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I still remember a day when I was six years old. My father brought home a small white kitten for me. I named her Snowflake. She was the most adorable thing I had ever seen, with her soft fur and bright blue eyes. Snowflake quickly became my best friend. We would play together in the garden, chasing butterflies and rolling in the grass.

As I grew older, my schoolwork and extracurricular activities took up more and more of my time. I didn't have as much time to spend with Snowflake as I used to. She seemed to sense my absence and would often curl up in the corner, waiting for me to come home. But I was always too tired to give her the attention she deserved.

One day, when I came home from school, I noticed that Snowflake wasn't waiting for me at the door as usual. I searched the house for her, but she was nowhere to be found. I called her name, but there was no response. Panic started to set in. I asked my parents if they had seen her, and they shook their heads.

I rushed outside and started looking around the neighborhood. I asked the neighbors if they had seen a white kitten, but no one had. I searched the bushes, the alleys, and even the rooftops, but there was still no sign of Snowflake. I was heartbroken. I realized that I had missed her company too much and that I had been so cruel to pay little attention to her.

I returned home, feeling defeated. I sat on the doorstep, tears streaming down my face. I blamed myself for not taking better care of Snowflake. Just as I was about to give up hope, I heard a faint meowing sound coming from the garage.

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I sprang up and charged into the garage.

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From that day on, I adjusted my schedule to make more time for Snowflake.

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Competition is heating up in the fast-developing artificial intelligence (AI) sector as the emergence of startup DeepSeek underscores China's growing innovation capacities in cutting-edge technology, (signal) a profound shift in the global AI landscape.

DeepSeek-R1, the latest opensource AI model (launch) with a performance on a par with leading models from US-based OpenAI in tasks such as mathematics, coding and natural language reasoning, achieves (impress) results at a fraction (少量) of the cost and computing power of its foreign peers.

The model, quickly rose to the top of the Apple app store's free downloads, has taken the world surprise and sent shock waves through the tech industry; it has even attracted attention from US companies including Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia.

DeepSeek's achievements offer a glimpse (瞥) into how Chinese tech companies are striving to make technological breakthroughs in large language models the efforts of Chinese tech companies in promoting the use of generative AI technologies in a wide range of sectors. Now, the proportion of Chinese companies stepping up investment and boosting the application of AI is rising (obvious).

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, recently unveiled its latest AI model, Qwen 2.5-Max, one that offers low-cost alternative to DeepSeek. The company remains committed to investing in advanced AI infrastructure to encourage the widespread (adopt) of generative AI technologies across different industries.

Technological innovation is unstoppable, and international cooperation is important. Although AI brings about new development opportunities, challenges remain. Experts called for efforts (guarantee) the safe and reliable application of AI technology through global governance.

With determination, Rita tried to6 Tracy could see Christmas this year. She said, "If she's only got a couple of weeks,7 now is the time. If Tracy couldn't make it to Christmas, Christmas would come to her." She8 the neighborhood. Then dozens of people9 to celebrate the Christmas ahead of time.

With the Christmas tree shining brightly, they sang Christmas carols on a chilly night. At the same time, Tracy enjoyed the10 moment. It was a community simply showing Tracy she was loved and not11.

No matter how long or short our time may be, we would feel the12 that surrounds us. For Tracy, Christmas came early this year. But the13 is that Christmas is something we carry with us, no matter the14. Sometimes, the most profound expressions of love aren't in what we say but in how we15 for each other.

For such teens like Betty, midnight marks the start of peak productivity. Bedrooms transform into secret laboratories: half-written essays compete with gaming sounds, Instagram stories bloom like digital night flowers, and snack wrappers pile up like modern art installations.. Yet this after-hours freedom results in sleepy mornings, cold breakfasts, and teachers' disapproving frowns that form their daily reality.

. Harvard research shows night owls' brains produce melatonin, a chemical that helps regulate cycles of sleeping and waking, 2 — 3 hours later than early birds, creating permanent "social jetlag (时差)". Not getting enough sleep regularly makes the part of the brain that helps with memory smaller by 7% — 10%, making learning harder. The National Sleep Foundation warns that teens getting under 7 hours nightly have 72% higher anxiety risks and 58% reduced academic performance.

To end this cycle, we think strategic steps are necessary. Begin by fixing wake-up time within a 30-minute window daily, using dawn simulation lights. Initiate a "digital sunset" 90 minutes before bed, replacing screens with paperback books or sketching..

Amy Shapiro, a nutritionist, recommends bananas at 8 pm. Most crucially, night owls should negotiate with parents and teachers for later morning routines when possible — research in Sleep Journal shows allowing teens to start school just 45 minutes later improves test scores by 12%.. However, biological differences require smart management rather than guilt-based resistance.

A. They're struggling to please others.

B. Science reveals alarming consequences.

C. Biological clocks demand strict schedules.

D. They exchange messages with teens across time zones.

E. Remember, night owl tendencies aren't imperfections.

F. A typical night owl trapped in the delayed sleep cycles.

G. Gradually adjust the bedtime earlier by 15 minutes weekly.

Originating from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language, IE languages, which number over 400 and include major groups such as Germanic, Romance, and Celtic, are spoken by nearly half the world's population today. Since the 19th century, historians have been investigating their origins and spread as there is still a knowledge gap.

Earlier studies showed that the Yamnaya culture of the Pontic-Caspian steppes (草原) north of the Black and Caspian Seas expanded into both Europe and Central Asia beginning about 3100BCE, accounting for the appearance of "steppe ancestry (祖先)" in human populations across Eurasia 3100 BCE — 1500 BCE. These migrations (迁徙) are widely regarded as the probable carrier for the spread of IE languages.

The only branch of the IE language that had not exhibited any steppe ancestry previously was Anatolian, including Hittite, preserving language characteristics that were lost in all other IE branches. Previous studies had not found steppe ancestry among the Hittites because, the new paper argues, the Anatolian languages came from a language spoken by a group that had not been adequately described before. When the newly recognized CLV population is used as a source, at least five individuals in Anatolia show CLV ancestry.

The CLV group therefore has something to do with any IE-speaking populations and is the best candidate for the population that spoke Indo-Anatolian, the ancestor of both Hittite and all later IE languages.

"The discovery marks a turning point in the 200-year-old quest to reconstruct the origins of the Indo-Europeans and the routes by which these people spread across Europe and parts of Asia," concludes Ron Pinhasi.

A conscious being can be considered to be having subjective experiences of the world and its own body. If you are having a mental experience, you are conscious. We take "experience" to indicate the conscious sensation during states of wakeful processing of sensory perception, imagery or dreaming. A motion sensor might be able to sense the environment, but it is probably not aware that it could do so.

Since non-human subjects cannot verbally report their experiences, there is very limited knowledge of how their mental process works. However, by observing animal behaviour, we can see that they react to the environment too: fight, flight, or curiosity. It is logical to say that animals possess consciousness the way humans do.

According to experts, consciousness depletes (耗费) something in the waking brain, and we cannot keep it up indefinitely. The need to sleep is thus not forced upon us by our environment, but by the needs of the brain itself. If sleeping serves to bring back the thing that is depleted because of our consciousness, it is reasonable to think that animals that have to sleep are conscious when they are awake.

Besides, animals also possess a special emotion that many people think only humans show — empathy. One ecologist witnessed a humpback whale sweeping a seal out of the water and onto its fin to keep it away from nearby killer whales. Though incidents like this seem extraordinary to us, animals have probably been doing it for millions of years.

The study of animal consciousness has tremendous implications. Must different species be treated differently depending on their display of moral traits, their ability to experience and show emotion, and their specific level of consciousness? Must we have a bill of animal rights in place that can guide us in what is proper and lawful conduct in relation to specific species? These are just some questions researchers and policymakers, with further research, will be able to address.

First, you're walked through some introduction screens about the app and then guided to enter your credit card information. Although you can shun typing in that information by scanning your credit cards, the feature never worked when I used it. I had to enter my card information by myself.

I was then asked to hand over my online banking login credentials (登录凭证). Tally then tries to connect to all my accounts. Next, Tally tries to qualify you for their line of credit. This is where I ended up getting stuck because the instructions didn't spell out that they would only be doing a "soft pull" on my credit, rather than a "hard pull." Whenever you apply for new credit, the lender will request a copy of your credit report. That's called a hard pull, and too many of them can lower your credit score.

Fortunately, Tally uses a "soft pull." A soft pull happens when a company asks for information about your credit, but it isn't a part of a new credit application. Because of that, it doesn't affect your credit score.

However, Tally doesn't tell you that they're going to do a soft pull until after you've entered all of your credit card information, birthday, and phone number. I had to stop midway because I thought Tally would do a hard pull, which I definitely didn't want.

I continued through the process until I finally reached an explainer page saying they would only be conducting a soft pull. Tally could do a better job telling users this information earlier in the process.

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