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TV: The Crown (Season Six)
Netflix, November 16.
The final season of The Crown is being divided into two parts, with four episodes on show before Thanksgiving and the remaining six landing on December 14. And, yes, those initial episodes will address the death of Princess Diana, played by Elizabeth Debicki, a talented Australian actress.
OPERA: Later the Same Evening
Juilliard Opera presents. Peter Jay Sharp Theater, November 12, 15, and 17.
Composer John Musto and play writer Mark Campbell turned those moody scenes into a one-act opera that's become a student favorite but rarely gets seen on a greater stage. It would be a once in a life time chance to have a feast for eyes.
MOVIES: Fallen Leaves
In theaters, November 17.
Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki, a master of deadpan, returns with what might be his most romantic film so far — an unexpected meet up of an alcoholic construction worker and a headstrong supermarket employee.
MUSIC: Heaven Knows
Warner Records UK, November 10.
Pink Pantheress, 22, combines R&B, pop, and electronic music into relaxing but impactful tracks like "Do You Miss Me?" from December's Take Me Home EP. This fall, her first complete studio-recorded album, consisting of 13 songs, will be released. Early tastes of Heaven Knows like "Capable of Love" and "Mosquito" suggest that we're in for tighter hooks and longer, more ambitious compositions.
Technology is more than an abstract concept associated with advanced tools and systems. It also shapes the way people behave, grow and develop, both within their own lives and in their relationships with others. While technology has developed over thousands of years, the last century has seen an explosion in technology that has influenced fundamental changes in how humans see the world and interact with others. Specifically, the Internet and mobile devices have completely changed the way people interact with each other. There has been a debate going on whether technology is benefiting human communication or ruining it.
Undoubtedly, technology is helping people build newer and necessary communication skills. In business, office employees and managers use technology to send emails to one another, which is considered a communication skill. On social media, just share a few of your images and people start communicating on and about your images according to their viewpoint. With the outbreak of COVID-19, in order to work on the projects, the students use their phones to reach their teachers and classmates.
However, technology is sometimes considered to disconnect people from others around them. With cell phones, most people think that it's easier and more convenient to text instead of meeting in person. Lucas Lengacher, an undergraduate from Huntington University , claims in his article that at least 42.91% people respond to messages immediately yet only 2.83% people don't check their phones in the morning. In his research he found that "almost 60 percent of people felt disconnected from others around when they were on their phones".
Ever wondered why your partner is up with the lark (百灵鸟) while you are happily sleeping till noon? It could be thanks to Neanderthal genes, according to a new study.
Scientists comparing ancient DNA with the genetics of modern humans discovered a "striking trend", said John Capra, an epidemiologist (流行病学家) at the University of California in San Francisco. The researchers found that the Neanderthal genes that remain affect the body clock —increasing tendency to be a morning person.
Neanderthals lived at higher latitudes (纬度) than our ancestors who migrated from Africa — further away from the equator, with the days longer in summer and shorter in winter. "The gene that makes people early risers likely enables more rapid alignment (协调一致) of the circadian clock (生物钟) with changing seasonal light patterns," Dr Capra said, "when Neanderthals were able to make the most of daylight hours to hunt."
Scientists have previously explored how the circadian rhythms of insects, plants, and fish have developed depending on latitude. But that hasn't been well studied in humans. There searchers wanted to see whether there was a genetic reason for differences in circadian rhythms between Neanderthals and modern people, and found 16 variants (变异体) associated with greater "morningness". They suspected that as Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans mated, people today could have followed Neanderthal "circadian variants".
To test this, scientists analyse the genetics of several hundred thousand people from the UK Biobank and found many of the variants that affect sleep preference. "Most noticeably, they found that these variants increase morningness," the researchers said. This is consistent with what has been found in other animals that have adapted to living at a high latitude, as Neanderthals did.
Lately, it's felt like technological change has entered an incredible speed. Companies like OpenAI and Google have unveiled new Artificial Intelligence systems with incredible capabilities, making what once seemed like science fiction an everyday reality. It's an era that is raising big, existential questions for us all, about everything from the future of human existence to the future of human work.
"Things are changing so fast,"says Erik Brynjolfsson, a leading, technology-focused economist based at Stanford University. As he notes, this new wave of technological change looks like it could be pretty different. Unlike before, experienced and skilled workers benefited mostly from AI technology. In this new wave, it's the less experienced and less skilled workers who benefit the most."And that might be helpful in terms of closing some of the inequality that previous technologies actually promoted," Brynjolfsson says. So one benefit of intelligence machines is-maybe-they will improve the know-how and smarts of low performers, thereby reducing inequality.
But it's also possible that Al could lower the profit of the experienced, smart, or knowledgeable ones.AI could reduce inequality by bringing the bottom up, and it could also reduce inequality by bringing the top and middle down.
Of course, as Erik put, it's also possible that Al could end up increasing inequality even more. For one, it could make the Big AI companies, which own these powerful new systems, wildly rich. It could also empower business owners to replace more and more workers with intelligent machines. And it could kill jobs for all but the best of the best in various industries, who keep their jobs because maybe they're superstars or because maybe they have seniority.
The effects of AI, of course, are still very much being studied and these systems are evolving fast, so this is just an assumption. This machine intelligence could upend much of the previous thinking on which kinds of jobs will be affected by automation.
What comes to mind when you think about chocolate? A candy bar at Halloween? Ice cream on a hot day?
For Ibrahim, a 12-year-old boy from the West African country of Ghana, chocolate is not about sweet treats; it is about bitter work. But if they did, we would learn that Ibrahim spends his days growing and harvesting cocoa beans, from which chocolate is made. We would also learn that he is just one of more than two million children who perform this difficult labour instead of attending school.
To change the harmful practices like this, some farms use an approach called Fairtrade. It aims to create a different relationship between buyers (chocolate companies) and sellers (cocoa farmers) by encouraging farmers to join together to form a shared business called a cooperative. Because farmers work together instead of competing with each other, they can demand a higher price from the buyers.
Consumers like you can play a role as well. You can buy Fairtrade chocolate if possible, pressure candy companies to change their labour practices, or ask local stores to sell Fairtrade products. It is a programme recognizing schools that provide Fairtrade products in cafeterias or include related lessons in curriculum (课程).
Chocolate has a hidden story that affects children like Ibrahim—children who want a happy future just like you do. By enjoying Fairtrade products or simply spreading the word, you can make chocolate as sweet for all children as it is for you.
A. You have the power to change the story.
B. The labels on chocolate do not tell his story.
C. Fairtrade is a way of doing business that prohibits child labour.
D. You can also take action through the Fairtrade Schools network.
E. On many farms, children like Ibrahim perform difficult farming tasks.
F. Cocoa trees grow in the tropical climates of Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia.
G. With more income, farmers can pay adult workers and can send their children to school.
I chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts (文科) university that doesn't even offer a major in electrical engineering. 1 , this was not a practical option; I came here for more noble reasons. I wanted a 2 education that would provide me with flexibility (灵活性) and a value system to 3 me in my career. I wanted to open my eyes and expand my 4 by interacting with people who weren't studying science or engineering. My parents, teachers and other adults praised me for such a sensible 5 . They told me I was wise and mature beyond my 18 years, and I 6 them.
I headed off to college sure I was going to have a(n) 7 over those students who went to big engineering "factories" 8 they didn't care if you had values or were flexible. I was going to be a(n) 9 engineer: technical genius (天才) and sensitive humanist (人文学者) all in one.
But now I'm not so sure. 10 along the way my noble ideals crashed into reality, as all noble ideals eventually do. After three years of struggling to 11 math, physics and engineering courses with liberal-arts courses, I have learned there are reasons why few engineering students 12 efforts to reconcile (协调) engineering with liberal-arts courses in college.
The reality that has 13 my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal- arts 14 don't mix as easily as I assumed in high school. Individually they 15 a person in very different ways. However, I'm still trying.
"The 2023 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Jon Fosse for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable," the Swedish Academy (announce)in Stockholm on Thursday.
The committee praised the author's style, has come to be known as "Fosse minimalism(极简主义)". "Fosse presents everyday situations that are instantly recognizable in our own lives," the committee said. "His reduction of language and dramatic action expresses the most powerful human emotions of (anxious)and powerlessness in the simplest terms."
His masterpiece — seven works grouped together into a single volume titled "Septology" —tells the story of aging painter and widower who lives alone as he deals with the realities of religion, identity, art and family life.
"Fosse combines strong local ties, both linguistic and geographic, modernist artistic techniques," the committee said, "(list)the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett and the Austrian poet Georg Trakl among those who influenced his style."
"While Fosse shares the negative outlook of his predecessors, his particular vision cannot be said (cause)a nihilistic contempt(虚无主义不屑)of the world. Indeed, there is also great warmth humor in his work." the committee added.
The choice of Fosse as this year's laureate will do little to counter criticism from those who say the committee rewards (Europe)writers at the expense of authors in other continents.
Male writers have also (historical)dominated the award: Of the 120 laureates in literature only 17 have been women.
1. 海洋的重要性；
2. 保护海洋的倡议。
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1. 写作词数应为100左右；
2. 短文的题目已为你写好。
Be An Ocean Lover
Hello, everyone! I'm Li Hua, an enthusiastic ocean lover.
That's all. Thank you
At one table by the window, a lady just finished up her lunch. It wasn't anything fancy, just a sandwich and some salad, with a cup of tea to wash them all down. She seemed to be in her own little world, staring out the window every now and then, like she was waiting for something. After a bit, she got up, paid for her meal at the counter, and left.
Her table was still a mess with bits of her meal left behind. It wasn't a big deal—this happens all the time. But today, something different was going to happen. A young boy, who looked like he'd had a pretty rough time, had been watching her and the table from around the corner.
This kid was in bad shape. His clothes were too big and looked like they'd seen better days. His hair was all over the place, and there was dirt on his face. He had that look of someone who hadn't had a good meal for way too long. When the lady left, he saw his chance. He quickly sat down and started scarfing down (狼吞虎咽) the leftovers like they were the best meal he'd ever had.
But then, the waiter walked over. He was an older guy who'd probably seen everything. He didn't say anything at first, just watching the kid for a second. The boy got scared and stopped eating, and tears started to well up in his eyes. He thought the waiter would kick him out for sure. Instead, the waiter took away the half-eaten plate, and the boy's heart sank. The boy got up to leave.
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1.续写词数应为150个左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
But before he could get far, the waiter came back.
Then all people in the canteen started clapping.
