Yours,
Li Hua
China’s C919 airliner, a potential
China calls the C919,
China has more and more confidence to
The C919 would be the most focused aircraft at the Singapore Airshow. There is a lot of interest
Currently, only a
I sat at the corner of the living room, staring at the Christmas tree. It was the best tree we had had. My husband
Upon hearing about the tree, my eight-year-old daughter, Kaylyn,
So there’s
| A．offered | B．selected | C．cut | D．ignored |
| A．joked | B．pretended | C．proved | D．imagined |
| A．perfect | B．necessary | C．right | D．free |
| A．function | B．meaning | C．value | D．side |
| A．worthwhile | B．available | C．beautiful | D．special |
| A．standing | B．lying | C．sitting | D．talking |
| A．similarity | B．secret | C．difference | D．character |
| A．skillfully | B．formally | C．normally | D．cleanly |
| A．ugly | B．pretty | C．excellent | D．strange |
| A．cried | B．cheered | C．applauded | D．apologized |
| A．decide | B．expect | C．promise | D．choose |
| A．reality | B．world | C．minds | D．homes |
| A．fact | B．wonder | C．doubt | D．hope |
| A．In another word | B．In addition | C．By all means | D．In that case |
| A．admit | B．recognize | C．notice | D．appreciate |
Getting third-party computer producers to add an AI button to laptops is the latest move by Microsoft to take most advantage of its close partnership with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and make itself a gateway for applications of generative AI technology.
Although most people now connect to the Internet — and many AI applications — by phone rather than computer, it’s a symbolic kickoff to what’s expected to be a competitive year as tech companies race to outdo each other in AI applications even as they haven’t yet settled all the moral and legal consequences. The New York Times last month charged both OpenAI and Microsoft that tools like ChatGPT and Copilot — formerly known as Bing Chat — are infringing (侵犯) on copyrighted news articles.
The keyboard redesign will be Microsoft’s biggest change to PC keyboards since it introduced a special Windows key in the 1990s. Microsoft’s four-squared logo design on it has evolved, but the key has been a fixture on Windows-oriented keyboards for about three decades.
The newest AI button is marked by the ribbon-like Copilot logo and is located near the space bar. On some computers it will replace the fight “CTRL” key, while on others it will replace a menu key.
Microsoft is not the only company with customized (订制的) keys. Apple pioneered the concept in the 1980s with its “Command” key marked by a looped square design(it also sported an Apple logo for a time). Google has a search button on its Chromebooks and was first to experiment with an AI-specific key to launch its voice assistant on its now-discontinued Pixelbook.
But Microsoft has a much stronger hold on the broader PC market through its licensing agreements with third-party producers like Lenovo, Dell and HP. About 82% of all desktop computers, laptops and workstations run Windows, compared to 9%for Apple’s in-house operating system and just over 6% for Google’s.
Microsoft hasn’t yet said which computer-makers are installing the Copilot button beyond Microsoft’s own in-house line of high-end Surface equipment. It said some of the companies are expected to unveil (公布) their new models at next week’s CES gadget show in Las Vegas.
1．Why does Microsoft add an AI button to laptops?| A．To improve the partnership with OpenAI. |
| B．To help third-party computer producers. |
| C．To establish its favorable position in AI applications. |
| D．To change people’s habit to connect to the Internet. |
| A．People will connect to AI applications by PC. |
| B．The appearance of AI button leads to competition. |
| C．Competition in AI areas is fierce and unregulated. |
| D．The New York Times violated copyrighted news articles. |
| A．The space bar. | B．The Windows key. |
| C．The “Command” key. | D．The “CTRL” key. |
| A．It can influence many more computer producers. |
| B．It is further ahead in AI application technology. |
| C．It has the patent for customized keyboard keys. |
| D．It controls the IT world with the CES gadget show. |
A successful move of 21 eastern black rhinos (犀牛) to a new home of a grassy plateau that hasn’t seen them in decades will give them space to live and help increase the population of the critically endangered animals. It was Kenya’s biggest rhino relocation ever.
The rhinos were taken from three parks that are becoming overcrowded to the private Loisaba Conservancy, where rhinos were wiped out by poaching (偷猎) decades ago.
The 18-day exercise involved tracking the rhinos using a helicopter and then shooting them with tranquilizer darts(麻醉飞镖). Then the animals—which weigh about a ton each—have to be loaded into the back of a truck for the move. Disaster nearly struck early in the relocation effort, when a tranquilized rhino fell into a river. Workers held the rhino’s head above water with a rope to stop it from drowning while the tranquilizer drug took effect, and then the rhino was freed.
Some of the rhinos were transferred from Nairobi National Park and made a 300-kilometer trip. Others came from two parks closer to Loisaba.
Rhinos are generally animals enjoying being alone and are at their happiest in large living areas. As numbers in the three parks where the rhinos were moved from have increased, wildlife officials decided to relocate some in the hope that they will be happier and more likely to increase. David Ndere, an expert on rhinos at the Kenya Wildlife Service, said their reproduction rates decrease when there are too many in a territory.
Kenya has had relative success in recovering its black rhino population, which dipped from around 20, 000 in the 1970s to below 300 in the mid-1980s because of hunting, according to conservationists, raising fears that the animals might be wiped out completely in the country. Kenya now has around 1, 000 black rhinos, the third biggest population behind South Africa and Namibia. There are just over 6, 400 wild black rhinos left in the world, all of them in Africa, according to the Save the Rhino organization.
1．What’s the reason why the rhinos were moved to a new home?| A．Locals’ deadly effects. | B．Their limited living space. |
| C．Their too large population. | D．Their preference for a grassy plateau. |
| A．Moving rhinos safely was a very serious challenge. |
| B．The method of transporting rhinos was too backward. |
| C．Many disasters happened during the rhino relocation. |
| D．Most rhinos in the three parks migrated on their own. |
| A．A reintroduction of an endangered animal. | B．A gradual increase of the rhino population. |
| C．A much larger national natural park in Kenya. | D．A more booming tourism with rhino exhibitions. |
| A．Ways to Move Rhinos Safely | B．Black Rhinos’Situation in Kenya |
| C．Kenya’s Biggest Rhino Relocation | D．The Black Rhino Reserves in Kenya |
I was taught at a young age to be afraid rather than to experience life. Don’t ride a bike because you might get hit by a car. Don’t swim because you might drown. That’s why I was initially afraid to approach others. They might say no—how could I live with that rejection?
A book changed me. Near the end of the book, the writer suggested trying out what I had just read but to pretend it was like the training game in a sport—when the games didn’t count. When my teams would lose formal games, I couldn’t bear to watch. But when they lost in the training game, I didn’t care.
I don’t know why the suggestion to pretend my attempts didn’t count could resonate with me. But I knew this new way of thinking worked for me. It gave me power to know the results didn’t matter because this was the exhibition game when I was practicing what I had learned before the real games started.
I discovered there were other ways to use this new tool. It allowed me to have a successful sales career, even though I heard the word “no” hundreds of times. It was part of the business, but I didn’t let it get me down. I turned a negative into a positive by reasoning that every time I heard the word “no”, it meant I was one step closer to “yes”. It’s amazing how powerful you feel when you remove the fear that stops you from going after what you want in life.
I still work my sales job, and we have a lot of high-school and college students working at the company. I will pass on the advice that I learned many years ago and encourage them to use that idea for whatever they want to achieve.
1．Which word can describe the author when he was young?| A．Stubborn. | B．Out-going. | C．Confident. | D．Dissociable. |
| A．The training games are also important. | B．Whatever the game is, it doesn’t count. |
| C．Just have a try and downplay the results. | D．Don’t worry about life’s gains and losses. |
| A．Cope. | B．Deal. | C．Fight. | D．Agree. |
| A．Positive results. | B．Steps to success. |
| C．Excuses to escape. | D．Unbeatable strikes. |
I love to watch my father paint and I love to hear him talk while he paints. The words always come out soft. As a mason (泥瓦匠) , he doesn’t have a studio, and I’ve always felt a little sorry for him, having to paint in our backyard, which is not exactly picturesque. Dad doesn’t seem to see the backyard when he’s painting, though. It’s not just the canvas he sees either. It’s something much bigger. He gets this look in his eye like he’s gone beyond the yard, the neighborhood, the world.
“A painting is more than the sum of its parts,” he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you’ve got magic.
I understood what he was saying, but I never felt what he was saying until one day when I was up in the sycamore tree (梧桐树) . I’d never seen a view like that! I got the feeling that I was flying above the earth. The view from the sycamore was more than rooftops and clouds and wind and colors combined. It was magic. It wasn’t long before I found the spot that became my spot. I could sit there for hours, just looking out at the world. Sunsets were amazing. Some days they’d be purple and pink, some days they’d be a blazing orange, setting fire to clouds across the horizon.
Then came the day. When I was sitting in the branches of my tree, I found two trucks parked right beneath me. Four men came out of the trucks, and started unloading tools, gloves, ropes and saws (锯子) .
Pretty soon they spotted me. One of the men called, “Hey! You’d better come down from there. We gotta take this thing down.”
I managed to choke out, “The tree?”
“Yeah, now come on down.”
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；China will become the guest country of honor for the 37th International Kite Festival in Berck-sur-Mer from April 20 to 28. It is the first time that the festival
During the nine-day event, the China Cultural Center in Paris will join hands
The International Kite Festival in Berck-sur-Mer is the largest and most
During my teens, I was the champion of the sports day every single year, and my mother won the moms’ trophy (奖杯) every single year. Why? Because she was always chasing me to
We had a very Tom and Jerry relationship. She was the strict disciplinarian; I was the
When I was little, she always caught me, but as I got older and faster, and when speed
Reflecting on those exciting days two decades later, I’ve come to understand that amid the
| A．discipline | B．defend | C．abuse | D．battle |
| A．occasionally | B．slowly | C．constantly | D．awkwardly |
| A．smartest | B．cutest | C．naughtiest | D．youngest |
| A．games | B．groceries | C．belts | D．books |
| A．change | B．protein | C．bonus | D．benefit |
| A．fade | B．slip | C．turn | D．back |
| A．magical | B．annual | C．unusual | D．typical |
| A．dominated | B．disturbed | C．failed | D．seized |
| A．out of place | B．out of breath | C．out of sight | D．out of balance |
| A．ultimate | B．casual | C．military | D．offensive |
| A．motivated | B．stuck | C．buried | D．involved |
| A．holds on | B．stands by | C．turns back | D．steps in |
| A．purchase | B．pursuit | C．crime | D．commitment |
| A．chaos | B．ruins | C．emergencies | D．comedies |
| A．touched | B．bound | C．hurt | D．enhanced |
If you are trying to assess a person’s character, make sure you do not rely too heavily on factors that can be misleading. Instead, observe the individual’s ability to tell the truth and to commit.
You can tell a lot about a person’s character by observing how he treats other people.
Whether or not a person is honest says a lot about his character. The attitude a person has about honesty can also indicate what type of person he is.
A person’s character is affected by his attitude.
When you are trying to assess someone’s character, remember that it consists of qualities and habits that form his identity.
| A．More importantly, it’s necessary to continue his inner struggle. |
| B．The level of commitment indicates the type of character he has. |
| C．There are many other things in life that may require commitment. |
| D．This includes both people he knows and people he does not know. |
| E．Also, pay attention to his attitude and try to distinguish how it impacts his life. |
| F．Observe the person’s conversations and try to determine how often he tells lies. |
| G．Some people generally have a negative outlook while others may try to be positive even in difficult situations. |
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