The scale of development in China is like nowhere else on Earth, but this rapidly modernizing landscape comes with its own costs. Once-close-knit ( 曾经紧密团结的) communities are being 1) __________ by urban migration. In this vast country, it can be a challenge to 2)_____________. New media has jumped on the opportunity to bridge that 3) __________. One company is solving China’s problem of alienation ( 疏远) by bringing people back together virtually. A small group of Chinese 4) ___________ invented something called WeChat. This mobile-only social media platform now has 400 million 5) ___________________ and literally two-thirds of the entire country has a WeChat account. WeChat isn’t your average messaging app. Their 6) ____________ have fundamentally changed the way (the) Chinese communicate and interact 7) _____________ . Popular functions include Moments and Shake-shake, both of which are social media platforms 8) ________ to WeChat, but their most transformative 9) __________ has been voice messaging. WeChat popularized voice messaging. Now 10) ________________ in Chinese is laborious. So WeChat found a way for people to send voice memos instead. It’s now a ubiquitous form of communication throughout the country.