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A poet and artist ____ coming to speak to us about Chinese literature and painting tomorrow afternoon.

A. is         B. are       C. was         D. were

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A poet and artist _____ coming to speak to us about Chinese literature and painting tomorrow afternoon.

A. are        B. is                            C. were                      D. was

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A poet and artist ______ coming to speak to us about Chinese literature and painting tomorrow afternoon.

A. is 　　　　　　 B. are　　　　　　 C. was　　　　　　　　 D. were

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A poet and artist with high fame ______ coming to speak to us about Chinese literature

and painting tomorrow afternoon.

A. is              B. are               C. was           D. were

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The poet and _________ artist is going to give us a talk this afternoon.

A. a             B. an               C. the              D. \

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MY Chinese friend is going to the US and he is nervous about what to talk about. “Talk about the weather,” is my advice.

“How are you?” is often followed by comments about the weather. “Nice day today.” “Cold/hot enough for you?” “Will it ever stop raining?” “Some winter we’re having.” “Can’t remember a winter/summer so cold/hot.” “Whew, it’s hot out there.”

These introductory statements are often followed by a long conversation entirely about weather conditions. Past, present and – with global warming – speculation (推测) about the future.

Our fascination with weather might seem silly, but the real purpose behind those endless discussions is small talk. Weather’s a safe topic of conversation. As a group, we Americans seem to enjoy chatting with those around us. Whenever we stand in line at the grocery store, we tend to engage in this sort of conversation with other people standing in line with us. If I were seated next to another American on any form of public transport, I’d expect both of us to make some harmless comment about the weather as a way of acknowledging (承认) each other’s presence (存在). At parties, the weather is a common topic, especially with those you are meeting for the first time.

In contrast we are taught to avoid certain topics like religion and politics. Weather is neutral (中性的); you don’t have to have an opinion about it, just make a statement of a fact. What is truly interesting is the fact that we can go on and on about it.

My Chinese friend has a hard time understanding why we put so much effort into this topic – and why I warn him about bringing up much more “interesting” subjects like salaries or how much something costs.

Sometimes it is tricky (复杂的) to wend (行走) one’s way through winding cultural roads, especially those that are never taught in books.

1.What does the writer suggest her Chinese friend should talk about with people in the US? (No more than two words)

2.Why do Americans enjoy talking to people around them about the weather, in writer’s opinion? (No more than ten words)

3.List four topics that people should avoid talking about in the US. ( No more than 5 words)

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The poet and________pianist is going to give us a talk this afternoon.

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A poet and journalist ________to give us a speech tomorrow  in our school .

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US poet Allen Ginsberg once said, “Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind.”

To recognize the unique ability of poetry to capture the human spirit, World Poetry Day is held by the United Nations on March 21 each year.

The magic of poetry lies in the connection built up through words between the author and the reader. When we read a poem, we often imagine what the poet was thinking when he wrote it, or what he was doing at the time. These thoughts let us connect with the words better, as if we’d written the poem ourselves.

But in the age of artificial intelligence, would a poem still mean as much if it weren’t written by a human at all? Today computers can create all kinds of texts, including research papers, books, news stories and even poems by using algorithms (算法).

In 2013, Australian researcher Oscar Schwartz and his friend Benjamin Laird created a website called “bot or not”, where readers can read poems and guess whether they were written by a human or a computer. During a recent speech at TedX Sydney, Schwartz said that throughout the years, some of the website’s poems were able to fool 65 percent of human readers into thinking they were written by a human.

By launching the website, Schwartz and Laird hoped that people would question the difference between humans and machines - and be able to identify what makes us human.

Unstableness is part of the answer. “The human mind is not a cold, hard fact,” Schwartz said during his TedX Sydney speech. “Rather, it is something that’s constructed with our opinions and something that changes over time.”

A computer may be able to create poems that are correct in both grammar and style, but it wouldn’t be able to get the same meanings and emotions across as a human poet could. In fact, current AI software creates poems based on ones that have already been written by humans. As Schwartz noted, “The computer works like a mirror that reflects any idea of a human that developers teach it.”

So a new challenge arises: What kind of human mind do we want the computer to reflect back at us?

1.What’s the purpose of the first three paragraphs?

A.To show the popularity of poetry around the world.

B.To introduce the origin of World Poetry Day.

C.To show the function of poetry in general.

D.To give some tips on appreciating poetry.

2.From Paragraph 5, we can learn that_______________.

A.Computers can also produce poems of high quality

B.65% of the poems on the website “bot or not” were written by computers

C.Readers don’t really care whether the poems were written by humans or not

D.Few readers can tell poems written by computers from those by humans

3.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 7 refer to?

A.Unstableness. B.Identification.

C.The human mind. D.The Website.

4.Why can’t computers match humans in creating poems according to the article?

A.They can’t create poems that make sense.

B.They can’t express emotions as well as humans.

C.They fail to use the correct grammar and style.

D.They only know how to copy existing poems.

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Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the USA or Australia. They also want their children to take extra courses or activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes that will give them a head start in life. ________1.________ So parents will spend unreasonable amount of money on education. ________2.

However, what most parents fail to see is that the best education they can give their children is usually very cheap.

Parents can see that their children’s skills vary. Some children are skilled in some areas while poor in others. ________3.

The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but not teaching them the most important skills: they need to be confident, happy and clever.

Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.

Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. 4. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. The result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of confidence.

Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest. he will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. ________5.________And that is more important.

A. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is.

B. These activities are teaching a child not only to read a book, but also to think , to use his mind.

C. What most parents fail to realize ，though ,is that today’s children lack self-respect and self-confidence.

D. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.

E. The more cost in education, the better the result will be.

F. Cooking demands patience and time.

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