I’m a big fan of pop music and I enjoy listening to music quite a lot. Although people can listen to_______music on their music players when they are travelling, working or studying, _______festivals and concerts are becoming more and more_______. This is because I believe they offer two main _______.
The first one is that the sound is much_______ at live concerts where the music and voices come _______from the musicians. This makes it a much more emotional(有感染力的) _______because you have direct contact with the_______ and you react(回应) to them and they react to you.
The second advantage is the atmosphere(气氛). _______ listening to a recording__________on your personal music player, at a concert you are __________ with a huge crowd of people and __________the music together. This means it is a __________as well as an artistic experience.
The main__________ is that you cannot listen to live music __________you want like you can on a personal music player. Besides, the __________ from the audience sometimes__________the quality of the sound.
In my opinion, __________, the best way to enjoy music is the wonderful atmosphere of a live concert. It is more exciting__________you are surrounded by other__________who are dancing with you happily.
1.A. recorded B. live C. soft D. loud
2.A. culture B. tradition C. music D. arts
3.A. special B. difficult C. successful D. popular
4.A. questions B. advantages C. challenges D. results
5.A. higher B. lower C. worse D. better
6.A. quickly B. directly C. frequently D. suddenly
7.A. example B. lesson C. experience D. talk
8.A. performers B. audience C. producers D. strangers
9.A. According to B. Instead of C. Except for D. Along with
10.A. patiently B. quietly C. together D. alone
11.A. listening B. playing C. working D. singing
12.A. writing B. providing C. studying D. enjoying
13.A. personal B. practical C. social D. physical
14.A. reason B. problem C. purpose D. worry
15.A. whenever B. whatever C. whoever D. whichever
16.A. danger B. pain C. alarm D. noise
17.A. improves B. damages C. values D. forms
18.A. besides B. also C. however D. already
19.A. because B. so C. but D. although
20.A. teams B. classes C. volunteers D. fans
Want to know how to be a confident friend-finder? We can help, with four easy steps.
Step 1. Change your mental state.
It’s easy to get so freaked out（不安的）about being in a new situation that you start throwing off don't-come-near-me signals. And guess what? It worked.1.Instead, change your attitude with some positive thinking. Tell yourself: “It’ll be great to get to know someone new”, or “I can’t wait to hear what these girls have to say.”
Step 2. Remember, the eyes have it.
The first place we look at when we’re uncomfortable is the floor. No one can tell if we’re embarrassed. We can’t tell if anyone is looking at us. Whoa!2.Holding your head up and making eye contact is a bold（大胆的）move．It’s confident and friendly.
Step 3.3.
Does starting a communication bring on an attack of shyness? Try adding a good question to your friend-finding tools. Strong opening questions usually begin with “what” or “how” words that get people talking. Typically, our first instinct (本能) is to ask a “can” or a “do” question, like “Can I borrow a pencil?” or “ Do you know where the bathroom is?4.Asking “what” or “how” questions gets you more information to respond to. Try something like “Hi. I really like that flower. How did you draw it?” or “Hi. I’m new. What’s the least scary lunch option in the cafeteria?”
Step 4. Practice, practice, practice.
Making new friends is a skill. 5.But the more you practice, the more relaxed and natural. You’ll feel, and the easier it will get. So flash that smile, offer some welcoming words, and soon you’ll be hanging out with your newest friends!
A. People don’t come near you.
B. All you need is one question.
C. Listen closely to their answers.
D. Not a good way to meet people.
E. The thought of meeting people makes you excited.
F. But that only gets you short answers. Like “Yeah”or “Down the hall”.
G. Like art, music, or sports, it takes practice to feel truly confident of it.
There lived in South Carolina a young woman named Eliza Lucas. Her father was governor of one of the islands of the West Indies. Miss Lucas often got seeds from her father, and then she planted them in South Carolina.
Once, her father sent her some seeds of the indigo (靛蓝) plant. She planted some of them in March, but a frost (霜冻) came and killed all her plants. However, she decided to plant some more seeds in April. These grew very well until a cutworm found them and ate her plants. Once more Miss Lucas planted some of the seeds. This time the plants grew very well. She wrote to her father about it. He sent her a man who knew how to get the indigo out of the plant.
However, the man tried not to show Miss Lucas how to make the indigo. He did not want the people in South Carolina to learn how to make it. He was afraid his own people would not get so much money for their indigo if other people made it as well. So he destroyed the indigo on purpose. But Miss Lucas watched him closely. She worked out how the indigo could be made. Some of her father’s land in South Carolina was now planted with the indigo plant.
Then Miss Lucas got married, and became Mrs. Pinckney. Her father gave her all the indigo growing on his land in South Carolina. It was all saved for seeds. Mrs Pinckney gave some of the seeds to her friends while her husband sowed others. They all grew and were made into the blue dye(染料) that we call indigo. In a few years, South Carolina was producing more than a million pounds of indigo every year. All the people were grateful to her.
1.The indigo plant died at first because of ______.
A. a cutworm B. a frost
C. strong sunlight D. heavy rain
2.What might be people’s attitude toward Eliza Lucas in South Carolina?
A. They were afraid of her. B. They were doubtful of her.
C. They were thankful to her. D. They were worried about her.
3.The man Miss Lucas’s father sent her ______.
A. was not as helpful as she expected B. knew little about planting seeds
C. helped her a lot in making the indigo D. made a lot of money in South Carolina
4.What’s the main idea of the text?
A. Eliza Lucas learned to plant seeds.
B. Eliza Lucas became Mrs. Pinckney.
C. Eliza Lucas got her father’s land in South Carolina
D. Eliza Lucas introduced indigo to South Carolina.
You often can choose a private setting when you browse(浏览) the internet. But be forewarned: It may not afford nearly as much privacy as you expect. That’s the finding of a new study.
Major web browsers, such as Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari, often a private-browsing option. It’s sometimes referred to as “incognito.” This option lets you surf the Internet browser and saves a record into its history of each page that you visited. And what sites you visit won’t affect the suggestions your browser makes the next time you’re filling out an online form.
Many people believe----incorrectly--- that the incognito setting protects them more broadly. Most believe it even after reading a web browser’s explanation of the incognito mode.
For instance, a new study had 460 people read web browsers’ descriptions of private browsing. Each person read one of 13 descriptions. Then the participants answered questions about how private they thought their browsing would be while using this tool. The volunteers didn’t understand the incognito mode.This was true no matter which browser explanation they had read. The researchers reported their findings on April 26 at the 2018 World Wide Web Conference in Lyon, France.
More than half of the volunteers thought that if they logged into a Google account through a private window, Google wouldn’t keep a record of their search history. Not true. And about one in every four participants thought private browsing hid their device’s IP address. That’s wrong, too.
Blase Ur was one of the study’s authors. He’s an expert in computer security and privacy in Illinois at the University of Chicago. Companies could clear up this confusion by giving better explanations of the incognito mode, his team says. For example, the browsers should avoid vague（模糊).The web browser Opera, for instance, promises users that “your secrets are safe.” Nope Firefox encourages users to “browse like no one’s watching.” In fact, someone might be. (If you’d like to know more about the research information, please click here .)
1.The researchers did the study with the aim of ______.
A. checking the safety of browsers of leading companies
B. finding users’ knowledge about private browsing policy
C. tracking young web users’ browsing habits
D. testing a new tool to judge the Internet
2.The “incognito” mode is believed to be able to ______.
A. record one’s passwords
B. give a warning of insecure links
C. help hide one’s past browsing history
D. access one’s favorite websites quickly
3.Where is the article probably from ______.
A. a text book B. a newspaper
C. a magazine D. the Internet
4.The last paragraph is written to ______.
A. report a new finding B. put forward a suggestion
C. introduce a web browser D. correct a misunderstanding
A mother goat is able to pick out her own baby from its voice alone by the time the kid is just five days old.
Researchers from University of London played kids’ bleats to female goats and studied their responses. They were surprised to find that the animals were able to pick out their own kids’ voices.
“A mother and the kid rely a lot on smell to recognize one another and, in the wild, during the first week of their lives, the animals hide in grass and don’t call much. It’s a strategy they use to avoid enemies,” Dr Elodie Briefer, who led the research, explained to BBC News. “The mother call to the kids when she want them to come and feed, so we expected that kids would recognize the mothers’ voices.” In fact, this was the case for deer, which also use this hiding strategy, although they do not belong to the same family of species as goats.
She and her team recorded and played back young kids’ calls to the female goats and recorded their responses.She explained, “Even when the calls came from kids that are five to six days old, we could see the mothers responding more to the voices of their own babies.” Hearing the voice of their own kids, the females would look towards the speaker that the sound was coming from, moving around and calling in response.
The scientists say that understanding how goats behave and communicate is very important. “This helps us understand just how smart these animals are,” said Dr. Briefer. “Farmers might be able to change their way to raise goats considering this natural behaviour.”
1.What does the underlined word “bleats” means?
A. habits B. voices
C. responses D. videos
2.During the first few days of the baby deer, the mother and the kid mainly depend on ______to recognize each other when they are hiding in grass.
A. voice B. touch
C. videos D. smell
3.In the experiment, what does a mother goat do when hearing her kids’ voice?
A. Making voice in response. B. Jumping over and over.
C. Hiding herself somewhere. D. Behaving just as usual.
4.The passage is mainly written for ______ to read.
A. teachers B. writers
C. farmers D. lawyers
Sharon, Aged 22
The most important thing to keep in mind when going into high school is to be yourself. Besides, I don’t know what your middle school was like, but high school teachers will not care about things such as how much homework you already have in one night. It’s best to just learn to deal with things and manage your time wisely so you can achieve everything you need to.
Frank, Aged 21
I think almost every kid feels both nervous and excited before their first day. You will probably love it. I know I did. You should join in some sports or activities that will make your high school experience more enjoyable. Good luck!
David, Aged 19
I’m not going to lie. The first day is kind of frightening. But you’ll get used to it. Don’t be afraid of anyone; upperclassmen will pick on you more if you let them know you’re afraid. Just take it easy. Making some friends and staying with them will greatly help you get used to high school quickly. After the first week it’s really not bad at all. Don’t worry.
Eddie ,Aged 20
When I started high school I was really nervous too, especially since I had been homeschooled all through middle school and didn’t really know anyone. I suppose the best advice would be to just relax. The first couple of days can be a little bit hard, but things will become easier before you know it.
1.What can we infer from Sharon’s words about high school?
A. Teachers are quite strict. B. Students often stay up at night
C. Teachers provide little care for students. D. Students should make good use of their time.
2.Who mentions the importance of friends?
A. David B. Frank
C. Sharon D. Eddie
3.How did Eddie feel on his first day of high school?
A. Excited B. Worried
C. Bored D. Relaxed
