I worked at a local station of the Berlin fire department. We got an alert (警报) around 8:25pm that Friday and rushed to the fire engine, where the printout from the dispatcher (调度员) said there was a nine-year-old boy locked in a safe.
I asked myself: if it were a safe, would it be airtight? I was aware that it might already be too late by the time we arrived. I had to plan for a bad outcome. On the other hand, if we were in time, how long would it take us to open the safe? I knew it would be an incredibly difficult task. It’s what safes are designed for—not to be opened.
It took less than five minutes to reach the property. When I saw a woman crying on the street,
I knew the situation was serious. She was the boy’s mother and she led us into the basement. She told us the boy was alive and we started talking to him; he was very calm. We asked how it had happened: during a game of hide and seek with his five-year-old brother, he had thought the safe would be a good place to hide.
The boy’s parents had got the house from his mother’s father. The unlocked safe had been there when they moved in and was in an area they didn’t use much. The boy’s little brother had shut the safe, then, when he couldn’t open it again. The only person who knew the combination was the boy’s late grandfather.
From the outset, the biggest priority was getting oxygen to the boy. We got oxygen from the hospital. The boy said that he could feel a thin stream of air. I asked his parents if anyone had opened the safe before and they said no. So we had to guess a six-digit code (密码). We started typing them in—but we had to wait 10 minutes between each attempt before we could try again. So quickly we tried them all. No luck.
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We were fully prepared at this point to open the safe by force, starting with a drill.
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Dear Sir，
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Yours,
Li Hua
3 . Last week, I sent the same request to ChatGPT, the latest artificial-intelligence chatbot from OpenAI. “Upon the Firth of Forth, a bridge doth stand,” it began. In less than a minute, the program had created in full a rhyming Shakespearean sonnet (莎士比亚十四行诗). Tools like ChatGPT seem poised to change the world of poetry — and so much else — but poets also have a lot to teach us about artificial intelligence. If algorithms (算法) are getting good at writing poetry, it’s partially because poetry was always an algorithmic business.
Even the most rebellious (叛逆的) poets follow more rules than they might like to admit. When schoolchildren are taught to imitate the structure of sonnet, they are effectively learning to follow algorithmic constraints. Should it surprise us that computers can do so, too?
But considering how ChatGPT works, its ability to follow the rules for sonnets seems a little more impressive. No one taught it these rules. It is based on a newer kind of AI known as a large language model (LLM). To put it simply, LLMs analyze large amounts of human writing and learn to predict what the next word in a string of text should be, based on context. One frequent criticism of LLMs is that they do not understand what they write; they just do a great job of guessing the next word.
When a private verse by Dickinson makes us feel like the poet speaks directly to us, we are experiencing the effects of a technology called language. Poems are made of paper and ink — or, these days, electricity and light. There is no one “inside” a Dickinson poem any more than one by ChatGPT. Of course, every Dickinson poem reflects her intention to create meaning. When ChatGPT puts words together, it does not intend anything. Some argue that writings by LLMs therefore have no meaning, only the appearance of it. If I see a cloud in the sky that looks like a giraffe, I recognize it as an accidental similarity. In the same way, this argument goes, we should regard the writings of ChatGPT as merely imitating real language, meaningless and random as cloud shapes.
When I showed my friends the sonnet by ChatGPT, they called it “soulless and barren.” Despite following all the rules for sonnets, the poem is predictable. But is the average sonnet by a human any better? If we now expect computers to write not just poems but good poems, then we have set a much higher bar.
1. What is the main idea of paragraph 1 and paragraph 2?| A．ChatGPT will make a difference to poetry based on algorithms. |
| B．There is no doubt that AI can copy the grammatical rules of poetry. |
| C．Poetry guidelines provide a possibility for AI’s poetry writing. |
| D．There is a similarity between algorithms and poetry. |
| A．ChatGPT is trained to follow the rules by LLMs. |
| B．ChatGPT can analyze and predict human languages. |
| C．ChatGPT is technologically supported by LLMs. |
| D．ChatGPT itself learn to follow the rules. |
| A．He talks about cloud to describe the meaninglessness of AI’s poetry. |
| B．He tells of Dickinson to describe the meaninglessness AI’s poetry. |
| C．He mentions cloud to suggest its close relationship with AI’s poetry. |
| D．He refers to Dickinson to suggest her close relationship with AI’s poetry. |
| A．Acceptable and favorable | B．Amazed and admiring |
| C．Indifferent and uncaring | D．Doubtful and uneasy |
1. 活动时间、地点、参与人员；
2. 活动流程；
3. 活动感悟。
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Say No to Campus Bullying
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“Mr. Peterson, you won’t believe what I just saw!” With Billy Dean Dickinson’s wide-eyed expression, I knew he was about to tell one of his wild stories. The kid’s eleven, the sixth in the Dickinson family of eight, and his imagination is as big as the guy who wrote Star Wars.
He bounded up my porch (门廊) steps and said, “I’m walking home from the store when this little blue car speeds around the corner. I have to sidestep it to avoid getting run over. Then I see it in his backseat.” Billy Dean’s eyes widened. “My jaw dropped, and yours would too, Mr. Peterson, if you saw it. A two-headed cow! Two heads right next to each other, sticking out the window as big as you please.”
Some folks here thought Billy Dean was God’s weirdest (奇怪的) creation. Billy Dean was seven when he insisted he didn’t take his little sister’s candy. He claimed a chocolate-loving ninja (忍者) did it. When his dad pointed out the chocolate on his mouth, the kid’s eyes got wider. Then he turned on the tears, crying, “I was really scared, Daddy. Why’d that ninja smash the chocolate bar on my face?”
Last year, my wife Ellie overheard Billy Dean telling his friends his real dad is a spy who needs to stay hidden. Ellie was upset, but later she felt sorry for him. With five older brothers and two younger sisters, there’s not enough attention to go around.
Now he paced in front of me, talking about calling news reporters to check it out, thinking the newspaper would pay big for such a weird story. I took a sip of my tea and said, “A two-headed cow in the backseat of a little blue car, huh? Well, I’ll hand it to you, boy; at least you’re original.”
“Oh, no!” Billy Dean said, “How come nobody believes me anymore?”
“Well, Son, if you’re going to make up stories, you should make them more believable...”
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Right then a little blue car sped around the corner—its backseat filled with the craziest two-headed cow I’ve ever seen.
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I sat there, thinking about the lesson I’d learned right on my porch.
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1. 介绍中餐的特点；
2. 如何选择健康的中餐。
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1.展览时间、地点；
2.展览主题：中国书画；
3.你的感悟。
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An exhibition of Chinese paintings and calligraphy
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1. 自我介绍（包括自己的联系方式等）；
2. 公寓情况（适合合租的配套设施等）；
3. 对室友的要求（性别、年龄、性格和爱好等）；
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1. 你的专业选择；
2. 你的职业规划；
3. 你的理由。
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10 . Self-esteem is the ruling view you have of yourself. This includes your beliefs about your inner qualities and how you think others see you.
People with healthy self-esteem don't need to boast about themselves to others. People with low self-esteem may tell you how much everyone loves them, what a great job they do at work, and how amazing they are at pretty everything under the sun even though they really wonder if it's true. People may see them as obnoxious or “full of themselves”.
If you're starting to think you may have low self-esteem, you can work on the way you talk to yourself. When you turn off negative self-talk, you can open the floor to positive reinforcements and access the courage to show different sides of yourself. It isn't going to feel good at first, though. Keep going until it becomes less and less and maybe even a few awkward laughs in the mirror may help.
However, in serious cases of low or even non-existent self-esteem, you may want to call in a professional or a specialist. Good mental health is important, and professionals doing psychotherapy do not pass judgement or give corrections.
| A．Self-esteem is not always rooted in reality, though. |
| B．You have the power to shape a new self-perception. |
| C．This encourages you to speak openly without worry. |
| D．The real test of character is whether they can learn from their mistakes. |
| E．Self-esteem refers to a person's overall sense of his or her value or worth. |
| F．People with a healthy level of self-esteem present themselves with a casual confidence. |
| G．With some practice and persistence, you will win this internal struggle to see your self-worth. |
