【推荐2】Type in “A cat wants to go to space” and ask the robot to write a bedtime story. Just one second later, you’ll get the story of a cat called Max. He goes through many difficulties to sing among the stars.

This robot writer is real. It’s called ChatGPT. US company OpenAI made it. It can talk with people, write songs, poems and even jokes. It’s one of the most powerful (强大的) AI writers.

ChatGPT can write things really fast. We may spend hours researching, understanding and writing an article on the theory of evolution (进化论). But ChatGPT can write a good one in seconds. But if you ask harmful questions, such as how to make weapons (武器), it will not give you an answer.

ChatGPT comes along at a time when AI can do many creative (有创意的) tasks. The things they create are difficult to tell from those made by humans. This brings many problems, such as the definition (定义) of art. The robot is trained (训练) using words from the Internet, so it can also pick up on the Internet’s biases (偏见) about certain groups. These are all the things that humans need to solve.

1. The writer used the cat story in Paragraph 1 to ______.

A．show what a robot cat can do	B．show that robots can write stories
C．show why cats can go to space	D．tell what bedtime story Max likes

2. What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Max.

B．The star.

C．ChatGPT.

D．OpenAI.

3. What do we know about ChatGPT?

A．It writes faster than human writers.

B．It can sing different kinds of songs.

C．It is the biggest kind of AI.

D．A UK company made it.

4. What will ChatGPT do if you ask harmful questions?

A．It will tell a joke.

B．It will spend hours understanding them.

C．It will write an article about them in seconds.

D．It will give you no answer.

5. What’s the last paragraph mainly about?

A．How people feel about robot writing.

B．How a robot learns to write like humans.

C．The problems that may come with AI writing.

D．Why AI can help people solve problems.

【推荐3】阅读短文，从短文后A至F六个选项中选出五个可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

As winter comes, hands and feet can easily get cold, especially among women.     1     But when people want to do something with their hands, wearing them is not convenient. However, this was not a problem for ancient Chinese people. They had a better tool to keep their hands warm: hand warmers.

    2     One folk story is connected with Emperor Yangdi from the Sui Dynasty. He visited Jiangsu in the winter. Because of the cold, the local officer asked workmen to make a small warmer for the emperor (皇帝) that could be held in his hands.     3     By the Song Dynasty, the tool was popular among common people. The skills for making the tool were used in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Ancient hand warmers had many different designs.     4     Some looked like pumpkins, and flowers.     5     Some coals were mixed with perfume (香料) to give out a pleasant smell when burned.

A．Then, the hand warmer was created.

B．Thick gloves might be a good choice.

C．Inside a hand warmer, there were burning coals.

D．Round, square and octagonal are popular shapes.

E．No one knows for sure when this tool was invented first.

F．Many poems and books recorded people using hand warmers.

【推荐1】My father is tall and has short gray hair. He wears glasses with heavy black frames(框). Here is a picture of him from 1968. What a surprise! In the picture, he's 15 years old. He's short and he is wearing glasses with small round frames. He has short blond hair and it's really straight. He is wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt with the word "love" on it. I'm 15 years old now. I'm of medium height and I have short hair. My hair isn't blond. It's blue. My father thinks it's strange (奇怪的), but my friends think it's great. I wear glasses, but my glasses have bright red frames. They're so cool! I have an earring (耳环) in one ear, too. I never wear blue jeans. I' like big baggy pants (袋状裤) and long T-shirts. Most of my T-shirts have pictures of my favorite rock bands on them.
1. What kind of glasses is the writer's father wearing in the picture?

A．Glasses with heavy black frames.	B．Glasses with bright red frames.
C．Glasses with small round-frames.	D．Glasses with small red frames.

2. What color is the writer's hair?

A．Blond.

B．Blue.

C．Yellow.

D．Gray.

3. What does the writer like wearing?

A．Blue jeans and a T-shirt.	B．Big jeans and a long T-shirt.
C．Blue jeans and a long T-shirt.	D．Baggy pants and long T-shirts.

4. What's on his father's T-shirt in the picture?

A．The word "love".	B．Cool earrings.
C．Pictures of rock bands.	D．Pictures of famous actors.

【推荐2】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项，并将所选答案涂到答题卡的相应位置上。

In the countries all over the world, people are leaving the countryside (乡下) in large numbers to find jobs in the cities. They leave because the countryside is much poorer than the city.     1     Services such as hospitals and transport are usually much better in cities than they are in the countryside. They hope that their lives will improve when they move to the city.

But in the big cities of Europe (欧洲) and America, people are moving out of the city. These are usually families who have some money, and want to live a quieter life.     2     And they are tired of the crowded (拥堵) streets, crowded trains and buses. They don’t want to sit in traffic an any more. They want a house with a garden, and clean air that isn’t polluted.

So they move out. Some don’t go very far, just a little way out of the city, to the towns near the cities, and other people move to the real countryside with sheep and cows and green fields!     3    

    4     After two or three years, many people who have done this feel that it was a big mistake. They don’t make so much money and there isn’t much work to do. Country people are very different and aren’t always very friendly. As a result, quite a lot of people who have moved to the countryside move back to the city. “It’s wonderful to see crowds in the streets and cinema lights,” they say. “    5    ”

A．We’ll never leave the countryside!

B．I’m so glad that I’m back in the city!

C．And often there isn’t much work there.

D．They are tired of the noise and the dirt of the city.

E．Most old people prefer to stay in their hometown.

F．There, they start new lives and try to make new friends.

G．But not all those who move from the city to the countryside are happy.

【推荐3】还原句子根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能够填入短文空白处的 最佳选项，并将其代表字母涂（填）在答题卡（纸）的相应位置。

In September, the first kids born after 2000 began their college life.     1     And what did the students in the 1980s or 1990s take with them when entering college?

Students in the 1980s were known as “the chosen ones” since only 10 percent of college-aged people could receive higher education.     2     White Dacron shirts, hand-knit sweaters, Thermos flask（s   保温瓶）, backpacks and books were their favorites.    3    Scientific inventions like radios and watches didn’t appear in college until the mid-to-late 1980s.

In the 1990s, the college packing list improved a lot.     4     But mobile phones and computers couldn’t be seen. Life in college was quite simple, so students poured their time into self-improvement.

When the kids born after 2000 went to college, we noticed a lot of changes.    5     It comes as no surprise to see new students carrying mobile phones, computers and cameras in college.

The changes mentioned above have shown the rapid development of technology and the improvement in the living standards of people.

A．The college was filled with CD players, Walk-mans and even pagers.

B．Generally, students at that time didn’t like to spare extra money for entertainment.

C．What did most of the students take with them?

D．At the beginning of the 1980s students preferred to take useful and practical things.

E．Things on the packing list have become increasingly valuable.

【推荐2】

Lost! Someone took my rose gold iPhone at Sun West Park on Hudson Road on Saturday night, Oct 13. Photos never uploaded to iCloud. They are very important. Reward for return. Call Tiffany Yang at 479-3081.

Found a luxury Swiss watch in Las Vegas. If you lost your watch, please email louis_423@gmail.com with the brand, model, serial number (s) and describe the watch and where you think you lost it. If it matches the watch I found, I’ll work with you to return it.

Lost my 18-month old cat Lucy. Grey with dark grey stripes on back. Dark gold eyes. She was taken from Dan Jedlicka’s house at 1283 106th Ave on Oct 14. I will pay $500 to anyone who finds her. If you find her, please call me at 973-3787.

Young black dog, very friendly, found at Boiling Springs on Oct 12. If you know the owner of this dog, please let them know or go to Facebook@terry_johnson. Please SHARE this page on your social media networks to help me find the owner.

1. If someone lost their watch, what should they do?

A．Call 479-3081.	B．Email louis_423@gmail.com.
C．Call 973-3787.	D．Contact Facebook account @terry_johnson.

2. Which of the following is TRUE of the missing cat?

A．She was Lucy’s cat.

B．She was all black.

C．She has dark green eyes.

D．She went missing on Oct 14.

3. What can we tell from the four ads?

A．There are many photos on the missing iPhone.

B．Someone found a Japanese watch in Las Vegas.

C．An 18-month old dog was taken from her owner’s house.

D．The cat owner will pay a $100 reward for the cat.