electronic payments，and even street musicians have QR for donations.Whether you are paying your electricity bill or seeing a doctor，your mobile phone can handle the payment.

　　As a result，China is today the most cash­free of any of the world's major economies-and that trend will continue.Already，the numbers are staggering．According to a survey by Ipsos and Tencent，14% of Chinese people do not carry any cash，while 26% hold less than RMB100 (less than $16) in their wallets，day to day.According to consulting firm iResearch.In 2016 China's mobile payments hit $5.5 trillion，almost 50 times America's $112 billion.

7．The writer tells his experience in a taxi in Singapore to ．

　　A．introduce the topic of the text B．examine a problem in detail

　　C．offer some solutions to an issue D．inform the finding of a new study

8．The fact that Alipay is accepted overseas indicates that ．

　　A．mobile payment in China is becoming more and more popular

　　B．Chinese economy is taking up a bigger share internationally

　　C．great brands find it harder to enter the Chinese market

　　D．the world market is determined by Chinese tourists

9．Which can best replace the underlined word "staggering" in the last paragraph?

　　A．Worrying.　　 B．Important. C．Ridiculous. D．Impressive.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　D

　　When we think of a generation gap we usually think of conflicting tastes in music，or pastimes.But now the generation gap is handwriting.After one teacher in Tennessee discovered that she had students who couldn't read the assignments she was writing on the board，she posted it on the Internet saying handwriting should be taught in schools.

　　Opponents claim that handwriting has become out of time in our modern world.Typed words have become a primary form of communication.Once a practical skill handwriting is no longer used by the vast majority of Americans.It is no longer taught in schools，and some claim that the time that it would take to teach it could be put to better use，for instance，by teaching the technical skills.

But even in today's world there are still plenty of reasons to pick up a pen and apply it to paper.Many American institutions still require original signatures，for instance，signing for a registered letter and buying a house.And original signatures are much more difficult to forge (伪造)