 【小题9】there could be some danger from a nationwide Good Samaritan Law. “Rescuers who know little about first aid could bring serious harm to people in critical conditions,” said Yang Lixin, a professor at the Renmin University of China. He hoped the government 【小题10】introduce details of the policy soon while encouraging people to voluntarily offer assistance.