5 . We generally don’t enjoy being sad in real life, but we do enjoy art that makes us feel that way. That is the paradox (悖论) of sad music, which countless scholars have tried to account for it.

Mario Attie-Picker, a philosopher at Loyola University Chicago, proposed a relatively simple idea: Maybe we listen to music not for an emotional reaction — many subjects reported that sad music, although artistic, was not particularly enjoyable — but for the sense of connection to others. This helps explain our love of sad music: it’s not about enjoying sadness, but valuing the connection it provides.

Supporting this idea is the work of Patrik Juslin, a music psychologist who believe that there are cognitive mechanisms through which sadness can be induced (诱发) in listeners. Maybe, sadness is such a strong emotion and its presence can cause a positive empathetic reaction: Feeling someone’s sadness can move you in some way. “You’re feeling just alone,” said Dr. Knobe, an experimental philosopher and psychologist at Yale University. “And then there’s the similar experience where you listen to some music, or you pick up a book, and you feel like you’re not so alone.”

To explore this, an experiment was conducted. They gave one of four song descriptions to more than 400 participants. One description was of a song that “delivers deep and complex emotions” but was also “technically bad”. Another described a “technically perfect” song that “does not deliver deep or complex emotions”. The third song was described as deeply emotional and technically perfect, and the fourth as technically bad and unemotional.

The participants were asked to evaluate whether their song “shows what music is all about”. The result was that deeply emotional but technically bad songs best reflected what the music is; emotional expression was a more evident value than technical performance. Music is more than a collection of notes and rhythms — it is a powerful medium for shared human experiences. Sad music, in particular, allows us to feel understood and less lonely.

1. According to Mario Attie-Picker, why do we love listening to sad music?

A．It helps us feel connected to others.	B．It provides us with artistic enjoyment.
C．It brings us a strong emotional reaction.	D．It deepens and proves our love for music.

2. What does the underlined word “empathetic” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Not feeling lonely anymore.

B．Being capable of stirring strong emotions.

C．Understanding and sharing the feelings of others.

D．Attempting to go through the similar experiences.

3. What can be inferred from the the experiment?

A．Emotional expression outweighs technical skills.

B．Technically bad performance moves people most.

C．Over 400 participants performed four different songs.

D．Sad music is much easier to perform and understand.

4. Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A．How does Sad Music Lift Our Spirits?	B．Why does Music Bring People Together?
C．How do We Understand Music Better?	D．Why do We Like Sad Music?

6 . At first glance, it seems to be Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring.     1     Wearing two glowing earrings, there’s a slightly inhuman shade of red on the girl’s face.

Look strange?     2     Chosen from 3,482 submitted images based on the Vermeer masterpiece, the Al-generated work was displayed at the Mauritshuis Museum in the Netherlands in March. The designer looked on the experience of literally replacing the famous painting by one of his AI images crazy and completely surreal.

    3     Though Mauritshuis press officer Boris de Munnick insisted that it was a nice picture and a creative process, many people questioned whether it could be called art and if it was qualified to be shown in the museum gallery.     4     It was regarded as a disrespect for the masterpiece of Vermeer and also for any working artist.

In fact, this is not the first time that people have debated AI’s role in creativity.     5     But the technology has now become widely available for regular everyday use and the practice of using AI image generators to make art has become more common.

A．Coming from a museum, it’s really embarrassing.

B．However, the AI image raised a fierce argument.

C．But look more closely and you may find something different about it.

D．One common concern is whether AI-generated works break copyright laws.

E．Dutch artist Iris Compiet described the image on display as almost Frankenstein-ish.

F．It’s actually an image made by Berlin-based designer Julian van Dieken using artificial intelligence.

G．The emergence of such AI works is believed by many to weaken the enthusiasm of artists with creative skills.

9 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

The power of belief

“You will never walk again. You will have to use a wheelchair.” Unprepared for the doctor’s judgment, I heard his words fall heavily on my ears, numbing my soul.

My serious car accident had left me unconscious and in critical condition. I awakened to find both leg: wrapped in casts (石膏). Lying in my bed motionless and relying on prayer, I wondered how I could give my ten-year-old son hope that Mom would heal. He’d been cheerful on every visit, but I saw the fear in his eyes. The thought of having a totally handicapped (残疾的) mother was weighing heavily on his little shoulder. He needed the ray of hope that I would not be in a wheelchair forever.

Just maybe, I thought, I could use this experience to teach what to do when disasters strike. I needed something besides my physical healing to sink my Irish stubbornness into—it’s that personality that kept me going through the toughest challenge of my life

It didn’t take me long to become impatient with the pace the doctors were willing to go with me. I determined to learn everything they showed me. I needed to make things happen my way. And being confined (限制) to a wheelchair the rest of my life didn’t fit into my plans.

At first, I taught myself to move from the bed to the wheelchair. I made tiny movements for weeks, afraid of falling, but more afraid to just lie in bed. I reached a point where my arms were strong enough to carry me into the chair. Getting out of the chair and back into bed proved more difficult, but I soon developed a method of grabbing the sheets. I often wondered what the nurses and doctors would have done if they’d seen me struggling on my own. Once sure I could return myself to the bed from the wheelchair, I began to use a walker that had been left in my room by a former hospital roommate.

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Every night, when I knew I wouldn’t be interrupted (打扰), I would start to train.

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It came time to share my achievements with the person most important to me.

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10 . July was the hottest month on record globally. High temperatures and serious wildfires have swept across the Northern Hemisphere. Oceanic heat waves are damaging the world’s third-largest coral reef off Florida. And as the levels of greenhouse gases continue to increase, it means many even hotter summers lie ahead.

Last week, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres coined a new term. The time of “global warming” has ended, he announced, and the time of “global boiling” has arrived.

But critics have strongly disagreed with the phrase. At one level, “global boiling” is clearly an overstatement, but “global warming” is now far too weak a description. Many climate scientists have pushed for the term “global heating” to be used in preference. Similarly, phrases such as “climate crisis” haven’t received enough attention. That’s because many of us still feel we haven’t seen this crisis with our own eyes.

But that is changing. In the past few years, extreme weather and relevant events have struck many countries. Australia’s Black Summer brought wildfires that burned an area the size of the United Kingdom. Germany suffered serious flooding in 2021. The 2022 flood in Pakistan flooded large parts of the country. China has seen both droughts and floods. Terrible droughts have hit the Horn of Africa for many years. India has stopped rice exports due to damage from heavy rain.

Critics of climate action often complain about what they see as the overuse of “crisis talk”. If everything is a crisis, nothing is a crisis.

When Guterres uses deeply impactful phrases, he’s not inviting us to imagine a Hollywood-style disaster. What he’s hoping is to make people listen and act — now we can see what climate change looks like.

Are there better phrases to describe this? Possibly. Take the challenge yourself: can you think up a brief, correct phrase to cover worsening local-and-regional-scale droughts, fires, typhoons and floods; damage to crops and food safety; water shortages; existential threats to coral reefs and low-lying communities? You can see how hard it is.

1. What does the underlined word “coined” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Explained.	B．Invented.
C．Valued.	D．Accepted.

2. What do critics think of the term “global boiling”?

A．It is overused.	B．It is exaggerated.
C．It is lacking in enough attention.	D．It is too weak to describe the problem.

3. What can we infer from paragraph 4?

A．Climate crises are worsening.	B．Several crises will be solved.
C．People will face food shortages.	D．People are taking effective measures.

4. What is Guterres’s hope in using deeply impactful phrases?

A．To scare people into taking immediate action.

B．To entertain readers with Hollywood-style stories.

C．To provide a more accurate description of global warming.

D．To make people aware of the severity of the climate crisis.