“Music is where everything started,” Samira Horton says.
The rising hip-hop star uses music to share a message about bullying. “I was bullied a lot,” she says, “even today, especially because of my voice.” DJ Annie Red has a deep voice.
Annie Red believes that standing up to bullying is more important than ever.
| A．But she sees a brighter future ahead. |
| B．People have told her she sounds like a boy. |
| C．She encourages kids of all ages to stand up to bullying. |
| D．DJ Annie Red has performed at schools, festivals and Brooklyn Net games. |
| E．Her 2017 book, The Bully Stop, is based on her song “No You Won't Bully Me”. |
| F．The 13-year-old from Brooklyn, New York, is known to the world as DJ Annie Red. |
| G．That's because people can bully others on social media while hiding behind a username. |
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【推荐1】In the concert celebrating the Tsinghua University’s 110th anniversary, Fang Jinlong, a master of the traditional Chinese instrument pipa, and three robots from the Tsinghua Moja Robot Band performed several Chinese music pieces. “I’m happy to see our performance can mix science and technology with traditional Chinese culture,” said Fang.
The robot band was founded in 2018. The band name “Moja” is from Mohism, one of many schools of thought before the Qin Dynasty. It is made up of three robot musicians, Yuheng, Yaoguang and Kaiyang, named after three stars. They played three kinds of traditional Chinese instruments: the bamboo flute, Chinese harp and paigu, a set of Chinese drums, at the concert. The team behind the band include students, teachers and graduates from Tsinghua University. They have professional backgrounds such as computing, mechanical engineering and music composition (作曲).
The team’s chief scientist Mi Haipeng is an associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tsinghua. He took part in the research and development of a robot rock band when he studied in Japan. That experience inspired his dream to make a Chinese robot band.
Mi said traditional Chinese instruments’ sound and playing techniques are different from those of Western musical instruments. The focus is more on the artistic conception (概念) and expression of the players. This kind of non-quantitative (非定量的) control brings challenges to Moja robot development. “In our research, we continuously explore how to solve these problems so that the robots can maintain the Chinese traditional characteristics when playing music,” he added.
Mi said the music pieces in the concert were specially made for the robots to play. The robots’ stage clothes were made with 3D-printing technology. He added that there are more performance plans for Moja in the future, introducing new music pieces. The team, meanwhile, would improve the musical expression of the robots.
1. What is the performance like according to Fang Jinlong?| A．Traditional yet creative. | B．Fancy and fashionable. |
| C．Virtual yet accessible. | D．Unique and fast-paced. |
| A．It has a stable performing style. | B．Its name came from online language. |
| C．It successfully mixes high-tech and tradition. | D．Its performers play western musical instruments. |
| A．In paragraph 2. | B．In paragraph 3. |
| C．In paragraph 4. | D．In paragraph 5. |
| A．Create more new robot musicians. |
| B．Get the robots to practise more often. |
| C．Design new clothes for the robots. |
| D．Improve the robots’ musical performance. |
【推荐2】What does music mean to you? Do you use it to help relieve stress, anxiety and fall asleep to? For many, the value of music is endless, and scientists and Nobel winners are no exception. From seeing problems in a new way to developing discipline (自律), expressing creativity to working as a team, music has helped many winners in both work and life.
Music has often helped Nobel winners think and process scientific information in a new way. Albert Einstein was influenced by his mother who taught him to play the violin at a very early age. He was especially fond of Mozart, Bach and Schubert. For Einstein, music worked as a brainstorming technique to help him reflect on his theories and solve difficulties he met with. Einstein’s scientific ideas were often firstly created in the shape of images and intuition (直觉), which music later helped to turn into mathematics, logic (逻辑) and words.
Besides helping them reflect on scientifically complex problems, music has helped Nobel winners learn discipline and the importance of a creative mind. For Thomas Südhof’s awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, music gave him important inputs and ideas. Südhof mostly enjoys classical music by masters like Mozart, which requires a creative mind as well as great discipline. It is said that these two factors shaped Südhof’s development as a scientist.
Furthermore, the cooperation between the members of a music band can be compared with the team effort found within a research group. According to Medicine winner James Allison, it is necessary in both fields to build a team where each individual makes their own contribution to the overall work. However, it is important that the communication between the members work so smoothly that each individual also knows what needs to be done to achieve breakthroughs. As James Allison states, “Every now and then my lab has been as well tuned—it feels like a really good band”—the concept of great team work leading to great success can be applied to both science and music.
1. What does the passage mainly tell us?| A．Music inspires a team to work together. |
| B．Music helps to relieve stress and anxiety. |
| C．Scientists worked together with the help of music. |
| D．Music helps scientists to achieve scientific success. |
| A．They both valued discipline. |
| B．They both liked classical music. |
| C．They studied the same area of science. |
| D．Intuition often came first to their mind. |
| A．The lab members enjoy music. |
| B．The lab has made breakthroughs. |
| C．The lab works through great teamwork. |
| D．The lab members understand each other. |
| A．By comparing different ideas. | B．By giving supporting examples. |
| C．By doing musical experiments. | D．By referring to famous sayings. |
【推荐3】At 15, Luca Patuelli landed himself in a hopeless situation when his skating days came to a stop. A leg operation — just one of 16 operations he went through to deal with a neuromuscular (神经肌肉的) condition made standing on skateboard painful. “Both my favorite activity and the way I got around were taken away,” says Patuelli, who grew up in Maryland. Then one day a friend took him to a break-dancing competition. “It was the coolest thing I’d ever seen,” says the now 35-year-old. “I ended up dropping my crutches (拐杖) and doing what I called super push-up” — with his hands planted, he raised his body and let his legs stay in midair. “The crowd went crazy. The cheering made me realize I didn’t have to dance like them; I only had to dance like me.”
In 2004, Patuelli started making waves in many international competitions, showing his talents (天赋) in France, Canada (he now lives in Montreal), and California; he also created moves for music videos and even landed a Cirque du Soleil audition (试演). Along the way, Patuelli also known as Lazylegz, met differently-abled dancers and came up with an idea: “Create an all-star team to compete, perform (表演), and spread message about what we can do.”
In 2007, he formed. ILL-Abilities, a global group of dancers. Current members include Redouan “Redo” AitChitt from the Netherlands, born without a right arm, and Samuel “Samuka” Lima from Brazil, whose right leg was cut after getting cancer.
In addition to wowing other breakers, Patuelli’s team (which has toured Mexico, Poland, Rwanda, and beyond) performs what he calls “motivational entertainment” — a mix of dancing, discussions, and teaching — for everyone from elementary schoolers to old people. Patuelli says, “We get people moving and thinking about how to make society more accessible. I think of us as a group of superheroes with different powers—the X-Men of dance!”
1. What did Patuelli think of the break-dancing competition his friend took him to?| A．It brought his skating days to a stop. |
| B．It was an eye-opening experience. |
| C．It made him sad to some degree. |
| D．It really drove him crazy. |
| A．He paid his attention to local events. |
| B．He worked himself way too hard. |
| C．He was quite a high-achiever. |
| D．He had ups and downs. |
| A．The members have cancer. |
| B．The members have to pass an audition. |
| C．The members have physical disabilities. |
| D．The members are from disadvantaged countries. |
| A．They raise money to help old people. |
| B．They try to take in some new group members. |
| C．They discuss different superheroes with people. |
| D．They give instructions on how to do dance moves. |
【推荐1】Wang Xiangjun is the first blind student to take college entrance examination in Anhui. She went to a music college in Tianjin in 2015. It’s never an easy thing for blind people to do that.
Wang was blind when she was born. At the age of eight, she started to learn to play the piano. The first problem for Wang was to find the keys. She had to listen to the melody (旋律) again and again, keep it in mind and then practice playing it over and over again. She worked very hard and played better and better. Music made her confident and happy.
“Many kind people helped me over the past years. I wish to pass on the love and kindness to more blind children by working as a teacher,” said Wang after she graduated from college in 2019.
Her dream came true soon. She became a piano teacher in the Hefei Special Education Center that year. Now Wang lives a busy but happy life. “All of my students are so lovely. I know their difficulties in learning. I can teach them with my experience and let them know there is hope and a bright future ahead,” said Wang.
1. Wang Xiangjun’s story tells us that it’s never an easy thing for ________ to go to college.| A．old people | B．young people | C．blind people | D．deaf people |
| A．seven | B．eight | C．nine | D．ten |
| A．to find the keys | B．to listen to the melody |
| C．to keep the melody in mind | D．to play the piano with fingers |
| A．worker | B．nurse | C．teacher | D．officer |
【推荐2】I was born in a poor community on the north side of Boston, US, raised by a single mother who didn’t finish 3rd grade, lived each day on food stamps and attended what the media called “the most dysfunctional (功能失常的) public school district”. Not many people expected much of me, so I had to expect something of myself.
On my 13th birthday, I bought a poster of Harvard to hang in my room. Being at Harvard became what dreamt about. Even when my electricity was cut off and I woke up at 5:30 am to pitch blackness, I knew that my poster of Harvard was still hanging only two feet away from me.
Reminding myself of my goal each day made it easy to say no to the same choices I saw my peers making, because those paths wouldn’t have gotten me closer to my goal. Even poverty (贫穷 ) could not take away my power to decide what I choose to do with my day. The poster gave me the courage to cold email about 50 Harvard students so I could ask for feedback on my application essays; it gave me the energy to study just one more hour on my SATs when my friends were asleep; and it gave me the determination to submit just one more scholarship application when 180 others had already turned me down.
Every day I could feel myself getting closer and closer to my goal as my writing got better, my SAT score increased, and my scholarship checks started coming in. Finally, an email arrived from Harvard. The first word was “Congratulations!”. A month later, Harvard flew me up to visit the campus where for the first time I stepped onto my dreaming land.
Who you are today is the result of the decisions you made yesterday, and who you will be tomorrow will be the result of the choices you make today. Who do you want to be tomorrow?
1. What can we learn about the author from the first paragraph?| A．He experienced disability. | B．He grew up in a happy family. |
| C．He accepted special education. | D．He had high expectation of himself. |
| A．He often wrote feedbacks on others’ essays. |
| B．He spent more time preparing for the exams. |
| C．He learnt from his peers from time to time. |
| D．He consulted his teacher when having problems. |
| A．Intelligent and humorous. | B．Courageous and friendly. |
| C．Determined and hardworking. | D．Generous and selfless. |
| A．Perseverance can make your dream come true. |
| B．Explanation of “Failure is the mother of success”. |
| C．The longest journey begins with the first step. |
| D．Hardship serves as a textbook of life. |
【推荐3】Nick Vujicic was born with no arms or legs, but he doesn’t let this stop him.
The brave 26-year-old man plays football and golf, and swims, in spite of the fact that he has no arms or legs.
Nick has a small foot on his left side, which helps him balance and makes him able to kick. He uses his one foot to type, write with a pen and pick things up.
“I call it my chicken drumstick,” joked Nick, who was born in Melbourne, Australia, but now lives in Los Angeles. “I’d be lost without it. When I get in the water I float because 80 percent of my body is lungs and my drumstick acts as a propeller.”
“He’s very modest, but he gets marriage proposals from women all the time,” said Nick’s friend Steve Appel. “He would love to get married and start a family, but he’s waiting for the right girl to come along.”
When Nick was born, his father was so shocked that he left the hospital room. His distraught mother couldn’t bring herself to hold him until he was four months old.
His disability came without any medical explanation, which was a rare case. Nick and his parents spent many years asking why this cruel trick would happen to them.
“My mother was a nurse and she did everything right during pregnancy but she still blamed herself,” he said.
“It was so hard for them, but right from the start they did their best to make me independent. My dad put me in the water at 18 months and gave me the courage to learn how to swim.”
1. We can learn from the text that Nick ________.| A．has a poor sense of balance | B．understands his mother very well |
| C．considers his small foot ugly | D．is disappointed with his health condition |
| A．Nick Vujicic is serious about his marriage. | B．Nick Vujicic is not popular with women. |
| C．Nick Vujicic is afraid of starting a family. | D．Nick Vujicic is not willing to get married. |
| A．cold-blooded | B．bad-tempered | C．really shy | D．extremely upset |
| A．Nick’s parents couldn’t afford the hospital bill. |
| B．Nick is living in Melbourne, Australia now. |
| C．Nick’s father was to blame for his disability. |
| D．Nick learned to be independent at a young age. |
