1 . OpenAI has announced a major upgrade to support ChatGPT, the seemingly magical online tool that professionals have been using to draft emails, write blog posts and more. It opens a new era of hyper-efficiency, where professionals will have to work smarter and faster — or risk being left behind.
Powerful AI like ChatGPT isn’t going to replace professional workers, as many have instinctively feared. But they will put them under greater pressure to be more productive and faster at what they do. Prior to translation tools like Google Translate and DeepL, a professional would translate between 1,000 and 2,000 words per day. Now, professionals are expected to manage 7, 000 words, according to Nuria Llanderas, a professional interpreter with over 20 years of experience. Peers predict more AI systems will support simultaneous translation, potentially leading to more work for human translators in practice, checking that the machine’s output isn’t wrong.
The rise of technology also raises the bar on human performance. Llanderas adds that with the extra help, there are no excuses for leaving anything out. Much of this is typical of the march of technology, where smartphones and tools like Slack allow us to be connected and communicate more effectively. However, these tools have also chained us to work, leaving less time for contemplation, strategic thinking, or simply taking a break.
The powerful AI clearly has the potential to squeeze more value out of human workers, but it may well come at the cost of our mental energy. However brilliant these models become, watch out for how they might take you a tiny step closer to burnout.
1. Which of the following is TRUE about AI-related tools?| A．They are able to complete tasks without making errors. |
| B．They’re likely to assist human workers in increasing outputs. |
| C．They contribute to fostering positive relationship between colleagues. |
| D．They can relieve human workers of pressure from demanding employers. |
| A．get higher salary | B．suffer mental exhaustion |
| C．enjoy more leisure time | D．cultivate strategic thinking |
| A．Supportive. | B．Tolerant. | C．Concerned. | D．Indifferent. |
| A．AI like ChatGPT provides more freedom for human workers. |
| B．The improvement in efficiency is largely attributed to AI like ChatGPT. |
| C．The development of AI like ChatGPT poses negative impacts on humans. |
| D．The disadvantages of AI like ChatGPT outweigh its advantages in the workplace. |
2 . Have your ever imagined a robot doing homework for you? This has become a reality due to the coming of ChatGPT. But teachers at UK universities have been asked to rethink about the way to assess (评价) their courses because students are already using a powerful new AI tool capable of producing high-quality essays (论文).
ChatGPT, the latest chat robot, has only been publicly available for weeks, but has already caused concerns about the possibility of academic (学术的) dishonesty and questions about the acceptability of the essay as a future form of assessment. Working groups have been set up in university departments to meet this challenge.
Experts admit feeling both excited and alarmed. Dr Thomas Lancaster, a computer scientist working at Imperial College London, best known for his research into academic honesty, said ChatGPT was in many ways a game changer. He explains, “It’s certainly a major turning point in education where universities have to make big changes. They have to adapt sooner rather than later.”
There are signs of Australian universities to have a return to greater use of in-person exams to try to protect the fairness of assessment. Lancaster said, however, a total return to exams was not the answer, suggesting instead the use of giving a formal talk to enable students to show their understanding of a subject.
Michael Webb, director of technology and analytics at Jisc, which provides network and IT services to higher education, agreed. He said, “The immediate reaction might be to avoid these tools in order to stop students cheating, but that’s not advisable. We should not simply regard them as spelling or grammar checkers, but technology that can make everyone’s life easier.”
“We don’t need to go back to in-person exams: This is a great opportunity for the schools to explore new assessment methods that measure learners on critical thinking, problem-solving and reasoning skills rather than essay-writing abilities.”
1. Why do the UK teachers have to rethink about the way of assessment?| A．Because their students fail in producing quality essays. |
| B．Because ChatGPT doesn’t do well in academic assessment. |
| C．Because essays will not be accepted as a future form of assessment. |
| D．Because ChatGPT increases the possibility of academic dishonesty. |
| A．Changing the way ChatGPT works. |
| B．Testing students with spoken reports. |
| C．Doing research on academic honesty. |
| D．Returning to previous in-person exams. |
| A．He is concerned about the way students use ChatGPT. |
| B．He advises students not to use ChatGPT in writing essays. |
| C．He is impressed with ChatGPT’s grammar checking function. |
| D．He expects schools to explore better ways to assess students fully. |
| A．A big advance in AI technology. |
| B．A problem facing college educators. |
| C．A challenge to academic assessment from ChatGPT. |
| D．ChatGPT as an effective tool for academic assessment. |
3 . On September 26, 2022, NASA successfully completed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission by intentionally crashing an unmanned spacecraft into the asteroid (小行星) Dimorphos. The goal was not to destroy the asteroid but to change its orbit. With the successful mission, NASA proved the concept that this technique could keep a potentially dangerous asteroid from crashing into Earth in the future.
Dimorphos is a small asteroid orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos. NASA noted that Dimorphos is not a threat to Earth, but because it passes relatively close to Earth, it was chosen as the target for the test mission.
Although the intended crash should change the asteroid’s position slightly, it will add to a major shift over time. “If you were going to do this for planetary (行星的) defense, you would do it 5, 10, 15, or 20 years in advance for this technique to work,” said NASA program executive Andrea Riley. “This is why we test. We want to do it now rather than when there’s an actual need.”
Asteroids can pose a significant threat to planet Earth. For example, around 66 million years ago, an asteroid around 6 to 9 miles across struck the Earth in what is now the Yucatan Peninsula. The resulting impact was so catastrophic (灾难性的) that it caused one of the largest extinction events in Earth’s history. Therefore, DART’s success is an important step forward in protecting the planet from potential damage from an asteroid. This shows humans are no longer powerless to prevent this type of natural disaster.
The DART spacecraft was launched by NASA on November 24, 2021. It was accompanied by another craft called LICIA Cube, supplied by the Italian Space Agency, and separated from DART just 15 days before the crash. LICIA Cube remained in orbit around the asteroid and took photographs of the crash and material ejected (弹出) from the asteroid’s surface.
1. What is the purpose of the DART mission?| A．To destroy Dimorphos completely. | B．To change the orbit of Dimorphos. |
| C．To track potentially dangerous asteroids. | D．To stop Dimorphos from hitting the Earth. |
| A．To prove the significance of DART’s success. |
| B．To present the cause of the largest extinction event in history. |
| C．To show the necessity of conducting research on natural disasters. |
| D．To explain the difficulty of protecting the Earth from asteroid strikes. |
| A．Collecting rock samples from Dimorphos’s surface. |
| B．Increasing the force of crashing the DART. |
| C．Providing additional energy for the DART spacecraft. |
| D．Keeping track of the crash test with some photos. |
| A．Bark up the wrong tree. | B．Rob Peter to pay Paul. |
| C．Prepare for a rainy day. | D．Better late than never. |
4 . Will the AI chatbots eat search engines’ lunch? For more than 20 years, search engines have been the Internet’s front door. Google has dominated the field in most of the world. But nothing lasts forever, particularly in technology.
Just ask IBM, which once ruled business computing, or Nokia, once the leader in mobile phones. Both fell behind because they didn’t follow big technological transitions. Now another tech innovation might announce a similar shift—and a similar opportunity. ChatGPT has put itself on centre stage, by letting people chat with an AI directly. ChatGPT can write essays in various styles, explain complex concepts, summarize texts and answer questions. And it can collect, process and combine knowledge from the web: for example, listing holiday spots that match certain criteria, or suggesting menus or schedules. If asked, it can explain its reasoning and provide details. Many things that people use search engines for today, in short, can be done better with chatbots.
Will ChatGPT help students cheat better? Yes, but as with many other technology developments, it’s not a simple black and white situation. Decades ago, students could copy encyclopedia entries, and more recently, they’ve been able to search the Internet and explore into Wikipedia entries. ChatGPT offers new abilities for everything from helping with research to doing their homework for them. Many ChatGPT answers already sound like student essays. Ask the new artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to write an essay about the cause of the American Civil War and you can watch it produce a persuasive term paper in a matter of seconds.
It can even (narrowly) pass a number of exams. It scored 60% on the United States Medical Licensing Examination, 70% on an exam for lawyers, 78% on New York state’s high school chemistry exam’s multiple choice section, and ranked the 40th on the Law School Admission Test.
A high school teacher concluded ChatGPT already writes better than most students today. He’s torn between admiring ChatGPT’s potential usefulness and fearing its harm to human learning: “Is this moment more like the invention of the calculator, saving me from the boredom of long division, or more like the invention of the player piano, robbing us of what can be communicated only through human emotion?”
1. What is the reason why some tech companies fail to develop?| A．The sharp rising market cost. | B．Their shift to other business fields. |
| C．The negative impact of local economy. | D．Their failure to keep pace with tech changes. |
| A．Play the piano. | B．Write various articles. |
| C．Schedule a holiday trip. | D．Explain complex concepts. |
| A．To explain a rule. | B．To make a prediction. | C．To illustrate a fact. | D．To clarify a concept. |
| A．Objective. | B．Positive. | C．Negative. | D．Ambiguous. |
5 . In the opening scenes of the new film Good Night Oppy, the Opportunity rover (漫游车) rolls along through Perseverance Valley on Mars in June 2018.
But a storm forming on the horizon changed everything. This storm was different. It rapidly grew in size, encircling the planet and blocking out the sun. The solar-powered rover’s last message to mission control translated to this: “My battery is low and it’s getting dark.”
This chapter is just the beginning of the documentary, available to stream on Amazon Prime on November 23, 2022. The film traces the journey of the twin rovers — Opportunity and Spirit — and the people who dedicated their lives to them from concept to that last transmission.
These two rovers built by NASA engineers in the early 2000s were to search for past evidence of water on Mars. Both were launched in 2003 inside Delta rockets and landed in 2004 on opposite sides of the red planet. The dual mission’s first 90 days came and went, and NASA engineers realized the two rovers were ready for more adventure.
Spirit and Opportunity’s findings rewrote the textbooks with new information about Mars and its watery past while they both got into all sorts of trouble in between discoveries, like getting stuck in the sand and nearly rushing down the sides of steep craters (火山口). The bonds between team members and the rovers quickly deepened, despite the vast distance between Earth and Mars, making it more difficult when Spirit’s journey ended in 2011 and Opportunity fell silent in 2018. Spirit and Oppy’s missions have ended, but Mars exploration continues today through next-generation rovers like Curiosity and Perseverance.
The film shines a light on the hope of space exploration and captures the emotional attachment between humans and the robotic ambassadors that explore on our behalf.
1. What caused the death of Opportunity?| A．A slide in the valley. | B．A sand trap. |
| C．A fall in a crater. | D．A huge storm. |
| A．To discover water sources on Mars. | B．To record the data of storms on Mars. |
| C．To map the shape of valleys on Mars. | D．To detect signs of past water on Mars. |
| A．Delta rockets. | B．Spirit and Opportunity. |
| C．NASA engineers. | D．Curiosity and Perseverance. |
| A．To recommend a documentary. | B．To appreciate engineers’ devotion. |
| C．To honor the Opportunity rover. | D．To present NASA’s achievements. |
6 . ChatGPT is a powerful chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. Built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3 family of large language models, it engages in human-like dialogue directed by prompting (提示).
ChatGPT has numerous potential uses. But from a scientific point of view, there is a need to closely watch the development of technologies like ChatGPT before reaching a conclusion about their impacts.
ChatGPT’s performance is being improved.
China has developed its own large-scale language models, such as Huawei’s Pangu NLP models, Baidu’s ERNIE, Tencent’s HUNYUAN NLP models, and Alibaba’s AliceMind.
| A．Technology progresses step by step. |
| B．It is important to view ChatGPT objectively. |
| C．ChatGPT is still a product with very limited application. |
| D．It is designed to respond in a natural, understandable way. |
| E．But these models need to focus more on deeper technologies. |
| F．It has made quite some progress in natural language processing. |
| G．ChatGPT can accurately decide which word comes next in a sentence. |
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8 . Pioneers of the research that led to one of the first COVID-19 vaccines (疫苗) say breakthroughs obtained in their studies could point the way toward developing a potential vaccine against cancer before the end of the decade.
Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, co-founders of BioNTech said technology they had developed could aid the immune (免疫) system respond to cancer cells. The mRNA COVID-19 vaccine stimulates cells to generate spike proteins, which warn the body’s immune system about things to look out for and to attack.
It is hoped that this could be reworked using proteins found in cancer tumor (肿瘤) cells, causing a similar bodily defensive action.
BioNTech was founded in 2008 specifically to work on cancer treatments. “Our focus has always been on achieving the full potential of the body’s immune system to successfully help handle cancer and infectious diseases,” says the company website.
Some of those earlier cancer vaccine developments have reached the clinical trial stage. “As scientists we are always hesitant to say we will have a cure for cancer,” said Tureci. “We have gained a mass of breakthroughs and we will continue to work on them. . . this will definitely quicken also our cancer vaccine.”
Luke O’Neill, professor of biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, said that such a breakthrough would be “the Holy Grail” of cancer research, He added that it enabled the body to recognize a cancer tumor as a foreign element, in the same way it had done with COVID-19, and to respond accordingly, so that the immune system could be “trained” to “hunt down” the abnormal presence.
What made the potential breakthrough even more inspiring, he said, was that any treatment could be personalized to work on an individual cancer patient’s specific circumstances. “You can take someone who’s got cancer, take their own tumor and make an RNA vaccine out of that and improve their own immune system specifically against their own tumor. That’s a really awesome thing to see,” he added.
1. What has been BioNTech’s mission since its establishment?| A．To develop the COVID-19 vaccine. | B．To understand the immune system. |
| C．To explore treatments for cancer. | D．To detect the tumour cells. |
| A．Cautious and committed. | B．Gifted and ambitious. |
| C．Passionate and critical. | D．Brave and competitive. |
| A．He developed an effective COVID-19 vaccine. |
| B．He held a positive attitude to BioNTech’s study. |
| C．He contributed significantly to BioNTech’s research. |
| D．He trained the immune system to hunt the abnormal presence. |
| A．BioNTech suceeds in developing cancer vaccines. |
| B．COVID-19 research brings hope for cancer treatment. |
| C．COVID-19 vaccines help bodies respond to cancer cells. |
| D．BioNTech makes breakthroughs in COVID-19 vaccines. |
9 . ChatGPT, designed by OpenAI to carry on conversations just like humans, has become a viral excitement. The AI-powered tool went from zero to a million users in just five days! Its ability to provide in-depth answers to user questions has even drawn the attention of distinguished technology companies.
The intelligent robot understands what the user says or types and then answers in a way that makes sense. Its vast body of knowledge has been gathered from the internet and archived (归档) books. It is further trained by humans. “We have a lot of information on the internet, but you normally have to Google it, then read it and then do something with it,” says Ricardo, chief science officer and co-founder of AI company Erudit. “Now you’ll have this resource that can process (处理，加工) the whole internet and all of the information it contains for you to answer your question.” This makes ChatGPT a useful tool for researching almost any topic.
ChatGPT cannot think on its own. It depends on the information that it has been trained on. As a result, the Al tool works well for things that have accurate data available. However, when unsure, ChatGPT can get creative and flow out incorrect responses. OpenAI cautions (提醒) users to check the information no matter how logical it sounds. Also, ChatGPT has only been trained with information till 2021. Hence, it cannot be relied upon for anything that happened after that.
Experts believe ChatGPT has limitless potential to solve real-world problems. It can translate long texts into different languages, create content on almost any topic, and even summarize books.
However, ChatGPT has received mixed reactions from educators. Some believe it could serve as a valuable tool to help build literacy skills in the classroom. It could also be used to teach students difficult science or math concepts. But other educators think ChatGPT will encourage students to cheat. They fear this will prevent them from building critical thinking and problem-solving skills. As a result, many districts are starting to ban its use in schools.
1. What is the unique feature of ChatGPT?| A．It has artificial intelligence. |
| B．It can answer users’ questions. |
| C．It has the largest number of users. |
| D．It can make meaningful conversations. |
| A．Its capability of information processing. |
| B．Its accurate information. |
| C．Its availability of up-to-date data. |
| D．Its vast body of questions. |
| A．ChatGPT is unable to think itself. |
| B．ChatGPT lacks creativity. |
| C．ChatGPT offers illogical information. |
| D．ChatGPT is not properly trained. |
| A．Supportive. | B．Disapproving. | C．Objective. | D．Doubtful. |
10 . Everything from essays to exams is threatened by advanced artificial intelligence like ChatGPT, which can produce clear answers to complex questions. Educators are particularly concerned about students turning to AI tools like ChatGPT with their homework. One suggested solution is to make students write exam essays using pen and paper.
To stay competitive through their careers, students need to learn how to use AI writing tools properly to gain output.
In addition to the sound reasons for treating ChatGPT as an opportunity and not a threat, there are practical ones. It simply isn’t possible to effectively ban this technology. Many students can’t help using AI assistance while writing.
Writing is a skill worthy of great respect. But most students don’t have the desire to become professional writers. Instead, they are preparing for careers where they will write to further goals beyond the production of writing. As we do today, they will write to communicate, explain, request and persuade.
| A．The ban of ChatGPT would also produce the injustice. |
| B．There is argument that the use of ChatGPT is good for education. |
| C．AI writing tools, when properly used, will help them do those things better. |
| D．Learning to write without AI does indeed promote focused, disciplined thinking. |
| E．But that’s wrong to ban students from using labor-saving and time-saving AI writing tools. |
| F．Besides, the AI writing tools will always be one step ahead of the tools to discover AI text. |
| G．They need to learn to compose well-organized essays using AI-produced text and traditional writing. |
