There is no doubt that in its short existence, the Internet has already had a powerful impact on everyday life. Never before has information been so readily available.【小题1】Considering how fast this medium of communication has taken hold, it's perhaps not surprising that it has also had a rather huge impact on the language we use.

So, today we're taking a closer look at how exactly social media and the Internet are affecting our everyday communication.

【小题2】This might be a fitting example of how much vocabulary that got its start on the net has come into everyday use. In addition to "selfie", "to Google" has become a widely accepted verb, "photobombing" is a known phenomenon and we have Facebook to thank for "unfriending". This list goes on and on.【小题3】Think about "wall", "wireless", "tablet" and "like". They're now used in completely new ways.

While gaining new vocabulary and evolving（逐步发展）is something languages have always done, the Internet serves to speed up this process considerably. Another curious thing is the speed at which new vocabulary is introduced, used, overused and abandoned in the Internet Age.

【小题4】In an age when anyone can be their own author, editor and publisher, it might not be surprising that traditional grammar rules are being replaced by something more flexible.

The development of the Internet has changed many parts of our life.【小题5】

Last year DeepMind’s AlphaGo programme took on and beat two of the world’s best players of the Chinese game of Go（围棋）-an unbelievable achievement seen as a milestone in the development of artificial intelligence (A). That programme was trained by first giving it vast amounts of data from amateur and professional games.

The new AlphaGo Zero began with a blank board and nothing but the rules of Go and set about playing against itself. Within three days it was so advanced that it took on the previous version, which had taken months to develop, and defeated it by a hundred games to zero.

DeepMind says that creating knowledge from first principles without learning from human expertise（专门技能）is an important step in developing artificial intelligence. The company’s founder Demis Hassabis said this breakthrough could help in real world problems such as designing new drugs or discovering new materials.

In 1997, Garry Kasparov was defeated by Deep Blue, a computer program written by IBM, running on a supercomputer. This was the first time that a ruling world chess champion was defeated by a computer program in tournament conditions. Superficially, AlphaGo’s win against Lee Sedol can be compared to Deep Blue’s win against Gary Kasparov, which happened almost 20 years ago. So: what’s the big deal? We have to understand the differences between chess and Go.

In chess, each player begins with 16 pieces of six different types. Each piece of type moves differently. The goal of the game is to seize the other player's king. Go starts with an empty board. The goal of the game is to gain as much territory（领地）as possible.

Although the rules of Go might appear simpler than those of chess, the complexity of Go is higher. Also, games usually last longer for lots of moves. A typical game in Go might last for 150 moves vs.80 in chess.