Zide, a guqin studio in China, has made the ancient Chinese instrument popular in recent times.Its videos, in which performers play traditional Chinese music with several instruments including guqin, have become popular on the Internet.The performances feature the traditional clothing which the players wear as well as the style, making them look like classic Chinese paintings coming to life.
In 2014, several young people founded the studio in Shanghai.Each of them played the guqin, and together they began to teach others.Since 2015, they have been making videos of their performances, mainly solos.Besides, they produced a series of short videos to teach how to play the instrument correctly.
"Each traditional Chinese musical instrument has a unique characteristic.So 1 pick only one of each kind in a piece of music and make it show its full potential," said Tang Bin, one of the studio's co-founders.
Since 2017, the studio has been working with costumers specializing in historical clothing, make-up, and hairstyles.These elements have made the videos more attractive to the younger audience.In cooperation with the costumers, the video called Kongshan Niaoyu(Birdsong in Hollow Valley)has been a big success on Bilibili, a Chinese video-sharing website that is especially popular among young generations in China."It is hard to imagine that an ancient instrument like guqin can attract over 460,000 followers on a website where the average age of visitors is 13," Tang said.The videos have also become a hit on social media platforms abroad, with the most popular one watched more than 13 million times.Anna Cardoso, a Brazilian viewer; commented, "I love Chinese culture and music! Hope people preserve their history and don't let it die!" In the comment section, foreigners can find explanatory comments by enthusiastic viewers introducing the cultural background or elements, which can help them better understand China.
"This shows that good music and beautiful works of art can break the boundaries of nationality," said Zhu Liyue, head of the studio and another co-founder.The combination of delicate clothes and images can dispel the stereotypes foreigners have about ancient Chinese culture.
1. Which is the highlighted part of Zide's videos?| A．They are made by a famous studio. |
| B．They show players playing several ancient Chinese instruments. |
| C．The performances look like classic Chinese paintings coming to life. |
| D．The performers teach the audience how to play the guqin correctly. |
| A．It is founded by several young people. |
| B．It picks only one instrument in a performance. |
| C．It mainly produces videos of solo performances. |
| D．It adds historical elements to the styling of costumes. |
| A．Zide's most watched video online is Kongshan Niaoyu. |
| B．Bilibili is visited mostly by young people at home and abroad. |
| C．Ancient instruments like guqin can easily attract followers on a website. |
| D．Foreign audience can understand Chins better by watching Zide's videos. |
| A．Bring attention to the idea. | B．Separate from the original one. |
| C．Strengthen the understanding. | D．Make a feeling or belief disappear. |
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Coming from the Bronx, Jennifer Lopez knew from an early age it would be tough to achieve her dream. In an interview in 2002 she remembered, “I had such a will in me. I had such a passion in me. I could overcome my situation. But a lot of people will get beaten down and be held back by that.” Lopez was not beaten down by her situation. She worked hard dancing, singing, and acting in theaters and her hard work paid off with small roles in television and films.
Lopez’s big breakthrough came in 1996 when she played the main role in the movie Selena. For this movie, Lopez got paid $1 million and became the highest paid Latin actress of all time. Since then, she has had starring roles in several successful movies, including Out of Sight with George Clooney.
Then, Lopez turned her attention toward music. In 1999, she released her first album, On the 6. Two songs from the album, “If You Had My Love” and “Waiting for Tonight”, both reached number one on the Billboard music charts. The album sold more than three million copies around the world.
After starring in The Cell (2000), Lopez released her second album, J. Lo, in 2001. The album went straight to the top of the billboard chart. At the same time when her album came out, Lopez’s new movie, The Wedding Planner, opened in theaters. It became the number one movie at the box office. This meant that Lopez was the first entertainer to ever have a number one album and a number one movie at the same time!
But her entertainment career was not the only thing Lopez focused on that year. 2001 was also the year Lopez started her own line of clothing, called J. Lo, and she married Cris Judd, a dancer who performed in her videos. The marriage did not last long, and Lopez and Judd divorced nine months later.
In 2002, Lopez starred in the films Enough and Maid in Manhattan, which became Lopez’s biggest movie yet, earning $19 million.
1. In what movie did Lopez play the main role in 1996?2. How many copies was the Lopez’s first album sold around the world?
3. What is the passage mainly talking about?
4. Do you think will and passion are important to make a person successful? Give your reasons. (about 40 words)
【推荐2】We spend a great amount of time listening to music. Most college students listen to music at least three or four times a week, and more than 50 percent of them go to at least one concert per year.
According to new research, we may be born liking music, because human beings are born to find certain combinations of sounds attractive. For example, young children can recognize a familiar song even when its key is changed. Similarly, they respond with more emotions to their mothers' singing than to their mothers' speech. Careful analysis of mothers' child-directed songs indicates that each mother's songs remain stable from one “performance” to the next, and this may encourage children's engagement with the songs.
Research with adults suggests that music catches our attention by activating (激活) brain pathways that are most suited to processing music than to processing other kinds of sound. Specifically, music appreciation relies on the auditory cortex (听觉皮层) on the right side of the brain, which is specialized to process sound that characterizes music — in contrast to the left auditory cortex, which processes the stop-and-start bursts of sound that characterize speech.
Although some psychologists remain skeptical about whether music may have powerful effects on our thinking, a number of studies have shown that listening to music can increase people's spatial reasoning abilities. Furthermore, it is clear that music can greatly influence our emotions. Personally significant music activates areas of the brain associated with pleasure and reward, the same areas that are activated by good food.
Researchers do not agree about how humans' abilities to process and enjoy music have come into being. Anyway, the next time you enjoy listening to a piece of music, remember that the most complex pieces of audio equipment are the ones between your headphones.
1. Which of the following might belong to the “certain combinations of sounds” in paragraph 2?| A．A debate | B．A song |
| C．A dialogue | D．A quarrel |
| A．no doubt music can increase people's thinking ability |
| B．music simply gives people positive emotions |
| C．music has a great influence on human beings |
| D．only music can give people pure pleasure and reward |
| A．at a college | B．in a brain |
| C．in the concert | D．in the headphone |
【推荐3】In the fall of 1959, Freed suffered a bad reputation for rumors of bribery (贿赂行为), and his troubles were too strong to be resisted. When WABC asked Freed to sign a statement swearing that he had never taken bribes, he refused and was fired. Although he later signed such a statement for WNEW-TV, he lost his television show as well.
Finding himself unwelcome in New York, Freed fled to the West Coast, where he managed to land a daytime disc jockey (流行音乐播音员) job at KDAY in Los Angeles in 1960. Legal problems continued to bother him, though, and he was charged with taking bribes of more than $30,000 from a number of record companies. Publicly, Freed denied that he had ever accepted direct bribes, although he acknowledged that he had accepted gifts from record companies, but only for playing records that he was certain would become hits anyway. After a short time at KDAY, he left when the station management refused to let him promote his live rock ‘n’ roll shows. He returned to New York, but not as a broadcaster. At the height of the great enthusiasm for the twist dance, he hosted a Manhattan twist revue (时事讽刺剧), but when this enthusiasm cooled, he found a disc jockey job at WQAM in Miami in 1962. During this difficult period, Freed began drinking heavily and lost his job in Miami after only two months. In December of 1962 he was found guilty in New York of two charges of commercial bribery and was given a six-month sentence and fined $300. This effectively ended his career.
Freed spent the last years of his life in Palm Springs, California. Although he had redefined what it meant to be a disc jockey and named the music that had become an anthem (圣歌) for the world’s youth, he was a disgraced (耻辱的) and broken man, no longer able to work in the business he loved. On January 20, 1965, he died in a hospital in Palm Springs.
1. Why was Freed fired by WABC?| A．Because he took bribes. |
| B．Because he swore he didn’t take bribes. |
| C．Because he refused to admit taking bribes. |
| D．Because he refused to make a statement as WABC required. |
| A．the gifts were not valuable |
| B．the gifts had no connection with playing records |
| C．the records he was asked to play were very famous |
| D．the records he was asked to play would surely become popular |
| A．Freed didn’t take bribes at all. |
| B．Freed showed no talent for music. |
| C．Freed had made contributions in his career. |
| D．KDAY fired Freed because of his addiction to alcohol. |
【推荐1】In some US states, gym class is changing. Many schools are focusing on getting students ready for life after high school. They are looking for ways to leave even the least athletic kids with the will and skills to keep moving. For gym teachers, that means less focus on who is best at a sport. It means less rope climbing and dodgeball(躲避球).
A New Model
In one New York school district, there is no “gym” class.
“We want our kids…, to be active for life,” said Ron Whitcomb. He manages the physical education, or PE, program for the Victor, New York, school district.
A US law passed in 2015 increased the importance of health and fitness in education. It also gave more funding(资金) to PE programs.
Whitcomb’s program started before that law passed.
Outside the Gym
Tracy Krause teaches PE in Washington State. For a few years, she has taken students fly-fishing and rock climbing.
Lifelong Skills
In Washington, D. C, all second-graders learn to ride bikes. Fourth- and seventh-graders learn parkour(跑酷). Parkour teaches students to jump, climb and roll in the fastest way they can. Sixth- graders learn how to read a compass. High schoolers swim.
Teachers hope to keep students liking, not hating, PE. That means finding sports or activities they enjoy.
| A．They are also cutting back on team sports. |
| B．It means more bike riding and outdoor hikes. |
| C．Other schools are now following his program. |
| D．Instead there is a list of different fitness classes. |
| E．The school district’s goal is to teach lifelong skills. |
| F．She is part of her school’s “Outdoor Academy” program. |
| G．Kids who are not as athletic sometimes hate playing team sports. |
【推荐2】Around two-thirds of the world’s population will face at least one month of water shortages by 2050, according to a new report on how climate change is affecting the world’s water resources.
The report from WMO(世界气候组织), released Tuesday, includes predictions about river flows, floods and droughts on every continent. It warned that some places, such as Brazil’s Rio Sao Francisco basin, face a challenging future because of the continuous droughts. However, others, including the Great Lakes region of the United States, are in better shape. There will be losers and winners, the authors wrote, though, “Overall, the negative trends are stronger than the positive ones.”
Researchers also said rapid snow melt in high-altitude regions has “a great impact” on global water security. The heavy use of groundwater for irrigation, a problem worsened by droughts, also affects global water security
“ The impacts of climate change are often felt through water-more severe and frequent droughts, and more extreme flooding. They have great effects on economy, ecosystem and all aspects of our daily lives,” WMO Secretary-General Taalas said.
“ There isn’t enough understanding of changes in the distribution(分布), quantity, and quality of freshwater resources. The 36-page report will fill that knowledge gap and provide an outline of water availability in different parts of the world,” another official said. The findings will guide investments on climate adaptation. Besides, it will also give information to the United Nations’ campaign to provide access to early risk warning system for climate disasters.
“Between 2001 and 2018, the United Nations reported that 74 percent of all natural disasters were water-related. This motivates participants at the recent U.N. climate conference to further add water into adaptation efforts. This report will be a great help,” added the official.
1. What is the main finding of the report?| A．Continuous floods have put Brazil at risk. |
| B．The use of groundwater has worsened droughts. |
| C．The world water security has become unbalanced. |
| D．Every continent is suffering from natural disasters. |
| A．Concerned. | B．Optimistic. |
| C．Critical. | D．Tolerant. |
| A．The content of the report. | B．The purpose of the report. |
| C．The background of the report. | D．The significance of the report. |
| A．To call on people to save water. |
| B．To explain reasons for climate disasters. |
| C．To present a report on global water security. |
| D．To compare water resources in different places. |
【推荐3】Eradajere Oleita thinks she may have a partial solution for two of our country’s insistent problems: garbage and poverty. It’s called the Chip Bag Project. The 26-year-old student and environmentalist from Detroit is asking a favor of local snack lovers: Rather than toss your empty chip bags into the trash, donate them so she can turn them into sleeping bags for the homeless.
Chip eaters drop off their empty bags from Doritos, Lay’s, and other favorites at two locations in Detroit: a print shop and a clothing store, where Oleita and her volunteer helpers collect them. After they sanitize the chip bags in soapy hot water, they slice them open, lay them flat, and iron them together. They use padding and liners(内衬) from old coats to line the insides.
It takes about four hours to sew a sleeping bag, and each takes around 150 to 300 chip bags, depending on whether they’re single-serve or family size. The result is a sleeping bag that is “waterproof, lightweight, and easy to carry around,” Oleita told The Detroit News.
Since its start in 2020, the Chip Bag Project has collected more than 800,000 chip bags and, as of last December, created 110 sleeping bags. Sure, it would be simpler to raise the money to buy new sleeping bags. But that’s only half the goal for Oleita—whose family moved to the United States from Nigeria a decade ago with the hope of attaining a better life—and her fellow volunteers. “We are devoted to making an impact not only socially, but environmentally,” she says.
And, of course, there’s the symbolism of salvaging bags that would otherwise land in the trash and using them to help the homeless. It’s a powerful reminder that environmental injustice and poverty often go hand in hand. As Oleita told hourdetroit.com, “I think it’s time to show connections between all of these issues.”
1. What is true about the Chip Bag Project?| A．It welcomes donations of money. |
| B．It collects chip bags from trash cans. |
| C．It concerns poverty and environment. |
| D．It offers only one kind of sleeping bags. |
| A．Pack. | B．Clean. | C．Fold. | D．Gather. |
| A．Creative and caring. | B．Considerate and strong-willed. |
| C．Generous and hard-working. | D．Courageous and warm-hearted. |
| A．A Powerful Reminder | B．Garbage and Poverty |
| C．Chipping Away At Poverty | D．Advanced Sleeping Bags |
【推荐1】Early in the morning, LaPierre boarded Boston’s Blue Line “L” to head to the Chicago to Marathon. The train was full of excited marathoners. He took a seat next to a fellow runner and began chatting. Before long, La Pierre noticed a man who seemed to be homeless moving from passenger to passenger, asking for spare change. That struck LaPierre as “really uncommon,” especially the way he stared down anyone he felt hadn’t given him enough.
At the Cumberland station, several stops before the one for the marathon, most of the passengers suddenly escaped from the car. LaPierre, surprised, rushed out to see what was going on, only to hear frightened people shouting that the man asking for money was, in fact, armed and robbing (抢劫) people.
Just then, the armed man himself exited the train car and went to the next one. LaPierre followed him. “I could not walk away knowing there were children and people just trying to get to a race,” he says. The man was standing in the middle of the car when he turned and saw LaPierre, his head down, bull-rushing him. The two men fought for the gun — and their lives.
“You don’t move!” LaPierre shouted, pressing the armed man against a door. The man tried pushing him, but LaPierre pushed him back against the door, grabbing (夺取) the gun and handing it to a passenger, who quickly walked off the train with it. But LaPierre wasn’t in the clear. The man had partners who now surrounded LaPierre and began to threaten him. Then the police entered the car, and LaPierre let them take over.
This was not the first time LaPierre had jumped to the rescue. In 2015, he helped rescue a one-year-old and his mother from a car accident. Last summer, he volunteered to search for a snake that went missing from a backyard cage in Newton. And a few years back, he helped stop a CVS drugstore robbery. “I just happen to be at the right place at the right moment,” he says.
1. How did LaPierre find the man asking for money?| A．Strange. | B．Pitiful. | C．Boring. | D．Disappointing. |
| A．He took out his gun. | B．He called the policemen. |
| C．He tried to control the man. | D．He comforted the passengers. |
| A．The passengers helped him a lot. | B．The policemen arrived in time. |
| C．He fought with them violently. | D．He pointed the gun at them. |
| A．LaPierre leads a difficult life. | B．LaPierre is a qualified policeman. |
| C．LaPierre likes fighting with bad guys. | D．LaPierre is always ready to help others. |
Wedding Customs from Around the World Each traditional wedding custom is very special, because it marks the importance of the wedding. |
| Brazil Important Details of the Wedding Ceremony A wedding ceremony in Brazil has many important details. For example, the bridegroom can't see the bride wearing her wedding dress before the ceremony. The bride has to use something old, something new, and something that is borrowed. One more detail is the bride's ring should be engraved the name of the bridegroom —María Celina Brandao |
| Eastern Europe Asking the Girl's Father for Permission In my country, the engagement is an event previous to the wedding. One month before the wedding, the bridegroom asks the girl's father for permission to take the girl out of her family house. He goes to her house early in the morning with a band, if he can afford the expense. All the neighbours come to see the new bride and to tell her something nice —Stoyan Grigorou |
| Japan A Wine Ceremony Symbolizes Dedication A Shinto wedding has a typical ceremony. A couple drinks Japanese rice wine in front of a priest. First, the bride drinks the wine from a small cup. Next, the bride passes the cup to the bridegroom and he also drinks the wine from the cup. They try to drink wine three times. This ceremony means that they promise to be dedicated to each other. —Maki Kubo |
| Venezuela Promises to Love and Take Care of Each Other The most important and unforgettable event of someone's life is marriage. In Venezuela, the bridegroom has to promise his bride to love her all his life and to take care of her forever. The bride also has to repeat the same commandments. It is popular for the couple to read the promises to each other. This moment is really beautiful. In addition, the couple receives a list of commandments. —Sonia Dale |
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1. What is a bridegroom in Brazil not expected to do?
| A．Use something not new. |
| B．Use something someone else lends him. |
| C．Have his bride wear the ring engraved with his name. |
| D．See his bride in a wedding dress before the ceremony. |
| A．Before the wedding is celebrated. | B．After the girl is taken out |
| C．After a band is paid by the bridegroom. | D．When the neighbours arrive. |
| A．It is the priest's order in the ceremony. |
| B．The cup is not big enough to hold much wine. |
| C．It means they promise not to be against each other. |
| D．It is typical for all young Japanese to drink wine. |
| A．Brazil. | B．Venezuela | C．Japan. | D．Eastern Europe. |
| A．A book on worldwide wedding. | B．A story about foreign customs. |
| C．A webpage about various wedding | D．Speeches about youngsters' trouble. |
【推荐3】New sneakers （运动鞋）designed for nurses and doctors
The Nike Air Zoom Pulses were developed and tested alongside healthcare workers. The new sneakers address several important workplace challenges of a hospital environment.
Nike's developers applied materials that were easy to wipe and clean. And the shoes are comfortable, supportive and safe in a busy environment.
The world's first wearable vegetable garden
Designer Aroussiak Gabrielian has created a wearable vegetable garden that can hold dozens of different crops.
Gabrielian s project consists of a vest covered with fabric （纤维）onto which microgreen seeds （种子）are directly placed. It takes about two weeks for the seeds, watered by using the wearer's urine （尿液），to become grown.
Boats built with wasted plastic bottles
A young student from Cameroon has cleaned up city's pollution by turning plastic bottles into boats.
He had taken shelter from a storm when he saw several plastic bottles floating on some passing floodwaters. He then built a boat from plastic bottles collected from around the town. To the surprise of the fishermen on the shore, Ebone's boat worked like a dream.
Segway's newest self-balancing vehicle
Named as the S-Pod, Segway's newest self-balancing vehicle, the new egg-shaped two- wheeler is meant to let people sit while they effortlessly visit campuses （校园）,theme parks, airports, and even cities.
It is powered by basically the same gyroscopic （陀螺）self-balancing technology as a traditional Segway. But it is driven by leaning forward, backward, and to the sides, and is controlled using a joystick on the right side of the seat. It will allow for quick changes in direction even while stopped.
1. What do these four passages have in common?| A．The designers are all teenagers. |
| B．The designers are all students. |
| C．They are all newly invented things. |
| D．They are all linked with environment protection. |
| A．The Nike Air Zoom Pulses. |
| B．Gabrielian's wearable vegetables. |
| C．Boats built with wasted plastic bottles. |
| D．Segway's newest self-balancing vehicle. |
| A．Shameful. | B．Amusing. | C．Familiar. | D．Incredible. |
【推荐1】I have a rule for travel:Never carry a map.I prefer to ask for directions.
Foreign visitors are often puzzled in Japan because most streets there don’t have names.In Japan,people use landmarks in their directions instead of street names.For example,the Japanese will say to travellers,“Go straight down to the corner.Turn left at the big hotel and go pass a fruit market.The post office is across from the bus stop.”
In the countryside of the American Midwest,usually there are not many landmarks.There are no mountains,so the land is very flat(平坦的).In many places there are no towns or buildings within miles.Instead of landmarks,people will tell you directions and distance.In Kansas or Iowa,for example,people will say,“Go north two miles.Turn east,and then go another mile.”
People in Los Angeles,California,have no idea of distance on the map:They measure distance by means of time,not miles.“How far away is the post office?” you ask.“Oh,” they answer,“It’s about five minutes from here.” you say,“Yes,but how many miles away is it?” They don’t know.
People in Greece sometimes do not even try to give directions because visitors seldom understand the Greek language.Instead of giving you the direction,a Greek will often say,“Follow me.” Then he’ll lead you through the streets of the city to the post office.
Sometimes a person doesn’t know the answer to your question.What happens in this situation?A New Yorker might say,“Sorry,I have no idea.” But in Yucatan,Mexico,no one answers,“I don’t know.” People in Yucatan think that “I don’t know” is impolite.They usually give an answer,often a wrong one.A visitor can get very,very lost in Yucatan!
One thing will help you everywhere—in Japan,in the United States,in Greece,in Mexico,or in any other place.You might not understand a person’s words,but maybe you can understand his body language.He or she will usually turn and then point in the correct direction.Go in that direction,and you may find the post office!
1. The passage mainly tells us that .| A．never carry a map for travel |
| B．there are not many landmarks in the American Midwest |
| C．there are different ways to give directions in different parts of the world |
| D．New Yorkers often say,“I have no idea,” but people in Yucatan,Mexico,never say “I don’t know.” |
| A．building names |
| B．street names |
| C．hotels,markets and bus stops |
| D．buildings or places which are easily recognised |
| A．Japan. | B．American Midwest. |
| C．Los Angeles,California. | D．Greece. |
| A．People in different places always give directions in the same way:They use street names. |
| B．A person’s body language can help you understand directions. |
| C．People in some places give directions in miles,but people in other places give directions by means of time. |
| D．Travellers can learn about people’s customs by asking questions about directions. |
【推荐2】Every year, thousands of teenagers participate in programs at their local art museums. But do any of them remember their time at museum events later in life? A new report suggests that the answer is yes— and finds that alumni (毕业生) of arts-based museum programs credit them with changing the course of their lives, even years after the fact.
The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles recently asked researchers to conduct a study to find out how effective their long-standing teen art programs really are. They involved over 300 former participants of four programs for teens that have been in existence since the 1990s. Alumni, whose current ages range from 18 to 36, were invited to find out how they viewed their participation years after the fact.
Among the alumni surveyed, 75 percent of alumni rated the teen program experience as the most favorable impact on their own lives, beating family, school and their neighborhoods. Nearly 55 percent thought that it was one of the most important experiences they’d ever had, regardless of age. And two-thirds said that they were often in situations where their experience in museums affected their actions or thoughts.
It turns out that participating in art programs also helps keep teens enthusiastic about arts even after they reach adulthood: 96 percent of participants had visited an art museum within the last two years, and 68 percent had visited an art museum five or more times within the last two years. Thirty-two percent of program alumni work in the arts as adults.
Though the study is the first of its kind to explore the impact of teen-specific art programs in museums, it reflects other research on the important benefits of engaging with the arts. A decade of surveys by the National Endowment for the Arts found that childhood experience with the arts is significantly associated with their income and educational attainment as adults. Other studies have linked arts education to everything from lower drop-out rates to improvement in critical thinking skills.
1. What does the underlined phrase “the fact” in Paragraph 1 refer to?| A．Changing the course of children’s life. |
| B．Participating in childhood art programs. |
| C．Organizing arts-based museum programs. |
| D．Remembering the time at museum events. |
| A．The result of the study. | B．The process of the study. |
| C．The approach to the study. | D．The object and content of the study. |
| A．Passion for arts may remain long in kids’ whole life. |
| B．No other studies exist concerning the benefits of arts. |
| C．Age matters in how people view their art experiences. |
| D．Most children taking part in art programs will work in arts. |
| A．How is Art Connected to Our Life? |
| B．Can Art Education Affect Our Income? |
| C．What Should Art Museums do for Kids? |
| D．Should Children Walk into Art Museums? |
【推荐3】English is a very interesting language. It has borrowed words from many other languages. Immigrants(移民) coming into the United States have contributed many words to the language, which have kept their original pronunciation. “Coolie” and “kowtow” were taken from the Chinese language, “kamikaze from the Japanese, “shampoo” from India, “blitz” from German, “amigo” and “Los Angeles” from Spanish and so on.
Many students have studied English for years, some as many as eight. However, some students still have difficulty in speaking fluent English. Some know many words but are unable to discern them when native speakers use them. In our Oral English classes we will focus on speaking and listening to native English speakers. For this reason, because we are trying to train your ears to hear English and your mouths to speak intelligible (易理解的) English, we will have a rule that ONLY ENGLISH will be spoken in our English classes. Anyone speaking Chinese in class will be required to pay a fine in order to encourage the speaking and understanding of English. If teachers enter a classroom and discover that anyone is speaking Chinese, they will require everyone in the room to pay the fine. It is everyone’s job to follow the English-Only rule. It is for your benefit. It is because we want to accustom (使习惯于) your ears to hearing English.
Other subjects may be learned only from books but the only way to learn a foreign language is to SPEAK IT! Students are often nervous about speaking in class at first but we hope to make the classes fun, so you will forget your nervousness and learn to speak out. Enjoy your classes.
1. The first paragraph is mainly about________.| A．the difficulty of learning English. |
| B．how interesting and various English is |
| C．different words in different languages |
| D．the immigrants’ contributions to America |
| A．understand | B．notice |
| C．hear | D．speak |
| A．listen to it on the radio | B．learn it from books |
| C．play games with it | D．speak it often |
| A．Japanese students | B．German students |
| C．Chinese students | D．Indian students |
