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In Benton School, the chatter of students filled Room 13 every day. Among the lively atmosphere, Wanda Petronski, a poor Polish girl, with her unruly hair and a faded blue dress that showed signs of frequent wear, became the target of cruel jokes among her classmates.

Each morning, as Wanda stepped into the classroom, a sudden silence would fall over the room. The abrupt silence was soon replaced by whispers and laughter. "Look, there's Wanda," Peggy would whisper to her friend Maggie, her eyes shining with mischief. Peggy, the most popular girl in class, was well-known for her sharp tongue and a good sense of fashion. Driven by a mix of boredom and meanness (恶意), she would call out, "How many dresses do you have now, Wanda?" Her voice was filled with pretended curiosity.

Wanda would hesitate, her fingers nervously twisting her dress. "A hundred," she would reply in a soft murmur; her voice was barely heard. Instantly, the classroom would erupt in laughter. "A hundred!" Peggy would shout, her laughter echoing through the room. "I bet they're all made of paper!" The other students would join in, their cruel laughter filling the air. Wanda's face would redden with awkward, and she would quickly lower her head, unable to meet anyone's eyes.

Miss Mason, their teacher, often tried to intervene. "That's enough, class. Let's start the lesson," she would say firmly, attempting to restore order. But the damage had been done. Day after day, Peggy and her group of friends continued to make fun of Wanda, asking about her "hundred dresses" and making ill remarks about her plain clothes.

One day, Miss Mason announced an exciting drawing contest. The theme was "Design a Dress," and the winning entries would be displayed in the school hall. Peggy, confident in her artistic abilities, was determined to claim victory.

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A few days later, Miss Mason announced the result and everyone was shocked.

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Feeling a strong sense of guilt, Peggy and Maggie went to Wanda's house with the good news.

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2．收获与感想。

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A Spring Planting Activity

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The Beijing Central Axis (轴), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, runs north to south through the heart of Beijing. It bears witness to the city's evolution and exhibits evidence of urban (plan) traditions of China. The location, layout, roads and design showcase the ideal capital city as (document) in an ancient text, Book of Diverse Crafts. The area between two parallel rivers, (settle) for about 3,000 years, but the Central Axis itself originated during the Yuan Dynasty.

Fascinated by China's heritage sites, a Frenchman Olivier Chiabodo, in joint effort with Beijing Keying Media, (produce) a documentary Beijing-Paris, Urban Dialogue at a Crossroads in 2024 to uncover the beauty of Beijing's Central Axis, to explore the protection and use of city axes like those in Beijing and Paris. Using technology a medium, the documentary Chiabodo promotes not only introduces a more authentic China to the world but also enables more people to gain a deeper understanding of France.

Actually, Chiabodo's connection with China began in 1985. For him, China preserves its historical sites well. "I have been interested in China for years because of its many world heritage sites, are taken good care of. I (genuine) hope people across the world can see it and do the same," says Chiabodo.

In the future, Chiabodo has an (ambition) plan to film all the 59 UNESCO world heritage sites in China and showcase them to the world.

"Anything in a bag along the highway usually isn't good," says Kane. The bag's1 stunned Kane and Ramey, but in a good way. Inside were tennis shoes and toys, spilling out of2 gift wrapping. They brought the bag to headquarters, but nobody had3 the gifts missing. The two made a Facebook post, hoping it would land in front of the right4 soon. Christmas morning was only one5 away.

Ten hours later, Kane was6 for the day when he got a call. Mary had posted on Facebook that her sister Carlile had7 a trash bag full of kids' Christmas gifts. Kane's co-workers saw Mary's post and8 the two posts. They gave Kane's phone number to Carlile, and the two met up near a ski resort on U. S. Highway 2. The fact was Carlile had been on the way to.9 her grandkids in Everett, about two hours west of where the10 were found, and hadn't realized the bag had11 out of her truck bed due to the strong wind early in the trip. Carlile chatted with Kane for a bit, then drove back to her grandkids and rewrapped the12 before they woke up.

"Working13 is hard. Being away from your family and having to miss out on all that stuff just seems14," says Kane. "But being able to make someone else's Christmas better, I was pretty15"

According to Visit Sweden, the two countries are constantly being mixed up. Here's how you can tell the difference between the two European countries. Visit Sweden's campaign video is titled "Welcome to Sweden"

In the video, an official representative standing between two Swedish flags addresses the "leaders and citizens of Switzerland". Switzerland can talk about mountain tops, yodeling (约德尔唱法) and watches, for example, while Sweden is all about rooftop bars, silence and forgetting about time. "As long as both tourism organizations stick to this division in all communication with the outside world, the confusion should come to an end." Sweden proposes.

If you like historic banks, head to Switzerland, but if you prefer walking down beaches and sandbanks, you should visit Sweden, the tourist board says. In Switzerland, you can "enjoy some spectacular light shows made with projections and LEDs," Visit Sweden says, but "in Sweden there's no need for electricity to put on a show."

Finally, the tourist board reminds visitors that while Switzerland is a country of "many interesting sounds" like yodeling and cowbells,
 

A. It has its own natural spectacle — the Northern Lights.

B. To clarify this, the tourist board has launched a humorous new campaign.

C. Visit Sweden has also detailed some ways to distinguish the two countries.

D. Sweden is a place with its natural beauty, making itself spectacular and peaceful.

E. She thinks we can tell one from the other the way the people of the two countries live.

F. She declares it's time to clarify the two nations' distinctions by "who talks about what".

G. Sweden is a place of peace and quiet where the soundscapes will help you "wind down".

In his introduction, Edmonds acknowledges the book is not comprehensive, but rather a "brief account of the types of concerns that AI forces us to deal with". AI gives us an opportunity to ask what, if anything, makes us truly human. Every new advance of AI re-focuses such areas of inquiry as moral responsibility, famess, creativity and authenticity, even as it brings up the fear of a future without humans being the dominant species.

And what is AI? What makes it different from, say, the brain-replacing abilities of a calculator is its ability to learn so that performance on tasks can improve over time. For example, the programme Alpha Zero was given nothing but the rules of chess. It played itself millions of times over a few hours and then beat Stockfish, the strongest chess engine at the time.

Like most new technologies, the promise of AI is matched by its risk. For example, if Sigmund Freud is right that "love and work are the cornerstones of being human", we should start worrying. It is true that AI can get rid of boring, repetitive tasks. However, as philosopher John Tasioulas explains in the section "Work and Play", 47% of all occupations in the US are capable of being computerized in the next 10 to 20 years.

He then poses the question that will gain more urgency as AI matures: what does it mean to live in a world where AI takes over the tasks that have characteristically given human life its point? Tasioulas argues that either we will have too few jobs because of AI, or the job we artificially preserve will seem pointless, since those performing them will know AI has given human life purpose.

The essays in AI Morality cover many topics and all are worth reading for the balanced view they give over the horizon into a world mixed up with, or dominated by, AI. Depending on who you are, the bright and easeful landscape of AI may seem full of possibility. Or you may say, like English artist Max Beerbohm, upon reading Thomas More's Utopia (《乌托邦》),"So this is Utopia, is it? Well, I beg your pardon, I thought it was Hell!"

Now, a new study argues that there are differences — and that crucially, they depend on family size. This study, published Monday in the journal PNAS, used a different personality measure called HEXACO, which was developed by Michael Ashtona and Kibeom Lee, the two authors of the new study. HEXACO categories are honesty, humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness (尽责) and openness to experience. Agreeableness in HEXACO means a tendency toward flexibility, grace, and forgiveness.

The researchers used data from hexaco.org, where anyone can take a personality test to find out where they fall on this scale. For 710,797 individuals, they had information about birth order. For another 74,920 individuals, they had information about both birth order and number of siblings.

In this dataset, the researchers found that middle children had the highest scores for honesty, humility and for agreeableness, followed by youngest siblings, then oldest, then only children. They also found that the more siblings a person had, the higher they scored in these same traits.

"A commonsense possibility is that when one has more siblings, one must more frequently cooperate rather than act on selfish preferences," Lee and Ashtona wrote. "This ongoing situation might then promote the development of cooperative tendencies generally."

These findings are not likely to be the last word in birth order research, however. In 2020, for example, another study searching for differences between only children and children with siblings turned up no differences in narcissism (自恋)、And a 2019 study comparing only children and people with siblings using HEXACO found only insignificant small differences.

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It's great to receive your e-mail.

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You can read the Phoenix(凤凰) Ancient Town in Shen Congwen's books. You can see the city's image in the famous paintings by a great Chinese painter Huang Yongyu.你也能听到它 in the songs by Song Zuying, a well-known Chinese folk singer. The ancient city of Phoenix is obviously a colorful place full of humanistic culture which is passing from generation to generation.The beautiful land feeds the people, therefore, people there have outstanding personalities. One of China's greatest masters portrayed(描绘) his homeland, "the ancient Phoenix city", in his book as a poem, a picture, a dream and a song. This book was called The Border Town.It was an amazing book written in simple words. Because of the book, this small town is now well known in the world.

虽然凤凰古城不是很大, it is still the most aspiring(理想的) tourist destination for many visitors. On the other hand,it is also the second home of many people. This ancient city has been waiting for you for a thousand years. This is such a fascinating place that you cannot miss.

The Paris Olympics has come to an end. It is a chance for athletes to show their (skill).

Zheng Qinwen, from Hubei, is the (one) Chinese and Asian player to win the women's singles tennis gold. 21-year-old girl started playing sports from an early age. "I was fat as a kid and I often fell ill, so my parents told me (choose) one sport to play. I began with table tennis but (quick) looked for other sports. I had tried badminton, basketball and then tennis," Zheng said.

At the age of six, Zheng went to watch 2008 Beijing Olympic Games with her family. She was (excite) all the time. But when it came to tennis, Zheng just sat there and (think)about something. That was the time Zheng became sure about her interest in tennis.

After that, Zheng began to spend more time (play) tennis and she had a talent for it. She took Li Na, a great tennis player in China, as her model. Zheng also dreamed becoming a great tennis player. Now, she has realized her dream.

Lucy was a very1 girl. She always sat at the back of the classroom,2 or taking notes. Every Monday morning, there would be a special show in her class and one student would be3 to make a speech about his or her dream. Miss White hoped that Lucy could have a try the next week. But she refused.

"I know that it seems4 for you, but it will help you build up your confidence, " said Miss White. Lucy was lost in thought.

The next day, Lucy came to Miss White's office. Miss White was5 that she would take the chance. Miss White red-penciled her manuscript of speech, corrected her6 , and even helped with her body language. She advised Lucy to practice, and to7 that she was speaking confidently in front of her8 . For a whole week, Lucy practiced speaking in front of her imaginary friends and teacher. Behind the locked door of her bedroom, she told them about her9 .

Finally, Monday arrived.10 Lucy was called upon to give her speech, she stood up and walked to the front of the class without any notes, in a show of confidence. Lucy was successful. From that day, Lucy's life changed for the better.

Ways to Express Your Thanks

Expressing thanks is very important. But many people don't know how to do that. Maybe you have difficulty in expressing yourself. Here are some useful ways for you.

If you are too shy, you can write down some words on the card to express your feelings. You can also draw some pictures on it. The card with pictures will be beautiful. The beautiful card will show your feelings.

Send a gift

If somebody helps you, you can buy him or her a gift. The gift can show your thanks. It may not be expensive, but it's the thought that counts.

Sometimes, you may forget to say "Thank you" to your roommate. You can leave a message on the door to show your thanks. Seeing the message, your roommate will be happy. In this way, the relationship between you and your roommate will become closer.

If you can't say "Thank you" to your friend face to face; you can write an email. Even if your email is short, it may get your friend moved.

A. Make a card.

B. Write an email.

C. Leave a message.

D. Share your story.

Many Chinese enjoy eating chilies, but do you know that this spicy vegetable could also be dangerous? A 34-year-old US man was killed after eating a Carolina Reaper, the hottest chili in the world. After taking just a small part of the chili, the man had a serious headache in the following days.

In fact, eating spicy food causes stomachaches and headaches. But if chilies are bad for people, why do they like to eat this vegetable? That's because there are some special things in chilies. In some cases, eating chilies can make people happy.

And chilies are good in another way. Scientists found that the death rate (死亡率) of those who eat spicy food once or twice a week is 10% lower than those who don't eat it. So they suggest people can eat more spicy food to build us up and bring less death risk at an early age. Don't worry if you love spicy food. Chilies are in fact good for us.

Chess is a two-player game. One player uses the white pieces, and the other uses the black pieces. Each piece moves in a special way. Each player has a piece called the King. A player can only move one piece at a time. And he can't move again until the other player moves. The game ends when a player loses the King. There are some more rules.

Some people think chess is more than a game. They think it makes people's mind stronger, because good chess players are good at using their heads. They usually think about what the other player will do next. These skills are useful both in chess and in life. Chess is a kind of exercise for the mind.

Chess is not just for people. Computer began to play chess in the 1970s. At first, they didn't play well. Later, they grew much stronger. In 1997, a computer beat the best player in the world for the first time. It was a computer called Deep Blue. Deep Blue was big. Chess surely has a long way to go. Don't you think so?