Debbie is a very busy woman. She has ten children. Every morning she wakes up at 6: 00. The older children get up at 6: 30 and the younger children get up an hour later. After the older children leave for school at 8: 00, Debbie spends most of the day at home with her babies, cooking and cleaning. She doesn't have time to go out to work, but she doesn't mind. Debbie's husband Bob works in a bank. He doesn't enjoy it, but he makes lots of money. Debbie spends most of it on food and clothes for the children.

    Debbie likes the evening best. After dinner, she sits down in the living room and tells the children stories before they go to bed. She doesn't read from a book. She reads her own stories. Once the children are asleep, Debbie can relax. But she doesn't sit and watch TV with Bob. She writes stories in a notebook.

    Bob sent one of Debbies' stories to a competition and it won. The organizer of the competition said Debbie should become a writer, but Debbie wasn't sure. However, the children thought it was a great idea, so she decided to try. The children like elephants best, so Debbie wrote a story about them. One book company (公司) loved it and published (出版) it. People can now buy her book in shops.

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Cliff is a businessman. He is very rich but he doesn't feel happy. One day, he was driving his car around town, looking at the people through the window. Suddenly, he saw 1 lonely man sitting in a square, and he was smiling. He drove past2 .

A few days later, Cliff 3 by the square. There he saw the lonely man again,completely happy. The next day, he chose the same way because he wanted 4 if the lonely man would be in his place and again he was there. Finally,he asked him "5 are you so happy? Almost every day I see you here and it seems that you are really happy."

"You're right, sir," said the lonely man.

Cliff was 6 ,"Do you have lots of money? Why 7 you always smiling?"

"I don't have 8 , sir. I don't have a home or a family. I don't have good health, either." answered the lonely man.

"What brings you happiness then? I have everything 9 I'm unhappy." Cliff asked.

"I accept that the best thing for me now is who I am, where I am and what is happening to me. I accept it 10 gratitude (感激) and a smile." answered the lonely man happily.

I really like Peking Opera because it makes me feel peaceful and happy. When I was 8 years old, I saw Peking Opera actresses dancing with flowing sleeves and s{#blank#}1{#/blank#} in a graceful (优雅的) way on television. I told my mom that I wanted to learn Peking Opera, and she put me in classes. Since then I've been on my learning j{#blank#}2{#/blank#} for 5 years.

I have to wake up at 6 o'clock every morning to practice the key skills in Peking Opera performance, such as leg exercises, somersaults (翻筋斗), and voice t{#blank#}3{#/blank#}. When practicing handstands (倒立), all the w{#blank#}4{#/blank#} is on my arms and I sweat. And to make my p{#blank#}5{#/blank#} more clear, I read the lines loudly and quickly. It makes my lips numb (麻木的), but I don't give up. In practice, what really w{#blank#}6{#/blank#} me is getting hurt. One time, I fell down while practicing. That made it d{#blank#}7{#/blank#} for me to go up and down stairs for a long time.

As the saying goes, "One minute on the stage needs 10 years' practice o{#blank#}8{#/blank#} the stage." All the hard work was worth it o{#blank#}9{#/blank#} I got the chance to perform Peking Opera onstage. In 2020, I took part in King Cross (《跨界歌王》) on Beijing TV and performed Ode to Pear a part from The Drunken Beauty (《贵妃醉酒》) during a show on CCTV. Peking Opera puts t{#blank#}10{#/blank#} different parts of theater like writing, music, painting, and costumes. The charm of Peking Opera is timeless. I hope Peking Opera will be loved and enjoyed by more young people.

Many people draw on the paper, but few paint on stones. And that was {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (exact) what Mo Wuying is doing. The artist from Chongqing has been doing this for more than eight years. And{#blank#}2{#/blank#} animals she paints on stones are truly lifelike. 

The poses of animals she creates {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (decide) by the shapes of the stones. Mo says it is an art form that requires creative {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (idea).

According to Mo, the first step is to draw the outline of an animal on a stone. Then she colors it {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (make) lively. After that, she adds all the details (细节).

Driven by her love of painting from a young age, Mo has been improving her stone painting skills for years. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the beginning, she tried her hand at sceneries and characters. In the past three years, she has focuses on painting animals. Mo {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (finish) hundreds of stone paintings so far. "The longer I work on it, the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (interesting) I find it," said Mo proudly. She sometimes even forgets to eat or sleep {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the painting takes up all her attention. 

"{#blank#}10{#/blank#} is relaxing to paint on stones and makes me more patient," said Mo, adding that she would continue working on it.

Developed by US company OpenAI,ChatGPT has taken the internet by.storm. People can ask the robot to write stories and emails,translate languages,and answer all kinds of questions.It does this by drawing on information collected from a large amount of internet text.One breakthrough behind today's model is a network called Transformer.The GPT models built by Open AI combined Transformer with unsupervised(无人指导的)learning,which means that the models can learn by themselves without being told what to look at.

"One of the biggest problems with ChatGPT is that it comes back,very  confidently,with false information,"Michael Wooldridge told The Guardian.This means that ChatGPT learns information from various resources but it cannot decide what is true or false.Some argue that ChatGPT will be used to make fake news, spread falsities,or be used for ill purposes.

Andreas Schleicher thinks the chatbot will become a very powerful tool in the development of education.But he also mentioned,"There's a great risk that we'll just blindly follow the answers that we get from ChatGPT rather than question it and create new knowledge.If students are only as smart as a smartphone,it means educators are not doing enough.People should focus on developing human skills that actually are important,such as imagination and creativity."

Schleicher added that as a tool,ChatGPT is going to make learning much more interesting and powerful,but as a purpose and goal,humans need to work very hard to win that race with technology.