Artificial intelligence, or AI, has slowly begun to influence higher education around the world. Now, one new AI tool could change the way university students evaluate their professor. The tool is called Hubert, a teacher evaluation tool that appears as an AI-powered chatbot. Instead of filling out a form, students use a chat window to give feedback(反馈) on the course and their professor. Afterwards, Hubert categorizes the students’ comments for the professor to review.
Hubert is free for educators to use. More than 600 teachers have used it already. The goal of the new Hubert program is to improve education by giving teachers detailed, organized feedback from students.
Viktor Nordmark, from Sweden, started the company in 2015, with several friends. Before creating Hubert, the founders asked teachers what would improve their teaching skills. The answer, Nordmark said, was qualitative(定性的) feedback from their students. In other words, teachers wanted students to write detailed answers to open-ended questions about their experiences in class.
Qualitative feedback is different from the survey responses, which students are often asked to provide at the end of a class. “This kind of data takes a lot of time for professors to collect and analyze,” Nordmark said. And for the students, it can also be “really boring to fill out.” So Nordmark and his friends designed Hubert as a compromise between a traditional survey and a personal interview. “You can reach a really large crowd, but you can also get really qualitative data back,” Nordmark said.
Now, when Hubert receives comments from students, it compares them with the information already in its system to organize the data. Nordmark says that Hubert will continue to get smarter as it receives more comments in the future. Nordmark says he and his co-founders have plans to make Hubert more flexible and accurate. They hope to give teachers the possibility of selecting their own evaluation questions.
1.What can be inferred about traditional teacher evaluation?
A. Its data is easy to collect
B. Users are charged for using it
C. Students needn’t fill out forms
D. Students find it dull to take part in it
2.According to the text, qualitative feedback .
A. can improve the students’ performance at school
B. is students’ answers to teachers’ questions in class
C. can be obtained by asking students to fill out forms
D. is detailed responses to questions not for fixed answers
3.What is one of the advantages of Hubert at present?
A. Being able to change itself to become smarter
B. Saving much time when collecting survey forms
C. Taking on the strengths of a survey and an interview
D. Enabling teachers to select their own evaluation questions
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. The characteristics of qualitative feedback
B. A new AI-powered tool of teacher evaluation
C. The changes in the way teachers are evaluated
D. A potential revolution in the educational system
Competition in the workplace can be a good thing for a number of different reasons. On the other hand, competition can also have some disadvantages, though. Some industries tend to be more competitive in the workplace than others. For instance, those in the sales field will typically be more competitive with co-workers than individuals in other fields, such as information technology. Nevertheless, a little competition in even the least competitive industries can be positive.
Competition in the workplace can create an environment where employees push each other to exceed their normal limits, which can result in increased production, both at an individual level and among the entire workforce as a whole. As individual production numbers increase, so do those of the entire team of workers who seek to outdo one another. Competition can be rewarded with bonuses or various types of rewards.
Workplace competition can also inspire a commitment to self-improvement. While financial motivations and bonuses are always a plus to get the competition going, those who see the bigger picture may take the competition as an opportunity to better themselves in the process of winning the competition. Self-improvement may include actions like changing work habits to be more organized, using visualization and goal setting to achieve goals and simply performing higher quality work.
Not all competition in the workplace necessarily has to take place at the individual level. Competition can bring about a sense of teamwork in the workplace when workers are placed in groups and asked to compete with one another, which can have a number of positive results that come from workers cooperating with each other. For example, workers can learn the value of communication and helping someone else, both of which have an influence on other areas of work like customer service.
1.What does the underlined word “exceed” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. Life B. Cancel
C. Break through D. Set up
2.Which industry is likely to involve more workplace competition?
A. The sales field B. Film Production
C. Customer service D. Information technology
3.How can competition contribute to employees’ self-improvement?
A. It changes their lifestyles greatly B. It assists them to achieve a higher goal
C. It improves their financial management D. It offers them chances to change for the better
4.What is the best title for the text?
A. Benefits of Workplace Competition
B. Reasons for Joining in Competitions
C. Approaches to Winning Competition
D. Strengths and Weaknesses of Competition
Throughout high school, I failed to volunteer as much as I had wanted. As a college student, I am still busy with maintaining my grades and staying involved in my school’s community, but I decided to get out of my comfort zone and volunteer for America Recycles Day. And this turned out to be an awesome experience.
The organization Ouachita Green put together this event, which allowed people from the Monroe area of Louisiana to bring in their recyclables, free of charge. Unfortunately, Louisiana is lacking in environmentally-friendly initiatives(倡议) so recycling is not offered to most people in our community. In contrast, it is required by law to recycle back in my home New Jersey. This truth astonished me, but more importantly, it encouraged me to seek change.
I meant to make a difference. Through joint efforts, my classmates and I ended up starting the Green Club at the University of Louisiana. It focuses on creating a green attitude within the university and the greater Monroe area. While working on it, I met a group of ambitious high school students, who shared the same concern about the environment as us. While talking, we decided that working together would benefit not only the organizations at our schools, but also the community as a whole. Is we let the community know we are serious, there is an even better chance that we will succeed and influence others.
If you are hesitant to volunteer or help out with an event in your community, my recommendation is to go ahead and do it. Even if it may be out of your comfort zone, it is important to put yourself out there. At the end of the day, you miss all of the shots you don’t take.
1.What surprised the author greatly?
A. Louisiana’s lack of environmental laws
B. Louisiana’s limited access to recycling
C. New Jersey’s legal requirement of recycling
D. New Jersey’s great advantage over Louisiana
2.The Green Club is intended to .
A. offer part-time jobs for high school students
B. appeal for an environmentally-friendly lifestyle
C. make university life in the Monroe area colorful
D. help with community events in the Monroe area
3.What did the high school students and the author agree on?
A. The need to co-operate B. The importance of recycling
C. The possibility to succeed D. The drawbacks of seriousness
4.The author suggests the potential volunteers .
A. praise themselves B. force themselves
C. believe themselves D. challenge themselves
Organizations that support women and promote equality and fairness in wages, in behavior, and with opportunities have spent years putting women’s rights first as their missions. Check out the institutions that are helping fight for what’s fair, no matter where women are in the world.
School Girls Unite
This nonprofit deals with education discrimination among young women in developing countries. In Mali, Africa, for example, only one in four girls make it to the 7th grade. School Girls Unite sponsors the girls’ education, often at a cost as little as $75 per child, and follows them to complete their education.
Every Mother Counts
Model Christy Turlington Burns founded this activist group that seeks to improve medical care for mothers around the world by training professionals, improving transportation to care facilities, and donating crucial supplies to clinics. The organization has arranged funds that have improved mother mortality rates in Tanzania, Haiti, and India.
ANITA B. ORG
Since 1987, this social enterprise has pursued the mission statement of founder Anita Borg by putting women in a position to excel in the technology field. The group provides resources for education in coding and diversity both in the U.S. and abroad. In India, they organize career fairs for women only, offering companies the chance to improve their gender diversity in the workforce.
Dress For Success
Wearing appropriate clothes for a job interview is vital for potential employees. For over 20 years, the caregivers at Dress for Success have been helping women realize their professional goals by providing suits they might not otherwise be able to afford. The nonprofit accepts clothing donations and then distributes them to countries and areas in need.
1.School Girls Unite helps women by .
A. training female instructors for the school
B. providing free guidance on girls’ education
C. financially aiding girls with their education
D. asking girls’ parents to support their education
2.Who may benefit from Every Mother Counts?
A. A woman who majors in medicine
B. A woman who is to give birth soon
C. A mother suffering from discrimination
D. A single mother raising children herself
3.Which organizations aim at women employment?
A. ANITA B. ORG and Dress for Success
B. School Girls Unite and ANITA B. ORG
C. ANITA B. ORG and Every Mother Counts D. School Girls Unite and Every Mother Counts
假定你是李华，正在外国学习。上周六乘出租车(车号:HHX80W)去你导师家途中经历了不愉快的事情，请你用英语给出租汽车公司经理写信表达自己的诉求。要点如下:
1. 起因:司机故意多绕路并且言语粗鲁;
2. 要求:出租车司机道歉，退还多收的钱。
注意:1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯;
3. 开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Sir/ Madam,
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假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文，文中共有10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加，删除或修改。
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: 在错的词下划一横线，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:
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起) 不计分。
The other day, our school invite a famous artist to teach us what to draw bamboo in traditional Chinese style.
When the artist entered into the classroom, he received warm welcome. Firstly, he showed them a great many skillful ways to draw bamboo. We surrounded him and watched him careful. Then we tried to do it by ourselves under his instruction. Finally, after failing several times I succeeded drawing a picture of bamboo, that made me so happy.
In this lesson, we were deeply impressing by the beauty of Chinese paintings and proud of be Chinese. We hope we can have more activity of this kind in the future!
