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2. The car is still under
3. Teachers should ask questions that
4. Through repeated failures one learns to keep trying to achieve worthy goals and to
5. His reminder of her failure left a
6. Reality is more
7. My mind went completely
8. Students should understand
9. Most people need to read something more than once to
10. The following morning she awoke
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2. Her speech made a profound
3. It’s exciting to discover
4. He considered such jobs
5. Jessica gave us a
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2. Follow these simple
3. As a
4. Police are investigating the
5. Even though he looks like a gentleman, he is often
6. The house was
7. A teacher can’t give
8. The first group, the Romans, came in the first century. Some of their great
| A. abusive B. bounds C. descriptions D. dramatic E. emerges F. essentially G. fantastic H. promises I. settings J. trust K. unusually |
Are You Scared of AI?
A recent Monmouth University survey has found that only 9 percent of Americans believe that computers with artificial intelligence will do more good than harm to society. When the same survey was conducted 35 years ago, about one in five said AI would benefit mankind. In other words, people have less complete
“It’s
When asked questions about
The term “AI” is a catch-all for everything. It can be the constant use of technology, such as our daily preference to autocomplete in web search queries (关键词). It can also be the software that
Actually, the fear of AI
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2. We all
3. My brother broke the window, but I got the
4. Do you know how to
5. Is there a
6. The unemployment rate of the country
7. A new colour scheme will
8. Andy
9. The accused man had a lawyer to
10. Her late husband was an
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2. The tennis player
3. Because play implies a capacity to experience emotions, documenting it in insects could have
4. These are some old photos I found while I was looking through some things at Gran’s
5. People who have collections, such as stamps or model cars,
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2. Lighting accounts for about 7% of the total electricity
3. Don’t lie to her. She is
4. Speaking of his secret of success, he
5. Remember, even world champion athletes practice their skills on a
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7. The president is
8. Those security guards hope to prevent anything
9. Are there any matters
10. Taylor was excited and full of
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There’s been a warning about the immediate death of literate civilization for a long time. In the 20th century, first it was the movies, then radio, then television that seemed to bring disaster for the written world. None did. Reading
The fact that we often get our reading material online today is not something we should worry about. The electronic and digital revolution of the last two decades has
As technology makes new ways of writing possible, new ways of reading are now
On the other hand, there is the danger of underestimating. One Twitter group is offering its followers single-sentence-long “
In such a fast-changing world, in which reality seems to be
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2. The lab projects deal with everything from clothing to medical devices to increase the
3. Space tourism was
4. This building sends an important message that this is a place where everyone is welcome and
5. Scientists scanned the brains of a group of students as they watched short videos and found that those who were friends showed
6. Don’t forget that a family throws away 50 Euros worth of food every month, so that he offers a number of tips on how to deal with
7. Mammoths died out about 3,700 years ago but their bodies are sometimes
8. Even after that initial step, creative thinking is continually necessary to
9. Avoiding processed foods can be hard, especially for people with
10. Other countries are now following the US’ lead. In Japan, some Japanese politicians
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Feeling the Dance
Lights move in time to the rhythmic beat issuing from a floor speaker as hip-hop performer Shaheem Sanchez gets ready. Sanchez, who is deaf,
Sanchez is one of a growing number of professional dancers with full or
Antoine Hunter is another artist who is inspiring a new generation of dancers to take the
But there were few opportunities for a black deaf dancer when Hunter was first finding his feet. He had to create a world in which he could perform. Now he’s sharing it with others, both in his studio and through the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival. The event
To get more people moving, Hunter ensures that his dance company is fully
All around the world, deaf dancers are turning in
