China is pretty much obsessed with QR Codes, which were responsible for $8 trillion worth of business deals last year. No 【小题1】 (sign) show that they are slowing down. Businesses should look to China when 【小题2】 comes to comprehending just how far QR Code usage can really go.

China had long realized the 【小题3】 (convenient) of using QR Codes as a method of payment. WeChat is without a doubt the top App in China, especially 【小题4】 (consider) that 93% of the population there uses it. This App includes a function 【小题5】 (name) WeChat Wallet, and people in China usually pay through the QR Codes 【小题6】 are generated through WeChat Wallet, which needs to be connected 【小题7】 users’ bank account and then they can start spending immediately.

Basically every type of vendor is obtaining payments through QR Codes. They 【小题8】 (use) for bike-renting, grocery shopping, hotel reservation and many other things.

QR Codes are 【小题9】(simple) so popular that even beggars are using them 【小题10】 (collect) donations!

Scientists have created plants that glow (发光) in the dark. 【小题1】 (hopeful), they will produce plants that can light up our lives. The scientists, 【小题2】 are from a university in the USA, hope their discovery could lead to plant lights 【小题3】(replace)electric lights. Professor Michael Strano, lead author of the research, explained that his team wants to create sustainable (可持续的) light 【小题4】 (source) . He said, “The vision is to make a plant that will be used 【小题5】 a desk lamp-----a lamp that you don’t have to plug in (连接,通电). The light 【小题6】(power) by the energy of the plant itself.”

The researchers 【小题7】 (get) the idea of lighting plants from fireflies. They examined the substance (物质) in fireflies that makes them glow. They put the substance into plants 【小题8】 (make) them glow. The scientists were able to make plants that glowed for nearly four hours. The research team tested the substance on 【小题9】 (leaf) of some vegetables. Professor Strano thinks plant lights will play 【小题10】 important part in our life. He said, “We think this is an idea whose time has come.”

Recently, police in Mumbai have come up with a new system to punish those who cannot wait at traffic lights 【小题1】silence. The new system was quite simple: “Honk more (按喇叭), wait more.” 【小题2】(know) as “the punishing signal”, Mumbai police installed a traffic light system to deal with the problem of “reckless (不耐烦的) honkers”, which 【小题3】 (reset) the red traffic signal every time the sound of car goes above 85 decibels. For particularly honk-happy drivers, it could mean a very long wait at the lights. With this new system, the government hope they may ensure honk-less, noise-free and stress-free travel on Mumbai roads.”