PAssionArts Festival
PAssionArts Festival this year will run from 6 July to 25 August, bringing community arts to 250,000 residents across Singapore. The festival theme, “Our Home, Our HeARTs”, invites residents to use arts to express our love for our community and for Singapore.
Our aim is to bring residents together to experience and appreciate creativity. Look forward to over 500 arts activities and programmes, including visual art displays and performing arts co-created by residents and artists. The following are some of them.
ARTS PARTY @ TELOK BLANGAH
TIME: 14 July (9:00 AM—12:00 AM)
PLACE: Talok Blangah Mall
Art can happen in so many ways and for so many people—and that is what Arts Party @ Telok Blangah will show you this July!
For example, you can participate in the large oil painting activity to complete a huge oil painting art. Or carry art in your pocket anytime and anywhere by creating your own matchbox art.
We’re also bringing art therapy to the elderly as it becomes more popular in our society. Come explore Nagomi art, a Japanese art healing method that introduces calm and relaxation to the painter.
HUES IN TUNE
TIME: 20 July (2:00 PM—8:00 PM)
PLACE: Kampung Admiralty
One of the most expected part is Hues in Tune’s performance line-up. Sembawang Hues is the highlight with music performances. Fusion Tunes features cross-racial bands, and Our Own Tune presents heartfelt music by talented residents. Come to this festival village!
L.O.U.D @ KAMPONG GLAM TIME: 27 July (7:30 PM—9:30 PM)
PLACE: Kampong Glam Community Club
At Kampong Glam, the theatre performance Voices from the Belly of Carp will take us back centuries into Singapore’s history for new discoveries.
MAD TEA PARTY
TIME: 12 August (9:30 AM—11:30 AM)
PLACE: Pasir Ris Elias CC
ARTISTS: Stacy Huang, Jesse Chong and Lena Lok
Mad Tea Party is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. This will be an installation of delightful treats, where residents can gather around the tea table to create “food” together.
1.What is the goal of PAssionArts Festival?
A.To make the country more appealing in art.
B.To develop a sense of togetherness through art.
C.To promote cooperation between communities.
D.To cultivate a young generation full of creativity.
2.Alice, who is interested in painting, should go to _______ to enjoy the festival.
A.Kampung Admiralty B.Kampong Glam Community Club
C.Pasir Ris Elias CC D.Talok Blangah Mall
3.What can be learned from the poster?
A.Hues in Tune’s performances are intended for music lovers.
B.Mad Tea Party mainly involves learning to make and serve tea.
C.The performance at Kampong Glam is about the history of man.
D.Arts Party @ Telok Blangah is specially designed for the elderly.
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In a recent survey of 300 Chinese born after 1990, 54 percent of the respondents said they had hair loss, 51 percent had poorer eyesight, 45 percent gained weight and 35 percent had weakened immunity. At the same time, about 65 percent said they always stayed up late. Meanwhile, 56.7 percent of interviewees said they didn’t know how to live a healthy life.
Wu Feng, who works at a private company in Beijing, was warned in this year’s physical examination report about hyperlipemia, a condition which he ascribed (归因于) to his diet and the fast pace of his life and work.
“At work, I usually sit in the office for hours without moving my body. And when I eat at the canteen, the food is quite oily. What’s more, I like to order fast food, such as fried chicken, at night when I work extra hours,” Wu said.
A post-90s programmer Wang Ke has been seeing abnormal parameters in his medical report in the past few years. He knew he had some bad habits, but it was not easy for him to change. “I know drinking too much milk tea is unhealthy, but I couldn’t stop myself,” he said.
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（2）结合上述信息，简要分析不健康的生活方式的危害；
（3）根据你的实际情况，谈谈如何拥有健康的生活方式。
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The book I’m reading of talks about the afternoon tea in Britain. According to the book, it is called the afternoon tea today starts in the early 1800’s. Having tea in the later afternoon provided a bridge between lunch and dinner, which might not being served until 8 o’clock in the evening. Interestingly, the afternoon tea customs soon led to a rapid grow in the porcelain industry.
Tea in China was traditionally drank from cups without handles. When tea became popularity in Britain, there was a crying need for the porcelain industry to produce cups with handles to suit new need.
Experts are warning about the risks of extreme fussy eating(挑食)after a teenager developed permanent sight loss after living on a diet of chips and crisps.
Since leaving___ school, the teen had been eating only French fries, Pringles and white bread, as well as a(n)___ slice of ham or a sausage. At the age of 14, feeling tired and not well, he was diagnosed with vitamin B12 deficiency(缺乏)and was___ supplements(补充剂), but he did not___ the treatment or improve his poor diet. Three years later, he was taken to the Bristol Eye Hospital because of progressive___ loss.
Dr Denize Atan, who___ him at the hospital, said, “The teenager explained this eating disorder as a dislike of certain textures of food that he really could not____, and so chips and crisps were really the only types of food that he wanted and felt that he could eat.”
__ in B12 as well as some other important vitamins and minerals, he was not over or underweight, but was____ malnourished (lacking nutrition) from his food intake disorder. “He had lost minerals from his bone, which was really quite___ for a boy of his age.”
In terms of his sight loss, he met the___ for being registered blind. Dr Atan said, “He can’t drive and would find it really difficult to____, watch TV or recognize faces. He can walk around on his own,____, because he doesn’t lose peripheral( 周 边 的 )vision.”
The condition the young man has is treatable___ diagnosed early. Left too long, however, the nerve fibers in the optic nerve die and the damage becomes____. Dr Atan said cases like this are thankfully uncommon, but that parents should___ the potential harm that can be caused by picky eating, and seek expert help.
Dr Atan said vegans(素食主义者)are also at increased risk of B12 deficiency-related sight problems if they do not replace what they can lack when___ meat from their diet.
“Multivitamin tablets can supplement a diet, but are not a(n) ___ for eating healthily. It’s much better to___ vitamins through a varied and balanced diet,” she said, adding that too much of certain vitamins, including vitamin A, can be____, “so you don’t want to overdo it”.
1.A.vocational B.primary C.middle D.special
2.A.funny B.rigid C.occasional D.raw
3.A.forbidden B.denied C.prescribed D.offered
4.A.stick with B.cope with C.play with D.go with
5.A.diet B.sight C.weight D.wit
6.A.cured B.studied C.instructed D.treated
7.A.describe B.recognize C.tolerate D.receive
8.A.Abundant B.Lost C.Backward D.Lacking
9.A.severely B.scarcely C.seemingly D.sincerely
10.A.amusing B.normal C.shocking D.typical
11.A.situations B.criteria C.deadlines D.challenges
12.A.read B.sing C.dance D.laugh
13.A.even B.though C.still D.yet
14.A.since B.unless C.after D.if
15.A.persistent B.periodic C.persevering D.permanent
16.A.wake up to B.live up to C.stand up to D.come up to
17.A.excluding B.separating C.including D.distinguishing
18.A.companion B.substitute C.suggestion D.explanation
19.A.take off B.take after C.take in D.take over
20.A.rewarding B.compulsory C.restrictive D.poisonous
Shopping therapy （疗 法）is the practice of using the shopping experience to help overcome depression or other emotional problems. 1. Actually, it really works.
2. One of the most obvious things is the enjoyment people get from the items they buy. When people shop, they often buy things they really care about on some level. For example, when people come home with a new shirt or a new computer, they assume that the item is going to improve their lives in some way. This can help reduce many feelings of unhappiness.
3. Some experts think humans are linked with the need to constantly achieve and fight for improvement. People make a decision to buy something, and then actually follow through this plan. This is one way people can take action to directly change their own lives for the better.
People who don't actually have any money to buy things still benefit from shopping therapy. For them, simply browsing （浏览）can be a nice experience. That's because it helps them form future shopping plans. 4.
The simple act of leaving home and spending time around other humans is another possible reason for the effectiveness of shopping therapy. 5. Many people even use shopping as a specific social activity by bringing friends along with them and turning the process into a pleasant one.
A.So why not shop until you start feeling better?
B.So how do people benefit from shopping therapy?
C.These plans offer great expectation and hope in their life.
D.Many people shop for this reason without even realizing it.
E.People can have the feeling of achievement after shopping.
F.Many people have gone into debt due to shopping addiction.
G.There is sometimes a sense of community in the shopping experience.
You may think that creativity and artistic judgment are what sets humans apart from artificial intelligence (AI). Robots will be washing our windows long before they start creating masterpieces Right?
Not necessarily. At Amper Music (www.ampermusic.com), you can make the music you want based on mood, instrument, speed and length. You click “Render,” and boom! There’s your original piece, not only composed (作曲) but also “performed” and “mixed” by AI software.
But something has kept bothering me: What happens in a world where effort and scarcity (稀缺) are no longer part of the definition of art? A mass-produced print of the Mona Lisa is worth less than the actual Leonardo painting. Why? Scarcity—there’s only one of the original. But Amper turns. professional-quality original piece of music every time you click “Render.” It puts us in a strange world where works of art are unique but require almost zero human effort to produce. Should anyone pay for these things? And if an artist puts AI masterpieces up for sale, what should the price be?
That’s not just a thought experiment either. Soon the question “What’s the value of AI artwork and music?” will start impacting flesh—and—blood consumers. It has already, in fact.
Earlier, reporters discovered something suspicious (可疑的) about many playlists of Spotify—another online music service. According to the report, the composers and bands who wrote the songs appeared to be nonexistent. These playlists have names like Peaceful Piano and Ambient Chill—exactly the kind of music AI software is good at.
Is Spotify using software to compose music to avoid paying fees to human musicians? The New York Times reported that the tracks with false names have been played 500 million times, which would ordinarily have cost Spotify $3 million in payments.
But Spotify has firmly denied that the tracks in question were created by “fake” artists to avoid payments: while posted under pennames, they were written by actual people receiving actual money for work that they own. But the broader issue remains. Why couldn’t Spotify, or any music service, start using AI to produce free music to save itself money? Automation (自动化) is beginning to replace millions of human taxi drivers, truck drivers and fast-food workers. Why should artists and musicians be an exception to the same economics?
Should there be anything in place—a union, a law---to stop that from happening? Or will we always value human-produced art and music more than machine-made stuff? Once we’ve answered those questions, we can settle the really big one: When an AI—composed song wins the Grammy, who will be awarded?
1.What do we know from the example of Amper Music?
A.It doesn’t need any human effort to compose music.
B.It allows ordinary people to perform their own music.
C.It makes a challenge to the traditional definition of art.
D.It produces music works that are similar in styles.
2.The underlined part in Paragraph 4 implies that ________.
A.it is hard to tell AI artworks apart from human artworks
B.people will be charged for AI art in the near future
C.people don’t know what price of AI art is reasonable
D.the scarcity of AI artworks means it is one of a copy
3.Spotify was covered in the media because ________.
A.AI music can be performed free of charge
B.its musicians might not be paid fairly
C.playlists of its music did not actually exist
D.AI software has replaced human musicians
4.The writing purpose of this passage is to ________.
A.draw deserved attention to AI-made artworks
B.warn against the immediate threat from Al art
C.support the use of Al software in art creation
D.solve misunderstandings about AI’s role in art
