新目标2017-2018学年九年级(上)期末英语试卷(2)

B．Manu did well in the maths test．

C．She taught Manu a lesson successfully．

D．Manu got up by himself that morning．

30．What is the best title for the passage？

A．A lazy son．B．A strict mother．

C．A quiet lesson．D．A happy family．

B

We choose food to eat every day．We might know some of the reasons for the choices，but food scientist Dr．

Brian Wansink has found that we are unaware of 90% of our food decision．Here are some"big ideas"in his research on the hidden power that drives our eating．Food for thought

In one of the studies，Dr．Wansink made volunteers eat chocolate yogurt in a dark room．He told them the yogurt was with a taste of strawberry even though they were all eating chocolate．Finally，65% of volunteers described the yogurt as having a"nice strawberry flavor!"

The research shows that our imagination has an effect on our taste．If you expect a food to

taste good，it will．So take a moment before you eat your unpleasant healthy food to remind yourself that you are eating delicious fish and chips．

Our eyes eat first

How your food looks is just as important as how it tastes．Dr．Wansink gave cakes to three groups of people．The cakes were exactly the same but served in different ways．

①Group one got the cake on a nice plate．

②Group two got the cake on a paper plate．

③Group three got the cake on a piece of paper．

Dr．Wansink then asked the people how much they would pay for each cake．

Dr．Wansink then asked the people how much they would pay for each cake．

①Group one who got the cake on a nice plate would pay $1.27．

②Group two who got the cake on a paper plate would pay 76 cents．

③Group three who got the cake on a piece of paper would pay 53 cents．

Take some time to make your healthy food look amazing．Cut your fruit into a flower shape and put your colourful vegetables on nice plates．This works really well for your appetite （胃口）．

Out of sight，out of stomach

Dr．Wansink also found that when people sat at the desk full of snacks，they ate 71% more of snacks a day

than those sitting near a clear table．We eat what we see．As a result，put all the unhealthy food in your fridge．

Hide it and make it really hard to get to．The closer bad food is，the more you eat it．

31．How many ideas are mentioned in the passage？

A.3．

B.4．

C.5．

D.6．

32．Why did the volunteers say the yogurt had a strawberry flavor？

A．They didn't like chocolate yogurt．

B．The yogurt had a taste of strawberry．

C．The yogurt was made from strawberry．

D．They thought they had eaten strawberry yogurt．

33．How can we make ourselves eat more vegetables we don't like？

A．Have the same vegetable every day．

B．Serve vegetables on lovely plates．

C．Put vegetables on a piece of paper．

D．Eat vegetables as soon as they are cooked．

34．To avoid eating too many snacks，we should NOT．

A．hide them．B．put them on the desk．

C．leave them in the fridge．D．make them really hard to get to．

35．What is the passage mainly about？

A．Useful skills on selling food．

B．Ways to make healthy eating easier．

C．Ideas about how to avoid too many snacks．

D．Experiments to find out people's favourite food．

C

A robot is taking part in a popular TV show in China which tests people's brainpower．The smart AI （人工智能）robot，Xiaodu，will challenge humans to recognize faces and voices．

The TV show Super Brain will spend the whole Season Four on the topic of supercomputers vs．human brains．The AI robot Xiadu built

by search engine giant Baidu becomes one of the contestants．Baidu Company first showed off a small version of Xiaodu in 2015．In Super Brain IV，he will complete against four people and other clever computer programs．

Besides，Xiaodu，Sun Yiting，an eight﹣year﹣old boy with amazing hearing ability also stands on the stage of the show．He says he can correctly tell the height from which a balloon was dropped by listening to the sound of the balloon landing．Another contestant，Wang Feng，is a memory master who broke the world record for speed memorization of cards in a poker game．

In the first competition of Super Brain IV，both the humans and Xiaodu will be shown photos of two women when they were four﹣year﹣old babies．They must then pick out the right two adults from a lineup of 20 women who are dressed similarly and have similar

haircuts．

The listening competition is even more difficult．The contestants need to choose the right person from 21singers as they are all singing together，just according to a three﹣second mp3．Baidu is confident that Xiaodu has the ability to do well in this difficult TV test，because the company has paid a huge amount of money for the study of AI robot and supercomputers，as well as speech，image，and facial recognition．In addition，it is not the first time that Chinese AI robot has become a contestant and final winner of a quiz show．Months ago，Wangzai，Sogo's AI robot，beat a Harvard graduate in a Chinese quiz show Yi Zhan Dao Di．All of these make it possible that AI vs．AI will be shown on TV in the future．36．What will Xiaodu do in Super Brain IV？

A．Take part in competitions．B．Be the host of the TV show．

C．Help people search for information．D．Introduce AI robot to people for the first time．37．Which of the following is true according to the passage？

A．Sun Yiting is an adult contestant．

B．Wang Feng has broken a world record before．

C．Xiaodu used to be the winner of a quiz show on TV．

D．Pictures of babies will be shown in the listening competition．

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