Online games are very popular among people. They make a large amount of money and have a large user base, including lots of teenagers. But now, new rules on online games have been introduced, which are aimed at fighting against addiction (成瘾) among underage players.
Adult players need to spend most of their time paying attention to work and family, and cannot play games as often as they want. However, underage players have more spare time, but less responsibility and self-control. Children without a clear purpose in life, where there is less family education and school management, might easily become addicted to all kinds of online games and online novels.
The most direct impact of an addiction to online games among underage players is on their psychological (心理) health. According to psychologists, people seriously addicted to games can become anxious, bad tempered, and avoid responsibility.
However, Chinese parents are more worried that their children will lack interest in studying if they become addicted to online games, as academic success is important for students. Additionally, when their children become addicted to such games, most parents do not know how to deal with the situation.
To carry out the new rules to the best effect, more specific issues need to be solved, such as managing foreign online games, ensuring that facial recognition technologies used by games companies have the wanted effect or making sure online game providers can only offer one-hour services to underage players on Saturdays and Sundays. While there are always loopholes (漏洞) in new rules, authorities should act quickly to close them.
There is no doubt that online games have harmful effects on young people. It is not acceptable for a large number of teenagers or those even younger, to become addicted to these games.
1. What’s the purpose of the new rules on online games?A.To raise awareness of Internet safety. |
B.To bring in new computer programs. |
C.To reduce the grown-up user base. |
D.To prevent the teenagers’ addiction. |
A.They can learn more knowledge on the Internet. |
B.They have more free time and less self-control. |
C.They have purposes in life but lack higher education. |
D.They maintain a sense of curiosity about the Internet. |
A.How to reduce parents’ anxiety about kids’ study. |
B.How to find loopholes in the popular online games. |
C.How to control the service time of online game providers. |
D.How to invent a facial recognition game for young players. |
A.Confused. | B.Negative. |
C.Supportive. | D.Uninterested. |
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【推荐1】As the costs of fuel, groceries and housing increase suddenly around the world, scientists are fighting inflation (通货膨胀) at the bench. Almost all items needed to conduct science are more expensive than they were just a year ago. And that means that nearly every researcher is feeling the pressure. “Nobody is immune to this economy,” says Tola Olorunnisola, who leads innovation in the lab at Avantor, an international science-management company in Pennsylvania. Olorunnisola visited labs in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Ireland to help researchers find ways to enlarge their budgets. “Scientists are becoming more conscious of costs,” she says.
The increase in lab costs has forced scientists to make some difficult choices. Scientific budgets are pretty fixed. If they pay double for something, it means they’re not buying something else. Scientists can keep their research projects moving forward, but to avoid overspending on their budgets, they’ll probably need to adjust their buying habits and take steps to make their labs more efficient.
Julien Sage, a cancer researcher and geneticist at Stanford University in California, estimates that lab supplies historically account for roughly 20%of his overall budget, but he says that the balance is shifting.
Without significant boosts in funding to keep pace with inflation, it’s up to scientists to find creative ways to diminish costs. One option is to rethink experimental design.
“It will probably take more than discounts from lab-supply companies to truly protect scientists from the impact of rising prices,” Sage says. “Unless something is done on a large scale to either stabilize costs or increase funding, science is likely to suffer. If you have less money, you’re going to have fewer people or be less productive, which means you’re going to have fewer grants (拨款) which means you’re going to have fewer people. That’s probably happening to a lot of labs these days, and the question is: When is it going to stop?”
1. For what did Olorunnisola visit some labs in different places?A.Seeing how researchers struggle against inflation. |
B.Proving everyone has to face the rising price. |
C.Learning about the pressure of researchers. |
D.Helping researchers overcome economic difficulty. |
A.The cause of increasing lab costs. | B.The effects of the rising lab costs. |
C.The tough choices of researchers. | D.The ways of making labs efficient. |
A.Reduce. | B.Calculate. | C.Restore. | D.Keep. |
A.Scientists face many problems | B.The price of goods is rising quickly |
C.Labs have to tighten supplies budgets | D.People hold different opinions of price |
【推荐2】Most of us have at least a few prized possessions we’d have trouble letting go of. But those with a hoarding disorder are forced to hold onto the majority of their belongings, even when doing so means severely messy surroundings that decrease their quality of life and threaten their safety through the risk of fire or personal injury.
The hoarding disorder is an under-recognized condition. “People with a hoarding disorder are often hesitant to seek or stay in treatment because of anxiety,” says Marla Deibler, a clinical psychologist based in Princeton, New Jersey. Now scientists at Stanford University are exploring a new treatment to help individuals with a hoarding disorder.
The recent pilot study shows that therapy powered by a virtual reality headset and handheld controllers can help those who hoard to practice letting go of their possessions using a simulation (模拟) of their homes before they clean the space in real life.
The study was conducted over 16 weeks and allowed its participants — all diagnosed with a hoarding disorder — to enter virtual models of their homes to practice sorting and discarding (丢弃) items to which they felt attached. The virtual layout of their homes and possessions was created with photos uploaded to create a 3D simulation, so the items were known and valued by each participant before they practiced throwing them out.
“Seventy-eight percent of participants noted virtual reality helped them increase real-life discarding,” says Carolyn Rodriguez, the lead author of the study. Such results are promising, especially when the study’s participants ranged in age from 60 to 73 years old — the group in which hoarding is most common.
The Stanford study builds on work done at the University of Chicago, published in 2020, which also showed that individuals struggling with a hoarding disorder were motivated to have a clean environment by using virtual reality to explore their homes. The uniqueness of the Stanford research, however, lies in the opportunity it has provided for participants to take part in the discarding process — a crucial step in emotionally separating themselves from each item.
1. What is the function of the first paragraph?A.To show a trend. | B.To introduce a concept. |
C.To highlight a risk. | D.To advocate a lifestyle. |
A.By giving them accurate diagnoses. |
B.By developing smart headsets and controllers. |
C.By providing them with a virtual version of their homes. |
D.By teaching them the method of sorting and discarding items. |
A.The foundation of the study. | B.The effectiveness of the therapy. |
C.The wide applications of the therapy. | D.The unexpected findings of the study. |
A.Virtual reality is extensively applied. | B.Guidance on exploring homes is offered. |
C.A larger number of participants are involved. | D.Participants can actively engage in the cleaning. |
【推荐3】It was meant to connect us, make us smarter and our lives easier. And it has. But there’s at least one comer of life where the Internet has made things so much more difficult: gift giving.
Once upon a time, if you were struggling to find a present for a loved one, there were easy options to fall back on-DVDs, CDs, video games and other physical media. This wasn’t even that long ago, but now it’s been snatched from our grasp by the Internet offering us the chance, at a relatively low cost, to watch, listen to or read whatever we want, whenever we want. With everything already watched, listened to, or read, buying a present has become near impossible.
Therefore, we all have to work at becoming perfect gift givers, taking all factors into consideration and searching high and low to seek out the ideal present. If we go the extra mile, there’s less chance that the person we have in mind has already bought what we’re considering online.
But as I now consider this exact plan of action, I’m thinking perhaps it’s not all that bad. Maybe the Internet is delivering us a lesson, firm but fair: the era of half-baked present purchasing is over and it’s time to go hard or go home.
In this era of immediate satisfaction, if you want to give someone a useful present, you do have to actually go to the effort of sourcing something nice for them. Perhaps that’s making for a more rewarding gift experience for all involved. And perhaps it also means fewer gifts that are given as an excuse and end up being unused.
1. How is the topic of gift giving introduced in Paragraph 1?A.By demonstrating the prospect of the Internet. |
B.By showing the difficulty in using the Internet. |
C.By pointing out the shortcoming of the Internet. |
D.By arguing about the possible benefits of the Internet. |
A.Numerous gift options. | B.Relative high cost for presents. |
C.Limited offer from digital giants. | D.Easy access to the Internet versions. |
A.Purchase satisfactory gifts. | B.Try to select a present. |
C.Buy fewer gifts as an excuse. | D.Make more valuable presents. |
A.Confused. | B.Critical. | C.Neutral. | D.Acceptable. |
【推荐1】Many people believe that there is one form of their language that is more correct than others. They may believe for example that British English is more correct than other varieties; or that written English is more correct than spoken English. Often this belief is supported by reference books to grammars, usage guides or dictionaries: If something goes against a rule in a grammar, or if the word isn’t in the dictionary, it “must be wrong”. Since the reference books are most often based on observation of the standard written language, the argument is really circular: These books will naturally describe standard usage, because that is what they are for; but this does not mean that there is anything wrong with other kinds of usage that are less often described.
A better way of looking at things is to say that usage is “correct in its place”. Standard American English is correct in America, and formal written grammar is employed in formal writing. So this means there is no answer to the question: “What kind of English should learners study?” It depends on their purposes. For many learners, the best model is one or other of the two main standard varieties: British or American English. Neither of these is “better” than the other, and they are both used and understood worldwide.
People are also worried by language change. If younger people “break” the rules that older people have learnt, older people often feel disturbed: they are concerned that younger people no longer know their grammar, and that the language is going downhill. This is a needless worry: change is natural and inevitable, it cannot be stopped, and it does not generally affect a languages efficiency as a communicative tool. A great deal of modern English grammar would have been wrong three hundred years ago, and will perhaps be wrong again three hundred years from now.
1. What can we infer from paragraph 1?A.Learners are always confused by the reference books. |
B.Some wrong usages can be found in the reference books. |
C.Nobody can challenge the authority of the reference books. |
D.Usages not mentioned in the reference books are not necessarily wrong. |
A.There is no “standard English”. |
B.American English is better than British English. |
C.A learner should master all the distinctions of different English. |
D.The differences between British English and American English. |
A.Avoidable. | B.Formal. | C.Certain. | D.Temporary. |
A.Disturbed. | B.Optimistic. | C.Cautious. | D.Doubtful. |
【推荐2】Many got sleepless nights after Sora amazed the world with its remarkable ability of creating videos directly from text instructions. Discussions about what the artificial intelligence model can do and make a difference continue.
Some said it could give a huge blow to traditional industries such as film and television making, looking forward to the day when a movie can be created right after a novel is put into the model. But others remain skeptical about how powerful the model can be in changing the landscape of AI application.
Developed by a group of young talent from Microsoft-backed company OpenAI, the text-to-video model can generate videos up to a minute long while maintaining visual quality and adherence to the user’s prompt.
Shen Yang, a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University , said, “Sora represents a revolutionary leap in the field of AI-generated content (AIGC).”
As one of the leading scholars in AI research in China, Shen leads a team that studies the philosophy of AI. Until he learned about Sora on February 16, Shen was quite satisfied with his team’s AI-generated videos. A two-minute video on the Spring Festival produced by Shen’s team have recently won many likes on social media platforms. “Compared with the new model Sora, what we used are tools of the previous generation. There’s a huge gap in between," said Shen.
As a frequent user of AI, Shen said the technology not only helps improve his productivity, but also benefits his daily life. His wife was suffering from cancer and many complications, and he used AI to assist in finding treatment, which has remarkably prolonged her life. He even wrote an award-winning science fiction novel using AI.
However, new technologies do not mean good news to everyone. Many also concern about AI models’ safety issues since related regulations are lagging behind.
Sora is going to bring changes in many fields, including short video, film and television, news, games, advertising, education, and even industrial manufacturing, according to Shen. There is still much room to improve AI models. For instance, current AI models are not capable of drawing characters accurately and quickly. Shop signs lack meaning in Sora’s demo video showing a woman walking down a street in Tokyo. But these problems are believed to be solved as models update.
1. Which of the following might have similar meaning to the underlined word in Paragraph 2?A.push. | B.strike. | C.warning. | D.bonus. |
A.All people can not benefit from the new AI technologies. |
B.AI model’s safety isn’t concerning despite lagging legal restrictions. |
C.The AI-generated videos by Shen Yang’s team were better than those created by Sora. |
D.The text-to-video model was developed by a group of young talent from Tsinghua University. |
A.Favorable. | B.Objective. | C.Unconcerned. | D.Reserved. |
A.Sora: An AI video. | B.Video Making: AI Models. |
C.Sora: A Powerful AI Tool. | D.Video Making: Future of AI. |
【推荐3】Intellectual humility means recognizing that we don’t know everything. Actually, it means we should acknowledge that we're probably biased in our belief about just how much we understand and seek out the sources of wisdom that we lack.
The Internet and digital media have created the impression of limitless knowledge at our fingertips. The psychologist Tania Lombrozo of the University of California explained how technology enhances our illusions (错觉) of wisdom. She argues that the way we access information is critical to our understanding — and the more easily we can recall an image, word or statement, the more likely we’ll think we’ve successfully learned it, and so withdraw from effortful cognitive processing. In fact, your capacity to learn from the information online depends on your attitudes. Intellectually humble people don’t hide or ignore their weaknesses. In fact, they see them as sources of personal development, and use arguments as an opportunity to refine their views. People who are humble by nature tend to be more open-minded and quicker to resolve disputes, since they recognise that their own opinions might not be valid.
At the other end of the scale lies intellectual arrogance. Such arrogance almost always originates from the egocentric bias – the tendency to overestimate their own virtue or importance, ignoring the role of chance or the influence of other people’s actions on their lives. This is what makes these people credit success to themselves and failure to circumstance. From an evolutionary perspective, intellectual arrogance can also be seen as a way of achieving dominance through forcing one’s view on others. Intellectually arrogant people hardly invest mental resources in discussion or working towards group consensus, thus making it hard for groups to work successfully.
The Thrive Center for Human Development in California, which seeks to help young people turn into successful adults, is funding a series of major studies about intellectual humility. Their hypothesis is that humility, curiosity and openness are key to a fulfilling life. “Without humility, you are unable to learn,” Laszlo Bock, Google’s Head of People Operations, notes.
1. The passage is mainly about ________.A.the harm arrogance does to us |
B.the key elements to a fulfilling life |
C.the significance of intellectual humility |
D.the way people access information online |
A.enables people to think critically |
B.offers too much unreliable information |
C.allows easy access to abundant information |
D.makes it hard for people to recall information |
A.value others’ opinions more than their own |
B.use online information to better themselves |
C.are unwilling to show their strengths |
D.prefer to solve difficult problems |
A.intellectual arrogance is the result of evolution |
B.intellectually arrogant people often lack team spirits |
C.successful people are often unaware of their limitations |
D.circumstances don’t favor intellectually arrogant people |
【推荐1】E is a teen with special needs. Often, she feels that she is targeted by her schoolmates. She complains of dirty looks, eye rolling and whispering when she walks through the halls. This time, she saw A whispering and thought it was about her.
And E had power to hit back-on Facebook. As soon as she got home, she logged on and demanded that her friends unfriend A, and choose between the two of them. She teased them for talking to A at school, and called A “ugly” and “fat”, “She is smelly.” E wrote, “and she uses her Mum to fight her battles.” You can only imagine the comments.
However, E didn’t know that her Facebook privacy setting was set to the public which meant that anyone-including A-could read her posts. In a matter of hours, E was the cyberbully.
And here’s the thing about cyberbullying: It can become real-life trouble. This can often be heard. “You bother me online. I will bother you up on the bus.” It can start with a misunderstood comment or an inappropriate post meant as a joke, And for a teen with special needs, words can take on literal meanings, crcating an cnvironment that’s frightening. Combine that with a lack of control of online privacy and virtual social skills and you may have an ill outcome.
Social media can open doors to new friendships and social circles that are inaccessible in real life. But we, as adults, often give our children access to this virtual world without guidance and boundaries, while counting on them to use it with ease and wisdom. We expect too much with little direction. The advice that I give parents is to set clear rules and stay consistent, even repeated.
1. What did E do on Facebook when believing A was whispering about her?A.She made unfair comments about A. |
B.She challenged A to fight against her. |
C.She asked her friends to forgive A. |
D.She teased A for talking with her friends. |
A.focusing on | B.relying on |
C.appealing to | D.turning to |
A.Parents. | B.Teenagers. | C.Children. | D.Teachers. |
A.How to protect privacy for children in the virtual world. |
B.How to set regulations for children in the virtual world. |
C.How to build friendships for children in the virtual world. |
D.How to fight the cyberbully for children in the virtual world. |
【推荐2】There’s a new AI bot: ChatGPT, and you’d better pay attention, even if you aren’t into artificial intelligence. The tool is an AI chat bot system that OpenAI released in November 2022 to show off and test what a very large, powerful AI system can achieve.
ChatGPT remembers the thread of your dialogue, using previous questions and answers to inform its next responses. It derives its answers from huge volumes of information on the Internet. ChatGPT is built on top of the OpenAI GPT-3 family of large language models and is fine-tuned (a method of transfer learning) using both supervised and reinforcement learning (监督和强化学习).
You can ask ChatGPT anything, like explaining physics, asking for birthday party ideas and getting programming help. Perhaps it’s not smart enough to replace all humans yet, but it can be creative, and its answers can sound downright authoritative. A few days after its launch, more than I million people were trying out ChatGPT. UBS analyst Lloyd Walmsley estimated in February 2023 that ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly users in January, accomplishing in 2 months what took TikTok about 9 months and Instagram two and a half years.
ChatGPT is free to use at the moment because it is still in its research phase. But when too many people hop onto the server, it overloads and can’t process your request. It just means you should try visiting the site at a later time when fewer people are trying to access it. If you want to skip the wait and have reliable access, there is an option for you. As of Feb. 1, 2023, OpenAI has aChatGPT pro plan, ChatGPT Plus, which allows users to have general access even during peak times. This service does come at a cost of $20/month.
However, ChatGPT can not replace Google. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence robot that provides solutions to your questions, but Google is a search engine in which you can search for as much information as possible. ChatGPT has limited knowledge due to its programming but Google has unlimited knowledge which is updated every day.
1. What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about ChatGPT?A.Its language model. | B.Its working theory. |
C.Its design inspiration. | D.Its development process. |
A.To show the popularity of ChatGPT. |
B.To stress the high cost of inventing ChatGPT. |
C.To present the creativity of artificial intelligence. |
D.To prove the necessity of developing tools for chatting online. |
A.Providing solutions to any question. |
B.Guiding users to experience free services. |
C.Searching for a huge amount of information. |
D.Giving users priority access during peak hours. |
A.It operates based on limited data. |
B.It needs longer to provide solutions. |
C.It can only update information at a fixed time. |
D.It may provide replies unrelated to the questions. |
【推荐3】The Internet has become a way of life for many people around the world. So what would happen if one fine morning, you woke up to find the Internet has no existence? How would your life be changed? Well, your lifestyle might be impacted. If you were an Internet addict, you would find that your life has come to an end. With no online facilities, a considerable part of your time would be spent waiting in long lines at banks, post offices or government offices. You would be waiting for days or even weeks for your mail to arrive from another corner of the world. Suddenly, you would realize that your fast-paced life is running at a snail’s pace.
Without the Internet, your socializing would also be impacted. If you’d gotten very used to socializing online, you would now be clueless as to how you could share the pictures of your recent trip you went for with your friends across the globe. It would be difficult to interact with people living outside your locality.You might have to become a member of a club or a community in your neighborhood to make new friends.With no online social media, you would find yourself saying this very often: Let’s go and talk to them!
With no way to use emails, instant messaging, chat or social media, we would have to take advantage of the option of a telephone conversation, or sending a snail mail. Communication via the Internet is free, whereas the options available otherwise would cost you extra money and time. Your would have to write letters and buy stamps, as we used to do before the Internet became popular.
The Internet has become a huge sea of information and resources. No Internet would mean no instant and easy access to information at the click of a button. You would have to walk down to your local library and actually search the whole place to get the information you’re looking for, with little chances that you’ll find what you seek instantly. The students who were accustomed to using the Internet for completing their assignments would have a tough time.There would be no way to get an education without actually going to a school or a college physically.
Without the Internet, things at your workplace would be turned upside down. If your work was largely Internet-based, your company might have to shut down.If your work involved only minor use of the Internet, for example, using online system to acquire statistics from the Internet, this simple task would now be a complicated and timeconsuming process.Your desk would be full of documents and files, and you would have a nightmare searching or sorting them out by hand.In any case, life without the Internet would seem like a nightmare! So enjoy living in the paradise we call the Internet and make wise use of it!
Can You Imagine the World Without the Internet? | |
Paragraph outline | Supporting details |
Lifestyle | ·It would take you much longer time to get some public ·The pace of your life would |
Socializing | ·You would not know how to share your things with your faraway friends. ·You would have difficulty interacting with people living outside your locality. ·You would need to join a club or a community to ·You would always be obliged to make face-to-face |
Communication | ·Without emails,instant messaging or social media,you would have to use old communicating ways like telephone conversation. ·Communicating in old ways would be |
Information | ·Large amounts of information and resources online would no longer be easily ·The students who were in the ·It would be impossible for students to be |
Workplace | ·Those companies that were heavily ·It would be complicated and timeconsuming to acquire some statistics. ·Your desk would be in a |