With the development of the Internet, more and more people turn to it instead of newspapers for information. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

   Computer hackers have now got their hands on mobile phones. A phone virus program can get your phone to do things you have no _____ of, computer security experts _____.

It might call the White House or the police, or _____ your personal address book to a marketing company. Or it could simply eat into the phone’s operating software, turning it _____ and erasing your personal information.

Similar viruses have already made mobile phone owners _____ in Japan and Europe.

Mr. Hypponen, chief technical officer of computer security in Finland said, “A virus can get your _____ and send them somewhere else. And it can record your _____.”

Mobiles are now able to _____ the Net, send e-mails and download software. So they easily become the _____ for the same hackers who have sent viruses to computers over the past decade.

“It’s technically ______ now,” said Stephen Trilling, director of research on anti-virus software.

“If the phone is connected to the ______, it can be used to transmit (传递) threats and ______ just as any computer can.”

In Japan, ______ you open a certain e-mail on your mobile, it will cause the phone to repeatedly ______ the national emergency number.

So phone operators will have to ______ emergency calls until the virus is ______.

In Europe, mobiles’ short message service, ______, SMS, has been used to send codes that could damage ______.

“Mobile users can ______ viruses, of course, by ______ their traditional phones without Web links,” some experts say.

   Heads turned, tears dropped, and gossip-filled whispers went on and on from the hospital passages to the house windows. There was a problem: a daughter had been born. She wasn’t the first disappointment born to her family. Although my aunt didn’t care about giving birth to a girl, her mother-in-law constantly reminded her of the criticism she would have to face if she gave birth to a daughter. In India, most people held these views.

When I visited my relatives during the summer, one sentence managed to fill me with anger and start arguments with my so-called relatives. “You are a girl, stay within your limits.” They simply don’t know how different it is living in the US. Anyway, comparisons to my cousins led me to end the arguments for the moment and accept the way they lived their lives.

My words didn’t make sense to them so my mind was set on proving them wrong.

Although their words didn’t tear me apart, their actions managed to. The amount of sexism(性别歧视) in this culture, especially my hometown, made me feel bad. It was the 21st century, yet women had to eat after the men at family gatherings. They had to cook all the family meals and were asked to take jobs that required little skill or education. It was time to change these views.

As I was growing older, the same relatives repeatedly questioned me about my future: “What do you want to be?” And the answer was always the same：electrical engineer. I have a passion for electronics; as clichéd(陈词滥调的) as it sounds, I was born to do it. When I connect wires together to repair something, I can’t contain my excitement. But when I tried to explain this to my relatives, all of them, except for my parents and grandparents, would be shocked and laugh at me — laugh because they didn’t think I could live up to my goals, being a “girl and all”. It was time to change these views.

In my world, being a girl is not a problem. Rather, it is an opportunity to allow passion, not stereotypes(成见), to shape my future. I decided to channel my relatives’ views into positive energy. Rather than letting them bring me down, I let them be motivation to achieve my goal of becoming an engineer. I, a female, will become a successful engineer.

   A primary school in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, has announced (宣布) it no longer requires parents to sign their children’s homework. China Youth Daily _____:

Putting an end to the _____ that parents sign off the homework of their children _____ the burden on many parents, as otherwise they would have to look through primary school homework after a hard day’s work. But there are _____ that if parents stop having to sign off their children’s homework, the children will not get _____ grades.

_____, the most efficient way for children to study is to develop their _____ to learn and do their own homework.

When doing homework, students practice and _____ apply what they have learned. Truly, teachers are _____ to check students’ homework and ______ their mistakes. But some parents correct their children’s mistakes by themselves when signing off it.

It is the ______ of students to do their homework, be responsible ______ their studies and correct their mistakes. Parents’ supervising (监督) their homework, checking their answers and ______ the harder problems will only make children ______ aware of their mistakes and encourage them to ______ their parents’ help when they face any problems.

Children have to manage their own learning and ______ the ability to study by themselves, as competency (能力) will not be achieved ______ a student simply repeats fixed ______ in which he is helped in school by teachers and at home by parents.

An experiment ______ by Walter Mischel in the 1960s proved that children with better self-discipline performed better in their studies and interpersonal relationships.

There is little doubt that parents’ supervision can make children’s homework better. But it does not give children the ______ to practice their ability to solve problems independently.