2 . “It’s too sugary, I can’t manage very many,” said a friend. She wasn’t talking about dessert but about some fresh cherries. I bit into another cherry and realized she was right. The fruit was so sweet that it was as if it had been pre-sugared.

But the cherries of my childhood were much less sweet than today’s cherries. Some of them were hardly sweet at all, which made it all the more exciting when you happened upon a super sweet one.

Is modern fruit getting sweeter? The answer is yes. Some of the most powerful evidence comes from zoos. In 2018, Melbourne Zoo in Australia had stopped giving fruit to most of its animals because cultivated fruit was now so sweet that it was causing tooth decay and weight gain.

Breeding isn’t the only reason that modern fruit is sweeter; there’s also climate change. It’s found that since the 1970s, with rising temperatures, Fuji apples have become significantly sweeter and softer.

But the sweetness of modern fruit is not without its problems, especially for people with diabetes, who have to be careful to moderate their intake of higher - sugar fruits such as pineapple. Fruit that is bred sweeter also tends to be lower in the phytochemicals (植物化学成分) that make it so healthy.

Health aside, maybe the real problem with modern fruit is that it has become yet another sweet thing in a world filled with sugar. Even grapefruit, which used to be quite bitter, is sometimes now as sweet as oranges. If you’ve never tasted a sour cherry, how can you fully appreciate a sweet one? Experts put forwards some thoughts about how to appreciate the various tastes of modern fruit.

6 . One of the most important battles in any home is for the TV remote. Whoever gets it has the________over what is watched. But after reading this article, your interest in winning the________for the remote may fall, as a study has shown that the remote is pretty________.

The toilet is always a good surface for________. During the study, researchers ________that a toilet had 12.4 colony-forming units (菌落形成单位) per cm² ________the TV remote had 290 colony-forming units per cm. The TV remote was the ________item tested by far. It makes________. How often have you seen someone clean the TV remote and how often are dirty hands________ it?

Many people are now able to________their TV from their smartphone or smartwatch. This may________the dynamics of the fight for the remote but it won’ t ________ it. If the battle does move to smart________, the bacteria (细菌) issue doesn’t disappear. While both smartphones and smartwatches appeared to be cleaner than the remote, they are________far from clean.

If you want to ensure that your home is ________of high amounts of bacteria, throwing out the remote is not the ________ . You need to have a________that ensures the house is clean but that the things you________most are also clean. Hopefully, this latest study can________ some action in your home and cause people to________ the importance of washing their hands regularly and cleaning common surfaces.

7 . Doge, Grumpy Cat, Pepe the Frog…these memes (表情包) are often used in our chats with friends on the Internet. But now they have also found their way into the world of fashion.

According to a global fashion search engine Lyst, memecore (梗式穿搭) will become one of the biggest fashion hits this year. Following this trend, some brands have pushed memes to their “extremes” to get people excited. For example, UK fashion brand JW Anderson has used goldfish tanks and pixels (像素) as part of its design. Spanish fashion brand Loewe has brought out boots in the shape of bags.

This meme-inspired fashion trend is “a rejection of the idea that clothing has to obey rules defining what’s ‘in’ and ‘out’,” as the fashion website CR Fashion Book notes. The only rule is to “wear what you want, even if it seems odd to those who aren’t in on the joke.”

This attitude of fashion freedom has struck a chord with many young people. According to Refinery29, a creative global platform for young people, as aesthetics (审美) change rapidly, people often ask what their aesthetic is because they want something to define themselves. Growing up on the Internet, surrounded by nontraditional memes and comment sections, young people want to challenge the usual systems of taste.

Meanwhile, in an era filled with stress and competition, people are left craving for jokes and irony. Now the memecore fashion trend can provide a supply to meet this demand.

Some people might say that the rise of memecore fashion is “a form of escapism”, an idea put forward by CR Fashion Book. But in a stressful life, why not wear some memecore clothes and bring more joy to both yourself and others?

9 . In November, 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) research and development company OpenAI released a chatbot service called ChatGPT. It has the ability to complete almost any task it is asked, from debugging code to writing poetry.

“Having spoken with people both at the UMN and at other universities, my general impression is that, while there are certainly some anxieties about academic integrity (诚实), there is also a sense of opportunity in that; this technology-if used appropriately-could enhance education. ”said Leopold, a professor at the UMN.

With ChatGPT’s long-term impacts ahead, determining its use in academics is still gray area. While students can use it to cheat on assignments and exams, there are a variety of ways students use ChatGPT, including researching, brainstorming, coding and preparing for job interviews.

Some instructors are cracking down (严厉打击) on students when they suspect the use of a chatbot, but Weixel, a teacher of Institute of Curriculum, said she wants to take a different approach. Weixel said she is aware some students will use ChatGPT to cheat on assignments, but she knows AI use is gaining power and would like to integrate its idea-generating abilities into some class assignments. Jim Hall, an instructor of Writing Studies, said he recognizes the dilemma teachers are facing with ChatGPT. He said he accepts students’ use of chatbots to assist in brainstorming, but simply copying andpasting content written by the service is plagiarism (抄袭). ＂It’s causing a lot of heartburn for instructors, ” Hall said. “The technology has changed, but the ethics have not. ”

In a recent study, UMN’s professors ran an experiment in which they compared the performance of ChatGPT in classwork to other students. The bot received a C-minus. There are still many unknown implications and uses of ChatGPT, but learning more about AI can benefit students as they prepare to get into a workforce, where they may use these services, according to Leopold.