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The world's largest three-dimensional LEGO model of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" was displayed in Hong Kong last week.

Covering 47 square meters, the exhibit became a popular attraction, artfully (piece) together a wonderful world where the old and the new met.

"We rolled out this exhibit mainly (promote) traditional Chinese culture through creative events appealing to young people, " said a deputy general manager of Bank of China.

As people walked along the 26-meter-long and three-dimensional model made of up to 3 million lego bricks, they could picture themselves in lively ancient streets, sellers were offering goods and kids were playing hide and seek.

Pointing at two-storey building with a front door decorated with colorful ribbons, Li Chun-tung, a (lecture) at the University of Hong Kong, said, "This was one of the (busy) restaurants then, with decorations that were typical inns and bars in Northern Song Dynasty. "

The lego model recreated many details of life over centuries ago, much the same as those presented in the painting. It combined two (entire) different cultural representatives from the East and the West, (offer) viewers a glimpse into the past and inspired them to explore the (rich) of Chinese heritage.

Silver Spring, a Washington, D. C. , suburb of about 80, 000, is a5 community bringing together families, young professionals, retirees like Vera, and a large community of immigrants and refugees (难民)6 to make this place home.

Vera tunes (调整) up the donated bikes and7 them to parks, food banks, and apartment complexes. He camps out with his Free Bikes sign and waits for people to wander over. Then he8 people with the perfect new ride and watches them ride away happy. His initial9 saw six bikes go in under 30 minutes.

In addition to the adults and kids he10 at his Free Bikes events, customers come from local resettlement agencies and other nonprofits. The groups11 information including the height, gender and age of a12 , and Vera delivers a fitting bicycle to their door. He's happy to make the13 .

Now neighbors know him as the Bike Dude, and they keep him busy with a14 supply of bikes, helmets and locks. So far, more than 700 Silver Springers have new wheels to take them anywhere their feet can15 , thanks to the big-hearted Bike Dude.

In the old days, Samoans greeted each other by touching foreheads and noses together. The practice was widely discontinued after the Spanish influenza pandemic (流行病) wiped out around 20 percent of our population.

Now, what about the language that Samoans use to greet people?

Talofa is the official word for hello in Samoan. That is Si-o'u-alofa, which literally means: my love, but the unspoken understanding behind it is that I'm offering my love to the person I'm addressing. So basically, Talofa means my love is for you.

Another greeting expression is Ua'e sau, which confused me when I first heard it. But I soon learned that it's so common and so very Samoan. When you show up somewhere, it's perfectly natural for a Samoan to ask, "Ua'e sau? " Anyone outside our culture might think, "Uhh, can you not see that I am here, and I have arrived?" Actually, it's just a way for the greeter to acknowledge you are now in their presence. Also I've noticed that if your arrival is unexpected, this question is a beautifully subtle (微妙的) way of asking why you are here.

A. It means, "Have you arrived? "

B. But they use a few other greetings as well.

C. Remember it next time a Samoan asks you, "Ua'e sau? "

D. They might wonder why you bother to ask such a question.

E. It comes from an older greeting packed with beautiful meaning.

F. So we should practice some of Samoa's most common greeting words.

G. These days, Samoans like to greet each other with a single kiss on the cheek.

"Interpersonal conflict is on the rise, driving increases in anger, anxiety, and general stress, " says Angus Fletcher, a researcher at the Ohio State University. "We wanted to look into those misunderstandings and see how they could be reduced. "

In the study, the team surveyed 1, 261 Americans online. All the participants read an article about an imaginary school with water shortage. Group one read an article that only gave reasons for merging (合并) with another school that has better water. Group two read an article that only gave reasons for the schools staying separate and hoping for other solutions to the problem. Group three was the control group that read both sets of the arguments.

They found the majority of the first two groups believed they had enough information to decide what to do. They said they would follow the recommendations in the article they read and thought others would make the same decision. About 55 percent of the control group recommended the schools merge.

The team calls this belief IOIA. Fletcher describes it as, "The less our brain knows, the more confident it is that it knows all it needs to know. This makes us leap to confident conclusions and decisive judgments, when we miss necessary information. "

The team also found some were willing to change their minds — once they had all the facts. Timing also plays a role. The people in the study changed their opinions that were recently formed, not long-held beliefs.

According to Fletcher, one of the best ways to reduce IOIA when disagreeing with someone is to stop and ask, "Is there something I'm missing that would help me understand their position better? " This can help reduce unnecessary interpersonal conflict.

"Children are born with skepticismc (质疑) and they can adapt their level of skepticism according to the quality of information they've seen before in a digital context," Orticio said. "They can use their expectations of how this digital environment works to make reasonable adjustments to how much they trust or distrust information. "

Minors encounter health misinformation within minutes of creating a TikTok account. Even platforms intended for young audiences like YouTube Kids have become spaces for misinformation. That's a particular problem because parents may have the impression that these are safe places their kids can explore. That may give a false sense of security and allow falsehoods and problematic content to go unchecked and be taken as true and acceptable. So encountering misinformation when children surf online is unavoidable.

If children have some experience working in controlled but imperfect environments where they are constantly encountering things that aren't quite right, and we show them the process for figuring out what is actually true and not, that will set them up with the expectation to be more critical. Orticio said, "Rather than trying tosanitize their online environments, parents should have discussions with their children about how to check claims and talk about what they're seeing. " It's not that we need to enhance their skepticism. It's that we need to give them the ability to use that skepticism to their advantage.

"In much of the world, women and girls are responsible for household duties," said McGriff, "It's seen that girls won't ever be putting their education to use." Additionally, many poor families can't afford girls' tuition fees, school supplies and uniforms (校服). Yet, studies have shown that providing free uniforms can reduce dropout rates by 16% and absenteeism by more than 35%. This simple solution took root in McGriff's mind and started her journey helping girls transform their lives.

As she took an entrepreneurship (创业) class, she was tasked with creating a business or nonprofit for a class project, which reminded her of the idea of the school uniform. Soon she developed an idea. After conducting field research, McGriff returned home, presented her education project at entrepreneurship competitions and won $35, 000 in startup fund. Eventually she established her nonprofit, Style Her Empowered (SHE), to bring her vision to life.

That first year, the group hired local tailors and provided uniforms and school fees for65 girls. But they soon ran into a problem — the students were outgrowing quickly. To address this, McGriff's team, together with local tailors and students, designed an innovative "growing uniform" which could be adjusted to fit a girl for up to three years, accommodating six different sizes.

Today, SHE serves girls in 20 rural villages in southern Togo, providing 1, 500 girls a year with free uniforms, school fees, supplies, tutoring, and much more. Once enrolled, students receive weekly tutoring. As a result, SHE's students consistently pass their exams at higher rates than the national average. "Our students have increased their performance in school dramatically," McGriff said. "If given the opportunity, they shine."

Officially known as the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, this conference held at Dartmouth College is widely considered to be the birthplace of AI as a field. A small team of scientists coined the term artificial intelligence for the event and set the course for future thinking and research on the technology.

1997: Deep Blue

IBM's Deep Blue became the first computer system to defeat a world chess champion in a standard tournament match. Deep Blue's underlying technology advanced the ability of supercomputers to tackle complex calculations (运算).

2019: GPT-2

While many major tech companies are involved in the development of AI, it was the publication of then-little-known OpenAI's Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 that showed the power of natural language processing. Able to work out the next item in a sequence, it could perform tasks such as summarizing and translating text.

2022: ChatGPT

The chatbot ChatGPT, released in late 2022, was built on a large language model — and introduced generative AI proper to the wider world. Its release sparked a new phase of rapid development, and generative AI quickly began to transform every aspect of business and our lives.

What's next for AI? Experts say we should expect interactive AI that can instruct other software to carry out tasks for you, AI making new scientific discoveries, and models that understand the physical world, remember, reason and plan.

1.中心介绍；

2.成员要求；

3.呼吁参加。

注意：

1.词数80左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

New Members Wanted

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1. 第一天进入高中，我对一切都很焦虑。 (senior, anxious)

2. 要是我不能给同学们留下一个好印象会怎么样呢? (what if...?)

3. 渐渐地，我发现我的新同学很好相处，并适应了这个新的环境。 (it作形式宾语，adapt)

4. 我报名参加了艺术和设计课程，因为我想成为一名设计师。 (sign up for, goal)

5. 我有信心，只要我专注于我的学习，我定能美梦成真。 (confident, concentrate on)

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The Chinese writing system, dates back to several thousand years ago, is one of the reasons for the (survive) of Chinese civilization.

Researchers generally agree that the oldest symbols that are recognizable as Chinese characters are those (find) on ancient oracle bones. These 3000-year-old symbols, known as jiaguwen, (carve) on turtle shells and used to tell fortunes and record events. They give people in modern era insight into how ancient Chinese people saw the world around them and into how they expressed their observations (creative). As people were divided geographically, this well-developed writing system evolved into (variety) dialects and characters. It was not until Emperor Qinshihuang united the seven major states into one unified country, the Chinese writing system began to develop in one direction. This united system has been great importance in connecting Chinese people and culture of the present with those of the past. Thanks to it, no matter when and where you are, people can read and appreciate ancient Chinese (classic).

With China continuously playing a greater role in international community, increasing number of foreign students are beginning to have a taste of Chinese characters and culture.