1 . ChatGPT has been everywhere for the last few months. It raises _______ about their impact on everything happening in our society.

ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool _______ by AI technology that allows you to have human-like _______ and much more. The language model can answer questions and _______ you with tasks, such as composing emails, essays, and code.

The _______ to produce frequently accurate responses to a vast range of questions is why it became the fastest-growing app of all time, _______ 100 million users in only two months. The fact that it can also _______ essays, articles, and poetry has only _______ its appeal. It is also equally _______ at coding and productivity tasks. For the former, its ability to ________ code from natural speech makes it a powerful partner for both new and ________ coders.

Despite looking very impressive, ChatGPT still has ________. Such restrictions include the inability to answer questions that are worded in a ________ way, as it requires rewording to understand the input question. A bigger limitation is a lack of quality in the ________ it delivers. Another major limitation is that its data is limited up to 2021. The chat robot does not have any ________ of events or news that have occurred since then. Lastly, ChatGPT does not provide sources for its responses.

2 . I don’t know about you, but this world that is fighting against virus has made me realize how important and uplifting our friends and socializing in general, are to our lives. I’m sure you are like me, feeling the ________ of this, most important of all, face-to-face ________ with friends, business partners, and even some family. We all believe ________ friendships is important to our health and ________ of life.

I came across a(n) ________ on the Mayo Clinic website about just how important it is to ________ your friends and social circle. According to this article, friendships can increase your ________ of belonging and purpose, boost your happiness, reduce stress, ________ your self-worth and so on.

Now, with the COVID-19 virus we are suddenly hit with a huge ________ of social encounters. But why don’t we, even under ________ times, keep up with our friends better? It’s likely because life just gets in the way. We are

________ drawn away from time with our friends by other priorities such as working and ________ children or elderly parents. Also, many of us do a lot of traveling and even ________ around the country. So sometimes even our, ________ friendships start to fade with the ________ between us. And then, sometimes, it’s hard to find the time and even the ________ to go out and make new friends.

But that is something that we really cannot ________ to do. Maybe this virus ________ will inspire us to greatly improve our drive to be ________ to our friends and make more of them. So, let us all stay ________ during this virus time period and make plans to spend more time with our friends when this is over as well as having plans to make new ones!

3 . TikTok, a social media app dedicated to short-form videos, has emerged as a major firer of food trends — from mushroom coffee and pancake cereal to cloud bread and feta pasta. But another trend, the #whatieatinaday trend, is dominating TikTok, which is nearing 9 billion _________.

Even though #whatieatinaday posts may be _________ to serve as healthy inspiration for others, there’s a growing feeling that these video diaries of daily eats will likely do more harm than good — especially among young girls or people with a history of disordered eating.

The _________ message these posts send is that if you eat like them, then you can eventually look like them. Yet what someone else eats in a day doesn’t mean it’s right for you, since these “_________” videos are not a completely accurate representation of what someone typically eats.

Often the overly stylized (程式化) meals do not _________ a nutritionally adequate diet. The posts are _________ the illusion (幻想) of an ideal day of eating, along with an ideal body size.

Younger audiences, especially girls and young women, internalize the message that they must eat like these creators to achieve and maintain not only health, but also social _________. The biggest harm with this trend is that it normalizes disordered or _________ eating behaviors. This could prevent someone struggling with an eating disorder from _________ support or treatment.

Even if the #whatieatinaday posts are displaying a ____________ day of eating, the subtext message of “eat like me, and you will look like me” is harmful because people will not necessarily achieve the same body size as the ____________ even if they copied their day of eating bite for bite.

____________, what might be a healthy, adequate day of satisfying meals for one person may be inadequate and unsatisfying to another. Even worse, someone looking at these posts may conclude that they need to be eating half as much to ____________.

People making these videos are overwhelmingly thin, young, able-bodied and white. There is a complete lack of body ____________. And this encourages harmful comparisons to unrealistic body standards that are ____________ to the vast majority of people. Therefore, those of us from marginalized communities are once again unable to see positive representations of our varying bodies, foods and cultural representation in these harmful posts.”

4 . Two of the most critical lessons learned from the pandemic are the need for effective national leadership and for clear, consistent communication. Countries that fared well had both in abundance; those that didn’t often faltered. The TIMES survey results reflect this, with_________was “leadership and public communication strategies” the only category in which every rated, on average, at least 4 out of 5 for priority. The highest ranking in the category went to “ensuring strong, federally coordinated responses that provincial, state, and local jurisdictions can rely upon for guidance”. The importance of this cannot be overstated. In the U.S., it made no sense to have 50 states _________ their own supplies of masks and tests, and 50 different sets of rules to contain (or not) the disease. As a former local health official, I can tell you that local health departments are chronically under _________ and so rely on federal entities to formulate clear_________ and evidence-based policy guidance, which _______ those closer to the ground to tailor the specifics to their communities. Being able to point to federal guidelines helps serve as political cover-important when the recommendations ask for difficult actions, such as shuttering businesses and _________ stay-at-home orders.

The TIMES survey also identifies global health governance as a top _________ including to “reform the World Health Organization’s regulatory authority”. Unfortunately, the_________of this intervention was rated 2.86. I agree with this low ranking. Any reform at the WHO will be a long and tedious _________. Global health governance needs to occur, but meanwhile, individual governments can take matters into their own ____________. First, they must rigorously evaluate their country’s pandemic response and make necessary ____________ to improve local, regional and national infrastructure and coordination. Second, they should strengthen international scientific____________. Third, willing countries can ____________ multinational agreements for transparency, mutual aid and partnership.

Improvements in global public health must begin locally and be driven by leaders who will learn the hard ____________ from COVID-19. If we can ____________the key factors that need reform, then we must agree on doing what it takes to prevent another tragedy.

5 . When you find something you love to do, you should do something about it, as one man has proved by turning his hobby into a dream _________.

Former waiter, Bartek, who lives in London, started cooking as a way to _________ the time during lockdown but the hobby has ended up _________ changing his life. The 25-year-old shared videos of his food on TikTok under the username @ letscook and went viral, _________ 580,000 followers. His videos have proved so popular that he has _________ to quit his job to start cooking full-time.

It all _________ in April 2020, when Bartek made a cheesecake at home during lockdown. His younger sister Tosia, 16, thought the sweet treat looked so impressive that he should _________ it on TikTok. Although he was _________ in cooking his own simple food, and had previously worked as a _________ at Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Bartek had no experience with __________ cooking meals in front of a camera.

The TikTok star, who is originally from Poland, __________ to give the video-sharing app a __________ and his second post-creamy garlic chicken-went viral, reaching 500,000 people overnight. Finding it fun to experiment and bring forth new ideas for classic dishes, he __________ posting videos, filming the process on his phone and __________ the videos himself.

His audience has continued to grow ever since and he __________ his success to his mum, Mariola, who would __________ traditional Polish recipes for his family.

The new cook has become so __________ that he was able to quit his former job in August 2021 and has now __________ his own recipe book called Let’s Cook. He said: “I’ve always been in the __________ with my mum so she taught me a lot, but I only __________ got into cooking because of lockdown. And now I am doing my dream job.”

6 . An old saying goes that “Good fences make good neighbors.” With so many folks ________ to stay at home during the pandemic (流行病), good fences can also make good ________.

In Minneapolis, the Olson family lives next door to 99-year-old Mary. Although Mary’s daughter ________ once a week, for the most part, the pandemic left Mary alone. But with lockdown (封锁) ________ Mary managed to form a special friendship with one of her neighbors - Benjamin Olson, aged 2.

Over time, Mary watched through the chain-link as Benjamin learned to walk, talk, and ________ run and play. Despite the huge differences in their ________ Benjamin was drawn to his elderly neighbor, ________ in her presence. Between the two, they developed a ________ they could play over the fence. Benjamin would ________ her a ball and she’d hit it back to him with her stick.

While others might ________ at the 97-year gap between the two, when Benjamin sees Mary, he ________ sees a friend, not a number. Mary’s daughter believes the ________ has been a lifeline that’s kept her mum going through the long period.

When the lockdown was lifted, Benjamin ________ Mary on her back steps to play games that bring joy to both the young and the young at ________.

In August, when Mary celebrates her 100th birthday, the one thing she won’t be wishing for is a ________ friend. Benjamin is the one that has covered.

7 . A side by side photo of a man's back with a 13-year period of time apart took over Chinese Internet recently. An Lei, 38, is a _______ of the Law Enforcement Team from the Department of Traffic and Transportation in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province.

The _______ on the left was taken in 2008 when An, _______ a jacket printed with an “earthquake relief” slogan, assisted in disaster-relief efforts in Wenchuan, southwest China's Sichuan Province, _______ it with a picture of him in 2021 when he, wearing a protective suit with the slogan “Go, Jinpu!”, volunteered after the COVID-19 pandemic _______ in the Jinpu New District of Dalian.

In 2008, _______ a magnitude-8.0 earthquake struck the Wenchuan area, 25-year-old An _______ to the front line to join in the disaster recovery and relief work. A photo of him carrying the insulation (隔热) boards of emergency shelters was taken by someone. _______ a decade later in December, 2020, An was on the frontline again, serving as a volunteer in _______ of transporting close contacts of COVID-19 cases in his hometown Dalian after new coronavirus clusters emerged there.

When An ________ a throwback photo of himself from 2008 next to a snap from 2021 on his WeChat social media account, the then-and-now photos began to ________ on Chinese media. Winning nationwide applause for his dedicated service, An considers what he has done as nothing ________. “During the epidemic, I'm just one of tens of thousands of ________ here,” he said, adding that as a member of the Communist Party of China, he felt ________ to help others in the best way he could. Besides, his 9-year-old son called An after seeing his father on media, saying, “I ________ to be someone just like you when I grow up, Dad.”

8 . Space travel is nothing new. The first spacecraft with a _________ was sent up into space in 1961. Since then, people have not only travelled to space, _________ many of them have also lived there in space station for some time.

The Soviet Union sent the first space station, called Salyut I, into space in 1971. Salyut I was _________ as a place where people could live while they observed space and did experiments. The first group of _________ lived there for 23 days. Shortly, the United States _________ its own space station, called Skylab.

Astronauts _________ and often lived in these space stations for a short time. _________, in the late 1980s the Soviet Union sent the Mir space station, which made it _________ for people to live in space for a longer time.

Mir stayed in space _________ 2001, when it was decided that the space station was too old and no longer __________ to live in.

Living in space stations seems to be __________, but astronauts face many problems. One of them is __________. All the meals on space station are put together on Earth and sent there by space shuttle. Because the food has to last a long time (sometimes up to three months), a lot of it has to be __________ in cans. The space station has a cool room to keep fruit and vegetables __________. Astronauts also eat many other foods such as dried meat.

Without the help of __________, sitting down to eat can be tough. Astronauts sometimes have to fix themselves to the wall while eating. They also have to be very careful to that food does not float away.

9 . Marty Verel, a 59-year-old kidney transplant recipient in Ohio, should have been near the top of the list to receive a COVID-19 vaccine (疫苗). ________, like millions of others, he wasn’t having any luck ________ an appointment. Marty and his wife, Nancy Verel, would sit with tablets on their laps trying for hours on different sites ________, all of which were slow and complicated. “I felt ________,” Nancy says.

Then Nancy heard about Rebecca Mead, who was spending ________ ten hours a day online securing appointments for those with no ________ to the vaccine. So Nancy messaged Mead on Facebook and twenty-five minutes later, Mead ________ by asking for Marty’s basic information. Nine minutes after that, Mead made the appointment for Marty.

Mead’s vaccine ________ started on February 1, when she learned that her parents were unable to get appointments themselves. ________ around on vaccine registration sites, Mead, who has been helping her husband develop websites, discovered how ________ it was to book an appointment. She ________ strategies that web insiders are familiar with and added some of her special skills. “I’m ________. I drink a lot of coffee, and I’m a fast ________,” she says. Eventually, Mead secured appointments for both of her parents.

Mead decided that helping others would be her way of ________ the society. By March 2, she’d secured appointments for 400 people, a(n) ________ that made Nancy conclude, “Mead is some sort of COVID angel.”