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Della Steward got the standard well-wishes on her blog on her 53rd birthday, but she got some unusual messages too. One was about the Smith family who had just lost their four-year-old son to cancer. His older brother was in deep sorrow. Could Della help?

That message and the 30 or so others like it were exactly what Della was looking for. To celebrate her 53rd, the long-time social service professional had put out a call on her blog. She wanted to commit 53 random acts of kindness by the end of her birth month, and she needed information on people who could use one. When she got the note about the Smith family, she sent a wind chime (风铃) with the message "Listen to the wind and know that I am near written on it." It now hangs in the four-year-old's bedroom, where his older brother can go to listen to it whenever he wants.

This is not the first time that Della has decided to give gifts for her birthday. For her 47th, in 2016, she founded Love in Action, an organization committed to doing something good near her home and beyond. Its aim is simple: Do Your Best, Show Your Love!

Over the years, the organization has reached out and touched well over 100strangers, some found via Della's blog, others with help from her grandkids. The organization also shares inexpensive and creative gift ideas for others to help people in need.

Della pays for everything herself: gift cards, pay-it-forward purchases at drive-throughs, and care packages, as well as the gas it takes to play fairy. Her family often gives her some extra birthday cash with a serious warning against spending it on anyone else, which she naturally ignores. "I got a couple of gift cards for my birthday this year and YESSS!" It's Della's party, and she'll give if she wants to.

Within weeks of its launch, ChatGPT started a new global race in artificial intelligence (AI). The chatbot is a part of a fresh wave of generative AI — complicated systems that produce content from text to images — that is set to have a great impact on Big Tech, industries and the future of work in a decade.

As an artificial-intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI, an AI research company, ChatGPT was released in November 2022, which can have conversations, generate poetry, and suggest edits to computer programming code. The second half of its name, GPT, stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. Transformers are specialized algorithms (算法), learning to predict not just the next word in a sentence but also the next sentence in a paragraph and the next paragraph in an essay. This is what allows it to stay on topic for long stretches of text.

ChatGPT is trained on a vast number of articles, websites and social-media posts from the Internet as well as real-time conversations with people. It learns to mimic the grammar and structure of the writing and reflects frequently-used phrases. But it isn't always accurate: its sources aren't fact-checked, and it relies on human feedback to improve its accuracy.

OpenAI developed ChatGPT as part of a strategy to build AI software that will help the company turn a profit. In January, Microsoft, its strategic partner, announced a fresh multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI and said it plans to integrate ChatGPT into its Bing search app and other products. Google and Baidu are also pushing to launch similar tools.

ChatGPT has reached 100 million users just two months after launch. Despite its sudden burst in popularity, the technology currently has serious limitations and potential risks that include giving misinformation and breaking laws on intellectual property (知识产权).

In 2014, I was in ballet class when I got a call from the hospital that my dad had experienced a stroke. I rushed to the hospital to join him, and found him buried in a nest of cables, surrounded by a variety of monochromatic, rapidly beeping (making a short, loud sound) assistive machines. They seemed to form a single, massive enclosure around him. Every few moments he would peer up at one of the machines with wide, confused eyes. I became clear that many of the technologies that were meant to be helping and supporting him were scary and inaccessible. During the most difficult moments of his life, the machines multiplied his fear.

I wondered how I could make him feel reassured, safe, and dignified around these devices. At the time, I was a professional dancer and choreographer (编舞者). Dancers, performers and theater artists are all masters at evoking emotions, so I began to think how I might improve machines to help him feel empowered and hopeful rather than afraid. My dad is now in his early 70s and fully recovered. But his story led me to start combining my passions for dance and technology.

I've danced with different robots all around the world, in installations (就职) and live performances. I'm now a Ph. D. candidate in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, where I work on models and interfaces that allow robots to learn new tasks from humans.

As the number of robots in society continues to increase, more people need to be capable of using them. I think of other commonly used technologies like laptops and phones and reflect that a user like my dad actively direct the robot with natural human motions.

I believe the intersection (交叉点) between robotics and human will continue to expand as robots move out of the factory and into the public. I am not sure how soon my dad will have a robot in his house, but I do believe that when it arrives, it will be filled with dance knowledge.

May 18th is International Museum Day. Let's take a look at some of the strangest museums around the world.

Giant Shoe Museum

Located in the famous Pike Place Market of Seattle, the Giant Shoe Museum is a single exhibit wall located on the outside of the Old Seattle Paperworks store and brings a lot of business to the shop as a result. A variety of giant shoes include a size 37 shoe worn by the world's tallest man, a real clown shoe and the world's largest collection of giant shoes.

Washington Banana Museum 

Ann Mitchell Lovell really loves bananas. In fact, she loves them enough to not only run the Washington Banana Museum, which features almost 4,000 items related to the world's best-selling fruit, but to also upload photos of her favorite items from the museum online so those who can't make it to the physical location can still enjoy the virtual Banana Museum.

Roswell UFO Museum 

Visitors can ask as many questions as possible about the Roswell incident of 1947, and know about what was spotted in the sky that fateful night. Exhibits include information on the event, crop circles, other UFO sightings, Area 51, and so on. Regardless of your personal opinion about UFOs, there's no denying that the museum has been quite successful. Since it opened its doors in 1992, it has outgrown two different locations, and now occupies an old movie theater.

Beijing Tap Water Museum 

One of the key ingredients you need to make ramen is water, so when you're done with weird (怪异的) museums in Japan, maybe you should head to China to learn more about tap water, specifically the history of the first water plant in Beijing. Here you can study over 300 items to better familiarize yourself with the 100-year-old history of tap water in China. The best thing about this museum is that any of its drinking fountains can provide you with an enduring souvenir of your trip.

Next to our house lived an old couple, who, accustomed to country life, were unwilling to move to the city to live with their son and stuck in a lonely existence for many years. It seemed that they didn't feel like making any new connections with others, including their next-door neighbours.

The neighborhood kids nicknamed the strange old couple Crazy Jack and Ruby Rednose. Rumor(流言，传言)was that they sat inside and drank tea all day. The only words we ever heard from them were "Keep out of our rosebushes!"The rosebushes crawled along the fence. Or rather, they served as a fence between our house and theirs, overgrowing the support.

I was eleven at the time and the oldest of our family girls. A suitable playing court was a headache problem for us when we felt like playing softball games, which was our favourite sport then. We should have played our softball games elsewhere to avoid hurting the roses, but we secretly enjoyed annoying Crazy Jack and Ruby Rednose. 

One day,we had a softball game in our yard. Mary was trying to catch a fly ball. She stumbled(绊倒)over one of Ruby Rednose's rosebushes and fell on top of several more. Just at that moment, Ruby Rednose sprang out and ran toward Mary. She screamed angrily, "Look at what you've doneto our family's roses! You've always been a trouble. You have no idea what this rosebush means to me!"

Hearing this, my sisters and I ran into our house. Breathlessly, we told Mom what had happened."Girls, I have told you not to play softball near those bushes. Come outside right now and help me fix them.""Mom, we thought you didn't like the couple," we protested."They're mean to us." Mom just glared at us. We followed her outside to help repair the rose fence. While Mom was examining the damaged roses, Ruby slowly walked out. She looked sad. And it wasn't her nose that was red，but her eyes.

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Ruby walked over to my mother, we girls holding our breath.

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A few weeks later, the plants all came back to life.

内容包括：祝贺他获奖； 肯定他付出的努力； 期待他为弘扬中国文化做出贡献。

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参考词汇：校园戏曲艺术节Campus Opera Art Festival

Dear David,

Yours,

 Li Hua

Huizhou enjoys a time-honored history. In 2000, Xidi and the nearby Hongcun village were declared World Heritage sites by UNESCO for their outstanding preservation of rural architecture (date) back to the Ming and Qing dynasties. 

Huizhou houses are often wooden structures with brick walls, which require a lot of maintenance. Moreover, daylight is valued in Huizhou houses, which is reflected in the building of open interior courtyards, (allow) sunshine to enter the rooms. Now, walking along the bluestone streets there, visitors can appreciate the distinctive Huizhou-style houses featuring white walls, dark tiles(瓦片)and layered horse-head roofs,  feel like they are immersed in a traditional Chinese ink painting. 

The tourism boom helps to protect and breathe life into the ancient village. A (symbol) paifang, standing at the entrance to Xidi, (build) in the 16th century in memory of Hu Wenguang, Ming Dynasty official born in the village who made great (contribute) to local education and livelihoods. It is the local people's desire to protect the local historical characteristics that leads to the buildings (preserve) to this day. Besides ancient dwellings and paifang, there stand some ancestral halls clans(宗族，家族)will gather to make sacrifices to their ancestors. With their own unique and marketable value, all these old Huizhou buildings are giving full play their distinctive cultural charm.

I have grown up in a football-loving family. My elder sister Stevie1 with Crewe Alexandra Girls for a year or two as a left back just like our hero Jamie Carragher.

I remember the exact moment when I told my dad I was 2 in doing what my big sister did. I was watching the game with him in the living room and it just 3 : "It makes me 4 that I can' t be a footballer." He asked why not, and I answered, "Because I'm not a boy."

He 5 responded by telling me that women's football was "great" and that I could play if I wanted to. "Yeah, I suppose so," I responded, "but no one 6 women's football." Looking back, I can see exactly why I felt like that.

At school, there was an unwritten rule that sports like rugby and football were for the 7 . I'd never seen a women's football match on TV and the only 8 athletes I'd heard of were in the Olympics.

Today, the England Lionesses(英格兰母狮队)will 9 Scotland in the World Cup, and people across the world will tune in. 10 women's football has turned out to be one of FIFA's investments, the majority of female players in top tiers are earning under what anyone would consider a fair 11 , and only £24 million prize money was awarded to the women's World Cup victors in12 with £315 million to the men's. That's a vast 13 .

Today, I'll be 14 the Lionesses and the song "It's coming home" will mean more this time around, because it'll mean talented, skillful female footballers being 15 into millions of homes and maybe, just maybe, a little girl believing that she can also be a Lioness one day.

It is well-known that food which is full of fat isn't good for your heart. Australian researchers tested people with asthma(哮喘)before and after a high-fat meal or a low-fat meal. Then they found that the high-fat meal increased inflammation(炎症)and reduced the lung functions.

30 non-obese people with asthma took part in the study, as well as 16 obese adults. The non-obese volunteers received either a high-fat or low-fat meal, while the obese ones were all given a high-fat meal.  The low-fat meal was 13 percent fat.

Four hours after the meal, the researchers found that the airway inflammation increased a lot and lung function was affected in those who had the high-fat meal. And these people saw just a 1 percent improvement in their lung function when they used their inhalers(吸入器)to treat asthma. 

"If these results can be tested again by further research, this suggests that reducing the amount of fatty food one eats may be useful for managing asthma," said the study's lead author, Lisa Wood, at the Hunter Medical Research Institute in New Lambton. "The number of people in the world with asthma has increased greatly over the past few decades. "

Dr Thomas Leath, director at Scott & White Healthcare in Texas, said, "Eating fatty food can lead to obesity, and fat can certainly cause a small amount of inflammation. "He doubted whether the effect on lung function was great enough for people to notice, but said the study provided one more reason why people shouldn't have high-fat diets.

A. And one reason is the high-fat Western diet.

B. Inflammation can be either short-lived or long-lasting.

C. But now a new study suggests that fatty meals may affect the lung function too.

D. But I'm surprised that one meal could do this.

E. The high-fat meal was 50 percent fat.

F.People are generally considered obese when their body mass index is over 30 kg/㎡.

G. Those who ate the low-fat meal saw a 4.5 percent improvement.

Technology is starting to give us superpowers once reserved only for comic book heroes like Spider-Man and Superman. We now live in an age of human enhancement and related technology has captured the attention of the media and investors.

Some of these new technologies achieve their effects by means of electronic devices that connect our brains to external sources of knowledge, sensory data or physical power. We may not get chips implanted in our brains any time soon, but think about Google Glass—who needs an inserted chip when you can wear a computer on your head?

Wearable technology doesn't only come in the form of a pair of glasses. A Japanese laboratory is working on a more practical prototype(雏形) of a muscle suit than lron Man's shiny armor(盔甲). The muscle suit, called an exoskeleton, enables the sick and elderly to move around more easily, New Scientist magazine reported. Coveting(觊觎)the powers of Spider-Man, the US military is working on a "Spider-Man suit" that not only lets wearers climb vertical walls, but also allows them to sense approaching objects without looking at or hearing them, according to an American military technology website.

But perhaps you favor more subtle powers like mind control or mind reading. This may one day come true as well. The most amazing human enhancement technologies that have come into reality are devices that interact directly with the human brain.

Q Sensor, created by scientists at MIT, is a wireless sensor that measures electricity conducted through the skin. It can detect whether people are bored, stressed or excited, and therefore has wide applications in research and therapy, the BBC reported.

Scientists envision neural implants that could allow humans to manipulate real-world objects with their mind—a power not unlike mind control. Slate magazine reported this might already be happening.