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Community Volunteers Program
Community Volunteers Program is a brand new service opportunity that engages volunteers in weekly service with community-based organizations in neighborhoods surrounding the Boston campus.It offers various volunteer placements that will allow you to connect your skills，passions，and interests with weekly service!
826Boston
It is a nonprofit kids writing and publishing organization empowering traditionally under-served students （age2to13）to find their voices，tell their stories，and gain communication skills to succeed in school and in future life.
•Primary Focus：After-school enrichment/tutoring.
•Opportunity Type：Remote.
Family Gym Program
Family Gym's goal is to provide families with young children（age0to10）with a safe，accessible space to engage in fun，and age-appropriate physical activity.
•Primary Focus：Nutrition and Meal Assistance，Nutrition and Physical Education.
•Opportunity Type：Virtual/Remote.
Community Servings
Community Servings actively engages the community to provide medically tailored，nutritious，scratch-made meals to critically ill kids（age6to10）and their families.
•Primary Focus：Food Security，Nutrition and Meal Assistance.
•Opportunity Type：In person.
Hernández After School Program
HASP involves youth from the Rafael Hernández Two-Way Bilingual School to provide the highest quality of specialized services to meet the educational，social，emotional，cultural，and recreational needs of its students（age5to12）in the surrounding communities.
•Primary Focus：After-school enrichment/tutoring for multilingual students.
•Opportunity Type：Remote.
1.What is the main job of volunteers in826Boston？______
A.To teach students expressive skills.
B.To provide kids with physical training.
C.To offer teenagers social assistance.
广东2014高考D.To help youth with emotional problems.
2.Which program may prefer volunteers with medical knowledge？______
A.826Boston.
B.Family Gym Program.
C.Community Servings.
D.Hernndez After School Program.
3.What do the four programs have in common______
A.They advocate healthy diets.
B.They focus on education.
C.They feature online service.
D.They center around children.
B
Helga Stentzel's Clothesline Animals combine charming images as fine art prints in various sizes.
As an artist whose style she calls"household surrealism（超现实主义）"，she works in various medi
a and has a large collection of works.Instead of throwing an old pair of pants or T-shirt away，Helga Stentzel puts her tired garments out to the farm.By hanging them on a simple clothesline she sets up and folding them artfully that look like animals，she takes wonderful pictures.Some are shot in real locations while others are digitally placed in environments in charming form with appealing colors.
Siberian-born Stentzel has cooperated with many respectable and well-known brands，one of which is Hogar Verde，a bio-friendly laundry products brand in Ecuador.For them she has created the adorable clothing illusions（错觉）for a print ad campaign，which also drew attention to the endangered animals shown within，like dinosaurs，polar bears and so on.
Stentzel's practice started from her childhood in Siberia，where she spent hours surveying her grandmother's carpet，woods and random objects for recognizable forms，including a pile of buckets looking like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
In what seems a very simple gesture，Stentzel's works employ household items and turn them into surrealist images that uncover different reading layers.From food to clothes，the artist is inspired by
everyday objects and gives them a second life through her creative and really poetic personal angle. "I stare at things longer than socially acceptable!It can be anything—a chair，a noodle hanging off th
e fork，a lamp post in the middle of the road.Observation is a form of thinking for me.I really enjoy studying colors，shapes and textures—with no expectation，simply admiring their unique beauty.Very often there's nothing more to it，but sometimes BOOM!—a creative idea hits my brain，and it makes a link between sliced bread and wrinkled skin of a French bulldog.It's very unpredictable，"Stentzel said.
4.How did Stentzel create an artwork according to paragraph2？______
A.By designing clothes on software.
B.By painting animals in various colors.
C.By taking photos of animals on the farm.
D.By hanging clothes folded in animal shapes.
5.What is Stentzel's source of inspiration？______
A.Daily items.
B.Tourist attractions.
C.Random surveys.
D.Childhood adventures.
6.Which of the following can best describe Stentzel's fine art prints？______
A.Complex and digital.
B.Meaningful and creative.
C.Poetic but commercial.
D.Ordinary but bio-friendly.
7.What can we learn from Stentzel's story？______
A.Art can give people a second life.
B.Artworks are from life yet above life.
C.Creation is from intentional observation.
D.Cooperation results in adorable artworks.
C
Could the next Ernest Hemingway or Jane Austen be a well-engineered AI software program It's a question becoming increasingly pressing as machine language-learning software continues to evolve. Much of this is just nerves.Today's AI creative writing programs are not yet at a stage of development where they pose a serious threat to Colleen Hoover or Charles Dickens.But while attention continues to focus on the possibility of a blanket takeover of human literature by AI，far less consideration has been given to the prospect of AI co-working with humans.
Earlier this month，American sci-fi writer Ken Liu，who had been awarded Hugo and Nebula to his name，joined12other professional authors for a writing workshop on Google's Wordcraft.This AI tool，a language generating model，is not yet publicly available but is advertised as an AI-powered writing assistant that can，when given the right instruction from the writer，provide helpful descriptions，create lists of objects or emotional states，and even brainstorm ideas.
The writers at the workshop，however，emerged with mixed reports."Wordcraft is too sensible.Wow!" Robin Sloan wrote."But'sensible'is another word for predictable，overused and borin
g.My intention here is to produce something unexpected."
I'm unconvinced that writers awarded the Nobel Prize have much to fear from AI.Their work，and that of countless other novelists，short story writers，dramatists and poets，is too particular，too beautifully unique.Even if a model learned what they had done in the past，it would not be able to predict where their creativity might take them in the future.But for authors who write following a pattern，AI might step in，first as assistants before some day to authorship.
Production-line novels are nothing new.In the1970s，Barbara Cartland，who wrote more than723books in her lifetime，many of which are romance bestsellers，would read her novels for her secretary to type up at the remarkable rate of roughly seven chapters a week.But already machine has replaced the secretary's role.Perhaps creative writing software isn't that far from replacing the Mrs.Cartlands of today.
8.Which aspect of AI calls for more attention？______
A.Its damage to our nerves.
B.Its progress in literary studies.
C.Its cooperation with humans.
D.Its influence on human literature.
9.What can we learn about Wordcraft from the text？______
A.It generates novels automatically.
B.It outperforms professional writers.
C.Its works receive praises from the public.
D.Its works bear similarity to existing ones.
10.What can writers do to avoid the threat from AI？______
A.Increase writing speed.
B.Use diverse resources.
C.Produce creative works.
D.Follow the latest patterns.
11.Which of the following is the best title for the text______
A.Will AI Replace Human Writers？
B.AI Warns Mrs.Cartlands of Today
C.Is Writing Running into a New Era？
D.Word craft Lies at the Center of Debate
D
Two separate research groups in the UK and Denmark have come up with the same idea for a study that could help save endangered species，and have gotten the same results.It involves sucking environmental DNA from the air that animals leave behind.
"We use a really small pump that pulls the air through，and we hope the DNA gets caught on the filter （过滤器），"said Elizabeth Clare，the lead researcher."It's a bit like making coffee.You make
coffee by sucking water through a filter and leaving the coffee grounds behind.That's basically what we're doing；we're just sucking the air through and hoping that the DNA gets left behind."
Clare says the concept has been used for years in different ways.Scientists sample pathogens（病原体）from the air，which has been used to help track COVID-19.Environmental DNA can also be collected from water to help ease invasive species.
A big goal for both research teams with the new study is to be able to locate endangered species and help save them.It is important to note that this type of DNA sampling can only be picked up if a species is in the area，so if there were two of the same animal，scientists would not be able to tell which one the DNA came from.
Both research groups also reported certain DNA samples not showing up when they knew an animal had been in the area.They also can't tell yet how long an animal's DNA will stick around after it's been in one area.Clare says she'd like to plan more researches to get these answers.
But one thing is for sure after conducting the study.Clare says she has a whole new perspective on taking a deep breath."As you know，I'm walking through a jungle or the park or taking my dog for a walk or my kids out to play，and I take a deep breath；I think I just inhaled information about all the t
hings that have been here before，and as a scientist，that's exciting to think that the information that I'm trying to gather is literally hanging in front of me，"she said.
12.Why does the author mention coffee-making？______
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