【推荐1】Face shape lets AI spot rare disorders

People with genetic syndromes (综合征) sometimes have revealing facial features, but using them to make a quick and cheap diagnosis can be _______given there are hundreds of possible conditions they may have. A new neural (神经系统) network that analyses photographs of faces can help doctors _______the possibilities.

Yaron Gurovich at biotechnology firm FDNA in Boston and his team built a neural network to look at the overall impression of faces and _______ a list of the 10 genetic syndromes a person is most likely to have.

They _______ the neural network, called DeepGestalt, on 17,000 images correctly labeled to match more than 200 genetic syndromes.The team then asked AI to _______potential genetic disorders from a further 502 photos of people with such conditions. It included the correct answer among its list of 10 responses 91 per cent of the time.

Gurovich and his team also_______the neural network's ability to distinguish between the different genetic mutations (父异) that can lead to the same syndrome.They used photographs of people with Noonan syndrome, which can result from mutations in any one of five genes.DeepGestalt correctly identified the genetic source of the physical appearance 64 per cent of the time. It’s clearly not _______, but it’s still much better than humans are at trying to do this.

As the system makes its assessments, the facial regions that are most helpful in the determination are_______and made available for doctors to view. This helps them to understand the relationships between genetic make-up and physical appearance.

The fact that the diagnosis is based on a simple photograph raises questions about_______. If faces can reveal details about genetics, then employers and insurance providers could, in principle,__________ use such techniques to__________ against people who have a high probability of having certain disorders.__________. Gurovich says the tool will only be __________for use by clinicians.

This technique could bring significant__________ for those who have genetic syndromes. The real value here is that for some of these ultra-rare diseases, the process of diagnosis can be many, many years. This kind of technology can help narrow down the search space and then be confirmed through checking genetic markers. For some diseases, it will cut down the time to diagnosis dramatically. For others, it could perhaps add means of finding other people with the disease and, __________, help find new treatments or cures.

【推荐2】A 17-year-old teenager, Anika Puri, has invented a low-cost tool to spot elephant poachers (偷猎者) in real time. She won the 2022 Peggy Scripps Award for Science Communication for her model of a machine-learning driven software that analyzes movement patterns in thermal videos of humans and elephants. “I’m________excited by the________focusing on endangered species and environmental science.” Puri said.

During a recent trip to India, Puri realized that elephants were still being________for their tusks (牙). “I was quite taken aback,” Puri said, “Because I always thought, ‘well, poaching is________; how come it really is still such a big________?”

Over the next two years, Puri________the software EISa (short for elephant savior). This wildlife poacher detection solution is based on a________process: an EISa camera________to a mobile phone flies over a park on a drone and________the movements of elephants or humans. The software is four times more________than existing state-of-the-art detection methods. It also decreases the________for expensive high-resolution thermal cameras.

The 17-year -old’s invention has earned________from notable scientists. “Puri’s software is quite admirable,” says Jasper Eikelboom, an ecologist, “it’s quite________ that a senior high school student has been able to________something like this. Not only the research and the analysis, but also... being able to________it in the models.”

【推荐3】The media has a great effect on us in our daily life. Believe it or not,I will tell you a true story of my own.

Last evening I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a prize for scientific_____; I forgot what it was. The announcer,whose name was Ralph Story, said something that caught my _____. “All great discoveries,”he said,"are made by people between the ages of twenty-five and thirty. ”_____a little over thirty myself, I wanted to disagree with him. _____ wants to think that he is past the age of making any discovery. The next day I happened to be in the public library and spent several hours looking up the____of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph was right.

First I looked at some of the_____discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries, the famous experiment that proved that bodies of different_____fall at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that____to a Nobel Prize when she was 28.

Einstein was 26 when he published his world-changing theory of relativity. Well,_____of that. Yet I____,if those “best years” were true in other___. How about the field of____? Surely it needed the wisdom of age to make a good leader. Perhaps it____,but look when these people____their career. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln____ the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age? Twenty-six.

But why don’t the ____ years come after thirty? After thirty, I _____,most people do not want to take risks or try____ways. Then I thought of people like Shakespeare and Picasso. The former was writing wonderful works at the ripe age of fifty. while the latter was____trying new ways of painting when he was ninety!

Perhaps there is still____for me.

【推荐1】After a tearless farewell with my daughter, we left her new dorm room, but then in the campus we saw her jogging against the August heat. I quickly _______ down the car window and Sarina turned, nodded at us and happily waved goodbye. I was in _______ why the tears hadn’t come when we _______ on her first day in university.

Our first _______, the day she left my body, was a nightmare of pain and suffering. However, our togetherness following the birth was so _______ that I felt her small body still seemed to be _______ to mine. In the years to come, the sound of her feet running around our house was like the gentle pounding that _______ me that my little girl was here and that someday she would run to the _______ I couldn’t follow.

Last year Sarina turned 16 and decided to _______art in college. She was in excitement about college life with so much to expect, but I was ________because it would be a long plane ride away from home. I tried to imagine what separation would be like, but I couldn’t. Separation, although on the horizon, ________felt distant.

Until the next morning when I awoke in a house ________ of her footsteps, the ________ finally came and wouldn’t stop. I understood that Sarina had left the house, and I held onto the memory of her________. When the tears stopped, I was relieved that with our love and support, she had the courage to ________an unfamiliar distance, to glance back, yet to keep moving forward.

【推荐2】Birthdays are important and for me there is often a surprise from my father. I can never guess what is waiting for me.

On my birthday, I would be crying whenever someone phoned me to _________because all I wanted was for them to be with me and _______ me a hug.

On the 22^nd of April, my 14^th birthday, I woke up feeling _______ I was at home alone in Switzerland. My father was _______ for work. I was preparing myself for a day full of sadness when I _______ a text message from my father. He said “Happy birthday J My dearest! Go into my room now.” I went inside. What _______me was that there was a note on top of some new _______ for me, saying “Get dressed, and come out.” I was so excited. It took me only 2 minutes to _______ all of them and run out of my house.

My father was _______ for me in the car. He was just smiling and didn't tell me where we were going, only that it would take about half an hour to get there. After a short and pleasant trip, we ________ in front of an amusement park. A lot of people with the park's mascot (吉祥物) called Euromaus were welcoming us at the 21________ We bought tickets and stepped in. Everything was shiny and exciting and there were a lot of people with their children. The park was ________ into sixteen areas and they were all ________after European countries or cities, such as France, Paris, Greece. But the dominating things in the park were rollercoasters(过山车) ________ all around the park, and high above it. I was ________ but still decided to go on a ride, just to ________ challenges. Then I went to the main rollercoaster, the longest and the scariest one ________. It had a highest point of 73 meters. The first part of the ride was slow, so I could see the whole ________ of the park. People looked so small from above but everything in my eyes was beautiful. My heart ________ so hard, and I couldn't stop cheering and laughing.

It was the most ________ day of my life with my father not because the rollercoaster but the love from my father.

【推荐3】When Mt. Vesuvius (维苏威火山)erupted in 79A.D.，it _______ the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The first _______were the people of Pompeii, who, returning of their city when the eruption had eased, dug down through the_______ of their buried homes and salvaged what they could of their furniture and belongings. The _______ they drove through the solidified ash can still be seen in places. But a time came _______ Pompeii and Herculaneum were forgotten. Throughout the Middle Ages these two buried cities were not disturbed, and it was not until 1709 _______ an Austrian prince sank a shaft at Herculaneum and then, by _______ of underground tunnels, robbed the city of its treasures.

In 1729, systematic excavation began on the _______ site, but King Charles Ⅲ of Naples merely excavated the site to _______ archaeological specimens (考古标本) for his collection. A few years later, an accidental find at Pompeii led to excavations there; at first by tunneling, but afterwards by the actual uncovering of the city.

From the end of the ________ century to the present day, digging has gone on ________ continuously, though slowly, and often with ________ resources. Perhaps this slowness has not been entirely a(n) ________，since it has resulted in large, untouched sections of both cities being left ________ for modern, scientific excavation. ________ techniques have improved so much in the last fifty years that a site can now reveal far more archaeological ________ than before.

Today most of ________ and a substantial section of Herculaneum have been cleared. They are the best known archaeological sites ________， and the most wonderful. For here, and nowhere else on earth, are ancient cities in which life did not die out but was suddenly ________.

“Behind these walls,” as one writer has said, “lies an ________ Italian town, stilled in a moment of time. To enter the gates of this city is to walk 2, 000 years into the past.”

【推荐1】I was waiting anxiously for the bus to start. A woman, sitting next to me, and her daughter both seemed ______. She told me that her daughter had an upset stomach and would throw up continuously; ______, the mother had lost her______. Apart from money, it also had her phone and a phone number of an official she was to meet for discussing a______matter which had to be ______ by tomorrow morning.

I handed her my cellphone without______and told her that she could make any call she wanted. I also______a bottle of water I had in my bag to relieve her daughter of her______. After making several calls, they finally ______to the official! They turned to look at me______and thanked me many times.     

The next morning, I received a call from the mother, saying that they couldn’t tell how much my______act touched them. I was______to be thanked in this way. I never thought my simple offer______so much in her heart. And I thought of how many opportunities for______we had lost— something with easy access may make a big______to others.

【推荐2】“What are you doing?” my fifth-grade teacher asked as I bent over the side of my desk. “I’m _______ my backpack. The bell rings in a few minutes.”

“Unpack your assignments. You still have five minutes. We _______ until the clock runs out. The more you do here in class, the less you have to do at home,” she said. She was a very kind woman, but I knew she was _______ this time.

Having no option, I _______ pulled my math assignment back out and _______ one problem at a time as the minutes on the clock ticked away. The bell finally _______, and I stuffed my homework in my backpack as _______ as possible and ran out.

I cannot remember how many times per day she would say, “Use your time wisely.” It worked. It became second _______ for me to work until the bell rang. In middle school, I continued the _______ she instilled (灌输) in me. I worked on my assignments until the bell rang. And she was ________. The more I did in class, the more time off I had at home for projects and hobbies. I instilled that mindset in nearly every ________ of my adult life: my education, my career, and my family.

At age ten, I didn’t ________. I do now. Learning how to use your time wisely also means learning what’s ________ to you. It’s not just a ________ in using the time you have, but in enjoying those moments and ________ the time spent with loved ones.

【推荐3】After studying Mandarin at a university in London, I decided to further develop my language skills in Hutong School Beijing.

After a 10-hour flight, I ________ early in the morning. I ________ up my suitcase, made my way to the exit and met the Hutong School Beijing representative. He took me to my ________, located in Dongzhimen, a really nice and ________ location, only 2 stops to Tian’anmen Square. However, the apartment was not quite as “nice” as ________ on the website. And I just had two ________ — a German guy who would be there for four months learning ________, and a Spanish guy who worked for Hutong School Beijing.

After ________ in, the representative took me to ________ with the local police. Then, he took me to Hutong School Beijing to ________ a level assessment, arrange my ________ and take me to meet my teachers.

The school is ________ of what one expects or is implied by the ________, not actually located in the Hutongs, but located on the 15th floor of a skyscraper. Obviously, it was less ________, but it did offer great views. Being in China and constantly being completely ________ in Chinese improved my Mandarin so much.