There’s more to mobile apps than just social media. Here, TEENS has picked out five of our current favorites that may just brighten up your life.
TaoMix 2 – Android/iOS
This is the perfect app for when your homework is finally finished and you can relax for a while. TaoMix 2 provides natural sounds to allow your worries to drift far away. The soundtracks feature birdsong, light rain, mild thunder, and many other comforting sounds. Would you like to imagine that you are in a tent on a hill with no one for miles around? TaoMix 2 can help you. The sound of rain above your head will take you there. Some like music to accompany their nature sounds. Thankfully, Taomix 2 has a choice of ambient(轻松的) melodies to deepen your state of calm. You can let the app choose the music for you or you can take control yourself by mixing and matching your sounds. Taomix 2 is the perfect tool for anyone who wants to unwind (放松) at the end of a long day.
MyHomework Student Planner – Android/iOS
It seems like there’s never an end to schoolwork. Keeping track of what you have to do and making sure it’s done when the teacher wants it requires organization. However, myHomework is a student planner that looks to be the best on the market. It allows you to track classes, tests and homework. The app is free but if you pay a small extra charge you can get access to the myHomework website and receive homework reminders. This app has been around since 2009 and has been constantly updated since. And with so many great reviews, it could just be the perfect replacement for pen-and-pencil planning.
FaceApp – Android/iOS
Currently very popular in the US, FaceApp is a highly entertaining app that changes your face in strange and funny ways. FaceApp will take a photo of your face and age it, or make it younger, force it to smile, or make it grimace (做鬼脸). Faceapp can even change your sex. Ever wondered what the male or female version of yourself looks like? Try FaceApp and see for yourself. This app is mainly for fun, but not totally so. If you’re looking for an impressive WeChat profile photo, this app can make a few improvements to your image. You’ll still look like you, but just a little better. With a rating of 4.7 on Apple’s App Store, Faceapp is one of the hits of 2018.
Endomondo – Android/iOS
There’s a big market today for fitness apps, especially since the appearance of the Apple Watch and Fitbit. Busy people are concerned that they can’t find the hours in the day to take exercise. This is where Endomondo could make a difference. It allows you to track your performance in a fitness or sporting activity. After you’ve been for a run or climbed a hill, you can look at the figures of your physical performance. You can see the kilometers you covered, your maximum speed, and the calories you burned. Endomondo also allows you to compare your performance with other people’s, so you can judge the state of your fitness. In addition, like a real coach, the app gives you advice on how to improve your workouts.
Monument Valley – Android/iOS
It’s been available since 2014 and is as popular now as it was when it first appeared. Monument Valley is a game, but has a lot to offer. Its millions of fans worldwide say it’s more like a beautiful artistic experience in sight and sound than simply a test of the player’s abilities. Your job is to guide Princess Ida to her destination. To do that you must lead her through unusual buildings and enchanted (有魔法的) forests. Indeed, many players say that playing Monument Valley is like taking a journey through a painting. The latest update has added more content: Forgotten Shores consists of eight new chapters. It’s not free, but the quality of the game makes it worth the money.
1.You have to pay for the latest version if you are using ___________.
A. TaoMix 2 B. MyHomework Student Planner C. FaceApp D. Monument Valley
2.Which of the following is NOT true about the apps above?
A. You can choose the soundtracks in it or create the sounds you like when using Taomix.
B. MyHomework Student Planner is an updated app to replace a former version.
C. FaceApp is well received due to its functions for entertainment as well as practical use.
D. You can gain the feedbacks about your fitness by using Endomondo.
I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a goods yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I can dimly remember the _________ of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a(n) _________ can do strange things to people.
It ________ to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, _________. I don't mean that I would prefer to _______ without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had ________.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of _________ to reality. In ________ of the fact they are never easy, I had my parents and teachers to help. The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have ________ and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about _________ the kind of self confidence that helps me down an ________staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite __________, a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself _______.
It took me years to discover and _________ this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was hurt. “I can't use this.” I said. “Take it with you，” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words ________ in my head. “Roll it around！” By rolling the ball I could hear where it _______. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ________: playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to achieve them, one at a time. I had to learn my _________. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of ________ because that only __________ the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
1.A. attraction B. brightness C. warmth D. charm
2.A. crash B. experience C. catastrophe D. memory
3.A. struck B. happened C. occurred D. appealed
4.A. eventually B. therefore C. meanwhile D. otherwise
5.A. choose B. stay C. go D. see
6.A. left B. forgotten C. lost D. heard
7.A. changes B. references C. trials D. adjustments
8.A. terms B. favour C. spite D. place
9.A. collapsed B. cried C. sighed D. escaped
10.A. possibly B. simply C. frankly D. inevitably
11.A. unbelievable B. unstable C. unfamiliar D. unlikely
12.A. fear B. imperfection C. concern D. unfairness
13.A. fit B. live C. stand D. realize
14.A. abandon B. strengthen C. broaden D. regain
15.A. stuck B. hit C. slipped D. jumped
16.A. stopped B. fell C. bounced D. went
17.A. reasonable B. realistic C. impossible D. potential
18.A. dreams B. abilities C. limitations D. achievements
19.A. control B. pity C. charge D. reach
20.A. proposed B. invited C. included D. extended
----I have decided to bury myself in the schoolwork and say goodbye to my comic books.
----___________. You’ve said that a million times.
A. No wonder B. You bet C. I don’t buy it D. It’s your call
----I think a good teacher should ________ to his students the importance of a proper learning method.
----I couldn’t agree more.
A. get across B. get over C. get through D. get down
Many subway stations, including the one near our school, ________ at present for a better transport in the city.
A. are constructing B. are being constructed C. is constructing D. is being constructed
---- Why is Tom in the teacher’s office?
---- He was said _________ with John when the class teacher entered the classroom.
A. fighting B. to fight C. to have been fighting D. to be fighting
