One great weakness of the Internet is that it is difficult to know whether the information is true. In 2003, eBay, a famous website 【小题1】 people buy and sell things, said that 70 percent of their problems were 【小题2】 people who sold things that did not exist, who 【小题3】 (lie) about the products they were selling. Educators around the world complain that students are handing in papers 【小题4】 (use) false information they found on the Internet. These problems do not occur as often 【小题5】 people use traditional reference materials, such as books, newspapers and magazines.

Emojis are widely used in our daily lives and have become 【小题1】 important way of communication. The first emojis were created in 1999 by Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita, 【小题2】 worked on a mobile Internet platform 【小题3】 (call) i-mode. Kurita attempted to develop a simple way for people 【小题4】 (express) emotions in short text messages.

As emojis gained 【小题5】 (popular), they faced a significant technical hurdle (障碍) : early emojis could not 【小题6】 (send) across different mobile platforms, since there was no standardized encoding (编码). This issue was resolved in 2010 by the Unicode Consortium, an organization responsible 【小题7】 maintaining a standardized encoding of text and symbols across platforms. This allowed for cross-platform communication and continued expansion in emoji usage worldwide.

Given 【小题8】 (they) origins in Japan, many early emoji characters were reflective of Japanese culture. As they’ve spread 【小题9】 (global), new characters have been added to account for cultural differences and provide a more universal means of communication. Users must also consider cultural sensitivities when 【小题10】 (communicate) via emojis, as certain symbols can have hugely different meanings across different cultures.

Texting while walking is something that most of us are guilty of. We can’t help 【小题1】(reply) to that message we just received. However, while 【小题2】 is fun to keep up with the latest news, we may actually be putting ourselves in danger. “I 【小题3】 (spot) a person in front of me walking very slowly and weaving, and I thought, ‘Is this person drunk?’ But it turned out that the person was just texting.” said Matthew Timmis. 【小题4】 (inspire) by this, Timmis and his team set out to seek the effects of phone use on 【小题5】 (passer-by). A group of 21 volunteers were asked to walk around a certain street. The participants traveled the course a total of 12 times each, either writing 【小题6】reading a message, making a call, or with no phone at all. It took the volunteers 118 percent 【小题7】 (long) to complete the course when using a phone. They also focused 【小题8】 the path 51 percent more when they weren’t using a phone. Although there were no accidents, Timmis believes we should still be aware of 【小题9】 is going on around us. “You are not going to be able to respond to danger efficiently, 【小题10】 increases the risk of injury.” He added.