This year promises to be an exciting one for technology and science. There's a line-up of great products for you to look forward to.
The Air Board 1.0
The Air Board 1.0 is a fantastic new way to get around. The board works when you step onto the pressure pads. To turn? All you have to do is move your weight to the left or right. It can travel at the speed of 10 miles an hour and it takes one hour to be fully charged. The power will last for about ten miles.
The Oculus Rift
Have you ever wished you could walk through the world of your games, seeing things as your characters would? Well, now you can. This clever headset Rift allows you to see the world of your games in 3-D.
The Miito
The Miilo is perfect for all homes, and especially those who like to care for the environment. It has been called "the kettle of the future". The Miito is designed to heat up the water in any container. You can fill a cup with the right amount of water and place it onto the kettle. After placing the rod into the water, the rod would heat up and so would the water. The product doesn't only water. They also save electricity.
The Click & Grow
Are you the kind of person who enjoys using herbs and spices (香料) when cooking? The Click A Grow makes sure that you always have fresh and well-grown herbs or other plants whenever you need them. It is self-watering. And it also has an LED light that makes sure the plants grow fast and healthy.
Dear Miss Hanff,
You will be glad to know that the two boxes of eggs and the tins of tongue have all arrived safely and once again we all wish to thank you most sincerely for your extreme generosity. Mr. Martin, one of the older members of our staff, has been on the sick list for some time and we therefore let him have the lion's share of the eggs, one whole boxful in fact, and of course he was delighted to get them. The tins of tongue look very inviting and will be a welcome addition to our larders (食物橱) and in my case will be put on one side for a special occasion.
I enquired at all the local music shops but was unable to get the Messiah or Bach's St. Matthew Passion in stiff covers in clean, secondhand copies, and then I found they were available from the publisher in new editions. Their prices seemed a bit high, but I thought I had better get them and they have been sent by Book Post a few days ago, so should arrive any day now. Our invoice, total $4.20, is enclosed with the books.
We are sending you a little gift for Christmas. We do hope you will not have to pay any duty on it. We will mark it "Christmas Gift" and keep our fingers crossed. Anyway, we hope you will like it and accept it with our sincere best wishes for Christmas and the coming year.
My name is certainly not of Welsh origin. As it is pronounced to rhyme with the French word "Noel", I think there may be a possibility that it originated in France.
Yours sincerely,
Frank Doel
Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Leonardo da Vinci ... the art world has never lacked talent. And now, a new painter is ready to join the list although this one isn't even human.
Next month, auction house Christie's Prints and Multiples will make history by offering the first piece of art created by artificial intelligence (AI) for sale. The painting is a portrait of a man called Edmond De Bela- my, and is expected to be sold for up to $10,000.
The work, which features a man with a mysterious look on his face, was created by software developed by the French art group Obvious. Laugero-Lasserre, an art collector, called the work "grotesque and amazing at the same time". This isn't the first example of Al-produced artwork, as AI has already been used to write poems and compose .songs. However, many people doubt whether it should be called art at all.
According to Russian writer Leo Tolstroy (1828 -1910), art is about creating emotion (情感). It's "a means of …joining people together in the same feelings' he once said.
So, if the emotion behind art is what makes it, the ability to create and use tools is what makes human Icings different from other species. And as a tool itself, the AI technology used to create the portrait is the result of a lot of effort made by several designers. Together, they "fed" the AI a huge collection of paintings from the 14th to the 18th centuries, until it was able to work out how to make similar paintings of its own.
The introduction of AI art could be the beginning of a new artistic movement. However, not everyone is ready to welcome these high-tech artists just yet.
"The human mind is what's behind the AI technology. And the human mind is not a cold, hard fact," said Oscar Schwartz, a professor of AI. "Rather, it in something that's created with our opinions and something that changes over
A team of engineers at Harvard University in trying to create the first robotic fly. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
"The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of its components is off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own' said Robert Wood, a Harvard engineering professor.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. "The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies (相互依赖）on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it d connected to," said Wood.
While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers' fields or on the battlefield. "Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around," he said.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications." You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animal, but using these robots instead" he said. "So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day-to-day basis."
It's a dream come true for many fans to get a close view of their favorite stars and take pictures withHowever, sometimes their enthusiasm can cause troubles for others.
At Hong Kong International Airport on Dec. 15, three young Chinese people boarded a Korean Aircraft.
The three people -two from the Chinese mainland and one from Hong Kong — were fans of Wanna One, a Korean band, who were on the same flight. However, immediately after taking pictures with their "idols (偶像),the fans asked to get a repayment and got off the plane.They had to go through security checks again, which delayed the flight by over an hour.
According to the flight regulations, all passengers need to get off and go through security checks once again even if only one passenger gels off the plane before takeoff.
Cases of crazy fans buying flight tickets just to follow and get a close view of their idols are common nowadays, reported CGTN. A series of rules were issued in July in order to stop crazy fans from disturbing public security at the airport.
"However, it shouldn't go too far and hurt the public interest. To obey public rules is the best way to follow idols," commented People's Daily.
A. To make up for the loss, a sizable amount of money went to 357 passengers.
B. As a result, all the remaining 360 passengers had to get off the plane.
C. This is in case any dangerous things have been left on the flight.
D. It's not unusual for fans and stars to share the same flight.
E. Some fans will do anything they can lo realize the dream.
F. It wanted to fly from Hong Kong to the capital Seoul.
G. There's nothing wrong with going after idols.
When I was a child, I loved to go fishing with Dad. But the only thing that wasn't very1about it was that I couldn't catch anything. I usually got pretty2and kept asking him why. He3answered," Son, if you want to catch a fish, you have to think like a fish." I remember being even more upset then because I didn't4how to think like a fish. Besides, I5, how could what I think6what a fish does?
As I got a little older I began to7what Dad really meant. So, I read some books on fish. And I even joined the local8club. I learnt that a fish is a cold-blooded animal and therefore is very9water temperature. That is why fish prefer10water to deep water because the former is11.Besides, water is usually warmer in direct sunlight than in the12. Yet, fish don't have any eyelids and the sun13their eyes. The more 1 understood fish, the more I became effective at finding and 14them.
When I grew up and15the business world, I remember hearing my first16say, "We all need to think like sales people." But it didn't completely make17. My dad never once said, "If you want to catch a fish you need to think like a18. What he said was, "You need to think like a fish." Years later, with great efforts to19long-term services for people much older and richer than me, I gradually20what we all need is to think more like customers. It is not an easy job.
Chinese might be heard when you take a ride on the street. Turning to the right, you see a Sichuan-style restaurant. After (walk) into a store, you see that Huawei smartphones are on sale. But you're not in China — you're in Manchester in Britain. fact, you might see similar things in many other cities. Chinese products have been going global.
Western countries (enjoy) Chinese food for a long time. Chinese restaurants have made some changes to the dishes (meet) local people's tastes.
Some Chinese (brand) are also becoming more popular. In many cities in Europe, stores sell TCL televisions, Haier fridges Lenovo computers, reported Reuters. They're not simply made in China, but (design) in the country.
In the past, most Western people thought Chinese products were cheap but not (rely). Things have changed greatly, though. For example, Huawei. is one of China's major smartphone makers, overtook Apple in worldwide smartphone sales for the first time in June and July, behind only Samsung. "They are (beauty) and offer some unique features American phones don't have, " CNN once said about Chinese smartphones.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
）只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Travelling abroad, you should follow the customs of the country you were visiting. When you are invited, that is good manners to refuse or accept the invitation either by writing and by telephoning. If you go to a party, it is polite to arrive on the time. It is good manners to shake hands with our host. You can take a present if you like, possible a bottle of wine, a box of chocolates or any flowers. However, it is not bad manners to take nothing. It is not polite stay too late after the other guests have gone. Also, it has suggested to write or telephone a day or two late to thank your host.
1）为什么要讨论这个话题；
2）应在哪些方面养成好习惯(如饮食、作息、锻炼等）；
3）你的感受或期望。
注意：
1）词数100词左右；
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3）开头、结语已为你写好。
Dear classmates,
My topic is about life habits.
That's all. Thank you for listening.
