1 . In January 2020, I left for a mission, along with a 75-person crew. I had got to know everyone quite well, which made me feel confident that everything would run smoothly. The main goal of the mission was to voyage through the water, identifying boats and aircraft with our sensors while remaining undetected. We were the eyes and ears of the French navy, 300 metres under the ocean.
Being in a submarine (潜水艇) is a bit like being in a spaceship. Letters from family were allowed to keep crew members motivated, but for safety and caution, all communication from the crew’s families was seen first by navy staff who removed any content that could cause panic on board.
In February 2020, as Covid-19 started to emerge in Europe, the navy began to block all Covid-19-related news in our life. Throughout March and April, we had no idea that Covid-19 was even a thing, let alone that France was under strict lockdown.
The day finally came when we were set to come back. The radio channels on the submarine announced the news: “There is a deadly virus, and the country is locked down.” Actually, the information didn’t make any sense to me at that time. “Lockdown” was a new word to me. I didn’t know what to expect.
When I got out of the submarine. I got my phone back and received weeks’ worth of panicked messages. I took a train back to Paris, where my family lives, and was completely lost. People had masks and gloves on. I put over my mouth a fireproof mask that had been given to me by the navy. I just thought, everyone is hiding their mouths, so I’ll do it, too, even though I didn’t know why.
1. What can we know about the mission?A.It lasted for 3 months. | B.75 persons participated in it. |
C.It served for the French navy. | D.Its main task was to explore the ocean. |
A.His grandfather passed away. | B.His mother came across an accident. |
C.His girlfriend would break up with him. | D.His son was elected captain of the soccer team. |
A.Cellphone access. | B.Submarine sensors. |
C.Calls from families. | D.Radio channels broadcast. |
A.Confused. | B.Relaxed. | C.Excited. | D.Panicked. |
2 . A March 2023 report from Goldman Sachs estimated that AI could do a quarter of all the work currently done by humans.
The second category is jobs that require complicated interpersonal relationships like nurses, business consultants and investigative journalists. These are jobs where you need a very deep understanding of people.
The third safe zone are jobs that really require lots of mobility and problem-solving ability in unpredictable environments. Electricians, plumbers, and the like all fall under this umbrella, where you’re dealing with a new situation all the time. They are probably the hardest of anything to automate.
It’s important to note that an advanced education is not a defence against AI takeover. In many cases, more educated workers are going to be more threatened than then even the least educated workers.
In short, seeking roles in dynamic, shifting environments that include unpredictable tasks is good way to avoid job loss to AI.
A.And that could be terrible. |
B.Thankfully, it’s not all bad news. |
C.The robots really are coming for some jobs. |
D.The first would be jobs that are genuinely creative. |
E.Think of the person that works cleaning hotel rooms. |
F.That doesn’t necessarily mean all jobs that are considered ”creative” are safe. |
G.It’ll be a long time before AI has the ability to really build relationships and interact. |
1. What aroused people’s awareness of protection at first?
A.The movie Contagion. |
B.The influence of the movie stars. |
C.The spread of a new virus in the world. |
A.In 2009. | B.In 2011. | C.In 2019. |
A.They told people protection tips through videos. |
B.They made videos to introduce a movie. |
C.They are preparing for a new movie about the virus. |
4 . There’s a new AI bot: ChatGPT, and you’d better pay attention, even if you aren’t into artificial intelligence. The tool is an AI chatbot system that OpenAI released in November 2022 to show off and test what a very large, powerful AI system can achieve.
ChatGPT remembers the thread of your dialogue, using previous questions and answers to inform its next responses. It derives its answers from huge volumes of information on the Internet. ChatGPT is built on top of the OpenAI GPT-3 family of large language models and is fine-tuned (a method of transfer learning) using both supervised and reinforcement learning (监督和强化学习).
You can ask ChatGPT anything, like explaining physics, asking for birthday party ideas and getting programming (编程) help. Perhaps it’s not smart enough to replace all humans yet, but it can be creative, and its answers can sound downright authoritative. A few days after its launch, more than 1 million people were trying out ChatGPT. UBS analyst Lloyd Walmsley estimated in February 2023 that ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly users in January, accomplishing in 2 months what took TikTok about 9 months and Instagram two and a half years.
ChatGPT is free to use at the moment because it is still in its research phase. But when too many people hop onto the server (服务器), it overloads and can’t process your request. It just means you should try visiting the site at a later time when fewer people are trying to access it. If you want to skip the wait and have reliable access, there is an option for you. As of Feb. 1, 2023, OpenAI has a ChatGPT pro plan, ChatGPT Plus, which allows users to have general access even during peak times. This service does come at a cost of $20/month.
However, ChatGPT can not replace Google. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence bot that provides solutions to your questions, but Google is a search engine in which you can search for as much information as possible. ChatGPT has limited knowledge due to its programming but Google has unlimited knowledge which is updated every day.
1. What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about ChatGPT?A.Its language model. | B.Its working theory. |
C.Its design inspiration. | D.Its development process. |
A.To show the popularity of ChatGPT. |
B.To stress the high cost of inventing ChatGPT. |
C.To present the creativity of artificial intelligence. |
D.To prove the necessity of developing tools for chatting online. |
A.Guiding users to experience free services. |
B.Allowing net surfers to skip advertisements. |
C.Helping researchers detect the failure of the system. |
D.Offering consumers priority access during peak hours. |
A.It operates based on limited data. |
B.It takes more time to search for solutions. |
C.It can only update information at a fixed time. |
D.It may provide replies unrelated to the questions. |
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7 . Dressed as a roaring tiger, Frenchwoman Lucile Lefevre stole the show at snowboarding Big Air’s qualifying round on Monday as she celebrated the Year of the Tiger in her career finale at Beijing 2022. Lefevre attracted the crowd’s attention in her second run when dressed in an orange-and-black tiger suit, despite choosing a straightforward jump with no tricks due to a knee injury which she suffered during the slopestyle competition on Feb 5.
Having decided to retire from the sport after Beijing 2022, the 26-year-old crowd pleaser made her final run on the Olympic stage one to remember-not just for herself but anyone watching the Games, which are taking place in the lunar calendar’s Year of the Tiger.
“It is my very last competition. I hurt my knee in the slopestyle, so I was not able to do tricks today. I decided to do the competition, but just do it straighter. It’s more fun like this. It’s for tiger new year, so everyone wants a picture with me. It was super fun,” Lefevre said after her three qualification runs.
“I feel good about it, because the world should be fun. There are a lot of problems in the world. If everyone was peace and easy, the world would be nicer for sure. That’s the message I want to share.”
Lefevre was diagnosed with osteochondrosis, a rare illness that stunts bone growth, at 3 years old. She had three operations, and doctors told her sports were off the table.
“But then I went snowboarding and made progress. And I’m here (at the Winter Olympics) for the second time,” she said.
1. Why was Lucile Lefevre dressed as a tiger?A.She was crazy about tiger suits. |
B.She was eager to show off her tricks. |
C.She wanted to celebrate the Year of the Tiger. |
D.Her knee injury influenced her performance. |
A.She hurt her knees when taking pictures. |
B.She reminded us to keep positive in life. |
C.She suffered from a rare disease as a child. |
D.She was not able to perform tricks anymore. |
A.Optimistic and determined. | B.Caring and warm-hearted. |
C.Talented and ambitious. | D.Considerate and generous. |
A.Wearing tiger suits is becoming popular among athletes in 2022. |
B.Excellent skills and positive attitude led a French athlete to success. |
C.An injured French athlete competed in the Big Air’s qualifying round. |
D.A French athlete stole the show at the Winter Games with her tiger suit. |
1. 合理饮食;2. 加强锻炼;3.保持好心态。
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Dear Jack,
I’m so glad to hear from you! In your letter, you asked me how to keep healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Yours,
Li Hua
The Shanghai government said that large crowds started to stampede in Chen Yi Square on the Bund just before midnight, with authorities working to rescue and aid the wounded.
It was not immediately clear what triggered the stampede. The official Xinhua news agency said many of the injured were students.
The government said on its official microblog(微博) that an inquiry had begun, with city leaders rushing to the scene and to hospitals to visit the injured. An emergency meeting would be held to ensure stepped-up safety measures were taken throughout the city.
Photographs on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, showed densely packed crowds of revelers(狂欢者)along the Bund, which is lined with buildings from Shanghai's pre-communist period on the bank of the Huangpu River.
In some photographs, rescue workers were seen trying to resuscitate victims lying on the pavement while ambulances waited nearby.
Authorities had shown some concern about crowd control in the days leading up to New Year's Eve. They recently canceled an annual 3D laser show on the Bund that last year attracted as many as 300,000 people.
At dawn on Thursday, there were still small crowds of revelers trying to find taxis home and workers were clearing up trash strewn around the Bund. There was little sign of the mayhem that had broken out just hours earlier.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Pete Sweeney; Editing by Howard Goller and Mark Bendeich)
1. What is the passage mainly about?
A.An accident that killed some people. |
B.A new-year celebration. |
C.A popular tourist attraction in Shanghai. |
D.Some old buildings along the Huangpu River. |
A.The reason of the stampede was not clearly known. |
B.At dawn on Thursday, no one could be seen around the Bund. |
C.The city leaders were busy visiting the injured in hospitals. |
D.The 3D laser show on the Bund had been put on every year. |
A.All the injured students will return to school soon. |
B.There will be stricter rules concerning public safety throughout the city. |
C.It will be impossible to find out the reason of the accident. |
D.People didn’t know that the 3D laser show had been cancelled. |
A.From a science text book. |
B.From a traveler’s journal. |
C.From a government document. |
D.From a news website. |
10 . Happy birthday
The China Nation Opera (CNO)will give a concert to celebrate its 50th birthday.
Different generations of CNO vocalists(歌手), like Li Guangxi, Yao Hong and Ma Mei, will present the concert which will feature both songs from famous Chinese operas like “The White-haired GM “and “The Hundredth Bride”, as well as, arias (咏叹调) of such Western opera classics as “Madame Butterfly”, “La Traviata” and “Rigoletto”.
Time/date : 7:30 pm, September 7, 8
Location : Tianqiao Theatre
Tel : 6551-4787, 8315-6170
Tickets : 60—50 yuan (US $7.2-60.2)
Folk music
A concert will be held to feature some recently-composed traditional Chinese music works.
The concert, given by the Folk Orchestra of the China Opera and Ballet Theatre, will include such pieces as “Memory of Childhood”, “Memorial Ceremony for God” and “Wine Song”.
Time/date : 7:30 pm, September 13
Location: Concert hall at the National Library of China
Tel: 6848-5462, 6841-9220
Tickets : 30-200 yuan (US $ 3.6—24.1)
Moon music
A concert of traditional Chinese music will be given on the eve of the Moon Festival which falls on September 21st this year.
The concert will feature a number of famous pieces centered on this theme of the moon, such as “Moonlight”, “Spring Night on a Moonlit River” and “Lofty Mountain and Flowing River.”
A number of established traditional Chinese music performers, like Zhou Yaokun and Fan Weiqing, will play solos(独奏)as well as collaborate(合奏)with the folk music orchestra.
Time/ date: 7:30 pm, September 21st
Location: Grand Theatre of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities
Tel: 6606-8888, 6606-9999
1. If you want to buy tickets for listening to the music “Memory of Childhood”, you will dial .A.6551-4787 | B.6848-5462 | C.8315-6170 | D.6606-9999 |
A.a Chinese opera | B.a song | C.a piece of music | D.a Western opera |
A.Animals | B.People | C.Entertainment | D.Sports |