Big Messaging Apps Abroad
While WeChat is China's biggest mobile messaging app, there are many similar apps in other countries that offer similar features.
WhatsApp (US)
Users: more than 300 million
Platforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry
Features: Text chat, push-to-talk, file sharing, location sharing
With more than 300 million active users, WhatsApp is one of WeChat's biggest competitors.
Developed by two ex-Yahoo employees in 2009, WhatsApp originally focused on text chat, but on Aug. 6 it also started push - to - talk service. It's noted for its accessibility, ease of use and the absence of advertisements. The service is free for the first year, after which $ 0.99 (6. 06 yuan) is charged for a one –year subscription.
Kakao Talk (South Korea)
Users: more than 100 million
Platform: Android, iOS, windows Phone, BlackBerry and Bada (an operate system developed by Samsung)
Features: Text chat, group chat, push–to–talk, group calls, file sharing
With more than 100 million users in more than 230 countries, Kakao Talk is a multi - platform (多平台) texting application that allows users to send and receive messages for tree. With Kakao Talk, users can message each other one-on-one or in group chats with unlimited numbers of friends. You can also choose from more than 250 animated emoticons and share them with friends.
Line (Japan)
Users: more than 200 million
Platforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and PC
Features: Text chat, group chat, push–to–talk, file sharing, location sharing, gaming, stickers
Line tops the list of the most downloaded free apps in 52 countries. Apart from text and voice messaging, Line provides its users with more than 250 original stickers and emoticons to buy from its own shop. In the first quarter of 2013 alone, it made $ 17 million just from stickers. The popular app also allows friends to battle each other in the Line games.
1.The first paragraph of the passage is used to_____________________.
A. introduce the most popular mobile messaging apps in China
B. talk about new features in the latest mobile messaging apps
C. draw readers’ attention to various popular mobile messaging apps
D. explain how mobile messaging apps have become so popular
2.Compared with the other two apps, which of the following features makes Line stand out?
A. Group mobile games.
B. Free stickers and emoticons.
C. Free download of the app.
D. Text and group chat.
3.One of the popular features of WhatsApp is that users_____________________.
A. can send and receive messages for free
B. can enjoy live video chats within groups
C. regularly set free stickers and emoticons
D. don’t need to worry about unwanted ads
根据汉语及英语提示，写一篇有关钟南山抗击非典型性肺炎（非典SARS epidemic）的短文,所给的单词短语全部用上。
钟南山是二十一世纪最著名的医学专家之一。他出生于1936年，1960年毕业于北京医学院。作为一个普通但伟大的人，到目前为止，他在医学领域工作了约60年。他是病人眼中的好医生也是学生眼中和善的医学教授。2003年春季，非典席卷中国及全球。钟南山不仅领导而且参与了那次抗击非典的战役。那时没有人真的知道很多有关非典的事情而且大多数人对该病没有免疫力。 虽然危险，但钟南山日夜工作治疗非典病人。同时他强调国际间的合作能挽救生命的事实。
经过他们几个月的努力，他和他的同事取得了显著的成绩。不久非典被击退了。
medical experts,Medical College,as,ordinary,field,professor,break out, lead, take an active part in ,not only...but also...,against,have no defenses against....,treat,patients, underline,fact,teamwork among nations,workmates,achieve remarkable results,defeat
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文, 请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误, 每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加: 在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）, 并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除: 把多余的词用横线（—）画掉。
修改: 在错的词下画一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意: ⑴ 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
⑵ 只允许修改10处, 多者（从第11处起）不计分。
People have strange ideas about food. For example, tomato is a kind very delicious vegetable. It is one of useful plant that can be prepared in many ways. It has rich nutrition(营养) and vitamin in it. But in the 18th century, Americans never eat tomatoes. They grew them in their gardens because of tomato plants are so pretty. But they thought the vegetable was poisonous. They called tomatoes “poison apples”.
President Thomas Jefferson, but, knew that tomatoes were good to eat. He was a learning man. He had been to Paris, which he learned to love the taste of tomatoes. He grew many kinds of tomatoes in their garden. The President taught his cook a way for a cream of tomato soup. This beautiful pink soup was served at the President party. The guests thought the soup tasted really well . They never thought their president would serve his honored guests poison apples. Jefferson never spoke with his honored guests about the fact.
根据课文内容，在每个空格填上合适的单词，完成短文。
John Snow was a well-known physician in London in the 19th century. So famous 1.(be)he that he even attended Queen Victoria to ease the birth of her 2.(baby). However，he decided to defeat cholera，a 3.(dead) disease at that time 4.he saw thousands of people exposed 5. it died every time there was an outbreak.
In 1854 when cholera broke out，he began to gather information and marked on a map where all 6. dead people had lived. He found many people 7.had drunk the dirty water from the pump died. So he decided that the 8.(pollute) water carried cholera.
He found a woman and her daughter who had the water delivered from the pump every day died of cholera after 9.( drink) the water. With this extra evidence John Snow announced that the polluted water was to blame. He suggested the source of all water supplies should10.(examine) and new methods of dealing with water be found. Finally，“King Cholera” was defeated.
假定你是李华，你到一个叫Alex的同学家，叫他帮忙做一件事，碰巧他不在家。因此，你给他写了一张留言条，要点如下：
1. 请他代你参加明天(3月12日)的植树活动。
2. 集合时间地点，如何出发。
3. 天气情况。 4. 自备饮用水和午餐。
注意：1. 词数100左右
2. 可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
3. 开头语和结束语已为你写好。
Dear Alex,
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Yours,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。作文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏子符号（∧）并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
When I was in high school, most of my friend had bicycles. I hoped I could also have it. One day I saw a second-hand bicycle, that was only one hundred Yuan. I asked my father the money. But he said he could only give me half of the money. He should find the other half myself. So I went to sell newspapers after school. My father was pleasing when I showed him the money a month after, but he gives me the other fifty. You can imagine how much happy I was when I rode to school on my own bicycle.
