【推荐2】Onions make you cry, add flavor to food and win popularity for their medicinal benefits. Now the vegetable has another use—_____ green energy.

Anew system debuts（首次亮相）on Friday that _____ onion juice into electricity at Gills Onions, the largest fresh onion processor in the United States.

The Oxnard, California-based company _____ its new onion-fueled power to reduce its electric bill by $700,000 a year and _____ its annual greenhouse gas emissions by up to 30,000 tons.

The _____ ending to this green energy tale, however, started with another question: how to _____ onion waste.

“_____ we peel an onion, 35 to 40 percent of the onion comes off before we have a(n)_____ onion. That's the top, tail and skin around the onion, and _____ we can get to the meat,” said Steven Gill, co-owner of the 25-year-old company.

They used to pull the waste to the fields for compost（混合肥料）, but that turned out to be a tough ______. Ten years ago, Gill started looking at technology for a(n) _____, including microturbines（微型燃气轮机）.

“We ______ cutting the skins into pieces and extracting all the ______, which is very high in sugars, and bacteria love that stuff,” Gill said.

In the new system, bacteria ______ methane（甲烷）gas from the juice. The gas then goes to two 300 kilowatt fuel cells, creating ______ power for 460 homes. If everything goes smoothly, ______ are that the company will get 35 to 40 percent of its electricity from the on-site generator.

The company ______ $ 9. 5 million in the project and will receive $2. 7 million from Southern California Gas Co. _____ cutting its electric bill, the company will save $400,000 in costs and expects paybacks in the new future.

The onion grower now has a new ______: to be a zero-waste facility in the coming decade.

“We want to ______ it all the way through and make the full circle,” Gill said.

【推荐3】ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-driven chatbot (聊天机器人) programme that responds to user prompts, has gone viral in social networks in recent weeks. Its ___________ is such that within days of its launch, OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot, announced that 1 million people had used. In comparison, Facebook and Spotify took months to achieve that ___________of engagement (受人关注) . The attraction is obvious: ChatGPT can produce jokes, essays and computer code from a short writing prompt.

There’s nothing ___________ in software that produces fluent and logical writing. ChatGPT’s predecessor (前身), the Generative Pretrained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), could do that too. Both were trained on an unimaginably large amount of data to answer questions in a/an ___________ way. But ChatGPT has been updated by being given the data on human “conversations”, which significantly ___________ the truthfulness and informativeness(信息准确性) of its answers.

___________, ChatGPT still produces answers that seem reasonable but are incorrect or nonsensical (无意义的). Even the chatbot itself says, “My responses are not intended to be considered as ___________.” This might be a big problem on the Internet, as many web platforms (平台) ___________ the ability to protect themselves against a flood of AI-generated content (AI生成的内容). Such websites as Stack Overflow, where users can find answers to programming-related questions, had to ban ChatGPT-produced posts, as its human moderators (管理员) could not ___________ the volume (大量) of incredible but wrong replies. It is ______________ to give out tools that could be used to produce fake news and messages.

Using ChatGPT too much raises the question of whether content produced by it can be truly trusted. A human author is ______________ their own work but AI is not. Artificial intelligence is not artificial ______________: ChatGPT does not know what it is doing; it is unable to say how or why it produced a response; it doesn’t have human experience, and cannot tell if it is ______________. While OpenAI has safeguards to refuse inappropriate requests, such as to tell users how to commit crimes (犯罪), these can be bypassed. AI’s potential for harm should not be ______________. In the wrong hands, it could be a weapon to harm people and society.

No one knows what will happen to such technologies if the software engineers of the future will themselves be software programs. “Human supervision (监督) and ______________ are required,” OpenAI’s researchers have warned.

【推荐2】I dreamed of being a scientist at 6. However, I decided at 10 that I was going to be a teacher because I had a strong ________ for superpowers. As a boy, I could clearly see some of my teachers who had extraordinary (非凡的) powers.

There was an English teacher who could magically ________ her creative ideas to teaching. She helped us get a better understanding of the words by telling us stories and reading to us from books we would otherwise never pick up. It was even ________ that my teacher could see something invisible (看不见的). I was one of those who were shy to express my thoughts. Yet my teacher would notice me and the ________ message in her eyes suggested that she could ________ my mind. She had another superpower and she had a good knowledge of arts. She managed to improve our understanding of arts _______ her major was not art. Her lessons went _______ the textbook. I wanted to be one of those teachers with superpowers that made children feel safe and ______.

Being a teacher isn’t the easiest or the most _______ rewarding (有回报的) job. And there are even some risks — your knees can become worn out from years of carrying piles of notebooks up and down the school staircase, and your _______ can be impacted from too much talking. But _______ all that, there are those choosing to be teachers. To them, teaching is not just a job — it is a science, an art and it _______ love and devotion.

For three decades now, I’ve gone to work early every day with energy. Sometimes, my _______ students come to visit me. Their obvious love for me and unforgettable _______ of our time together are my rewards (回报). When I meet others who dream of having superpowers, I feel proud to _______ to the same group.

【推荐3】Last Saturday, I went out to have breakfast with a friend. It was _________. But what wasn’t so lovely was the lady who took our _________. She spoke in a way that was _________, unhappy, certainly not friendly and sort of rude. Working in hospitality(服务行业) myself, I _________. When it was my _________ to approach her and order, I thought to myself, “What can I do here to cheer her up, to appreciate her, to make her _________?”

I had nothing.

Surely there must be _________ I could sincerely compliment(称赞) her on. Then I _________ instantly. It was her _________. She had the most incredibly well-spoken and clear voice. It was SO good. And that was what I would ____________ her for.

So after she took my order and gave me the same unfriendly attitude, I told her. I said: “I hope you don’t mind me saying so, but you have the most ____________ voice. It’s so clear, well-spoken and sounds so ____________.” I told the lady her voice would be ____________ for voice-overs(配音) and she could be a hostess for radio programs.

Her face ____________, and she smiled — the first time I had seen her do so, and I noticed her whole attitude ____________. The customer behind me received a totally different kind of ____________, a better one. And it was all because of what I did. Something so ____________!

There was a time when this sort of thing would have ____________ me, or I’d have been too shy and awkward to say such a thing. Not now. Now I must.

Why? Because I have the ____________. The power to completely change someone’s day by something as simple as a few kind ____________. And you have this power too. We all do.

【推荐1】A hockey player Jordan Martinook may be known by most fans for his skills on the ice. And Emma, a 12-year-old girl with Down syndrome(唐氏综合症), _______ seeing her friend every _______ game.

Emma met Jordan in 2019 for the first time, and they quickly built a friendship through the glass during games. But when the COVID-19 began, Emma wasn’t able to see her friend for a long time. Their _______ at a game last week was so heartwarming that it quickly spread.

Izzo, Emma’s mom, tweeted (发推特) about their unexpected meeting, and it was seen by thousands. “A _______ THANK YOU for making this girl’s night, month and year!” she wrote. “She was just so happy that you saw her and _______ to say hi, but giving her your _______ made it even more special! The interaction (互动) with her _______ so much!”

Soon, their story was being _______ by local news. While Emma had just hoped for a smile and a wave, Jordan gave her a signed stick, which her mother said was so much more than either of them had _______.

Even one of Emma’s teachers was moved by the kind gesture. “I wanted to ________ thank you. Emma is one of my students,” her teacher tweeted. “She talks about you several times a week. Your kind ________ warmed my heart.”

But for Jordan, it was Emma who ________ his day. He said, “Seeing her I got a little ________. It was definitely great to see her back at a game and you just can’t help but smile. Her energy is amazing.” The bond the two of them ________ is something that has made a big ________.

【推荐2】A popular pub named Swan Dive in Toronto posted the information that it was struggling to pay the rent during the pandemic(疫情). Unexpectedly, customers_________all its stock(存货)to help out recently. Abra Shiner, the owner, was trying to make her pub_________the lockdown(封闭)by operating as a bottle shop, but it became very_________that the costs of trying to run that way were too high. She decided to be honest about her_________on social media.

“We were running out of our_________and I wasn’t sure if I would be able to pay the rent at the end of the month.” Shiner said on the Internet. “_________, I wrote on the Internet asking people to come to buy the beer we had in our stockroom... and it_________.” It turned asking Shiner’s_________on social media soon had over 20,000 views, and that people from all over the Brockton Village neighborhood were showing up to_________their beloved bar. “To our surprise, it just seemed that people started coming out__________, including some people we hadn’t__________for years. ”Shiner said.

Within a few days, the beer went out of stock.__________with a government rent subsidy(补贴), the money the community added to the pub’s float(备用零钱)reached a new level. It will__________this much-loved pub for a period of time so that the pub can safely__________its door once again. “You guys are pretty__________.” Shiner posted to Swan Dive’s online fans.

【推荐3】What’s your dream in life? Many children dream of becoming ________ when they grow up. But very few start as early as Jose, a Peruvian boy who________a children’s savings bank when he was only 7 years old.

Jose had the ________ for a children’s savings bank six years ago. He ________ that many children at his age spent their money on sweets and toys instead of something ________ . Although he was young, he under-stood that saving________   was a good way that could help adults solve many of their problems. ________ he decided to make it possible for kids as well. At that time, he started thinking of ways that children could ________ money without the help of their parents, and recycling seemed like the best ________ . But when Jose shared his thought with his teachers, he was ________ that a 7-year-old couldn’t deal with such a project. ________ , he tried to prove them all wrong.

“At the beginning, my teachers thought I was ________ and that a child couldn’t do it successfully,” Jose said. “________ I had the support of the schoolmaster.” Jose ________ the Bartselana Student Bank in his home. The ________ of this creative bank was very simple: Children could become client(客户)of the bank by ________ at least 5 kilograms of recyclable waste. And they were ________ to bring at least one other kilogram of waste to the bank every month. They would set savings goals, and could only take some of the money out when they ________ their savings goals.

The 7-year-old signed a ________ with local recycling companies that offered his clients a higher price of recyclable waste. And all the money they got could be deposited(存)into the Bartselana Student Bank. Between 2012 and 2013, the bank ________ one ton of recyclable material and made savings for around 200 children at Jose’s school.