With the explosion of chatbots like ChatGPT driving the tech boom, many people have considered the fear in mind: will AI replace human beings? Discussion in the media would have us believe that such fear is unnecessary. However, the runaway success of a Chinese AI-powered digital portrait generator (生成器) has ignited such fears again, especially among social media users.
Users of the mobile app need to pay 9.9 yuan ($1.4) and upload at least 20 recent portraits each to get a digital clone, which can be used to create different types of portraits fit for ID purposes, formal occasions or even everyday lifestyle.
According to an online survey from lifestyle platform Xiaohongshu, 72% of the users preferred the photo created by the generator to those created by a renowned professional portrait photography chain in China. Facial expressions, lighting, overall appearance ... the whole range of technical aspects seemed superior. Take me for example, most importantly, I didn’t need to spend more time and money in dressing up and striking unnatural poses in front of a group of unfamiliar people. I could get various photos at the price of, say, a cup of Starbucks coffee, without having to step out of my home.
So, in the next step, will photographers, image specialists and such people lose their jobs? Unlikely.
Tech without the human touch has its own shortcomings. I soon discovered that many of my friends also tried out the app, and their portraits had the same or similar poses and costumes etc.— a kind of one-size-fits-all setting. Which is to say that homogenization (均质化) makes offline photo studies a necessity still. It’s too early to say that AI portrait apps will replace offline photo studios.
Some people feel AIGC (生成式人工智能) may be just a passing tech trend. A real-world assessment took place between AI doctors and human doctors in June. To everyone’s surprise, human doctors scored an average of 7.5 out of 10, while AI doctors scored 7.2. AI doctors’ recommendations, however, were found to be 96 percent as good as those of top-level physicians.
Ma Ting, a professor of neuroinformatics said when doctors make decisions based on patients’ diagnoses, they consider multidimensional data, which are difficult for AI to access and assess. “To fully allow AI to move from its general understanding to advanced intelligence, we still need more research, more data and more intelligent algorithms.” Ma said.
1. What does the underlined word “ignited” mean in the article?| A．Reduced. | B．Caused. | C．Increased. | D．Reminded. |
| A．Most users prefer AI-generated portraits for formal occasions. |
| B．Most users prefer well-known portraits photography chains. |
| C．Most users believe that AI-generated portraits are unique and personalized. |
| D．Most users value convenience and cost-effectiveness by the portrait generator. |
| A．AI portrait apps offer a variety of poses and costumes. |
| B．AI-generated portraits lack uniqueness of an individual. |
| C．offline photo studios offered the similar poses and costumes. |
| D．Offline photo studios have a kind of one-size-fits-all setting. |
| A．AI can consider multidimensional date when diagnosing patients. |
| B．Doctors make decisions based merely on AI assistance. |
| C．AI has moved from its general understanding to advanced intelligence. |
| D．Further improvement to AI’s capabilities is needed at present. |
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【推荐1】Photography（摄影） is a very popular art form. Anyone with a camera – or a mobile phone – can practice it.A picture communicates in a way that words often can’t. As the photographer Destin Sparks put it, “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” And there’s no better chance to practice the art of photography than during our vacation time.
Holiday photos have been a part of the culture of travelers for a long time.For decades, vacationers have made sure they’ve packed a camera along with bathing suits, Hawaiian shirts and sunglasses. A camera is an important holiday item.But over the last 10 years,photography has become much more popular.It’s easy to capture ( 捕捉 ) still and moving pictures of places of interest, and it’s also easy to show off these pictures on social media.Armed with their smart phones,tourists, this year more than ever, are capturing the beauty of our planet.
Of course,travel companies have caught on to this. Trekksoft has an example of photo-tourism from the United States, a land with a vast choice of beautiful locations. Antelope Slot Canyon Tours in Arizona specializes in tours of the state’s famous canyons（峡谷）, which gives photographers the chance to capture them on camera.
Most of the tourists are able to make beautiful images with just their mobile phones. Still, help is on hand from the tour guide for those who aren’t great at using their cameras.These tour guides have taken a course in photography in case the skills they’ve learned would help their customers.
1. According to the writer, which of the following can be the best time to practice photography?| A．The time when people are traveling around. |
| B．The time when people have no words to say. |
| C．The time when you have a tour guide to help you. |
| D．The time when you have a mobile phone with you. |
| A．More and more people have cameras. |
| B．The planet is becoming more beautiful. |
| C．Visiting places of interest becomes easy. |
| D．Posting pictures on social media becomes easy. |
| A．The beauty of our planet. |
| B．The tourism in the United States. |
| C．The popularity of holiday photography. |
| D．The technology of photography. |
| A．Its wide choices. |
| B．Its photo-tourism. |
| C．Its best tour guide. |
| D．Its great photography course. |
【推荐2】Parents’ deciding to stay at home with their teens is not necessarily new. Many caregivers have realized the importance of devoting extra time to their teens. Mary Dixon Lebeau took an early retirement from her job five years ago. She wanted to spend more time with her then 14-year-old daughter, Libby. “My daughter suffers from anxiety, and I believe having a parent 100% present can help her deal with daily problems. She actually thrived during those years and was ready when she moved six hours away for college last year,” Lebeau said.
Anxiety is one of the leading mental health issues teens are facing. The pandemic worsened this issue, making many parents worried about their teens’ mental health. Bevan R. was one of them. When COVID-19 hit, Bevan R. started working remotely. She continued doing it for her child. “After becoming fully remote during the pandemic, and my teen’s struggle with several issues including depression and anxiety became serious, I have chosen to remain pretty much full-time working from home,” Bevan R. noted. She wanted to be available for her 16-year-old daughter, Izzy.
In addition to mental health needs, parents may choose to stay home to have more quality time with their children. Being home means less commuting, which may factor into the decision. That can lead to a more flexible schedule and a simpler way of life. While at home, parents can also help ensure their child is getting the educational support that they need.
The decision to work remotely may not be just to stay home with a child. It can also be a byproduct of the changing employment landscape, including job losses. Approximately 60% of people who say their jobs can be done from home are taking advantage of remote work situations. Sixty-four percent of those workers say being at home has made it easier to have positive work-life balance.
1. What drove Mary Dixon Lebeau to retire early?| A．Her child’s request to be tended. |
| B．Her desire to accompany her child. |
| C．The long distance from her workplace. |
| D．The heavy workload of her previous job. |
| A．By comparing different cases. |
| B．By analyzing various reasons. |
| C．By presenting a typical example. |
| D．By listing possible consequences. |
| A．A balanced lifestyle. |
| B．A more manageable schedule. |
| C．Increased employment chances. |
| D．Better relationships with children. |
| A．Why Are Parents of Teens Staying Home? |
| B．What Do Teens Really Need from Parents? |
| C．How Could Parents Relieve Teens’ Anxiety? |
| D．What Is the Most Desirable Education for Teens? |
【推荐3】Recent research demonstrates the harmful mental health effects caused by social media use, including increased rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal tendency and self-harm. Adolescents (青少年) who spend more than three hours per day on social media face twice the risk of poor mental health outcomes.
Addictive feeds — designed to make use of personal data to intensify (增强) users’ content that will keep them on the platform for as long as possible — have dramatically heightened the risk to young users’ well-being and made our children addicted to these social media outlets.
In the first seven years after addictive feeds were introduced, suicide rates for 10- to 14-year-old girls doubled and hospitalizations for suicidal tendency and attempts increased nearly twice for all adolescents.
Instead of responding to the problem, social media empires have made great efforts to keep and capture user engagement, and the consequences have been catastrophic.
Beyond the direct harm of social media addiction, the collection of children’s data by these giant companies puts our kids at huge risk, leaving them vulnerable (易受伤的) to having their location and other personal data tracked, shared and sold online. As a consequence, that data is at greater risk of falling into the wrong hands-including human traffickers, identity thieves and others who might prey (欺凌) on young people.
We will not stand by and watch an arms race among social media mega-corporations (大型企业) over who can best profit from our children’s pain and addiction. That is why we should use and are using every tool at our disposal to fight back against these damaging practices: from the courthouse to the statehouse.
1. What can we learn about addictive feeds?| A．They are food that can easily satisfy people. |
| B．They are internet content that can get people addicted. |
| C．They are kept on the platform just for a short period of time. |
| D．They are personal data stored on the internet for convenience. |
| A．destructive | B．striking | C．unique | D．effective |
| A．To introduce a research finding. |
| B．To explain the harms caused by addictive feeds. |
| C．To blame irresponsible social media mega-corporations. |
| D．To call on people to protect children against social media harms. |
| A．Mental Health Is Safe for Children |
| B．Teens Should Be kept Away from Internet |
| C．Addictive Feeds Heighten Great Risks to Teens |
| D．Social Media Empires Are to Blame for Children’s Safety |
【推荐1】If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars, we would go in darkness happily, the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal(夜间活动的) species on this planet. Instead, we are diurnal creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the sun's light. This is a basic evolutionary fact, even though most of us don't think of ourselves as diurnal beings. Yet it's the only way to explain what we've done to the night: we've engineered it to receive us by filling it with light.
The benefits of this kind of engineering come with consequences—called light pollution—whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study. Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky. Ⅲdesigned lighting washes out the darkness of night and completely changes the light levels—and light rhythms—to which many forms of life, including ourselves, have adapted. Wherever human light spills into the natural world, some aspect of life is affected.
In most cities the sky looks as though it has been emptied of stars, leaving behind a vacant haze(霾) that mirrors our fear of the dark. We've grown so used to this orange haze that the original glory of an unlit night—dark enough for the planet Venus to throw shadows on Earth—is wholly，beyond our experience, beyond memory almost.
We've lit up the night as if it were an unoccupied country, when nothing could be further from the truth. Among mammals alone, the number of nocturnal species is astonishing. Light is a powerful biological force, and on many species it acts as a magnet (磁铁). The effect is so powerful that scientists speak of songbirds and seabirds being “captured” by searchlights on land or by the light from gas flares on marine oil platforms. Migrating at night, birds tend to collide with brightly lit tall buildings.
Frogs living near brightly lit highways suffer nocturnal light levels that are as much as a million times brighter than normal, throwing nearly every aspect of their behaviour out of joint, including their nighttime breeding choruses. Humans are no less trapped by light pollution than the frogs. Like most other creatures, we do need darkness. Darkness is as essential to our biological welfare, to our internal clockwork, as light itself.
Living in a glare of our own making, we have cut ourselves off from our evolutionary and cultural heritage—the light of the stars and the rhythms of day and night. In a very real sense, light pollution causes us to lose sight of our true place in the universe, to forget the scale of our being, which is best measured against the dimensions of a deep night with the Milky Way—the edge of our galaxy—arching overhead.
1. What does “it”(Paragraph 1) most probably refer to?| A．The moon. | B．The night. |
| C．The sky. | D．The planet. |
| A．provide examples of animal protection |
| B．show how light pollution affects animals |
| C．compare the living habits of both species |
| D．explain why the number of certain species has declined |
| A．light pollution does harm to the eyesight of animals |
| B．light pollution has destroyed some of the world heritages |
| C．human beings cannot go to the outer space |
| D．human beings should reflect on their position in the universe |
| A．The magic light | B．The disappearing night |
| C．The dimensions of a deep night | D．The rhythms of nature |
【推荐2】Are you single or married? Are you a cat or a dog owner? Do you exercise, or are you a “couch potato” (a person who sits on the sofa all day watching TV, eating and basically doing nothing)? These questions and many others are about your lifestyle.
People in the United States feel that they can choose their lifestyles and even shape their own identities. The great variety of lifestyles leads to constant national discussion of choices that people make. This freedom of choice is fun and exciting, but it also creates stress and uncertainty. In newspapers, lifestyle issues are discussed in the features or style section. In The Chicago Tribune this section is called “Tempo”. People turn to this section for lively discussion on lifestyle choices they face with regard to their personal identities, their families, and their social lives.
Many American people believe that they can make their lives happy and satisfying despite their problems. If they lack confidence or tend to feel anxious, shy, angry, or depressed, they believe that they can change themselves. Self-help books, magazines, and feature articles are filled with advice from experts about steps to take to become a happier or more satisfied person and to improve one’s self-respect. Part of this research for self-improvement is a belief that even one’s own appearance can be controlled. This is why there are so many articles in the newspaper about looking young, wearing the latest fashions, and becoming physically fit.
Lifestyle choices also involve moral and social issues. How should children be raised? How should people behave on a date? How should elderly people be treated? How can people stay happily married? All these kinds of issues are constantly discussed and are constantly changing. Not only are experts such as psychologists consulted, but stars from the political and entertainment worlds are held up as lifestyle leaders as well. In the newspaper, feature articles called profiles discuss in detail the personal lives or public work of movie stars, authors, artists, and exceptional individuals who are not stars. The lifestyle choices these people make contribute to the public discussion of all the issues that people think about.
A well-known advertising slogan is “Just do it. ” In the culture of the United States, people believe that they can take action and become the kind of people they want to be and live the way they want to live.
1. The section “Tempo” in The Chicago Tribune mainly discusses ______.| A．lifestyle choices |
| B．current affairs |
| C．experts’ opinions on life |
| D．how to improve one’s self-respect |
| A．control their own appearance |
| B．solve all the problems in their life |
| C．live a happy life in spite of their problems |
| D．improve their life by following the elders’ advice |
| A．their superiors |
| B．family members |
| C．friends and colleagues |
| D．experts and famous people |
| A．Just Do It |
| B．Make Our Lives Happy |
| C．Lifestyles in the United States |
| D．Choosing the Way We Live |
【推荐3】Even the most talkative and energetic children can feel a little discouraged after school. So the age-old question “how was your day?” can sometimes be met with half-hearted responses. Dr Siggic Cohen, a family psychologist in child development, has uncovered why kids struggle to answer this question.
The professional, who goes by the name of @parenting. with. dr. siggie on TikTok, explains that the question is too big for a child to answer. After all, there are probably so many new experiences and memories that have happened during the day for them to process. Instead, it’s better to go more specific(具体的).
Dr Siggie Cohen then gives some examples of some more focused questions such as “during snack time, who did you sit next to?” or “did your teacher say something funny today?” She says: Help your child break down their big experience in a more detailed and balanced way. This will help make things a little less at a loss, but will give them a specific part to go on with.
The TikTok, which has been watched more than 2.8 million times, has received lots of praise from parents — many thanking the psychologist for her advice.
One person replied: “Thank you for this info. I’m guilty of asking the same question. I’m now a little bit more educated.” While another added: “This is my everyday story after picking my son up from school and it upsets me. Thank you for the help.” Another parent cut in with their own strategy, stating that they always get a response when they ask their daughter what was your favorite part of your day?
1. Why do children struggle with the question from Para. 1?| A．The question is too boring to answer. |
| B．The question is too broad to respond to. |
| C．They don’t like to open their mind to the parents. |
| D．They are somewhat disappointed about their day. |
| A．Funny. | B．Useless. | C．Helpful. | D．Common. |
| A．How was your day going today? |
| B．Who did you have lunch with today? |
| C．When did you have your English class today? |
| D．How many math classes did you have today? |
| A．How to help the kids open up. |
| B．How to promote kids’ learning ability. |
| C．How to teach the kids to answer questions. |
| D．How to improve kids’ understanding ability. |
【推荐1】Artificial Intelligence has been around for many years. But it’s recently gotten much media attention because of an AI application called ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an advanced AI chatbot trained by OpenAI which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue form makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect places, and reject inappropriate requests.
It has reached 100 million users just two months after launching, according to analysts. ChatGPT has taken the world by storm since it launched last November. The AI chatbot answers questions online in text in a human-like way, and it can also write its responses in different styles, for example, that of a student writing an essay.
ChatGPT technology can help people write code (编码) quickly and accurately with the help of natural language. ChatGPT can take a text prompt (提示) and generate code that is tailored to the given task. This technology has the potential to cut down development time, as it can generate code quickly and accurately. It can also help reduce the risk of errors, as ChatGPT is capable of generating code that can be tested and used immediately.
Some teachers are worried about how many of their pupils are using it to do their homework and have written to parents warning them about it. Others say they can spot its essay, and there are now tools which claim to be able to differentiate human text from that written by artificial intelligence.
But the cat is out of the bag, and now the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) says its students can take advantage of the tech, just like using a calculator (计算器) to work out a maths problem, as long as they admit to it by both crediting ChatCPT in the text and adding a reference note at the end.
Good news for students, but ChatGPT’s knowledge database only goes up to September 2021, so it’s not very useful on topical subjects, and, as it gets its information from the internet, it can also be inaccurate.
1. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?| A．The potential of ChatGPT. | B．The benefits of ChatGPT. |
| C．How to use ChatGPT. | D．How to generate code. |
| A．ChatGPT makes academic research easy. | B．ChatCPT can write without recognition. |
| C．The content of ChatGPT are entirely new. | D．Many pupils use ChatCPT to do homework. |
| A．Pupils can conditionally take advantage of it. |
| B．Teachers can tell human text from that by AI. |
| C．Its knowledge database is updated to this day. |
| D．Pupils can use it to do homework without thinking. |
| A．Confident. | B．Objective. | C．Indifferent. | D．Subjective. |
【推荐2】The Legacy Senior Communities is proud to announce the latest innovation in senior living care is coming to its Dallas and Plano campuses, the TrueLoo® smart toilet by Toi Labs. “We’re consistently exploring new technologies to ensure that we are providing excellent care in the most effective and efficient ways,” says Legacy Senior Communities CEO Melissa Orth.
“The TrueLoo® smart toilet provides early detection of oncoming health complications before they become serious, and all in a dignnified and valuable manner. This improves our care response and can potentially avoid a potential health complication altogether,” says Orth. “The innovative toilet automates data collection and enables clinical team members to keep track of the residents around the clock without uncomfortable conversations with them about their toileting habits. Investing in TrueLoo® technology enables a higher standard of care with dignity,” says Vik Kashyap, Toi Labs’ founder and CEO.
In assisted living and memory support residences, where toileting activity is harder to collect, the TrueLoo® smart toilet provides effortless collection, enhancing current services as well as residents’ experience. The Legacy Senior Communities begins testing the units in early March. The pilot program will launch in Memory Support at the Kalman and Ida Wolens Foundation Healthcare Center at the Willow Bend community and at the Midtown Park community’s Andrea &Richard Skibell and Leslie Rudd Healthcare Center. The communities will continue manual monitoring to establish a control group during this trial period. The resulting data will enable The Legacy to benchmark the ability of the smart toilet.
“We decided to trial the smart toilet in two different service areas,” said Director of Strategic Development Bridgette Walshe. “We want to ensure that this technology is non- invasive (非侵入性的) while providing accurate and relevant data.” Walshe believes that artificial intelligence is one potential means to cost-effectively improve senior care services, freeing up valuable time for clinical team members to provide more person-centric care.
1. How can the TrueLoo® smart toilet benefit seniors?| A．By improving their toileting habits. |
| B．By identifying their potential health issues. |
| C．By calling clinical team members for them at any time. |
| D．By informing care workers of their desire to use a toilet. |
| A．It is quality-centered. |
| B．It is safety-guaranteed. |
| C．It is privacy-ensured. |
| D．It is comfort-focused. |
| A．Measure. |
| B．Recognize. |
| C．Demonstrate. |
| D．Improve. |
| A．Hopeful. |
| B．Critical. |
| C．Tolerant. |
| D．Contradictory. |
【推荐3】We humans are in trouble. We have let loose a new evolutionary process that we don’t understand and can’t control.
The latest leaps forward in artificial intelligence (AI) are rightly causing anxiety. Yet people are responding as though AI is just one more scary new technology, like electricity or cars once were. We invented it, the argument goes, so we should be able to manage it for our own benefit. Not so. I believe that this situation is new and potentially dangerous.
My thinking starts from the assumption that all design anywhere in the universe is created by the evolutionary algorithm (算法). This is the process in which some kind of information is copied many times, the copies vary slightly and only some are selected to be copied again. The information is called the replicator (复制者), and our most familiar example is the gene.
But genes aren’t the only replicator, as Richard Dawkins stressed in The Selfish Gene. People copy habits, stories, and technologies; we change, recombine and pass them on in ever greater variety. This second replicator, evolving much faster than genes ever could, Dawkins called memes (模仿传递行为)—and they are selfish too.
As we face up to the recent explosion in AI, new questions arise. Could a third replicator appear if some object we made started copying, varying and selecting a new kind of information? It could, and I believe it has. Our digital technology can copy, store and spread vast amounts of information accurately. While we had mostly been the ones selecting what to copy and share, now algorithms choose which ads we see. Once a digital replicator takes off, its products will evolve for its own benefit, not ours.
All is not lost, though. We already cope with fast-evolving viruses by using our immune systems and vaccines. Now, we need to build our collective mental immunity, our critical thinking and our ability to protect our attention from all that selfish information. Taking lessons from evolution, we can stop imagining we are the controllers of our accidentally dangerous offspring and start learning how to live with them.
1. As for people’s attitude toward AI, the author is .| A．disapproving | B．unconcerned | C．favorable | D．tolerant |
| A．memes are composed of selfish genes |
| B．memes and genes share a common feature |
| C．replicators vary with human interference |
| D．the speed of evolution is underestimated |
| A．Technologies can be double-edged. |
| B．Collective efforts make a better world. |
| C．We should live in harmony with nature. |
| D．Past experience is relevant to future action. |
| A．The pace of technological progress is unstoppable. |
| B．The initiative of algorithm should be strengthened. |
| C．The new evolution can bring about negative effects. |
| D．The artificial intelligence can satisfy our real desires. |
