While you are online there are plenty of perfectly legal sites where you can listen to music for free. This gives you the chance to listen to music before buying it, discover new music, and create great online playlists that you can share with others.
The Sixty One
The Sixty One is devoted to showcasing obscure or unknown artists of all genres. There’s a range of musical styles from classical to rock and roll, folk to jazz, and everything in between. Don’t expect to find big name musicians on here; you’re more likely to find the musicians playing at local coffee shops than bands you hear on the radio. You can find fantastic music that you never would have heard of otherwise.
Pow Wow
Pow Wows are the Native American people’s way of meeting together, to join in dancing, singing, visiting, renewing old friendships, and making new ones. This is a time method to renew Native American culture and preserve the rich heritage of American Indians. PowWows.com has 2 online radio stations that play Native American Music 24/7 free! Here you can listen to your favorite artists and drum groups on your computer or mobile device and add your music to our station.
Playlist
Playlist has an enormous library, so you can create playlists with almost any musician you can think of. They have both some lesser known artists and big names, so you have a really good selection. The worst part: Due to licensing laws, many of the songs on Playlist are now restricted to certain countries. So unless you live inside the US, it is likely that you might not be able to find all of your favorite songs.
Pandora
Pandora is an intelligent Internet radio site. Basically, as you listen, you can give each song a thumbs up or thumbs down. You can create your own radio station that only plays music you like. The best part: It listens to your opinion, so that after a while it’s only playing music you like, but the list is always changing and expanding.
My Space
Combine a major social networking site with thousands of artists around the world. Each musician has their own page, which normally has a playlist of several of their songs. But it has a huge range of musicians ranging from huge stars to the up-and-coming, and you can listen to the music and interact with the rest of the page.
1. If you enjoy listening to some new music, you can pay a visit to ______.
A. Pow Wow B. Playlist
C. The Sixty One D. Pandora
2.You can’t listen to some music on Playlist possibly because ______.
A. it is only open to those who are in the United States
B. you are not one of the members of the website
C. you don’t have any playlist
D. the music is played only by the local people
3.Pandora is different from the other websites of music in that ____.
A. listening to music is free of charge
B. the website keeps changing and expanding
C. it is built according to your suggestions
D. you can always enjoy your favorite music
4.Which of the following is true of My Space
A. Thousands of artists visit it every day.
B. It is unnecessary to create your own playlist.
C. There are only huge stars’ songs.
D. It is possible to meet the stars around the world.
5.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Best Free Music Websites.
B. All Kinds of Music Online.
C. Create Your Own Playlist.
D. Listen to Music for free.
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I’d like to tell you a story my grandmother told me when I was six or seven years old. We had to go to her home for Thanksgiving dinner and the _______ was rather a long one. I had filled the time with making a _______of all the things that I wanted for Christmas that year.
Later I showed the list to my grandmother. After she read it, she said, “That _______is a long list!” Then she told me this story:
“Once there was a little girl who came to live in an orphanage(孤儿院). As Christmas time _______ , all of the other children began _______the little girl about the beautiful Christmas tree that would appear in the huge downstairs _______ on Christmas morning. Each child would be given their one and only Christmas gift, a small, single _______ .”
“The headmaster of the orphanage was very _______ , so when he caught the little girl climbing down the stairs to look at the Christmas tree in the hall, he sharply _______ that the little girl would not _______ her Christmas orange because she had been to _______ as to disobey the rules. The little girl ran back to her room_______ and crying. The next morning as the other children were going down to breakfast, the little girl stayed in her bed. She couldn’t stand the _______ of seeing the others receive their gift when there would be _______ for her. Later, as the children came back, the little girl was _______5 to be handed a napkin(面巾纸). As she carefully _______ it, there to her disbelief was an orange all peeled and sectioned. “It was then that she imagined _______ each child had taken one section from their orange and given it to her so that she, too, would have a Christmas orange.”
How I _______ this story! I would ask my grandmother to tell it to me over and over as I _______. How I wish the world, as a whole world display that same kind of _______ for others, not just at Christmas, but throughout the year.
1.A. story B. drive C. moment D. holiday
2.A. choice B. order C. list D. joke
3.A. hardly B. usually C. specially D. really
4.A. moved B. approached C. linked D. took
5.A. telling B. informing C. warning D. sending
6.A. hall B. kitchen C. bedroom D. reading-room
7.A. apple B. star C. orange D. flower
8.A. serious B. caring C. humorous D. strict
9.A. required B. announced C. asked D. insisted
10.A. deliver B. make C. receive D. reach
11.A. curious B. outgoing C. frightened D. disappointed
12.A. delighted B. blank-minded C. seared D. broken-hearted
13.A. possession B. attraction C. thought D. effect
14.A. few B. none C. everything D. something
15.A. surprised B. happy C. willing D. pleased
16.A. touched B. felt C. smelt D. opened
17.A. whether B. when C. how D. what
18.A. wrote B. loved C. told D. understood
19.A. grew up B. dropped in C. turned up D. hung out
20.A. help B. thankfulness C. happiness D. concern
He is working as a teacher of English in our school and he _______ in Jiangxi Normal University for four years.
A. has studied B.had studied
C. studied D. would study
_______ the morning train, he would not have been late for the meeting.
A. Did the catch B. Should he catch
C. Has the caught D. Had he caught
We won’t start the work until all the preparations _________.
A. are being made B. will be made
C. have been made D. had been made
---I wonder how much you charge for your services.
---The first two are free _____ the third costs $ 30.
A. while B. wherever
C. whatever D. whoever
