Glass Health is a San Francisco-based company co-founded by Dereck Paul and Graham Ramsey. It began by offering an electronic system for keeping medical notes and is now among several companies hoping to use artificial intelligence chatbots (聊天机器人) to make a difference in medicine. These firms believe that their programs could significantly reduce the paperwork pressure physicians face daily, and improve the patient-doctor relationship. “We need these folks not in burnt-out states, trying to complete documentation,” Paul says.
Some independent researchers have expressed their fears of the rush to include the latest AI technology in medicine. “I think it’s very exciting, but anything that involves decision-making about a patient’s health should be treated with extreme care,” says Pearse Keane, a professor of artificial medical intelligence at University College London in the United Kingdom.
Paul says he is well aware of the problems and that doctors who use his company’s AI system need to check it. “You have to supervise (监督) it in the way you supervise medical students, which means that you can’t be lazy about it,” he says.
His company is now working to reduce the risk of errors. He believes the underlying technology can be turned into a powerful engine for medicine. Paul and his coworkers have created. a program called “Glass AI” based on ChatGPT. A doctor tells the Glass AI chatbot about a patient, and it can suggest a list of possible diagnoses (诊断) and a treatment plan. Rather than working from the raw ChatGPT information base, the Glass AI system uses a virtual medical textbook written by human doctors as its main source of facts-something Paul says makes the system safer and more reliable.
Last December, his company had around 500 users. But after they introduced their chatbot, the numbers jumped. “We finished January with 2, 000 monthly active users, and in February we had 4800,” Paul says. Thousands more signed up in March, as overworked doctors lined up to give AI a try.
1. What could Glass Health’s present program do?| A．Boost patients’ mental health. |
| B．Update hospitals’ medical records. |
| C．Help reduce errors in doctors’ treatment. |
| D．Relieve doctors pressure of handling paperwork. |
| A．Objective. | B．Supportive. | C．Worried. | D．Opposed. |
| A．By operating the system based on doctors’ advice. |
| B．By employing medical students to use the system. |
| C．By training chatbots to select correct raw ChatGPT information. |
| D．By drawing on human wisdom as the basis for medical practices. |
| A．Glass Health has vast market potential. |
| B．Doctors will be free from paperwork soon. |
| C．Glass Health has an unstable number of users. |
| D．Doctors need a balance between life and work. |
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【推荐1】The term is “space archaeology(考古学)”, but the field is much more down to Earth. Space archaeologists use satellite imagery and other remote-sensing techniques to look for ancient sites on our planet. As archaeologist Sarah Parcak explains in her new book, Archaeology from Space, these tools have transformed studies of ancient times. “We’ve gone from mapping a few dozen ancient sites in one summer-long archaeological season to mapping hundreds, if not thousands, of sites in weeks,” she writes.
With Parcak as a guide, the book offers a lively, inspiring trip around the world, back in time and even into the future. Parcak begins with the basics of space archaeology, explaining how, for example, satellite images can reveal the locations of walls or the foundation of a former building. Even long-buried ruins can leave a mark on the surface, affecting the growth of vegetation(植被)and so resulting in “crop marks”. These outlines become apparent from high above and with instruments attuned to certain wavelengths of light.
In example after example, Parcak demonstrates the capabilities of different technologies. Many of the book’s stories and tales of fieldwork focus on what Parcak have learned about ancient Egypt. While studies of monuments and tombs have revealed aspects of everyday Egyptian life, satellite data have filled in some bigger picture details. In the first survey of settlement patterns in the ancient Nile Delta, Parcak’s team discovered that people largely abandoned the region as a result of environmental change and droughts near the end of Egypt’s Old Kingdom some 4,000 years ago. It feels remarkably timely in this era of climate change reading what contributed to the Old Kingdom’s fall. Parcak notes that part of archaeology’s value lies in learning lessons in resiliency(适应力)from past societies.
1. What is the book Archaeology from Space about?| A．Searching for antiques in space. |
| B．Archaeologists conducting research in space. |
| C．Astronauts doing experiments above the Earth. |
| D．Using satellite techniques to explore the Earth. |
| A．Compared. | B．Adjusted. |
| C．Appealed. | D．Launched. |
| A．It can attract readers’ attention. |
| B．It is the most important discovery. |
| C．It will make the book popular in Egypt. |
| D．It can serve as a lesson to modern humans. |
| A．Traditional techniques of archaeology become outdated. |
| B．Crop marks help archaeologists locate underground ruins. |
| C．Satellites are changing how archaeologists study the past. |
| D．Archaeologists are losing their jobs due to new technologies. |
【推荐2】“We’re not programmed. We’re people” Sam said, who is an unwitting (不知情的) clone man in the movie Moon, a marvelously and shockingly fantastic sci-6 movie in 2009.
In the future world, with the rapid progress of modern technology, the pollution of the earth will also become increasingly serious. In order to ease this situation, a company called Yueneng Industrial Co, Ltd emerged. The company is committed to the development of lunar energy by collecting belium-3 to meet Earth’s energy needs. Yueneng Company has a base on the moon, and San Dell is the only staff on the base to do this job. Sam is a contact worker hired by the company. He has been living alone on the moon for three years, accompanied only by the artificial-intelligent robot Gerty. The dull and boring life made Sam feel like an arrow returning home. While leaving the moon in just two weeks, Sam accidentally encountered an accident. After waking up, be found that Gerty seemed to have hidden something from him. Sam took the opportunity to escape from the base, but found another self at the location of the accident. An extremely shocking fraud was about to be revealed.
In this multi-themed and thus thought-provoking movie, it actually offers the issue to be discussed that with the advent of advanced technology like clone men, artificial intelligence and so on, more and more problems arise, especially those concerned with ethics. In fact, our era has already been deeply branded with AI, directly and greatly affecting human ethics.
Due to the emergence of AI, we cannot help but think about the future direction of humanity, whether artificial intelligence is beneficial or harmful to humanity? Is there a possibility of consequences that we don’t want to see? The relationship between humans and machines will undergo significant changes. The best scenario (情形) is for artificial intelligence to help humans solve problems more quickly and effectively. The worst-case scenario is that artificial intelligence is misled by certain evil forces and deviates (偏离) from its original goals, breaking away from human control and leading to potential dehumanization.
1. What can we know from the movie Moon?| A．A company called Yueneng caused great pollution to the earth. |
| B．A company called Yueneng attempted to send people to the moon |
| C．Sam was required to collect belium-3 to meet Earth’s energy needs. |
| D．Sam found another staff member named Gerty on the moon |
| A．It is of great importance to our life. |
| B．It has a number of useful functions. |
| C．It brings great convenience to us. |
| D．It leads to some potential troubles. |
| A．Humans should never employ advanced technology. |
| B．Humans need to make full use of advanced technology. |
| C．Humans have to think carefully about advanced technology. |
| D．Humans can totally take control of advanced technology. |
| A．Indifferent | B．Objective. | C．Confident | D．Negative. |
【推荐3】Passengers could soon be flying off to holiday destinations on a pilotless（无人驾驶）plane. So far, online travel agency Kiwi. com has partnered with Czech airplane technology company Zuri to develop a concept plane that could fly completely unmanned.
Developers hope the plane will be able to fly up to 698 kilometers. It would use vertical（垂直的）take-off and landing technology, which means the plane can land vertically, so not as much space as a regular plane is needed meaning you could land in more places.
Its design combines the advantages of helicopters and aircraft, with electrically driven rotors（旋翼）that allow vertical take-off and landing. The plane would be ideal for travelling between islands as customers wouldn’t need to worry about changing from commercial flights to boats, taxis or car rides.
Oliver Dlouhy, CEO and co-founder of Kiwi. com said, “the zuri project represents a direction that I see as the key in the future of transport. Combined with the global transportation network, it will bring completely new chances for travelling by adding thousands of smaller cities into the airports’ catchment areas.”
But pilotless or single pilot operation of airplanes won’t be easy in an industry where at least two pilots in the cockpit（驾驶舱）are required. Many airlines around the world made this a rule after a pilot flew a plane into the French Alps in March 2015, killing all 150 people on board. What’s more, it’s also unclear whether passengers or their insurers or carriers would accept or permit it.
1. What is one of the features of the pilotless plane?| A．It may burn less fuel. | B．It may require less landing space. |
| C．It can fly a longer distance. | D．It can carry more passengers. |
| A．By changing the rule of airlines. |
| B．By offering easier operation to pilots. |
| C．By providing more safe choices for tourists. |
| D．By offering convenience to go to small islands. |
| A．They may be rejected by many airlines. | B．They may create new problems. |
| C．They may be welcomed by pilots. | D．They have a promising future. |
| A．Pilotless planes are widely used nowadays. |
| B．Scientists work hard to develop pilotless planes. |
| C．Pilotless planes may fly you to your holiday destination. |
| D．The idea of pilotless planes is attracting public attention. |
【推荐1】Liu Xiangping, a Chinese-Canadian artist and stamp designer, recalls his remarkable experiences in designing the stamps which develop friendship between China and Canada.
It was 1997, the year when Hong Kong was returned to China, and Canada Post, along with the then-Hong Kong Postal Administration and China, celebrated the Chinese New Year with a stamp.
In January 2017, special 45-cent stamp designed by Liu and two other Chinese Canadian artists was issued. Since then, Canada Post has been issuing zodiac(属相) stamp for the Chinese Lunar New Year each year. “Many traditional customs related to the Chinese New Year are indeed transnational(跨国的). They are beyond political and cultural differences. They powerfully reflect the close connections of the overseas Chinese to their ethnic roots,” Liu said.
Liu said that what he was most proud of last year was the creation of a stamp for China Post on the theme of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
When China Post issued a set of special stamps in 2003 to mark the victory over SARS, Liu was one of the designers.
In January 2020, Liu left Toronto for Beijing. With the influence of COVID-19 drawing the attention of the entire country, China Post invited him once again to be one of two chief designers of a set of anti-pandemic-themed stamps.
On May 11, 2020, China Post issued the two stamps. One featured the phrase “Pursue Together, Combat the Pandemic” to pay admiration and respect to the Chinese people in the fight against the virus. Liu said the most important principle for the designs is to present the Chinese spirit of solidarity(团结) as well as that of human nature in tough times. “I tried to express the sense of perseverance, anxiety and sorrow at the same time through people’s eyes,” Liu said.
To memorize the centennial(百年纪念) of Norman Bethune’s birth and his accomplishments, Canada and China jointly issued a pair of commemorative stamps in 1990. Bethune devoted his life to medicine and humanitarianism in China in the late 1930s. Jean Morin and Wanda Lewicka of Canada designed the stamps, and Liu illustrated(加插图)them.
“The stamps are the product of close cooperation and cultural exchanges between Canada and China. They symbolize the fundamentals(基本原则) of the friendship between the two countries,” said Liu. “We’ll never forget that Chinese and Canadian people were committed to the common values of justice and peace in WWⅡ.”
1. When did Canada Post begin issuing a zodiac stamp for the Chinese Lunar New Year?| A．In 1997. | B．In 2003. | C．In 2017. | D．In 2020. |
| A．Wonderful. | B．Difficult. | C．Busy. | D．Common. |
| A．He designed a stamp to celebrate the Chinese New Year with a stamp in 1997. |
| B．He designed a stamp to honor the Chinese people fighting against the pandemic |
| C．He designed a set of special stamps in 2003 to mark the victory over SARS. |
| D．He designed the stamps to memorize the centennial of Norman Bethune’s birth. |
| A．Stamps develop friendship between Canada and China. |
| B．Stamps show cultural exchanges between Canada and China. |
| C．Liu Xiangping is a Chinese-Canadian artist and stamp designer. |
| D．Liu Xiangping enjoys designing stamps reflecting Chinese customs. |
【推荐2】A Beijing-based gene firm on Monday announced the world’s first cloned wild arctic wolf, which is listed as endangered in the Red List of Threatened Species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or the IUCN. Experts said its birth pioneers the breeding of more rare and endangered animals through cloning technology.
“We started the research cooperation with Harbin Polarland on cloning the arctic wolf in 2020. After two years of painstaking efforts, the arctic wolf was cloned successfully. It is the first case of its kind in the world,” Mi Jidong, the company’s general manager of the Beijing-based Sinogene Biotechnology Co said at a press conference in Beijing.
The birth of the world’s first cloned wild arctic wolf is a milestone for the application of cloning technology, which is of great significance to the conservation of rare and endangered animals and biodiversity, experts believe.
He Zhengming, the head of Chinese Experimental Animal Resources Research Institute for Food and Drug Control said that the cloned animals still have the ability to reproduce if they have intact fertilized eggs (受精卵). The cloning technology can copy all genetic information for selective reproduction.
From the world’s first mammal clone “Dolly”, cloning technology has provided the possibility to diversify the populations of some species such as cattle, pigs and horses. When endangered species in some places are identified, cloning of cells preserved from freezing technologies could also generate new life, experts said.
As part of a more concrete step to boost the breeding of more rare and endangered animals through cloning technology, the Sinogene Biotechnology Co and Beijing Wildlife Park built a partnership on gene seed preservation cloning technology applications in rare and endangered wild animals. Enhanced efforts for the protection of endangered wildlife species and their habitats are part of the goals of the country’s national development plan for the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), according to the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.
1. Where is the text most probably taken from?| A．A guidebook. | B．A report. | C．A review. | D．A novel. |
| A．It reduces biodiversity. |
| B．It helps to restore the wolf population. |
| C．It helps the conservation of rare species. |
| D．It increases the risk of animal extinction. |
| A．Preserve fertilized eggs. |
| B．Copy their genetic information. |
| C．Help promote population diversity. |
| D．Prevent their populations from diversifying. |
| A．Cloning technology creating a new species of arctic wolf. |
| B．Cloning technology cooperation promoting rare animal breeding. |
| C．Cloning technology helping build a gene seed preservation facility. |
| D．Protecting wild animals in National Forestry and Grassland Administration. |
1 July 2021
On June 29 this year, Zhang Guimei was awarded CPC’s top honor July 1 Medal at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. At the ceremony. she said she did all this out of her gratefulness and love for the country, as well as the original aspiration and mission of a CPC member.
Zhang Guimei, who has dedicated her 40 years to education at China’s southwestern border, is a principal motivating young girls from impoverished families in mountainous areas.
Zhang was born in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang province in 1957. At 17, she came to Dali in Yunnan province to support the development of border areas, where she stumbled into teaching and started a career as an educator. After her husband’s death in 1996, she went to teach in Huaping county, Yunnan’s Lijiang. Five years later, she established a chilren’s home and worked as a part-time president of it. The organization adopted a total of over 170 children, who call Zhang mom though she has never given birth to a child..
While teaching there,she saw many girls drop out of school due to poverty. To change the destiny of the girls in the mountain, Zhang started her preparation to build a free all-girls high school in 2002. In 2007, Zhang went to Beijing for the 17th CPC National Congress as a deputy. Her report titled “I have a dream” delivered at the meeting made her dream of building a free all-girls high school known to all. Later, both the Lijiang and Huaping governments sponsored her with a million yuan. A year later, Zhang’s school was completed, becoming the first free all-girls high school in China. During the past 13 years, the school has nurtured over I,800 students who have made it to universities.
With no offspring and property, Zhang lives in a dormitory building with her students. She has donated all her cash awards, donations from others, and most of her salaries, more than a million yuan, to the children and other people in need. She suffers from 23 diseases, but she is still working selflessly.
Her story has moved millions of Chinese people and is now written into a newly published Brief History of the People’s Republic of China.
1. What’s the writing style of this passage?| A．A biography. | B．An argumentation. |
| C．A news report. | D．A narration. |
| A．To change the destiny of the girls in the mountain. |
| B．To lift girls in the mountain out of poverty. |
| C．To establish a children’s home. |
| D．To found a free high school for girls only. |
| A．She has committed herself to education in urban areas |
| B．She is a moral model burning herself to light others. |
| C．She has been teaching in Huaping county since she came to Yunnan. |
| D．She was awarded the Medal on 1 July. |
