Read carefully the following excerpt on parents’ highly interest in sharing their children’s photos online, and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: - summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then - give your comment on sharenting. You should support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Sharenting? Be Cautious As social media adoption rates continue to increase around the world, many young parents are keen on posting photos of their children—sometimes on a daily basis—on social networking platforms. In fact, parents sharing cute faces of their children to relatives and friends online even have its own word: “sharenting.“ However, oversharing can be dangerous. Recently, the police suggested parents stop sharing photos of their kids online, in order to protect their children’s privacy and avoid child-related crimes. One of the dangers is that abductors or kidnappers may track a kid from a picture’s background, which may threaten the child’s safety. Another is that kids’ photos will be stolen and sold to intermediary agencies, for commercial purposes. “On Weibo, there are some unscrupulous businessmen putting stolen photos on forged search notices for ill-gotten gains,“ said Zhao, a lawyer with the Beijing Juvenile Legal Aid and Research Center. Even worse, faces, heads or other body parts in the photos might be photo-shopped onto pornography and spread on illegal websites. Some netizens believe, however, that it is unnecessary to refrain from posting pictures of children altogether. That’s “because no one should feel restricted from participating in what is now a very common way of life,“ she said, adding, “Social media is meant to be a portrayal of one’s life.“

In today’s competitive society, people are only too anxious to spend all their time on work to make a living. Look at the following picture carefully and write your response in about 200 words, in which you should start with a brief description of the picture, explain its intended meaning, and give your view on the issue. [*] Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization, language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Read carefully the following excerpt on intelligent machine, and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: - summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then - comment on whether robots with emotions will better serve the needs of mankind. You should support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. How Happy Ghatbots could Become Our New Best Friends How do we stop intelligent machines from taking over the world and enslaving us all? Give them emotions. That’s the radical suggestion of Patrick Levy Rosenthal, founder and chief executive of Emoshape, a tech firm that has developed a computer chip that can synthesize 12 human emotions. Mr. Rosenthal believes this nightmare scenario will be avoided if we create machines that can empathize. “We can teach them to feel happiness when they perform well, solve problems and receive positive feedback from humans,“ he says. “This will reduce the threat, because they will always work to achieve human happiness.“ Many tech optimists believe that multiple jobs involving menial or repetitive tasks will be automated. Machines can do a lot of what we do faster, more accurately, and at lower cost. And they don’t go off sick, strike, or ask for pay rises. It’s the latest development of the industrial revolution, and could be just as disruptive.

Read carefully the following excerpt on parents’ highly interest in sharing their children’s photos online, and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: - summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then - give your comment on sharenting. You should support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Sharenting? Be Cautious As social media adoption rates continue to increase around the world, many young parents are keen on posting photos of their children—sometimes on a daily basis—on social networking platforms. In fact, parents sharing cute faces of their children to relatives and friends online even have its own word: “sharenting.“ However, oversharing can be dangerous. Recently, the police suggested parents stop sharing photos of their kids online, in order to protect their children’s privacy and avoid child-related crimes. One of the dangers is that abductors or kidnappers may track a kid from a picture’s background, which may threaten the child’s safety. Another is that kids’ photos will be stolen and sold to intermediary agencies, for commercial purposes. “On Weibo, there are some unscrupulous businessmen putting stolen photos on forged search notices for ill-gotten gains,“ said Zhao, a lawyer with the Beijing Juvenile Legal Aid and Research Center. Even worse, faces, heads or other body parts in the photos might be photo-shopped onto pornography and spread on illegal websites. Some netizens believe, however, that it is unnecessary to refrain from posting pictures of children altogether. That’s “because no one should feel restricted from participating in what is now a very common way of life,“ she said, adding, “Social media is meant to be a portrayal of one’s life.“

Read carefully the following excerpt on robot journalists and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: - summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then - comment on whether journalists will be replaced by robot ones. You should support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Robot Journalists on the Way First it was factory workers, then waiters. Now it seems journalists are next in line to be replaced by industrial robots. The newly-developed robot journalist, aptly named Dreamwriter, had its first news story in Chinese published on the company’s QQ.com website. The 916-word, mistake-free article, August CPI a New High in the Past 12 Months, took only one minute to produce. The majority of Chinese media said that the article was well-written and coherent, causing local reporters to worry about the possibility of a robot replacing them in the near future. While journalists may be wary of such innovation and technology, Tencent said that they hope their robotic news writers—which can produce more than 100 news segments every day—would free journalists to do more challenging and intellectually demanding work. As the robot industry in China, and indeed the world, develops, it remains to be seen if the jobs of journalists, among other professions, become a thing of the past. Kris Hammond, cofounder of American technology company Narrative Science, may have predicted correctly when he said more than 90 percent of the news in the United States would be written by computer programs by 2027. Perhaps it will not be surprising if it happens in China even sooner.