Gaining confidence while singing is a process that requires practice.1. Getting comfortable with your voice and mastering healthy singing techniques can help you do this.
Feeling Confident While Performing
*Spend time at the venue（场地）before you need to perform.2.To overcome this, go to the stage when no one else is around. Take some time to walk around and look out towards where the audience will sit.
*3.Slowly breathe in and breathe out. Let the air go all the way down to the bottom of your lungs.
Gaining Confidence Through Practice
* Warm up with vocal（声音的，嗓音的）exercises before singing.4.And it also gives you a chance to relax and gain confidence before singing.
* Practice for at least 15 minutes every day. The more you practice, the more comfortable you will feel! You can listen to yourself sing. In addition, you get plenty of time to improve your vocal skills, which also leads to more confidence.
Choosing the Right Song
* Pick a song that has personal meaning to you. Most likely you can think of a few songs that have a meaningful place in your life.5.When a song is personally meaningful, your desire to share that meaning can drive your performance.
A.The song can be a childhood favorite.
B.Breathe deeply before beginning to sing.
C.Singing in a new place can be a little frightening.
D.Warming up your voice does protect your vocal cords.
E.During a performance, you may not be able to pick out the song you sing.
F.The most important part is learning to have fun no matter who is listening.
G.As you hear your own voice, you will likely start caring less if others hear it too.
A single cigarette sold on a street corner may not cost a lot; however, the whole costs of smoking are huge.
First, consider the cost of human life. About 10 people die of a tobacco-related disease every minute. Most of these preventable deaths happen in low-income and middle-income countries. The World Bank says each of these countries has a total national income of less than $ 12,746.
The World Health Organization says tobacco kills 6 million people yearly -a number that is expected to rise to 8 million by 2030 unless immediate action is taken.
But smoking costs more than the life of a person. It can affect the health of the whole country. The World Health Organization says low-income countries depend heavily on taxes from cigarettes. They use the money, in part, to pay the costs of health care for tobacco-related diseases.
But the illegal trade in tobacco products is further testing the economies of low-income countries. WHO officials say the illegal trade earns about $ 31 billion every year.
Douglas Bettcher is the director of the W HO s Department for the Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases. He calls the illegal trade a monster with many heads. He says the trade enables young people to buy cigarettes at low prices, become addicted to tobacco and suffer from serious health problems. It also increases crime and reduces taxes.
The World Health Organization is strongly suggesting that the U. N. member states sign an agreement to end the illegal trade in tobacco products. Eight countries have agreed to the agreement. But the agreement of 32 other countries is still needed for it to become an international law.
If the agreement succeeds, governments could put people who trade illegal tobacco products in prison-another cost to countries budgets.
1.Where are people dying of a tobacco related disease mostly from?
A.Developed countries. B.Old countries.
C.Underdeveloped countries. D.New countries.
2.Which of the following about the whole costs of smoking is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A.Destroying the environment.
B.Being harmful to human life.
C.Affecting the whole country’s economy.
D.Causing the illegal trade.
3.What’s the main idea of Paragraph 6?
A.Some action has been taken by the WHO.
B.The illegal trade in tobacco products is harmful.
C.Young people who are addicted to smoking may commit a crime.
D.An agreement to end the illegal trade in tobacco products is being signed.
4.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A.Smoking Costs More than You Think
B.Different Ways to Stop Smoking
C.The Illegal Trade in Tobacco Products
D.Immediate Action to Stop Smoking
The majority of us have read Cinderella, the fairy tale of a young woman living in poverty who meets the prince of her dreams. Some might not want to admit it, but there is a hidden Cinderella in everyone’s heart-we all wish we could achieve recognition or success after a period of obscurity（默默无闻）.Mary Santiago has that secret dream, too. Her story is featured in Another Cinderella Story, a film set in a US high school.
Mary is shy but loves to dance. Compared with other girls, she is invisible. However, her world changes completely when a famous teenage pop singer, Joey Parker, appears. Joey is every-thing the rest of the boys in her class are not-kind, handsome and desirable. Mary’s and Joey s paths cross at a ball. They meet and fall in love with each other. But when Mary has to rush back home, she leaves behind her MP3 player, which becomes the only clue Joey has to find the girl of his dreams. Of course, there is a wicked（邪恶的）stepmother, who turns out to be Dominique Blatt and she takes in Mary after her dancer mother dies. Dominique treats Mary like a maid and does everything she can to make sure Mary doesn’t get into the top dance school. Her two daughters are equally determined to stop Joey falling for Mary, even if that means embarrassing her.
The story, though it mostly follows Cinderella, does add a few modern-day twists to the classic fairy tale. Refreshingly, the film, unlike many high school films, does not focus on looks, although the actors are all beautiful. There is also a lot less materialism in Another Cinderella Story than in many similar movies.
“The movie takes the Cinderella fairy tale as its jumping-off point,” writes Amber Wilkinson, a movie critic. “The focus is firmly on following your dreams.”
1.What’s the main purpose of the first paragraph?
A.To inform us of the background of Cinderella.
B.To remind us why Cinderella is popular all the years.
C.To build interest and lead us to Mary’s secret dream.
D.To tell us how interesting the fairy tale Cinderella is.
2.What can we infer from the text?
A.Joey is just like other boys in Mary s class.
B.The MP3 player helps Joey to find Mary.
C.Not many people have a dream to realize.
D.Mary’s mother influences her a lot in singing.
3.What does Amber Wilkinson think of Another Cinderella Story?
A.The movie is as good as Cinderella.
B.The movie is exactly another copy of Cinderella.
C.The movie and Cinderella both focus on following your dreams.
D.The movie is based on Cinderella but a little different from it.
4.What is the text mainly about?
A.A review of a film. B.An introduction to a book.
C.An essay about dreams. D.An advertisement for Cinderella.
Sally Smith is an unbelievable woman who looks like a fit 40-year-old, although she just turned 70. She follows a special raw diet and only drinks rainwater.
She looks so young that people mistake her for her daughter when she’s out with her husband of 54 years, but I think he isn’t complaining.
Mrs. Smith says the secret to her beauty lies in her special diet, consisting of organic vegetables, fruits, seeds and nuts grown in her own garden; she calls it the “fountain of youth”. The woman doesn’t touch anything that has been cooked.
And another strange thing she does is to collect rainwater, to keep her garden blossoming, but also to drink. But the resident of Miami-Dade County, Florida, didn’t always have such a healthy lifestyle. In fact, she consumed meat regularly, as her husband used to own a meat factory way back in the 1960s. It was then that she decided to change her eating habit forever. And what a great decision that was! I mean, just look at her!
When she started off, Mrs. Smith was just looking for a few health benefits and never expected that she would look like a 40-year-old at the age of 70. Over the 27 years, she has been eating raw food, and she has written two booklets called Journey to Health and also produced a DVD containing all her healthy secrets.
Her husband, Mr. Smith, wishes he had followed her example, because now he looks much, much older and also suffers from diabetes (糖尿病) and high blood pressure. He takes prescription medicine every day, but Sally doesn’t even take an aspirin.
1.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A.Her raw diet. B.Her beauty.
C.Specially cooked food. D.The organic food.
2.What kind of person does the author think Mrs. Smith is?
A.Modest. B.Honest.
C.Strong-willed. D.Open-minded. .
3.What did the woman do with her healthy secrets?
A.She sold them to the local people.
B.She abandoned them at the age of 70.
C.She publicized them in various ways.
D.She improved them with her husband s help.
4.What is the author’s attitude towards Mrs. Smith’s lifestyle?
A.Sympathetic. B.Doubtful.
C.Negative. D.Supportive.
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