【推荐1】①Type 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 Max, who was on his way past many difficulties to sing among the stars.

②This robot writer is real. It’s called Chat GPT. It was developed by US company Open AI. It can translate languages, talk with people and write songs, poems and even jokes. It’s one of the most powerful AI of its kind, with the complete writing range(范围) of a real person! According to a US report of more than 1,000 students, over 89% of them have used Chat GPT to help with homework. Some students even got high marks thanks to papers written by Chat GPT.

③Some schools in the US, Australia and France have banned the use of Chat GPT. In the US, for example, New York City public schools don’t allow students and teachers to use ChatGPT on the networks and devices(设备), CNN reported.

④The move comes out of worries that the tool could make it easier for students to cheat on homework. Some also worry that Chat GPT could be used to spread incorrect information. “It does not build critical-thinking and problem-solving still, which are necessary for academic(学术的) and lifelong success,” said Jenna Lyle, a secretary of the New York City Department of Education.

⑤However, not all educators say “no” to Chat GPT. Some Canadian universities are making policies on its use, for both students and teachers. They have no plans to completely ban the tool so far.

【推荐2】Three-two-one, fire! At the moment of 9:43 a.m, on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020, at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center (卫星发射中心) in Sichuan Province, the last satellite of the third generation network (第三代导航系统) was sent into space. It is the 55th member in the family of Beidou. It belongs to China’s Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS北斗卫星导航系统). So far, 59 satellites including the first four test ones, have been launched from Xichang. With the development of China, we have already owned three other famous satellite launch centers- Jiuquan, Taiyuan and Wenchang.

After a period of tests in space, this new satellite has started to work with other Beidou satellites together. It is designed to work for at least 12 years. So far, China has completed the third-generation network of China’s BDS. It was a new milestone in the nation’s space research work. The launch showed our country has completed our largest space-based system. It’s one of four global(全球的) navigation networks, including the United States’ GPS, Russia’s GLONASS and the European Union’s Galileo.

BDS has been widely used as public resources(资源)in our daily life. It has been shared by the whole world. It will provide more services around the world. BDS is the common wealth of the development of human beings.

In 15 years, I think I will be a doctor.     1     I will do my best to help them and save their lives. I will have a robot assistant(助手). She looks like a human. She can walk like people.     2     But I believe that although scientists are able to make robots look like people and do lots of work, it will be difficult to make them really think like a human.

    3     I will live in a comfortable apartment with my parents. I will probably keep a pet dog. On weekdays, I will be very busy and have little time to stay with my family.     4    

In 15 years, there will be more cars because there will be more people in the city.     5     So in order to have a happy life on the earth, everybody should play a part in saving the earth now.

【推荐3】We all know the strange feeling of watching the time change on a clock. You never see it change because the hands move so slowly. But of course, the time is changing all the time.

Human faces, like clock faces, are also changing. And like clocks, the changes take place too slowly to be noticed. Over many thousands of years, though, huge changes are possible. For example, the human brain tripled (三倍) in size and began to think more. Our faces became flatter (平坦的).

If our heads became larger in the past, how will things change in the future? Unlike the changes of a clock face, the changes in human faces are very difficult to predict (预测). One of the main reasons for this is the way in which we can now control parts of nature. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, all changes were natural, but now we can actively choose ways for our own evolution (进化).

Just a few hundred years ago, most humans were working in the fields, whereas nowadays more and more people receive education. These are just predictions, and no one can be sure how human beings will become in the future. But with such huge changes in our environment, it seems likely that we will look very different in the future.