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Soon, every robotic dog will have its day!
Isn’t it nice to always have a lovely dog follow you around and respond when
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3 . There’s a lot to see in Badlands National Park (BADL).
Castle Trail: A Badlands National Park Favorite.
We’re kicking things off with the longest trail in the park — and it is an excellent one. This 5-mile journey takes you through the backcountry of Badlands, with the main destination being the incredible Castle Rock formation. Along the way, you’ll hike through grassland. And as always in the Badlands, watch out for snakes.
See Bison in Sage Creek Wilderness Area
Are you as crazy about wildlife? Sage Creck is for you. Located in Wall, SD, this is one of the largest areas of preserved mixed-grass prairie (草原) left in the United States. And it’s one of the best places for North American bison (野牛). But remember to always stay in your vehicle, and never get out to approach a bison. This is not only illegal (非法的), but can cost you your life.
Ascend the Amazing Saddle Pass Trail
Saddle Pass is a short trail, but one you won’t want to miss. One of the most photographed spots in Badlands National Park is also one of the coolest climbing experiences, hands down. Here, you’ll climb up the Badlands Wall itself into a view of the White River Valley. The trail gets its name from the shape of the prairie you’ll travel.
Badlands National Park’s Top Hike: Notch Trail
As the most popular hike in the Badlands, Notch Trail features a fantastic ladder climb and absolutely breath-taking views. This trail is worth the difficulty, but it is not recommended for anyone with a fear of heights, and can be dangerous during or after heavy rains. The most Badlands injuries take place here, so be sure to practice safely.
1. What makes Sage Creek special?| A．Its longest trail. | B．Its large prairie. |
| C．Its unique scenery. | D．Its dangerous climbing. |
| A．Castle Trail. | B．Sage Creek. |
| C．Notch Trail. | D．Saddle Pass Trail. |
| A．Practice safely. | B．Take a pair of sunglasses. |
| C．Stay in the car. | D．Keep away from the ladder. |
4 . Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT), created by openAI, an AI and research company, is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with a chatbot. The language model can answer questions, and assist you with tasks such as composing emails, essays and code.
ChatGPT is powered by a large language model, or LLM, meaning it’s programmed to understand human language and generate responses based on a large amount of data. What makes ChatGPT so impressive is its ability to log context from user’s earlier messages in a thread and use it to form responses later in the conversation.
According to analysis by Swiss bank UBS, ChatGPT is the fastest growing up app of all time. In January, only two months after its launch, UBS analysis estimates that ChatGPT had 100 million active users. For comparison, it took nine months for TikTok to reach 100 million.
Despite looking very impressive, ChatGPT still has limitations. Instead of asking for clarification on ambiguous questions, the model just takes a guess at what your question means. “The primary problem is that the answers that ChatGPT produces have a high rate of being incorrect,” says Stack Overflow moderators in a post. Critics argue that these tools are just very good at putting words into an order that makes sense from a statistical pint of view, but they cannot understand the meaning or know whether the statements it makes are correct. Another major limitation is that ChatGPT’s data is limited to 2021.
ChatGPT is an advanced chatbot that has the potential to make people’s lives easier and to assist with everyday tiring tasks, such as writing an email or having to navigate the web for answers. However, there are certain technical details that have to be figured out before it’s widely used, to prevent negative outcomes such as the spread of misinformation. In general, this AI model relies on lots of training and fine-tuning to reach a level of ideal performance.
1. What can we learn about ChatGPT from the first paragraph?| A．What its potential market is. | B．It is developed jointly by two companies. |
| C．Why it enjoys great popularity. | D．It is a conversational AI tool. |
| A．Context. | B．ChatGPT’s ability. | C．A thread. | D．LLM. |
| A．Low efficiency. | B．Disordered words. |
| C．Poor accuracy. | D．Frequent crashes. |
| A．Unclear. | B．Objective. | C．Doubtful. | D．Satisfied. |
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Yours sincerely,
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6 . At 12, my father decided to take me a trip to France. I had never been out of the country before, so I was very excited. My aunt, my father and I went around with my father showing us all the unbelievable attractions in Paris. None of us spoke much French but we loved the city.
We had taken the subway all over the city and were congratulating ourselves on our understanding of what is honestly a good subway design that is pretty easy to follow. We decided to visit Versailles by train. We chatted happily along the way until my father realized we were far into the French countryside and no one around spoke English.
We reached the end of the line and felt frightened when everyone finally left the train. An old man and his grandchild noticed us and came up to help. He spoke no English, so in broken French we tried to explain. When he finally understood, this great man settled his grandson and showed us to the correct train and then got on it with us.
Later we knew the truth that there was a train transfer(换乘) and he didn’t want us to miss it. This kind man rode a train an hour and a half out of his way to make sure that three Americans got where they wanted to be. He refused to let us pay for his ticket. He did it all with a gentle smile and shook our hands gently at the stop. Then with his quiet way, he got on the train to return the way he had come.
What impressed me most was the man and his kindness during the amazing trip. Some Americans think the French are rude for some reason, but I always try to make them change their minds with this story.
1. What happened to the author and his family on the train?| A．They failed to get off the train at the right time. |
| B．They couldn’t understand the signs of the train. |
| C．They had a quarrel about where to go first. |
| D．They found it hard to live in the countryside. |
| A．By paying for their train tickets. |
| B．By leading them to where they wanted to be. |
| C．By inviting them to travel together. |
| D．By showing them the return way. |
| A．His honesty | B．His kindness | C．His gentleness | D．His happiness |
| A．To explain an unexpected problem. |
| B．To list the unbelievable attractions in Paris. |
| C．To show the importance of learning a foreign language. |
| D．To share an unforgettable foreign experience. |
7 . With the cold weather drawing nearer, few people will choose swimming as a daily or usual activity.
Good for your brain.
Swimming is one of the best activities you can do all year round, which benefits your body and your mind. Swimming has been found to increase blood flow to the brain, which leads to more oxygen.
Work your muscles.
Every time you swim, it is like doing a mini-resistance workout. Each kicks and pull works your muscles more than you could imagine, especially your arms, shoulders and gluteus — the muscles that are inactive all day when you’re sitting at your desk.
Lift your spirits.
While swimming is an individual sport, it is also very social. You can meet people from all walks of life when swimming. Have a chat in the lap pool, join a swimming club or get involved in social water sports to get to know people in your community. Besides, the great thing about swimming is that you can do it — rain or shine. Although your backyard pool, the river or beach cools down over winter, most inside swimming pools run heated pools year round, so you’ve got no excuse to stop swimming.
| A．Benefit your body. |
| B．Meet new people. |
| C．These chemicals can control your thought and action. |
| D．Swimming also works your abs (腹肌) and will reduce your waist line. |
| E．Exercise gives off chemicals in your body called endorphins (内啡肽). |
| F．And that means you’re experiencing better memory and sharp mind. |
| G．However, swimming in winter is of great benefit in cold days. |
The guzheng is one of the
In the 1950s and 1960s, the guzheng and a number of other traditional Chinese instruments experienced a major overhaul (改造) to expand their sound range and improve their expressiveness. The redesign of the guzheng was led by Professor Wang Xunzhi from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
The new instrument
9 . Meeting people is the first step to make friends.
Make small talk even if you don’t feel like it
Small talk can make people feel false and meaningless.
When you talk to someone new and realize that you have similar interests, the conversation usually goes from stiff (生硬的) to fun and interesting. Therefore, make it a habit to find out if you have any mutual interests or something in common. You can do this by mentioning things that interest you and seeing how they answer.
Don’t write people off until you know them
Don’t judge people too quickly. Try not to think that they are shallow (肤浅的), boring, or that you have nothing to talk about. If everyone seems uninterested, it might be because you have been in small talk.
Make people like being around you
When you try to make people like you, it will become easier for you to make friends.
| A．But it does have a purpose. |
| B．Help people get to know you. |
| C．Being used to talking to people is important. |
| D．Figure out what you might have in common. |
| E．If you only make small talk, everyone will sound shallow. |
| F．But how do you actually become friends with someone? |
| G．When you make sure that people like being around you, they will like you. |
10 . Diners in Japan could soon be able to taste the flavour of a bowl of soup without having to worry about their salt intake.
In what they claim is a world first, researchers have developed chopsticks that artificially create the taste of salt, as part of efforts to reduce sodium (钠) levels in some of the country’s most popular dishes.
The chopsticks work by using electrical stimulation (刺激) and a mini-computer worn on the eater’s wristband. The device (设备) transmits sodium ions (离子) from food, through the chopsticks, to the mouth where they create a sense of saltiness, according to Homei Miyashita, a professor at Meiji University in Tokyo, whose laboratory developed the device. The team said they hoped to make the chopsticks available to consumers (消费者) next year. Miyashita said, “Our device could find large consumers in Japan, where the traditional diet tends to be high in salt due to the use of ingredients such as soy sauce (酱油).”
The average Japanese adult consumes about 10 grams of salt a day, double the amount recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). The health ministry has proposed reducing daily salt intake to a maximum of 7.5 grams for men and 6.5 grams for women.
The chopsticks use “very weak electricity — not enough to affect the human body — to adjust the function of ions to change the perception of taste by making food seem to taste stronger or weaker“, Kirin said in a statement. Miyashita and Kirin said clinical tests on people who follow a low-sodium diet had confirmed that the device increases the salty taste of low-sodium food by about 1.5 times. They said participants given reduced-salt soup had commented on the improved ”richness, sweetness and overall tastiness“ of the dish.
High salt intake can contribute to high blood pressure, which is the single biggest cause of heart attacks and strokes. “To prevent these diseases, we need to reduce the amount of salt we take,” said Kirin researcher Ai Sato. “If we try to avoid taking more salt in a conventional way, we would need to bear the pain of cutting our favourite food from our diet, or bear eating tasteless food.”
1. What can we know about the chopsticks?| A．They are difficult to use. |
| B．They are already on the market now. |
| C．They will affect the human body seriously. |
| D．They are different from traditional chopsticks. |
| A．Promising. | B．Hopeless. | C．Worrying. | D．Unpredictable. |
| A．About 10 grams. | B．About 7.5 grams. | C．About 6.5 grams. | D．About 5 grams. |
| A．Traditional Japanese Diet Is High in Salt |
| B．High Salt Intake Can Result in Many Diseases |
| C．Japanese People Keep Fit by Using a New Device |
| D．“Electric” Chopsticks Can Make Food Seem More Salty |
