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—Great. I like weekends because I____get up so early.

— To tell you the truth, I really can't go anywhere because I ____ an important visitor from out of town.

—OK we will, Mum.

An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money. Only a very expensive operation could save him now and there was no one to lend them the money.

When she heard her daddy say to her tearful mother, "only a miracle(奇迹)can save him now." The little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her money from its hiding place and counted it carefully.

She hurried to a drugstore (药店) with the money in her hand. At that moment, only a salesman and a well-dressed man were in the drugstore. The girl went to the salesman directly. "What do you want?" asked the salesman. "It's for my little brother," the girl answered. "He's really sick and I want to buy a miracle." "Pardon?" said the salesman.

"My brother Andrew has something bad growing inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how much does a miracle cost?" "We don't sell a miracle here, child. I'm sorry," the salesman said with a smile.

"Please! If it isn't enough, I can try and get some more. Just tell me how much it costs." said the little girl, almost crying with anxiety.

注意：1)所续写短文的词数应为150左右;2) 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头部分已为你写好。

Paragraph 1: The well-dressed man heard it.

Paragraph 2: Having known about what happened from the girl, the well-dressed man took up the girl's hand.

Adam Braun established the organization Pencils of Promise in 2008. Its goal is  (make) sure all children have a chance for education. In the past few years, it  (help) more than 22,000 children in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

It started when Adam Braun was a college student. He was visiting India when a boy stopped (he) on the street and asked for money. Mr Braun asked the boy he would want, if he could have anything in the world. "I thought the answer was going to be a house, a car or a boat. His answer was 'a pencil', shocked me. So I gave him my pencil and he just lit up with joy. I realized he had never been to school before and that was the (real) for 57 million children around the world, " Braun said.

Adam Braun started working in finance after he graduated  college. But he never forgot the boy and  problem he represented. So he decided to devote himself to (create) that world. Braun says his organization works  (close) with the local education organizations, which organize the main program of studies.

Have you seen people who take pictures of food for more than 10 minutes before eating? My friend Stella is such an example. Every time we went to a restaurant she would not take a bite until all the dishes we 1 were on the table. Then she would spend five minutes in 2 the dishes in a seemingly random but in fact 3 order. Then the most important part: taking pictures. After that, she would choose one of the 4 and click in the filter app. The food eventually looked 10 times more delicious than it really was, but we had no 5 to really enjoy it—it all went cold, actually Stella's real life is much less elegant. For example, she hates to wash the dishes, so she leaves them in the sink for days.

Many people care too much about others' opinions and try too hard to 6 others. They find it hard to be 7 and to accept themselves, and thus they are afraid to show their 8 life on social media. What they are trying to prove is 9 what they lack in reality. But this will not bring any 10 to reality, as they still 11 the same old pattern of life.

If they really want an elegant life, they should put more 12  into achieving it 13  fabricating it. Being more confident, 14  themselves and trying their best to be better are much more meaningful than 15  their life on social media.

Characteristics of an excellent scientist

The Free Dictionary defines(定义) a scientist as a person having professional knowledge on one or more sciences, especially natural science or physical science. Let's look at some characteristics of an excellent scientist.

Curiosity.

Scientists such as Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse discovered things mainly because they wanted to know how things worked. If a scientist doesn't have the drive to ask questions or even wonder, then he/ she never gets to the first stage of the scientific process.

Patience.

There are very few jobs that take longer than this one. Even if you think you have received some education on science, you still have a lot of scientific research to do. If you're an instant-gratification (及时满足的) type of person, this may not be the best choice for you.

Ethical (道德的)qualities.

In order to truly discover and use knowledge for the greater good, a scientist must have a desire to improve people's life as well as the environment, since they are linked and they can affect each other in the long run. A scientist must report findings honestly regardless of personal or outside commercial (商业的) interests. Sticking to an old belief contradicted(反驳)by evidence is dishonest.

Working habits.

An excellent scientist even takes notes of the smallest observation, keeping it in mind and recording it.  He/ She also needs to communicate thoughts on paper and verbally. Networking skills connect him/ her with colleagues working on similar projects where he/ she may discover something new.

A. Becoming a scientist takes a long time.

B. An excellent scientist must be very curious about things.

C. It also defines a scientist as someone who uses scientific methods.

D. However, that belief shouldn't be changed without powerful evidence.

E. He/ She can work well alone or in groups, depending on what's needed.

F. To make discoveries in human knowledge, you have to think differently.

G. One of the main places that many scientists work in is the research laboratory.

Developed by US company OpenAI, ChatGPT has got viral, winning 100 million internet users since it came out in November 2022. People can ask the robot to write stories and emails, create instructions for cooking a certain food, translate languages, and answer all kinds of questions. In its own words, it is "a language model trained in a large amount of internet text to help users get human-like text. "

Compared with Siri or other chatbots, ChatGPT uses a much bigger information center for training. It also uses stronger software and hardware to learn things by itself. For example, if it provides a wrong answer to your question, you can tell it the right one and it will correct itself. "It's a totally different chatbot," computer scientist Liu Xiaoguang from Nankai University said. "The knowledge level ChatGPT shows is the same as a university student. That's why it shocked the world."

But one big problem with ChatGPT is that it makes mistakes or even gives false information. When Rezza, a 28-year-old from Indonesia, used the robot to write an passage, it "gave out many examples which other writers actually hadn't mentioned at all", he told a local newspaper. Since the robot is trained using words from the internet, it can also pick up biases(偏见) about certain groups. These are all things that need to be dealt with.