To many people, art is a human expression of creativity. But in recent years, you may have read news about artificial intelligence（AI）creating its own art, such as painting or writing poems. Some people worry that AI might someday replace（替代）artists.
But this worry seems to be unnecessary, at least for now. Many artists today are turning AI into a useful tool. Instead of replacing artists, AI is bringing artists more possibilities.
A piece of music created by AI recently attracted attention. AI was used to create the music based on the protein（蛋白质）structure of COVID-19. The music lasted nearly two hours. The project was led by Markus Buehler, an American musician and MIT professor（教授）of engineering. He assigned (指定) a unique note (独特的音符) to each amino acid (氨基酸) is the protein. The AI then translated these notes into music.
Listeners found the project “mind-blowing”. “It allows me to see the virus in a new way,” said one listener. This surprising combination (结合) between science and art could not be achieved without AI. As The Verge wrote, “AI helps artists play around in unpredictable ways, creating things beyond (超过) what they have ever thought was possible before.”
Apart from creating imaginative works, AI can also take care of repetitive (重复乏味的) tasks for artists. For example, in the comic and cartoon industries, there are now AI tools that can automatically (自动) color in black-and-white line drawings. Although the results can be unpredictable and require a little cleanup. it can give artists room to experiment (实验) by cutting down the time it takes to color each picture.
As Peter Ward wrote for The Culture Trip. “Art of every kind has always been influenced by technological developments.” AI can become a useful tool to bring change to the art world if it’s welcomed and not unfairly feared.
1. According to the passage, AI can’t ________ now.| A．write poems | B．paint | C．replace artists | D．create music |
| A．AI created a piece of music about COVID-19. |
| B．Many of AI’s art creations are beyond artists’ imagination. |
| C．Science and art can be combined with the help of AI. |
| D．Markus Buehler was not a professor of engineering, but a musician. |
| A．Besides | B．Instead of | C．Because of | D．According to |
| A．Technological developments have greatly influenced people’s daily life. |
| B．AI has been widely used in science research. |
| C．AI is bringing more help to the art world as a useful tool. |
| D．AI’s creativity has caused more and mare worries. |
2 . Many middle school students don’t know how to spend（度过）their free（空闲的）time. When they have holidays, they always have nothing to do and feel bored. Some may play computer games all day and some may stay in bed and sleep all day. It‘s not a good way. Here are some suggestions(建议).
If(如果) you don‘t like to stay at home, you can go for a picnic or do some sports. In this way, you can keep healthy. If you like to stay at home, you may enjoy some light music or read a few novels(小说). You can play some indoor games such as chess, cards, and table tennis. You can also plant some trees and flowers in your garden to make your home beautiful. It is also a good way to keep a pet and talk to it. Just have some hobbies(爱好) and you will be happy during a long holiday.
1. How many suggestions does the writer give if you want to stay at home?2. Why do we need to do sports in our free time?
3. Which are not good ways to spend our free time according to the writer?
4. What is(are ) important to you to spend your free time according to the writer?
5. What is the best title for the passage?
3 . Do you like walking? A 13-year-old girl, Jenny, likes walking very much. She likes walking because she thinks it is good for her health.
"It's about 6 kilometers from my home to school. I get up at 6:00 every morning. After having breakfast, I walk to school. I can enjoy the beautiful scenery on the way. I feel very happy. I can also think about what to do or how to do things at school on the way," says Jenny. " My father buys a new car and he wants to take me to school every morning. But I think I need to exercise and I hope my father can exercise, too. Now he often walks to work. After dinner, my father, my mother and I often take a walk in the park near our house. I have a healthy and happy family."
1. How does Jenny get to school every day?| A．By car. | B．On foot. | C．By bus. | D．By bike. |
| A．Her mother. | B．Her father. | C．Her parents. | D．Her classmates. |
| A．About 3 kilometers. | B．About 6 kilometers. |
| C．About 7 kilometers. | D．About 8 kilometers. |
| A．Because it makes her healthy. | B．Because it's funny. |
| C．Because she can get up late. | D．Becauseitmakes her happy. |
| A．活动 | B．风景 | C．经历 | D．旅程 |
4 . Bob has two e-mails from his pen friends.
| Dear Bob, I am in America and I speak English. I like China very much and I know a lot about it. I can speak some Chinese, but I'm not good at it. ① Can you help me with my Chinese? I can help you with your English. I want to have a trip to Beijing. We can meet then. Yours, Jim |
| Dear Bob, I'm in Canada. I speak English and French(法语).You say that your English is not very good. I think you can read English storybooks. I think it's ②u______ to you. I want to learn Chinese. I think we can help each other(互相). Yours, Linda |
1. Can Jim speak Chinese well?
2. 将文中①画线部分翻译成汉语。
3. 根据首字母提示在文中②处横线上填上适当的单词
4. Who are Jim and Linda?
5. What languages (语言) can Linda speak?
5 . We often talk about the weather. Here are some passages about the weather. Let’s read them together.
Passage 1: Is it hot or cold, cool or warm? It always goes up and down. When the sun comes up, it warms the air and the temperature(温度) will go up. When nights come, the air will get cooler and the temperature will fall.
Passage 2: We can’t see it, but we can feel it. It can move the air. When it comes, we can see the branches(树枝) of trees are moving. Do you like flying kites? It can carry your kite high in the sky. It can also blow your hat off.
Passage 3: The rain is falling all around. It falls on fields and trees. It rains on the umbrellas here and on the ships at sea.
Passage 4: We often see it in winter. It looks white and many people like it a lot. When it comes, the ground will put on her white clothes. And children are very happy then, because they can make snowmen.
1. What does the underlined word “fall” in Passage 1 mean?| A．使……变冷 | B．使……变暖 | C．下降 | D．上升 |
| A．the air | B．the sun | C．the weather | D．the wind |
| A．The rain. | B．Ships at sea. | C．On fields and trees. | D．Taking your umbrella. |
| A．The rain. | B．The snow. | C．The wind. | D．The temperature. |
| A．Because they can stay at home. | B．Because they feel very cold. |
| C．Because they don’t need to go to bed. | D．Because they can make snowmen. |
6 . In the USA, many children need a carpool. A carpool is suitable for children who live far away from school and whose schools don’t have school buses.
Parents are often busy and they don’t have enough time to drive their children to school every day. So they come up with a new idea. They use a carpool. That means that a group of students share a car to go to school by car. There are usually three or four kids in a carpool. Their parents take turns driving the kids in their cars.
Getting to school in a carpool is convenient for parents and students. Students can get to school easily if they choose to go in a carpool. What’s more, it can help their parents save a lot of money. That is why more and more parents and students choose a carpool.
Teamwork is really important in the carpool because nobody wants to make the others late for class. If you sit in the car and wait for a classmate for a long time, you’ll probably get a little angry. But your carpool friends might feel the same way when you keep them waiting.
It’s a great lesson in responsibility that you learn before school ever starts — in the carpool.
1. Why do parents choose to use a carpool?| A．Because they are very busy. | B．Because they are very lazy. |
| C．Because they don’t have their own car. | D．Because they don’t have enough money. |
| A．Two or three. | B．Three or four. | C．Four or five. | D．Five or six. |
| A．Their teacher. | B．Their parents. | C．A school bus diver. | D．A driver hired by their parents. |
| A．They may feel excited. | B．They may feel educational. |
| C．They may feel bored. | D．They may feel annoyed. |
| A．It’s about some different ways of transportation. |
| B．It’s about how to save money when we drive cars. |
| C．It’s about some rules when you take the school bus. |
| D．It’s about a great way of sending children to school. |
7 . Many people know that rubbish is a big problem on planet Earth. What many people don't know is that junk has become a problem in outer space, too.
According to BBC News, there are more than 22, 000 pieces of space junk floating around the earth. And these are just the things that we can see from the surface of the earth by telescopes（望远镜）. There are also millions of smaller pieces of junk that we can't see.
Objects, like bits of old space rockets or satellites, move around the planet at very high speeds, so fast that even a very small piece can break important satellites or become dangerous to astronauts. If the smallest piece of junk crashed into a spaceship, it could damage it.
To make things worse, when two objects in space crash, they break into many smaller pieces. For example, when a U. S. satellite hit an old Russian rocket in 2009, it broke into more than 2, 000 pieces, increasing the amount of space junk.
To reduce additional space junk, countries have agreed that all new space tools can only stay in space for 25 years at most. Each tool must be built to fall safely into the earth's atmosphere after that time. In the upper parts of the atmosphere, it will burn up.
Many scientists are also suggesting different ways to clean up space junk. In England scientists are testing a metal net that can be fired into space junk. The net catches the junk and then pulls it into the earth's atmosphere to burn up. The Germans are building robots that can collect pieces of space junk and bring them back to Earth to be safely destroyed.
"The problem is becoming more challenging because we're sending more objects into space to help people use their mobile phones and computers, "says Marco Castronuovo, an Italian space researcher.
"The time to act is now. The longer we leave the problem, the bigger it will become, "he says.
1. Why is space junk considered a problem?| A．It burns up after it re-enters the atmosphere. |
| B．It often stops the view of telescopes on Earth. |
| C．It could force new space tools to travel at slower speeds |
| D．It may crash into other space tools causing damages or death. |
| A．the tools can be reused later | B．the tools don't become space junk |
| C．the earth's atmosphere can stay clean | D．the effects of space flight can be studied |
| A．Catch it with nets | B．Use robots to collect it. |
| C．Burn it in the earth's atmosphere | D．Send it further away from the earth. |
| A．Environment. | B．Local News. | C．Education. | D．Fashion. |
It is the duty of every man to work. The life of a lazy man is of no use to himself and to others. ①假如一个人太懒惰，通常他将会成为一个无用之人。Everyone, when he is young, should learn some useful work.
But it is not enough for a man to learn some kind of work. He should put his heart and soul (精力) into his work, and not waste his spare time. ②"Work while you work and play while you play" is a good rule for both young and old people.
There is an English saying “Lost time never returns.” This means that everyone must be diligent, and make good use of time. ③One must study hard when one is young in order that one can become useful to one's country. So we can say that diligence is the mother of success.
请根据短文内容，完成下列任务。
1. 请将划线句子①翻译成英语。
2. Is it enough for a man to learn some kind of work? If not, what should he do?
3. 请将划线句子②翻译成汉语。
4. 请改写划线句子③，保持意思不变(每空一词)。
One must study hard when one is young
5. 请找出文章的主旨句。
9 . “Who needs a shopping mall if you have Taobao?” says Wang Lin, 28, a writer in Beijing. Taobao, China’s largest online shopping site, has become an important part of Wang Lin’s life. She spends lots of money on Taobao.
More and more Chinese Internet users, like Wang, can find the joy of online shopping. Most online shoppers are students or young workers. More women shop online than men. Clothing and home-use products are the most popular online. It was reported that people spent more than 250 billion yuan shopping online last year, 80% through Taobao.
Taobao means “looking for treasure” in Chinese. People can find almost everything they need on Taobao, from clothes to books, from candies to DVD players. You may question the security of online shopping. Wang Lin said, “It’s very safe and convenient. If you get the products from the sellers and like them very much, the shop owner will get the money. You can also get your money back if you want to return the products.”
1. Which is true about Taobao?| A．an online shopping site | B．an online shopper |
| C．a shopping mall | D．a supermarket |
| A．Food. | B．Computers. |
| C．Clothing and home-use products. | D．Tapes. |
| A．Most are young. | B．Most are old. |
| C．Most are workers. | D．Most are men. |
| A．安全 | B．质量 | C．热度 | D．物流 |
| A．Wang Lin’s life. | B．Shopping online is not safe. |
| C．Online shopping in western countries. | D．Online shopping in China. |
10 . We know the mosquito very well. Mosquitoes fly everywhere. They can be found almost all over the world, and there are more than 2,500 kinds of them.
No one likes the mosquito. But the mosquito may decide that she loves you. She? Yes, she. It’s true that male mosquito doesn’t bite(咬)and only the female mosquito bites because she needs blood to lay eggs. She is always looking for things or people she wants to bite. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if she doesn’ t like your blood, she will turn to someone else for more delicious blood. Next time a mosquito bites you, just remember you are chosen. You’re different from the others!
If the mosquito likes you, she lands on your body without letting you know. She bites you so quickly and quietly that you may not feel anything different. After she bites, you will have an itch(痒) on your body because she puts something from her mouth together with your blood. By the time the itching begins, and she has flown away.
And then what happens? Well, after her delicious dinner, the mosquito feels tired. She just wants to find a place to have a good rest. There, on a leaf or a wall, she begins to lay eggs, hundreds of eggs.
1. “Mosquito” means________in Chinese.| A．苍蝇 | B．蜻蜓 | C．跳蚤 | D．蚊子 |
| A．they fly here and there | B．they bite us |
| C．there are many kinds of them | D．they can fly |
| A．get angry with you | B．be afraid of you | C．make a lot of noise | D．choose another one |
| A．when you’re asleep | B．because you have choose it |
| C．too quickly to let you know | D．but doesn’t like you |
| A．The itching begins after the mosquito bites you. |
| B．You feel terrible when the mosquito bites you. |
| C．Mosquitoes use blood to lay eggs. |
| D．Not all the mosquitoes like to bite people for blood. |
