1.交际能力的重要性;
2.提高交际能力的方法。
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In the 26-year-old Ge Zhichen’s livestream on Douyin, an audience of thousands tunes in to learn about Suzhou Pingtan. Originating in the Ming and early Qing dynasties, Suzhou Pingtan is a traditional music art form
Although Ge was born in a family dedicated to Pingtan for decades, he first never considered becoming an inheritor. He recalled, “I had always wanted to be an actor. When I was 16, my father used a white lie to ‘trick’ me into attending a Pingtan school,
Ge said that Pingtan faces
This approach has worked, Compared to offline perforamces that only receive around 100 people, Ge’s livestreams have seen up to 20,000
3 . As a child, I used to visit my grandfather’s shirt shop in Milan. It wasn’t until I was older that I realized how
I remember the shop being filled with
Our afternoon play was to choose the fabric and the tie that would
As I grew older, I began to appreciate the value of the matching game, and I found myself
Now, as I walk through the streets or
Looking back on those
He will always be a(n)
A.troubled | B.cozy | C.popular | D.comfortable |
A.papers | B.fabrics | C.instruments | D.machines |
A.previously | B.casually | C.carelessly | D.freshly |
A.waste | B.result | C.sense | D.limitation |
A.fight against | B.go with | C.cope with | D.draw on |
A.taste | B.touch | C.sound | D.smell |
A.drawn | B.deserted | C.forced | D.urged |
A.education | B.advertisement | C.entertainment | D.design |
A.surf | B.establish | C.purchase | D.decorate |
A.impressed | B.left | C.impacted | D.attracted |
A.mornings | B.decades | C.afternoons | D.seconds |
A.sportsmanship | B.craftsmanship | C.membership | D.friendship |
A.grateful | B.responsible | C.eager | D.prepared |
A.performer | B.cheat | C.inventor | D.inspiration |
A.lose | B.search | C.cherish | D.decline |
4 . Not only does the weekend give you a chance to kick back and relax, it’s also likely going to be packed with activities that improve your wellbeing.
There’s nothing quite like a little escape from the school-and research shows your health is a lot better for it. Not only do weekends make you happier, research shows they also help you accomplish more once you’re back at your desk.
Spending time in the sun can improve your wellbeing
Soak up a little vitamin D—it’s good for your soul. Studies suggest the sunlight can boost happiness.
Being by the ocean can make your mind in peace
If you’re lucky enough to hang on the water this weekend,
Seeing family has psychological benefits
There’s no better time to hang with the people you care about most than a nice weekend. Research shows hanging with family can help beat stress. Pack a bag and head to see your family or just spend a little extra time with your friends.
Making food for a picnic could give you a boost
Psychologists say there are benefits to baking for other people, from mindfulness to a sense of altruism. Caring about others has its own added wellbeing benefits.
A.It can also help lower your blood pressure |
B.You’ll end the weekend feeling a lot more relaxed |
C.Relaxing on the weekend will bring more freedom |
D.you’ll acquire some benefits from those waves |
E.you’ll feel the strong desire to dive into it instantly |
F.Taking the break from study will boost your productivity |
G.So not only are you having fun, you’re boosting your health in the process |
5 . Facial recognition technology is mostly associated with uses such as the authentication of human faces, but scientists believe they’ve found a new use for it—saving seals.
Researchers have developed SealNet. The system is a database of seal faces created by taking pictures of many harbor seals in Maine’s Casco Bay. The research team found the tool’s accuracy in identifying the mammals was close to 100 percent.
The researchers are working on increasing the size of their database to make it available to other scientists. Increasing the database to include rare species could help efforts to save them. The Mediterranean monk seal is thought to be the world’s most at-risk seal with only a few hundred animals remaining.
Creating a list of seal faces and using machine learning to identify them can also help scientists know where in the ocean seals are. Marine mammals move around a lot and are hard to photograph in the water. Scıentists need to be able to identify individuals.
SealNet is designed to identify the face in a picture. It recognizes the seal’s face based on information related to the eyes and nose shape, as it would a human. A similar tool called PrimNet, which is for use on primates, had been used on seals earlier, but SealNet performed better.
Seals and other ocean mammals have long been studied using satellite technology. Using artificial intelligence to study them is a way to bring conservation into the 21st century. Facial recognition technology could provide valuable data.
“Once the system is perfected I can picture lots of interesting environmental uses for it,” said Michelle Berger, a scientist. “If they could recognize seals, and recognize them from year to year, that would give us lots of information about movement, how much they move from site to site.” He added that harbor seals give important information about the environment around them.
1. What can we learn about SealNet from the passage?A.It increases the size of the database. |
B.It identifies the mammals accurately. |
C.It performs more poorly than PrimNet. |
D.It includes rare species movement. |
A.It identines which seal is at risk in the ocean. |
B.It recognizes the shape of a seal in a picture. |
C.It helps scientists know the location of the seals. |
D.It gives information about the animals around seals. |
A.It can provide information of the surroundings. |
B.It can recognize the seals for a year. |
C.It can increase the number of seals. |
D.It can provide information about migration. |
A.To present a high-tech method to protect seals |
B.To introduce the species of seals |
C.To explain why seals are in danger |
D.To propose new methods to recognize seals |
6 . Here is the list of people with disabilities, who are living life to the fullest!
Frida Kahlo
During her childhood, Frida Kahlo suffered from polio(小儿麻痹症). When she became a young lady, she was also involved in an accident that worsened her problems. Throughout her entire life, she was facing serious physical issues and was in bed because of severe pain. However, she didn’t let that defeat her, and she became one of the famous artists of the 20th century.
John Nash
John Nash had mental disease. He mixed the line between what is real and what isn’t. His life story was given light due to the movie A Beautiful Mind. John Nash was aware of his illness but fought against it, not letting it tear him, and developed a successful academic career. He won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.
Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli was partially blind but that didn’t stop him from taking piano lessons until he was 6 years old. Unfortunately, when he was 12 years old, he suffered a blow during a football game that completely blinded him. His blindness didn’t stop him from pursuing and focusing on singing.
Bethany Hamilton
Bethany Hamilton, at the age of 13, was a rising star surfer. However, after an attack with a 14-foot tiger shark, she, unfortunately, lost her left arm. One month after the attack, she was back on the seas and surfing to her dreams once again. After 2 years, she won her first national surfing title. She is still an active surf competitor to this day.
1. Whose story was adapted for film?A.John Nash’s | B.Frida Kahlo’s. |
C.Andrea Bocelli’s. | D.Bethany Hamilton’s. |
A.He was fond of music. |
B.He was totally blind at 6. |
C.He was once a famous football player. |
D.He had to stay in bed because of his illness. |
A.They were good at sports. |
B.They were born with disabilities. |
C.They met with a serious accident. |
D.They won some kind of national prizes. |
7 . The idea that we can have it all and do it all is not new. This myth has been spread for so long, I believe virtually everyone alive today is infected with it. It is sold in advertising. It is included in university applications that require dozens of extracurricular activities.
What is new is how especially damaging this myth is today, in a time when choice and expectations have increased exponentially (以指数方式). It results in stressed people trying to stuff more activities into their already over-scheduled lives.
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be able to have multiple “first” things. People routinely try to do just that. This gave the impression of many things being the priority but actually meant nothing was.
When we don’t purposefully and deliberately choose where to focus our energies and time, other people will choose for us, and before long we’ll have lost sight of everything that is meaningful and important.
Once an Australian nurse named Bronnie Ware, who cared for people in the last twelve weeks of their lives, recorded their most often discussed regrets. At the top of the list: “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.” Instead of reacting to the social pressure s pulling you to go in a million directions, you will learn a way to focus on what is absolutely essential by getting rid of everything else completely.
1. What does Paragraph 1 mainly talk about?A.The misconception that people can achieve unlimited goals. |
B.The tolerance for imperfection in all aspects of life. |
C.The decline in individuals’ ability to make decisions. |
D.The lack of motivation to pursue personal goals. |
A.It provides individuals with more choices. |
B.It cultivates a culture of over-consumption. |
C.It leads to over-scheduling due to social stress. |
D.It lowers individuals’ expectations towards life. |
A.Make the best of their talents. |
B.Listen to their inner voices. |
C.Tell the truth instead of lies. |
D.Extend helping hands to others. |
A.Entertainment. | B.Fashion. | C.Humanity. | D.Anecdote. |
8 . I ask every student I interview for admission to my institution, Pitzer College, the same question, “What do you look forward to the most in college?” I was stunned and delighted recently when a student sat across from me and replied, “I look forward to the possibility of failure.” Of course, this is not how most students respond to the question when sitting before the person who can make decisions about their academic futures, but this young man took a risk. “You see, my parents have never let me fail,” he said. “When I want to take a chance at something, they remind me it’s not a safe route to take. Taking a more rigorous course or trying an activity I may not succeed in, they tell me, will ruin my chances at college admission. Even the sacrifice of staying up late to do something unrelated to school, they see it as a risk to my academic work and college success.”
Kids all over the world admit they are under tremendous pressure to be perfect. So students are usually in shock when I chuckle and tell them I never expect perfection. How could a dean of admission at one of America’s most selective institutions not want the best and the brightest? The reality is (that) perfection doesn’t exist.
I’ve spent enough time in high schools to know teenagers will never be perfect. They do silly things, mess up, fall down, and lack confidence. The ability to bounce back is a fundamental life skill students have to learn on their own. The lessons of failure can’t be taught in a classroom; they are experienced and reflected upon. During my weekend of interviews, another student told me, “I’m ashamed to admit I failed precalculus, but I decided to take it again and got a B-plus. I’m now taking calculus, and even though I don’t love it, I’m glad I pushed through!” I asked him what he learned from the experience. “I learned to let go of shame,” he said. “I realized that I can’t let a grade define my success. I also learned that if you want anything bad enough, you can achieve it.”
I smiled as I wrote his words down on the application-review form. This kid will thrive on my campus. Not only will the faculty love him, but he has the coping skills he needs to adjust to the rigors of life in a residential college setting. Failure is about growth, learning, overcoming, and moving on. Let’s allow young people to fail. Not only will they learn something, it might even get them into college.
1. What does the underlined word “rigorous” in the first paragraph mean?A.fun | B.lively | C.strict | D.special |
A.Teachers can help students to admit failure. |
B.Parents define their children’s success by grades. |
C.Teenagers get lessons of failure through experiences. |
D.Young people spend enough time letting go of shame. |
A.Because the college teachers would love the student for his perfection. |
B.Because he succeeded in persuading the student into the college. |
C.Because the student realized his dream of being a perfect person. |
D.Because he thought the student would have a promising future. |
A.Learn to Fail | B.Live to Learn |
C.Try to Succeed | D.Decide to Experience |
Sports Day was getting close in the school. All the children were very excited and were practicing for the big race. John, one of the fast runners of the school, was confident that he would win for he was not doing anything at all. “You have to work hard to come first in the race John. You are not practicing at all,” said John’s mother.
“Mom, you know how fast I am! Why should I waste my time running? Only I will win; no one else will win!”said John. “John, you may be right but talent (天赋) without hard work is not good at all. This laziness of yours will cost you greatly,” his mother warned him. John just laughed. He was so confident that he would win the trophy (奖杯) as no one else in his class was as fast as he was!.
Tim, a classmate of John, was also participating (参加) in the running race. He was not a fast runner. However, he practiced till late at night and had developed great endurance (持久力) to run the race.
There were a few days left for the Sports Day but John did not practice at all. On the other hand, Tim practiced day and night.
The Sports Day was almost around the corner but John was confident that no one could beat him and had not practiced at all. But Tim with his hard work had become a very great runner.
At last, the Sports Day arrived. All the students showed up on the ground to cheer their favorites. The coach blew the whistle (口哨) and everyone began to run toward the finishing line. It was so exciting. John and Tim left all the racers far behind. Both of them were neck to neck.
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Suddenly, John went ahead of Tim.
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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________10 . Developed by US company OpenAI, ChatGPT has got viral, winning 100 million internet users since it came out in November 2022. People can ask the robot to write stories and emails, create instructions for cooking a certain food, translate languages, and answer all kinds of questions. In its own words, it is “a language model trained in a large amount of internet text to help users get human-like text. ”
Compared with Siri or other chatbots, ChatGPT uses a much bigger information center for training. It also uses stronger software and hardware to learn things by itself. For example, if it provides a wrong answer to your question, you can tell it the right one and it will correct itself. “It’s a totally different chatbot,” computer scientist Liu Xiaoguang from Nankai University said. “The knowledge level ChatGPT shows is the same as a university student. That’s why it shocked the world.”
But one big problem with ChatGPT is that it makes mistakes or even gives false information. When Rezza, a 28-year-old from Indonesia, used the robot to write an passage, it “gave out many examples which other writers actually hadn’t mentioned at all”, he told a local newspaper. Since the robot is trained using words from the internet, it can also pick up biases(偏见) about certain groups. These are all things that need to be dealt with.
1. What does the underlined part mean in Paragraph 1?A.Done harm to the internet. | B.Brought strong wind and heavy rain. |
C.Become popular overnight. | D.Caused serious changes of the weather. |
A.It can find mistakes by itself. |
B.It works differently from other chatbots. |
C.Its information center is easier to control than Siri’s. |
D.Its knowledge level is as high as a university student. |
A.ChatGPT needs improvement. | B.Anybody may give false information. |
C.Anybody can make mistakes. | D.ChatGPT can’t get on well with humans. |
A.ChatGPT is Coming! | B.ChatGPT is Catching the World’s Eyes! |
C.Can ChatGPT Take the Place of Humans? | D.Can ChatGPT Avoid Biases Properly? |