Once a little boy wanted to meet Love. He knew it was a long trip to where Love lived, so he got his things ready with some pizzas and drinks and started off. When he passed three streets, he saw an old woman sitting in the park and watching some birds. She looked very hungry. The boy gave her a pizza. She took it and smiled at him. The smile was so beautiful that he wanted to see it again, so he gave her a Coke. She smiled once again. The boy was very happy.

They sat there all the afternoon, eating and smiling, but they said nothing. When it grew dark, the boy decided to leave. But before he had gone more than a few steps(步), he turned around, ran back to the old woman and gave her a hug(拥抱). The woman gave him her biggest smile ever.

When the boy opened the door of his house, his mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face and asked what had made him so happy. “I had lunch with Love. She has got the most beautiful smile in the world.” At the same time, the old woman’s son was also surprised at his mother’s pleasure and asked why. “I ate a pizza in the park with Love,” she said, “and he is much younger than I expected.”

If the world is full of love, we can enjoy a better life.

1.When the little boy saw the old woman, she was __________.

A.looking for a seat in the park B.passing the street

C.looking at some birds D.having a pizza

2.The little boy gave the old woman a Coke because __________.

A.the old woman still felt hungry B.he wanted to see the smile again

C.he didn’t like the drink D.the old woman paid him for it

3.The old woman gave the little boy the biggest smile __________.

A.after the little boy went home B.before it grew dark

C.when she was drinking Coke D.after the little boy hugged her

4.The boy’s mother was surprised to see her son was very __________ when the door opened.

A.happy B.sad C.worried D.angry

5.Which of the following is TRUE?

A.The little boy failed to find Love.

B.The little boy decided never to go home.

C.The little boy and the old woman found Love at last.

D.The old woman gave the little boy a hug to thank him.

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

In celebrating World Poetry Day, March 21, UNESCO discovers the special ability of poetry to express the human spirit.

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 they wrote it, or what they were doing at the time. These thoughts let us connect with the words better.

But in the age of AI(人工智能), would a poem still mean as much if it wasn't written by a human at all? Today, computers can create all kinds of texts, even poems included.

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 starting the website, Schwartz and Laird hoped that people would question the difference between humans and machines and be able to find out what makes us human.

Unstableness(不稳定性)is part of the answer. "The human is not a cold, hard fact," Schwartz said. "Rather, it is something that's constructed(构成)with our ideas 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 feelings across as a human poet could. In fact, today's 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(反映)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 introduce how World Poetry Day was started.

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

C.To show the importance and beauty of poetry.

D.To give some tips on appreciating(欣赏).

2.What do the data(数据)from "bot or not" show?

A.Computers are better than humans at writing poetry.

B.Computers can also produce poems of high quality.

C.Readers don't really care whether the poems were written by humans.

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

3.According to Schwartz, what makes humans different from machines?

A.We have changing ideas. B.We often make mistakes.

C.We are stable in what we do. D.We value feelings over facts.

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

A.They can't express feelings as well as humans.

B.They can't create poems that make sense(说得通)at all.

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

D.They only know how to copy poems written by humans.

Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. His father was a painter and art teacher who gave his son the first lesson in drawing. He won a prize — “Science and Charity” for his first important painting when he was only fifteen. He studied in several cities in Spain. But there was no one to teach him all that he wanted to know.

When he was nineteen, he visited Paris. Paris was then the center of the world for artists. Everything that was new and exciting in the world of paintings seemed to happen there. When he was twenty-three, Picasso moved there to live and lived in France for the rest of his life. world of paintings seemed to happen there. When he was twenty-three, Picasso moved there to live and lived in France for the rest of his life. When he was over ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man. He was still looking for new ideas and new ways to use his artistic materials. In 1973, he was dead. He is the greatest artist in the world.

任务 2 :阅读短文,根据英文释义及首字母提示拼写单词。

1.v_______ to go and spend time in a place

2.p_______ someone who paints pictures

任务 3 :阅读短文,进行同义句转换,每空一词。

3.When he was over ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man.

When he was ________ ________ ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man.

任务 4 :根据短文内容 回答问题。

4.Who did Pablo Picasso learn to draw from?

__________________________________________.

5.How old was Pablo Picasso when he died?

__________________________________________.

6.Was Pablo Picasso born in the nineteenth century?

__________________________________________.

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