Running individual official accounts on social-networking app WeChat has become a new channel for Chinese people to express themselves, according to a survey.

At present many media 【小题1】(organize), companies and individuals in China have launched official accounts on WeChat, 【小题2】(attempt) to attract more subscribers to expand their reach. Over 66 percent of 2,001 respondents said they are willing to set up individual official WeChat accounts, while 27.2 percent said they have already started such accounts. The survey, 【小题3】(publish) Tuesday by the China Youth Daily, also said expressing feelings and views, as well as gaining popularity, are the top three reasons people want individual official accounts. More than half of individual official accounts offer content concerning 【小题4】(person) views and feelings, as well as entertainment and recreation information, the survey said.

Despite only having 75 followers, Wang Yiran, 【小题5】 college student in Shandong Province, said she will keep posting updates, as she considers 【小题6】 a meaningful way to keep record of her daily life and to share opinions with others.

【小题7】 more than 540 respondents 【小题8】 have individual public accounts on WeChat, 5 percent claimed that they 【小题9】(build) popular "self-media" brands using their accounts, 【小题10】 12.2 percent said they had made money from the accounts through advertising.

Tesla Says It Will Accept Bitcoins for Car Payment

Tesla is an American electric sports car manufacturer. The carmaker said on Monday that around $1.5 billion 【小题1】(invest) in bitcoin, an Internet-based form of money.

The company 【小题2】(expect) to begin accepting the digital currency as payment for its cars and other products in the near future. The announcement from one of the best-known American car companies sent the price of bitcoin 【小题3】 more than 10 percent.

Tesla chief Elon Musk is a supporter of the digital currency. Musk said a week ago that bitcoin was “on the verge” of 【小题4】(accept) more widely by investors. Last December, he asked if it was possible to do large business deals in the currency.

Eric Turner, a vice president of market intelligence at the research company Messari, says bitcoin 【小题5】(use) by more companies since “Tesla has made the first move”.

The value of a bitcoin 【小题6】(reach) record highs in recent months. The currency has also gained support from major financial companies this year. The financial services company Blackrock recently permitted some of its funds 【小题7】(invest) in the currency. However, government-run central banks around the world do not support the digital currency.

The price of bitcoin has gone up and down wildly since it 【小题8】(create) in 2009 by a mysterious developer. During the pandemic, bitcoin was trading at less than $11,000 in October of 2020. Bitcoin was valued at more than $43,000 after Tesla’s announcement Monday. Tesla said in a document that its $1.5 billion investment in digital currency and other “alternative” holdings may grow.

【小题9】 more companies have used the technology behind bitcoin, known as blockchain, the actual uses of bitcoin 【小题10】(not change) very much. Some businesses, such as Overstock.com, have accepted payments in bitcoin. Still, its popularity is low compared with normal currencies. But that could change if others follow Tesla and begin accepting the digital currency.

Wikipedia has come a long way since it started in 2001. With around 70, 000 volunteers editing in over 100 languages, it is by far the world’s 【小题1】(popular)reference site. However, its future is uncertain.

One of the biggest threats it faces is the rise of smartphones 【小题2】the dominant personal computing device. Wikipedia has always depended on contributors (撰稿人) who hunch over keyboards【小题3】(search) for references, discussing changes and writing articles with a special code. It’s simply too hard to use complex code on a tiny screen. The pool of potential Wikipedia editors【小题4】dry up as the number of mobile users keeps growing. The nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, 【小题5】oversees(监督) Wikipedia’s operations, 【小题6】(look) for solutions for a while. For instance, the development of touch-screen tools allows editors to sift through (筛选)information and share content from their phones.

The tension runs through the community. Last year, the foundation took unprecedented steps of forcing the installation of new software on the German-language Wikipedia. The German editors【小题7】(show) their independence by resisting an earlier update to the site’s user interface(界面). 【小题8】the wishes of these experienced editors, the foundation installed a new method for viewing multimedia content and then set up a “superprotect” feature 【小题9】(prevent) stubborn administrators from changing it back.

Could the pressure from mobile users, and the internal tension, tear Wikipedia apart? A world without it seems unimaginable, but consider the fate of other online communities. Blogging, celebrated a decade ago as pioneering an exciting new form of personal writing, has decreased significantly in the social-media age.

These are challenges, but they can still【小题10】(solve). There is no other significant alternative to Wikipedia, and good will toward the project could hardly be higher. In an age of internet giants, the selflessness of websites is worth saving.