1 . Music makes you more creative.    1    , they come up with more creative solutions, according to researchers. It may be because music improves your brain’s flexibility. Another reason may be that it relaxes you enough for the creative juices to flow. But don’t play music   too loudly.

Music can help during surgery.     2    . After surgery, it helps reduce pain. An analysis   of 73 studies confirmed that listening to music before, during or after surgery reduces anxiety and pain levels, which in turn means less pain medication.

    3     Studies have found that when you’re running, biking or walking, you’ll go farther with music on. Music relieves your discomfort and motivates you to stay on. The effect is so obviously great that the author of a review examining the psychological effects of music   on exercise called music “a type of legal performance-improvement drug”.

Music aids sleep. Listening to music before bed can help you fall asleep faster and wake up less often during the night.     4    . In one study, seniors with sleep problems who listened   to 45 minutes of soft slow music before bed reported a 35 percent improvement in their sleep.

Music gets you to ignore the passing of time. Scientists have shown repeatedly that people judge a period of waiting shorter when music is playing. Businessmen use that to their advantage, playing music so you stay longer and spend more. For instance, more drinks and food are sold in bars and restaurants when music is played.     5    , grocery sales increase by 38 percent.

A．In this case, you’ll feel more relaxed in the morning

B．And if the background music is slow

C．Then you play a piece of brief music

D．When people listen to happy music than when they sit in silence

E．When music is played varying from a tune to another

F．Music makes you get rid of the idea of quitting a workout

G．Listening to music before surgery has been shown to ease anxiety

2 . Google’s AlphaGo defeated the South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Sedol four games to one Artificial intelligence had suddenly reached a new and unexpected height.

But AlphaGo is no longer the best Go “player” in the world Google’s artificial intelligence group, DeepMind. has created the next generation of its Go-playing program, called AlphaGo Zero The new A1 program is unique in the way it learned to play Go Instead of learning from human matches, as its predecessor (前任) did, AlphaGo Zero mastered Go in just two days without any human knowledge of the game and defeated AlphaGo by day three, reported The Guardian It then went on to defeat AlphaGo 100 games to zero.

To learn how to play Go, AlphaGo Zero played millions of matches against itself using only the basic rules of the game to rapidly create its own knowledge of it tike the previous version, it used “reinforcement (增强) learning to become its own teacher, ”ccording to DeepMind’s website.

“It’s more powerful than previous approaches. ’’ David Silver,   AlphaGo’s lead researcher, told The Guardian, “because by not using human data, or human expertise in any fashion, we’ve removed the constraints (约束) of human knowledge and it is able to create knowledge itself . ”

AlphaGo Zero’s approach to selt-learning is a significant advancement in AI could be applied to help solve some of the world s biggest problems, according a recent research report published in the journal Nature. For example, DeepMind co-founder DemisHassabis argues that AlphaGo Zero could probably find cures for a number of serious diseases within weeks, according to The Telegraph Indeed, the AI is now being used to study protein folding, which is connected to diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

So now that AI has surpassed human beings in some ways, perhaps the question is not about what AI can learn from humans, but what humans can learn from AI We can only wait and see.

1. What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?

A．AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol five games to zero

B．AlphaGo Zero defeated AlphaGo within one day

C．AlphaGo Zero is the first program to defeat a human at Go

D．AlphaGo Zero has become the new best Go player

2. How is AlphaGo Zero different from previous Go-playing programs？

A．It can collect human knowledge automatically

B．It can create knowledge with human data

C．It can become its own teacher in learning Go skills

D．It can play many matches without a break

3. What’s the possible application of AI in the future according to the aiticle？

A．Treating diseases.	B．Making new Go rules.
C．Solving math problems.	D．Creating new proteins.

4. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “surpassed” ?

A．increased	B．outdone
C．declined	D．hidden

3 . Recently some American scientists have given a useful piece of advice to people in industrialized nations. They say people should eat more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago.    1    The scientists say that the human life has changed greatly. Our bodies have not been able to deal with these changes in lifestyle and this had led to new kinds of sicknesses.    2    So they are called “diseases of civilization”. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system are examples of such diseases.

Scientists noted that people in both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed very little alcohol or tobacco, probably none.    3    However, a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and that of today.

Stone Age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than domestic ones. They ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruits. They did not have milk or any other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains.    4    We eat six times more salt than our ancestors. We eat more sugar. We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less vitamin C.

    5    But scientists say that we would be much healthier if we eat much the same way the ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet food.

A．Modern people used to suffer from “diseases of civilization”.

B．People today probably don’t want to live like our ancestors.

C．These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times.

D．Ancient people also got lots of physical exercise.

E．In that case, they would live much healthier.

F．But today, we enjoy eating a lot of these.

G．Stone Age people lived a simple life.

4 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。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：在错的词下画一横线，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。

This morning on my way to school I was deep moved by what I saw outside a bank. An old man was counting his money in the front of the bank. Suddenly a young man came running and knocked him down. To make things bad,his money was lying in all direction. In no time the people around rush to pick the money up while the old man stood there, not know what to do. Surprisingly, everyone gave back the money they had just picked. The old man counted the money again and found that not a single bill was missed. To my great joy, there are now a lot of nice people in your life. It’s true what honesty is more important than money!

5 . Kong Zi, also called Confucius (551-479B.C.), and Socrates (苏格拉底) (469-399 B.C.) lived only a hundred years apart, and during their lifetimes there was no contact between China and Greece, but it is interesting to look at how the world that each of these great philosophers came from shaped their ideas, and how these ideas in turn, shaped their societies.

Neither philosopher lived in times of peace, though there were more wars in Greece than in China. The Chinese states were very large and feudal, while the Greek city-states were small and urban. The urban environment in which Socrates lived allowed him to be more radical (激进的) than Confucius. Unlike Confucius, Socrates was not asked by rulers how to govern effectively. Thus, Socrates was able to be more idealistic, focusing on issues like freedom, and knowledge for its own sake. Confucius, on the other hand, advised those in government service, and many of his students went out to government service.

Confucius suggested the Golden Rule as a principle for the conduct of life: “Do not do to others what you would not want others to do to you.” He assumed that all men were equal at birth, though some had more potential than others, and that it was knowledge that set men apart. Socrates focused on the individual, and thought that the greatest purpose of man was to seek wisdom. But like Confucius, he also believed that the superior class should rule the inferior (下层的) classes.

For Socrates, the family was of no importance, and the community of little concern. For Confucius, however, the family was the centre of the society, with family relations considered much more important than political relations.

Both men are respected much more today than they were in their lifetimes.

1. Which of the following is TRUE according to the first paragraph?

A．Socrates and Confucius had much in common.

B．Confucius had much influence on Socrates’ ideas.

C．The societies were influenced by the philosophers’ ideas.

D．There were cultural exchanges between China and Greece.

2. Socrates shared with Confucius the idea that ________.

A．all men were equal when they were born

B．the lower classed should be ruled by the upper class

C．the purpose of man was to seek freedom and wisdom

3. What made some people different from others according to Confucius?

A．Family.

B．Potential.

C．Knowledge.

D．Community.

4. This passage is organized in the pattern of ________.

A．time and events	B．comparison and contrast
C．cause and effect	D．definition and classification