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Passage 3 (2015江苏南通崇川区，七)

    阅读与回答问题。

    Angela Zou hardly writes text messages now.

Sitting at her office desk Zou asks her iPhone where they should go to eat. When it buzzes seconds later she lifts it to her ear for her friend^ reply. The conversation goes back and forth through these pieces of words before they decide on the place for lunch.

    Like millions of others across Asia Zou is using WeChat a srn-artphone app (应用程序) developed in China to send voice messages snapshots (快照 ) and emoticons (表情符号) to her friends. Now that its walkietalkie-style ( 对讲机式）messages have become every- where she said typing feels like hard work.

    WeChafs popularity has grown quickly since it came into use in 2011 .Tencent the company that developed the app announced in September that its users had doubled in six months to 200 million. Most users are in China though WeChat is being used across Asia and already has users in the US and the UK.

    Historically it has proved difficult for Chinese Internet firms to develop in foreign countries. But WeChat is becoming the first Chinese social media application with the possibility to go to the whole world.

    WeChat is similar to the popular US-based mobile messaging service WhatsApp but it does more.It comes in eight languages including English Arabic and Russian.

    I used WhatsApp before I came back to China from studying abroad and found all niy friends were using WeChat”’ said Zou who is 25. Now when I want to contact someone T use WeChat first." The app's features include Look Around which allows users to chat to strangers nearby while Moments works like Instagram (图片分享) .

1. Why does Angela Zou hardly write text messages now?

    
   

2. What is WeChat used to do?

   

3. Which company of China developed WeChat?

   

4. Where is WeChal used?

   

5. What do you think of WeChat?

   

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Passage 3[语篇解读]微信 款手机应用程序，越来越受到人们的欢迎，它可以即时发送语音、快照、表情符号给你的朋友。微信有可能成为第一个走向全世界的中国社交软件。1. Because she is using WeChat now and she feels that typing is hard work.根据第一段对Angela Zou的描述和第二段内容可知答案。2. 1t s used to send voice messages snapshots and emoticons to friends. 根 据文章第二段第一句后半部分to send voice messages snapshots (快 照) and emoticons (表情符号) to her friends可知，微信可给朋友发送 语音信息、快照和表情符号。3. Tencent.根据文章第二段第二句 Tencent the company that developed the app...可知，是腾讯公司发明了微信。4. In Asia the US and the UK.根据文章第三段最后一句...though WeChat is being used across Asia and already has users in the US and the UK.可知，微信用户遍及亚洲、美国和英国。5. 1fs very useful.纵览全文，可知微信是一款有用的社交软件。