【推荐1】Have you ever thought about why malls, restaurants, and even theaters have music? Well, to understand this, you simply just look back at how you felt when you heard music in these places. Music is known to improve the mood of people. Often music helps us pay attention to what we are doing. Music helps patients feel good and better.

Depression (沮丧) is a state of mind that most of us experience at some point of time. There are some periods in our life when everything seems difficult. It seems that everything is getting worse and we have no control over our life. Studies have shown that music can be an important mood lifter in such situations. Music also plays a great role in making us feel less nervous or worried. Anxiety can often cause loss of sleep and other illnesses.

Music is often known as an international language. We may not know the language another person is speaking, but most of us respond to music in the same. Music can often be the best way to connect with someone.

Music is one of the best ways to improve your moods, but this can depend largely on the kind of music you listen to. While happy music can certainly make you feel better, sad music can further lower your spirits. Listening to classical music can often make you feel a lot more powerful, while soft music can be the perfect way to relax at the end of a long day. If you want to use music to change the way how you are feeling, you need to understand the role of it, learn to recognize the kind of music that lifts your mood and helps you feel better. Once you realize the kind of music you can use, you can use it to change the way you feel. The right kind of music can be the perfect way to help us feel happier.

1. According to the passage, what’s the purpose of playing music in restaurants?

A．To welcome the customers

B．To make customers feel good

C．To make customers dance

D．To make customers feel depressed

2. From the passage, we can know that ________ .

A．most of us suffer depression all the time

B．most of us respond to music in different ways

C．music can be a good way to connect with others

D．any kind of music will help us improve our moods

3. What is this passage mainly about?

A．What meanings music has

B．How we control our moods

C．How music affects our moods

D．What kind of music we listen to

4. According to the last paragraph, which of music can relax ourselves from a long day’s work?

A．Soft music.

B．Classical.music.

C．Sad music.

D．Rock music.

【推荐2】Band Day

Come to join us for an exciting day of music at the UNI Dome with the Panther Marching Band! It will bring a special and friendly musical and social experience to you. You’ll also have a chance to meet new people and perform in a welcoming environment!

Band Day: November 9

Cost: $10. 00 per student includes: admission to the game, pizza dinner, music and a Band Day T-shirt. Parking in certain parts of the campus now requires a fee.

Music: A link to download music will be included in your email after you register (注册). Music will be available at that link no later than September 1. Students are welcome to use music folders (资料夹) during the performance.

Registration:

•Band directors registering foil bands or groups of students from the same band should register here: https://bands. uni. edu band-day-group-registration.

•Individual students registering independently may register here: https://bands. uni. edu/panther-band-day-individual-registration.

Note:

•We've changed our payment method to improve the registration process. Individual students must pay by using a credit card at the time of registration. Band directors may either pay by a credit card or mail a check made out to Panther Marching Band.

•The final deadline for registration is October 14.

•If you have any question, please contact Carla Ramsey at carlavent@gmail. com.

1. What can participants do on Band Day?

A．Listen to their favorite music.

B．Have a chance to join a band.

C．Talk face-to-face with musicians.

D．Meet new people and enjoy performance.

2. For which of the following should participants pay extra?

A．Meals.	B．Parking.
C．Music folders.	D．Musical instruments.

3. What does an individual student need to do?

A．Sign up online before October 14.

B．Get in touch with band directors.

C．Send a 10-dollar check to the Band.

D．Download music before November 9.

【推荐2】By the mid-1920s, Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. had been one of the most celebrated men .In 1957, when Pablo Picasso was in his seventh decade, he joked that x-ray technology might one day reveal a lost work underneath one of his early paintings. Today, that prediction became reality although the technology involved goes far beyond x-rays.

Using hyper-modern tools to peer into one of his Blue Period paintings, researchers have not only shown a hidden piece of art history in astonishing new detail, they have revealed a striking amount of insight into Picasso's creative process and style.

The investigation focused on"La Miséreuse accroupie, "or" Crouching Woman, "painted in 1902 and currently owned by the Art Gallery. The painting, an oil on canvas (画布) piece drawing a crouching (蜷坐的) woman who wears a long coat, shows Picasso’s typical Blue Period colors: grey, green, blue and white. It shows that the innovative modernist was inspired by the lines of an underlying landscape painted by an unknown artist.

The analysis also exposes several changes to the woman described in the painting,many of which Picasso ultimately abandoned. Researchers released their findings on Saturday’s press conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Austin, Texas. “We think now it's a landscape painted by someone enrolled at the fine arts academy in Barcelona, someone in Picasso’s orbit but not in his close circle, ”says Kenneth Brummel, assistant curator of modern art for the Art Gallery of Ontario.

As to why Picasso would have “recycled” another artist’s canvas(油画布), reasons could range from economic necessity, as a young artist still establishing himself, to deep inspiration driven by the lines of the image already laid down there. Picasso often re-used canvases for this reason."

“He didn't shave off the canvas or put a preparatory layer over it,” Brummel says.“ Picasso saw this landscape, found inspiration, and decided he was going to paint it immediately."

1. According to the text ,the most likely process of Picasso's painting?
①Picasso reused another artist's canvas.
②Inspired by a landscape painting, Picasso decided to paint one too.
③Picasso painted a woman on the landscape painting.
④Not happy with the landscape, Picasso covered it totally.
⑤Picasso made changes to the woman

A．②③④	B．④②③
C．①③⑤	D．②①④

2. How did Picasso deal with the landscape painting?

A．He reused it because he hated wasting anything.

B．He hid his own paintings beneath the landscape.

C．He took the advantage of it and created a new one.

D．He kept it to himself with the permission of its owner.

3. What can we infer from the passage?

A．People often celebrated Picasso’s success.

B．Picasso was not well-off when he started his career.

C．Picasso became successful overnight.

D．Picasso was good at imitating other artists’ works.

4. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A．Picasso's predication turned out to be joke.

B．High technology uncovered art mysteries.

C．Seeing is not always believing.

D．Lost Artwork Found Under Famous Picasso Painting.

【推荐3】Fresco（湿壁画） refers to painting techniques used on plaster（石膏）. Popular during the Renaissance period, especially in Italy, frescoes were usually used to decorate walls of public buildings.

The purest type of fresco painting, also known as "buon fresco", involves mixing pigments（颜料） directly with wet plaster. The color is thus actually part of the material, rather than a coating on top of it. The colors of a buon fresco are especially vibrant and long-lasting; the Bull-Leaping Fresco in Knossos, Crete was created around the 17th-15th centuries BCE, but the colors are still clear today. However, this technique is not without its unique disadvantages. For one thing, colors look different when they are wet than when they are dry. Artists of the time typically mixed their own plaster and color mixtures, working quickly to finish a part of a mural（壁画） before the plaster dried. The mixture they created the next time might have been a slightly different shade. If you look carefully at the frescoes on the Sistine Chapel, you can see which parts must have been completed in a single session by the faint differences in colors.

Fresco secco requires something to be added to the paint to make it stick to the dry plaster. This technique is sometimes used to repair a buon fresco that has been damaged, although the colors are generally not as bright. However, some colors actually worked better with fresco secco. During the Renaissance period, the available pigments for creating blue did not mix well with wet plaster; for this reason, skies, water, and blue clothing sometimes were painted as fresco secco after the buon fresco had dried.

In 1997, the frescoes by Giotto di Bondone in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy were damaged in an earthquake. 150 restorers spent five years gathering 60,000 pieces that they could find and set them back into place, much like a puzzle, although about 35 percent of the frescoes remains incomplete.

1. What does the underlined word "vibrant" in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Bright.

B．Simple.

C．Watery.

D．Rare.

2. What does the author want to show by mentioning the frescoes on the Sistine Chapel?

A．It was in Italy that true fresco was widely used.

B．It is crucial to differentiate varied painting styles.

C．It took time for painters to create their unique colors.

D．It was hard to create the exactly same color every time.

3. What makes creating buon frescon differ from creating fresco secco?

A．The limited choice of themes.

B．The amount of water in plaster.

C．The time of creating.

D．The cost of pigments.

4. Which can best describe the repair process of Giotto's frescoes?

A．Slow but creative.	B．Complicated and dangerous.
C．Time-consuming and laborious.	D．Discouraging but money-saving.

【推荐3】Educational technology such as apps can help students with time management, organization skills, study skills, homework and more. Below is a list of apps for college students recommended by educational technology experts. The needs of individual students differ and experts suggest that students try out several apps to find the right one. Unless costs are noted in the app descriptions below, these learning tools are free to users:

Blackboard App. A popular learning management system, Blackboard is used at many colleges across the U.S. It allows students to get coursework for online classes or in-person classes. Students can view course content, complete assignments and tests, view grades and more.

Duolingo. Advertising itself as “the world’s best way to learn a language,” Duolingo offers lessons in 35-plus languages, helping users with speaking, reading, listening, writing, grammar and vocabulary. Duolingo offers both free and paid versions, the latter with an ad-free experience and offline access to lessons.

Evernote. A note-taking and task-management system that offers the ability to sync across devices. Evernote allows users to create to-do lists, save webpages and change documents into a digital form via a device’s camera. Evernote is free, though an advanced version with more features costs $7.99 a month or $69.99 a year.

College mobile apps. College-specific apps have become fairly common among U.S. college students. While these apps may differ by college, users can often find campus maps, news, safety information, scheduled events and more.

1. Why do students need to try out several apps?

A．To avoid paying for any app.	B．To find one that can best meet their needs.
C．To see as many different functions as possible.	D．To apply these apps to different tasks.

2. Which app will you choose if you want to improve your oral English?

A．Blackboard App.

B．Duolingo.

C．Evernote.

D．College mobile apps.

3. What do the listed apps have in common?

A．They cannot be used continuously until paid.

B．They have different versions for college students.

C．They can help college students learn better.

D．They have been quite popular among college students.