“Well, we could use some hotdogs.” I heard this when I was at the local charity _______ bank. A second-hand shop was next to it. Sometimes I would stop and go into the shop to _______ a sweatshirt or a book for my sons. Sometimes I would _______ step back into the food bank and ask if they needed anything. I got help from there when I was a young father with a hungry family. Now, I like to _______ .

This time I could see that most of the shelves were _______ with boxes and cans given away by stores. They said _______ they needed was meat, though, hotdogs were cheap and I didn’t _______ getting some. I soon went to the local store and filled my cart with all the hotdogs I could afford.

As I was paying for _______, I thought of my own childhood. I could see my mom boiling two hotdogs in a pot. Next she put each one on a slice of white bread with a piece of cheese. To top it off, she would _______ a little ketchup (番茄酱). It didn’t cost much but to me it was a great dinner cooked with ________, eaten with joy.

That ________ warmed my heart as I dropped off the hotdogs at the food bank. It felt good knowing that some other little boy or girl out there would soon be having a ________ lunch. With a smile on my face, I left there ________. And I could feel my mom smiling down on me from heaven (天堂) ________ I was walking to my car.

The truth is that, when done with love, ________ and receiving are the same thing. It all comes back around again.

Education is not just about going to school. it’s also about what you learn from your experiences outside of school. So family and community (社会) play a great role, too.

On January 13, the government gave a guideline (指导方针) to improve school-family-community cooperative (合作的) education mechanism (学校家庭社会协同育人机制). It clarifies the roles and responsibilities of school, family and community and how they work together to educate children.

“School-family-community cooperative education asks the three parts to well work together to help the all-round development of students,” Zhang Zhiyong, a teacher at Beijing Normal University, told China Education Daily.

According to the guideline, schools should play a leading role in cooperative education. They should deeply close communicate with parents to let them know about the student’s performance at school. They should also organize at least two activities each term to offer family education guidance to parents. Also, head teachers need to organize a home visit to each student at least once every year.

Parents also play a key role in family education. They should be encouraged to lead their kids to take part in different activities like volunteering, doing sports or getting job experience in their free time. The community, on the other hand, for example, should be free to school students.

Gao Wei, a 43-year-old mother of a 14-year-old from Beijing, was excited about the new guideline. “Improving cooperative education” between the school and parents is not a new thing. But the guideline brings clear advice to make it happen. With such support, they can learn more from real life.”

What will the future world be like? Many believe that technology will help solve some of the most difficult problems we have today, such as pollution and hunger. Others worry as old problems are solved, new ones may appear. No technology is all good.

When dreaming about the future, many of us hope we can go to different places in our own flying car. Everyone can clearly see the good part of the idea. This technology would allow us to move freely. We could fly really fast, getting away from traffic lights and busy roads. However, there will be air traffic problems. Another big problem is mechanical failure. What will happen if the cars break down or suddenly stop working in the sky? These are problems we must expect if flying cars become real.

3D printing is another new technology with exciting possibilities. 3D printers are used to build things with liquid (液体的) plastic. Car companies already use 3D printers to make life-size models of car parts, and medical companies use the technology to make man-made body parts, it might be possible to see something on a website and then print it out with a 3D printer at home. If so, 3D printing will change the way we shop and the way we make. The weak point is that such machine will be very expensive.

Finally, imagine having your own Iron Man suit. Several companies are trying to build a real robot exoskeleton (外骨骼). This is a special suit with robot arms and legs which follows the wearer’s movement. Exoskeletons allow you to lift heavy things, one bad thing at the moment is cost. Another problem is battery (电池) life. A heavy suit like this needs a lot of power, and battery life is short. However, these problems will no doubt be solved as lightweight plastic suits become available.

Looking ahead, although there are some problems to solve before all of this is possible, we can certainly dream of a world where technology makes life easier and safer for millions of people.

Recently, many people around the world have tried ChatGPT.

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ChatGPT is a conversational AI language model. You can chat with ChatGPT by asking it questions and it will quickly answer them in human-like natural language based on its training.

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The model was trained on many different Internet texts, allowing it to have knowledge on a wide range of topics, including history, sports, and much more.

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According to Andreas Schleicher, an official from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD), the chatbot will become a very powerful tool in the development of education. As a device, ChatGPT is going to make learning much more interesting and powerful.

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However, New York City’s Department of Education announced a ban (禁令) on the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT—which may help more students cheat (作弊)—from its schools’ devices and networks.

＞What do professors and students think of ChatGPT?

A latest survey among educators and students shows as following:

72% of college professors are worried about its impact on cheating.

Over a third (34%) of all educators believe that ChatGPT should be banned in schools and universities.

66% support students to use it.

Over 89% of students have used ChatGPT to help with a homework assignment.

53% had it to write an essay.

61. 假设你是Li Ming，以下是你的英国朋友David发给你的一封电子邮件，请根据该邮件内容给他回一封邮件。

I’m sorry to hear that you are going through a hard time.

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I hope my advice helps.

Yours,

Li Ming