ChatGPT, a powerful AI chatbot tool, has swept the world in the past months. While it has been dominating social media with its frighteningly good essays, ChatGPT has also caused both excitement and worries in education.
According to a US survey of more than 1,000 students, over 89 percent of them had used ChatGPT to help with a homework task. Some students even got high scores thanks to papers written by ChatGPT.
Some universities and schools have banned the use of ChatGPT, such as public schools in New York City, CNN reported. The move comes out of growing concerns that the tool could make it easier for students to cheat on schoolwork and be used to spread inaccurate (不精确的) information. “While the tool may be able to provide quick and easy answers to questions, it does not build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, which are essential for academic (学术的) and lifelong success,” Jenna Lyle, said in a statement.
Apart from strict bans, teachers are redesigning their courses in an attempt to block the use of ChatGPT. Some college professors in the US are now including more oral exams and handwritten papers instead of typed ones, The New York Times reported.
However, not all educators are saying “no” to ChatGPT. Some Canadian universities are not planning on banning the tool. Instead, they are working on policies (政策) about its proper usage, for both students and lecturers.
Bhaskar Vira, pro-vice-chancellor for education at University of Cambridge in the UK, said that bans on AI software like ChatGPT are not sensible. “I’m of the opinion that we have to recognise that AI is a tool people will use but then adapt our learning, teaching and examination processes so that we can continue to have integrity (诚信) while recognizing the use of the tool,” he told Varsity, the school newspaper of the university.
Vira’s opinion on ChatGPT is shared by Peter van der Putten, assistant professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. “It’s there, just like Google is there. You can write it into your policies for stopping cheating but it’s a reality that the tool exists,” he told Sky News.
1. Why did the author mention the US survey data in Paragraph 2?| A．To criticize the use of ChatGPT in education. |
| B．To show the popularity of ChatGPT among students. |
| C．To show the places of using ChatGPT for academic tasks. |
| D．To highlight the negative effects of ChatGPT on academic integrity. |
| A．The tool is too expensive. |
| B．The tool is not user-friendly. |
| C．The tool can cause physical harm to students. |
| D．The tool may be used to spread inaccurate information. |
| A．To make them more difficult. | B．To allow the use of ChatGPT. |
| C．To decrease the workload of students. | D．To prevent students from using ChatGPT. |
| A．It should be used with proper policies and guidelines. |
| B．It is not a useful tool for students. |
| C．It should be used without limits. |
| D．It should be banned. |
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【推荐1】A thin teenager leans over a laptop, programming instructions that will control a 3-D carving machine. Not far away, a serious-looking girl looks through the shield of a laser cutter, seeing the beam shoot into a board.
Welcome to Innovation and Creation Lab in Illinois, US. Here, with the help of digital equipment such as 3-D printers and carvers, Jeff Solin is teaching his students that learning isn't just about getting every question right. It’s about designing and creating without fear of failure.
“Failure is a big part of this class,” Solin said. “I let them understand that they can try and fail, learn, then try again.” The lab includes four laser cutters, six 3-D carvers, five 3-D scanners, and nine 3-D printers. Solin teaches through projects and aims for students to make their way through the lab’s equipment. They started with the laser cutter and a simple task: cut out two cubes and put a calendar for each month onto all 12 sides of the cubes to create a desktop calendar.
Solin noticed one student wasn’t following instructions. He put his favorite cartoons into the software to etch the images onto the squares, which Solin liked. She said, “Change of plans! I don’t care what you do. It just has to be a cube”. Wessley Gutierrez, one of Solin’s students, said that’s what he liked most about the class and he could think up whatever he wanted.
1. What’s the function of paragraph 1?| A．To lead in the topic. | B．To explain the process. |
| C．To attract the readers to the lab. | D．To show how to use the equipment. |
| A．They have to wear protective shield. | B．They can add their ideas to products. |
| C．They should repair 3-D equipment skillfully. | D．They must follow teachers’ instructions strictly. |
| A．Boring and confusing. | B．Funny and amazing. |
| C．Exciting and mysterious. | D．Creative and inspiring. |
| A．Jeff Solin’s special teaching. | B．The development of 3-D labs. |
| C．An introduction to the latest 3-D printers. | D．The importance of trial and failure in design. |
【推荐2】Humans will come to love robots like they are family rather than consider them as the enemy, according to Sir Nigel Shadbolt, a professor of computer science at Oxford University. He says we are entering an age when robots will act as carers for the elderly and friends for lonely children. He also says that the fear that robots will destroy humans is baseless.
Sir Nigel Shadbolt also made the comments at the Hay Festival of Literature &Arts in Wales. “Do robots threaten (威胁) humans? Certainly, anything you see in Hollywood describes them that way,” he said. “They are usually mad, bad and dangerous. Basically, you don’t want to get too close to them. But this is to misunderstand where the real problem lies. It is not robots that should scare you. It is natural stupidity.”
The principal of Jesus College, Oxford, said he did understand why people were concerned about rapidly smartening robots, “Indeed, people begin to worry that the machines are going to wake up and that they are going to become super-capable (超能力的). I want to tell you that they are not.”
Instead of computers seeking to get closer to humans, Sir Nigel Shadbolt believes it will be the other way round, with humans wanting to build meaningful relationships with the machines. “It will not be long before these robots are the friends that grow up with our children and that look after us in elder care,” Sir Nigel Shadbolt said. “It doesn’t matter that there’s nobody at home but a very good robot.” Sir Nigel Shadbolt mentioned the video that appeared earlier this week about the burial of robot dogs in Japan. Mourners (悼念者) believe their robots have a soul that needs to be put to rest and they are much-loved members of the family.
1. Sir Nigel Shadbolt thinks it is unnecessary for people to________.| A．make use of robots | B．feel scared of robots |
| C．doubt the role of robots | D．study the development of robots |
| A．Natural stupidity. | B．Hollywood movies. |
| C．The advertisements for robots. | D．The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts. |
| A．They will be buried by their users. |
| B．They will offer to chat with us. |
| C．They will become our soul mates. |
| D．They will have closer relationships with humans. |
| A．Lovely Robot Dog | B．The Greatest Robot |
| C．Future New Family Member | D．Possible Enemy of Mankind |
【推荐3】Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been widely applied in a national park in Northwest China to track snow leopards inhabiting the region.
The Al-aided digital toolbox can automatically(自动地) distinguish the species in the Qilian Mountains National Park, Gansu province, from other wildlife, using images captured by infrared cameras(红外相机). The technology, jointly developed by Chinese Internet giant Tencent, the World Wild Fund and One Planet Foundation, can thus improve data processing efficiency.
Located at around 3, 500 meters above sea level, the Qilian Mountains with vast stretches of bare rocks reaching from the grass provide a favorable hideaway shelter for the snow leopards.
Though more than 200 cameras have been put in the region, sorting out relevant information had not been easy for researchers.
“For conducting further studies on the population, distribution and activities of the snow leopards, a flagship species in the region, the cameras would capture hundreds of thousands of video clips and photos every quarter,” said Ma Duifang with the administration bureau of the park's Gansu section.
“Even a slight movement in the environment, such as a mild breeze blowing over the grass, can activate the cameras. Sometimes, curious wildlife bumps into the device triggering the shutter(触发快门), and the cameras take pictures of mere clouds,” Ma added.
Ma and his colleagues had to go through each video frame by frame(逐帧地). The information of species that appeared on the images also required human input, so it often took them several weeks to complete such tasks.
Tencent’s engineering team has independently developed a species recognition algorithm(算法) by means of transfer leaning and automatic data enhancement. Thanks to Al technologies, researchers in the Qilian Mountains National Park no longer need to work like mad in search of leopards hiding out in the wild.
“The forest police can now locate a snow leopard from 1, 000 pictures in just about 20 minutes, much faster than before,” said Huang Xiangqi, one of the tech developers.
Snow leopards are under China’s highest national-level protection and are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
In China, they can be spotted in cold areas in southwestern, northwestern, and northern regions including Tibet, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Gansu and Inner Mongolia.
“We hope we can combine monitoring data with field investigation to help researchers identify the wild species so as to draw up a more specific plan for their protection,” said Ma Yao, director of the project, hoping the digital toolbox can he used in more countries.
1. What can be inferred from paragraph 2?| A．Infrared cameras can distinguish the species automatically. |
| B．AI technology can improve the quality of the infrared cameras. |
| C．Tencent helped develop infrared cameras for Qilian Mountain National Park |
| D．AI technology has greatly improved the efficiency of identifying snow leopards. |
| A．They mostly take pictures of clouds. |
| B．They are only set off by curious wildlife. |
| C．They are also used to monitor the weather. |
| D．Their operation will be affected by many factors. |
| A．Cautious. | B．Optimistic. | C．Objective. | D．Doubtful. |
| A．AI Technology Used to Capture Snow Leopard |
| B．Infrared Cameras Placed to Track Snow Leopard |
| C．AI-aided tech Developed for Snow Leopard Protection |
| D．AI Technology Developed to Improve Data Processing Efficiency |
【推荐1】There was a time when a trip to the supermarket in the United States often ended with a seemingly simple question from the cashier, “Paper or plastic?” Well, which type of bag would you choose?
While both types of bags have some influence on the environment, it has long been supposed that paper bags are better. They are made from a renewable source, are broken down easily, burn without giving off thick smoke and can be recycled. However, the producing process behind paper bags uses more energy than that of plastic ones. How can this be true?
Studies show that paper bag production requires four times as much energy as plastic bag production. And the amount of water used to make them is twenty times larger. Besides, the influence on forests is very serious. It takes about fourteen million trees to produce ten billion paper bags, which happen to be the number of bags used in the United States yearly. In terms of recycling, the idea that paper bags are more environment-friendly than plastic ones can be quickly discarded. Research shows it requires about 98% less energy to recycle plastic than it does to recycle paper.
Even though paper bags might be more harmful than plastic ones, plastic still seems to be considered as the more harmful of the two by governments. In Ireland, for example, a tax has been introduced to discourage the use of plastic bags. People have to pay 22 cents for every plastic bag, and as a result, their use has dropped quickly.
There’s no doubt that it makes more sense to reuse these bags. However, we don’t seem to be doing that at present. That may be because they fall apart quickly. If so, cloth bags are a better choice, but still, their production also has a bad influence on the environment. So what to do? How should we answer the question of “Paper or plastic?” It seems that we first need to ask ourselves one more general question: “What can I do to help the environment?”
1. Why does the author ask the question at the end of paragraph 1?| A．To express the author’s doubts. |
| B．To tell readers how to save money. |
| C．To show the kindness of the cashier. |
| D．To introduce the point for discussion to arouse readers’ interest. |
| A．need more water to produce | B．require less energy to recycle |
| C．have less influence on forests | D．take more time to break down |
| A．Shared. | B．Discussed. | C．Given up. | D．Put forward. |
| A．Paper or cloth? | B．A new bag or your own one? |
| C．Paper or plastic? | D．A small bag or big one? |
【推荐2】One of the greatest sources of unhappiness, in my experience, is the difficulty we have in accepting things as they are.
When we see something we don’t like, we wish it could be different. We cry out for something better. That may be human nature，or perhaps it’s something ingrained(根深蒂固的) in our culture. The root of the unhappiness isn’t necessarily that we want things to be different. However, it’s that we decided we didn’t like it in the first place. We’ve judged it as bad, rather than saying, “It’s not bad or good, and it just is it.”
In one of my books, I said，“You should expect people to mess up and expect things to go differently than you planned.” Some readers said it’s too sorrowful to expect things to go wrong. However, it’s only negative if you see it as negative and judge it as bad. Instead，you could accept it as the way the world works and try to understand why that is.
This can be applied to whatever you do:how other people act at work, how politics works and how depressing the news media can be. Accept these things as they are, and try to understand why they’re that way. It will save you a lot of sadness, because you’ll no longer say, “Oh, I wish bad things didn’t happen!”
Does it mean you can never change things？Not at all. But change things not because you can’t accept things as they are, but because you enjoy the process of changing, learning and growing.
Can we make this world a better place？You can say that you’ll continue to try to do things to help others, to grow as a person, to make a difference in this world. That’s the correct path you choose to take, because you enjoy that path. Therefore, when you find yourself judging and wishing for difference, try a different approach:accept, and understand. It might lead to some interesting results.
1. The author believes that we feel unhappy maybe because .| A．we dislike something in the beginning |
| B．it is our natural emotion in the life |
| C．culture asks us to be different from others |
| D．everyone has their own opinions on things |
| A．acting well at work and in politics |
| B．feeling depressed for the news media |
| C．accepting and understanding what has happened |
| D．saying something negative when bad things come |
| A．Judging good or bad is important for our world. |
| B．Expecting things to be different gives us hope. |
| C．Traditional culture becomes the root of unhappiness. |
| D．Accepting can make our life happier and better. |
【推荐3】And Alice said, “Curiouser and Curiouser!”
“Curiouser and curiouser!” this line from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in the Wonderland arouses the most interesting mix of mystery, exploration, discovery and fantasy of the new and unreal.
Curiosity can often be amusing in the real world: a baby monkey sliding off the branch as it curiously stretches out its hand towards a piece of red, juicy fruit.Then there is our own curious little cousin, intent on pushing a rock over and then equally excited by the worms crawling out.We can hear his cheerful claps — the curiosity effect! They are all set to explore and investigate what is around them.This childlike enthusiasm and interest in the world dribble away as they grow older and become more cautious.
Curiosity is one of our strongest instincts.We are born with it and follow its trail for a reason.It is to learn something we did not know, to understand something which is unusual, and to engage with something we have not come across before.The learning of the “new” sets us off on a path of discovery and innovation.Curiosity and exploration activates areas of the brain that are linked with learning and memory.An imaginative mind adds more neurons (神经元), which increases our brain power.The excitement of following our curiosity activates the chemical dopamine (多巴胺) in our brain.Dopamine? Think of it as the happy messenger that runs along the wiring of our brain like an excited cheerleader celebrating a victory! The labyrinths (迷宫) of our brain are complex and mysterious.We can get these neurons to buzz and crackle in tune with our imagination and exploration to aid in the development of a healthier brain.
Curiouser and curiouser, go follow the trail down the rabbit hole of exploration.The world awaits, and your brain will thank you for exercising its muscle!
1. What does the underlined words probably mean in the second paragraph?| A．Wear off | B．Give off. | C．Take off. | D．Cut off. |
| A．Dopamine can increase our brain power. |
| B．Dopamine can deliver happiness in our brain. |
| C．Dopamine can figure out the mystery of our brain. |
| D．Dopamine can activate our curiosity in our brain. |
| A．By making definitions. | B．By giving theories. |
| C．By showing benefits. | D．By making comparisons. |
| A．Imagination is more important than knowledge. |
| B．Alice in the Wonderland is Lewis Carroll’s best seller. |
| C．Curiosity is a natural tendency for people and animal. |
| D．Curiosity is of great significance to us regardless of age. |
【推荐1】“Siri, what’s the weather like in San Francisco?”
“Today’s forecast for San Antonio is…”
“No. San FRAN-CIS-CO!!”
“The tapper Sisqo was born in Baltimore, Maryland.”
Sometimes, talking to an artificially intelligent robot is, well, not so intelligent.
Yobav Shoham, the Stanford computer science professor, said, “AI has made truly amazing progress in the past decade, but computers still can’t exhibit the common sense or the general intelligence of even a 5-year-old.” Yann LeCun, a French scientist, put it more simply. “We’re very far from having machines that can learn the most basic things about the world in the way humans and animals can do. In particular areas machines have superhuman performance, but in terms of general intelligence they’re not even close to a rat,” he explained.
Oren Etzioni, an Israeli scientist, said, “There’s a brand of science fiction (小说) that’s very dystopian (反面乌托邦的). These works of fiction talk about how the world is going to get much worse. I’m too much of an optimist to get a lot of pleasure out of reading such stories.”
However, robots are becoming smarter. Indeed, our homes are becoming more intelligent when we place devices like the Amazon Echo and Google Hothe on our kitchen counter. But at least for the moment anyway, we shouldn’t feel intimidated by this artificial intelligence.
There are robots that move like animals and robots that offer guidance. There’s even a robot that can paint a picture of Einstein and a robot that can fold your laundry. Robots are not taking over the world yet. So for now, we can simply sit back and relax. And have a robot waiter pour us a drink.
1. What does the dialogue at the beginning of, the text tell us?| A．Robots aren’t as smart as we expect. |
| B．It isn’t easy to forecast the weather correctly. |
| C．A speaker may be misunderstood by another. |
| D．Weather is a good subject to start a conversation. |
| A．They have superhuman performance in kitchen tasks. |
| B．They have the common sense of a 5-year-old. |
| C．They can only learn the basic things of humans. |
| D．They are still poor at general intelligence. |
| A．Pleasant. | B．Typical. | C．Realistic. | D．Controversial. |
| A．Comforted. | B．Astonished. | C．Threatened. | D．Disappointed. |
【推荐2】Even if you are not into artificial intelligence, it is time to pay attention to ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an AI chatbot system that Open AI released to show off and test what a very large, powerful AI system can complete.
ChatGPT is built on top of the Open AI GPT-3 family of large language models. It lets you type natural-language clues and then offers conversational responses. It remembers the thread of your dialogue, using previous questions and answers to form its next responses. It finds relevant information in its oceans of training data, and transforms that into texts.
You can ask it countless questions and often will get useful answers. For instance, you can ask it encyclopedic (百科知识的) questions like “Explain Newton’s laws of motion.” You can tell it “Write me a poem.” and when it does, say “Now make it more exciting.” You can ask it to write a computer program that will show you all the different ways you can arrange the letters of a word.
A few days after its launch, more than 1 million people were trying out ChatGPT. UBS analyst Lloyd Walmsley estimated in February 2023 that ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly users in January, completing in 2 months what took TikTok about 9 months and Instagram two and a half years.
Many people fear that ChatGPT might help students cheat better. But as many other technology developments, it is not a simple black-and-white situation. Decades ago, students could copy encyclopedia entries and use computers and more recently, they have been able to use search engines and Wikipedia. ChatGPT offers new abilities for everything from helping with research to doing your homework for you.
Dustin York, an associate professor at Maryville University, hopes educators will learn to use ChatGPT as a tool and realize it can help students think critically. “Educators thought that Google, Wikipedia, and the Internet itself would ruin education, but they did not.” York said. “What worries me most are educators who may actively try to discourage the recognition of AI like ChatGPT. It is a tool, not a villain (反派).”
1. What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us about ChatGPT?| A．Its language model. | B．Its design inspiration. | C．Its working principle. | D．Its development process. |
| A．Chat with users. | B．Perform security checks. |
| C．Write a computer program. | D．Do homework for students. |
| A．To present the creativity of AI. | B．To show the profit from ChatGPT. |
| C．To stress the popularity of ChatGPT. | D．To compare social media apps with ChatGPT. |
| A．ChatGPT — a useful AI tool | B．Advanced AI — our loyal servant |
| C．ChatGPT — advantages and disadvantages | D．A smart app — think twice before trusting it |
【推荐3】Recently Google has announced a series of new artificial intelligence(AI) (人工智能) tools designed to help users in organizing emails and creating business writings and meetings. These tools display important AI development progress in recent years. The tools are built by putting a great deal of data (数据) into machine learning computer systems. The data trains the AI systems to develop skills and produce human-like results.
The technology received wide attention last year after a company called OpenAI announced a free writing tool called ChatGPT. That tool can quickly produce human-quality writings. Experts say such systems may bring great changes to many different industries and jobs. Now some companies are able to test Google’s new tools in their development and business activities.
Like ChatGPT, Google’s AI tools are designed to create completely written texts for many different purposes. For example, an office worker could enter some keywords of a kind of text they want. The tools could then create a full marketing email, training materials or a business plan in a while. Google sees the system being able to offer an “AI Helper” to help human workers in real time. Google wants to have its AI change the work of lawyers, scientists, teachers and more.
However, Google says it keeps developing AI products of high quality. That is why the company is inviting groups of “trusted testers” to use its AI tools rather than widely selling its new products. Google’s new AI tools are the company’s latest move to fight for business. Companies like Microsoft and Meta are also working on products about AI.
Technology experts have warned that while the new AI tools can produce human-like writings, the systems can also make mistakes.
Last month, Bard, Google’s new AI tool designed to give a better online search, made a mistake and caused a $100-billion drop. Microsoft users said the company’s new AI tools produced unfriendly and rude results.
1. Which company offers an AI tool producing human-quality writings for free?| A．Meta. | B．Google. | C．Microsoft. | D．OpenAI. |
| A．develop skills and produce human-like robots |
| B．create a complete business plan in a very short time |
| C．put a lot of data into any company’s computer system |
| D．send and receive emails at different business meetings |
| A．asking experts from all industries for help |
| B．working together with Microsoft and Meta |
| C．allowing trusted testers to use new products first |
| D．widely selling its new products as soon as possible |
| A．Art and Life. | B．Sport and Health. |
| C．Culture and Society. | D．Science and Technology. |
