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    Have you ever had dreams about building a robot? Or putting together a spaceship? Or even seeing your face made out of chocolate? Done. All you need is a 3-D printer.

    The possibilities of 3-D printing seem endless(无穷尽的）.All the user has to do is to design an object on the computer and choose a material to print in. The printers print in hundreds of different materials including glass, sugar and even skin! When the user presses(按）“print", the 3-D printer spreads the materials layer(层）by layer and like magic the object is produced.

    The first 3-D printer was invented in 1986 by an American, Charles Hull. But 3-D printing has only become cheap enough recently for most people to use. Designers now use 3-D printing to create unusual things. The Dutch artist Dirk Vander Kooj prints furniture made from old fridges. And doctors have used 3-D printing to print human body parts! The Telegraph reported in February that scientists from Cornell Medical College even printed a man-made ear.

    But like a lot of new technologies, if 3-D printing gets into the wrong hands, it can be dangerous.

    In 2011 a group of four men in the US used 3-D printing to produce ATM skimmers(提款机盗刷器).These were placed on an ATM and stole over $400,000 from users of the ATM. It is terrible to think that criminals like them might one day use a 3-D printer to print a gun.

    But for better or for worse, 3-D printing has been put into use. In a few years, you'll probably be wondering how you could ever live without your 3-D printer!

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    Have you heard about "Face Recognition (刷脸)" technology? It begins to become a popular and exciting development in China. In September 2017, a Kentucky Fried Chicken KPRO restaurant in Hangzhou utilized (利用) this new technology.

    Customers will go through the buffet (自助餐) line and then check out with their food using this "Just look with your face" payment method. When they get to the payment machine, they simply choose the Payment of facial recognition and then stand in front of the screen for 1-2 seconds. They then confirm their account and phone number and finish the payment process—all of it takes no more than 10 seconds!

    Nowadays, the words "Face Recognition" have become popular around China with the development of the ability to pay with facial recognition. Here are several examples of how you might hear the words in daily life in China. In Hangzhou, a high school provides a service where students can pay for meals by facial recognition. However, this isn't the only way we use the words in China! When you combine these characters together you also get another meaning: Jackie Chan got a dinner for free by "brushing his face".

    Do you know more about other meanings of "Face Recognition"? Please tell me more about it by sending an email to Susan2018@126.com or call me at 8524689. We'll talk about the topic next time.

Do you want to travel all over the world by bus? A travel company in India can give you such a great bus trip. The bus starts from Delhi to London and crosses 18 countries during 70 days. It can carry 20 tourists one time and they can get on and get off on the way at any time. 

"The idea of the bus travel is from my drive from London to Delhi in 2010, "Agarwal, one of the managers of the travel company says. "A lot of people want to have these overland(陆上的)travels, but they don't want to drive. On our bus travel, people will sit comfortably on the way. And they can stop their travel at any time. "

 ▲ , and one needs over $ 20, 000. But after knowing the idea of the bus travel, lots of tourists call the company to ask more about it every day. Over 40 , o00 people want to try the bus travel. 

There's a new AI robot: ChatGPT. The tool is an AI chatbot system. OpenAI brought it to the public in November 2022 to show off and test what a very large，powerful Al system can achieve. ChatGPT remembers the main information of your dialogue, using previous(先前的)questions and answers to provide its replies. It gets the answers from a large amount of information on the Internet. 

You can ask ChatGPT anything，like explaining physics，asking for birthday party ideas and getting programming help. Perhaps it's not smart enough to replace all humans yet，but it can be creative，and its answers can sound very authoritative（权威的）. 

（A）ChatGPT is free to use at the moment because it is still in its research period. But when too many people visit its site，it overloads and can't deal with what you ask for. It just means you should try visiting the site at a later time when there are fewer people. （B）如果你不想等待，有一个适合你的选择。And this service does come at a cost of $20 monthly.

However ChatGPT can't replace Google at present. ChatGPT is a robot that provides replies to your questions，but Google is n search engine in which you can search for us much information as possible. ChatGPT his limited knowledge because of its programming, but Google has unlimited knowledge which is renewed every day. 

Boys and girls, do you have the habit of making resolutions before the new term starts? Read and have a look at the resolutions of Tony and three of his classmates. 

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In the end, I hope all of you have fun here and welcome to join us.