Travel has become increasingly inconvenient and sometimes impossible over the last couple of years. However, museums around the world are digitizing their collections, enabling people to tour the museums from afar.
The British Museum, London
The British Museum contains objects from around the world, including the Rosetta Stone, with three versions of a text that helped researchers learn to read ancient Egyptian. The Great Court’s ceiling, in the middle of the museum, is composed of 3212 pieces of glass, none of which are alike. The virtual tour of the museum offers a 360-degree view of the room, allowing visitors to look at every piece.
MASP, S ão Paulo
The first modern museum in Brazil, the Museu de Arte de São Paulo includes art from the 14th to the 20th centuries. The paintings, which are placed on glass panels, appear to be floating in mid-air. This setup, included in the virtual tour shows, makes the art appear almost magical.
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
This Korean museum includes four branches in different cities and features works of art from Korea and around the world. The art includes a variety of media such as print, sculpture and photography. There are also online exhibitions such as “Artists in Their Times” which traces trends in Korean art since the late 1970s.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County
This museum, with locations in two different places, features art going back to The Neolithic Period. Its virtual tour, accessible through Google Arts & Culture, offers views of more recent works, including some by van Gogh and Renoir. Another platform, Xplorlt, also features views of some of the museum’s outdoor spaces.
1. What can we learn about The British Museum?| A．It is best known for the Rosetta Stone. | B．It tells the changes of ancient Egyptian. |
| C．It is made up of several pieces of glass. | D．It houses exhibits from different countries. |
| A．The British Museum. | B．MASP, São Paulo. |
| C．National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. | D．The J. Paul Getty Museum. |
| A．They have several branches. | B．They display their paintings in mid-air. |
| C．They can be visited in your own home. | D．They are accessible on Google Arts & Culture. |
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【推荐1】The vast multicultural heritage of Houston has led to a unique gathering of flavours in Houston restaurants. But deciding where to eat can be the hardest part of any trip to Houston. To make the decision easier, we’ve made a list of landmark Houston restaurants.
Breakfast Klub
Its signature menu items include the Wings & Waffle dish that features a large Belgian waffle (华夫饼) topped with a circle of six fried chicken wings, icing sugar and a fresh strawberry.
It’s open seven days a week and breakfast is served from open until close, which is 2 pm. Lunch is only served during the week starting at 11 am. Don’t be scared by the line — it’s worth the wait.
Niko Niko’s
The most popular traditional Greek food on the menu is gyro — lamb and beef filling with spices (调味料), tomato and onion served in a pita (皮塔饼). It also serves Greekfast — Greek popular breakfast items like Baklava French Toast and a steak and egg pita.
Visit any of the three locations including Montrose, Spring Branch and Market Square. And be sure to try the expanded menu at their newest location on Spring Branch.
House of Pies
The family-owned and operated House of Pies has five locations and serves up 40 varieties of pies and cakes.
Aside from pies, the restaurant also serves an all-day breakfast, lunch and dinner and is one of the best places for late-night food in Houston — the Fuqua Street location is open 24 hours, and the Lake Woodlands location is open 24 hours on Fridays and Saturdays.
Gatlin’s BBQ
Gatlin’s BBQ menu has all the delicious Texas classics — sausage, pulled pork and turkey. One of the unique things on the menu is their chicken wings.
With the second location at the Houston Farmers Market, Gatlin’s BBQ is one of the few barbecue joints to serve breakfast Monday through Saturday, starting at 7 am.
1. What’s the specialty of Niko Niko’s?| A．Wings & Waffle dish. | B．Gyro. | C．Multiple pies. | D．Sausage. |
| A．It’s a government-funded restaurant chain. |
| B．The menu of five locations varies with the season. |
| C．Food is always available in the Fuqua Street location. |
| D．It’s closed until weekends in the Lake Woodlands location. |
| A．Breakfast Klub. | B．Niko Niko’s. | C．House of Pies. | D．Gatlin’s BBQ. |
Green is the Way to Go
Today, communities around the US are going green. For some, that means paying attention to the environment by recycling of controlling pollution. But others are turning their neighborhoods green by planting community gardens.
Green Brings Benefits
A growing number of government and community leaders point out that gardening is a great way to improve the appearance of a neighborhood, It also unites neighborhood residents (居民). Research at Texas A &. M University and the University of Illinois shows that city areas with more green have less crime.
One Neighborhood 's Story
Norris Square in Philadelphia is a neighborhood that has benefits from a community garden. In the 1980s, Norris Square was known for its run-down buildings and vacant parking lots filled with rubbish. Then a group of Puerto Rican women planted vegetables and flowers in one vacant lot. Soon there was also an out-door kitchen and colorful murals(壁画) showing rural life in Puerto Rico.
The community garden became a place of beauty and a source of fresh food for Norris Square residents. It also became a source of neighborhood pride. Soon people were working together to do home repairs, clean up other vacant lots, remove graffiti, and plant more trees and flowers throughout the neighborhood.
Today, instead of fights in the park, there are festivals. Instead of abandoned cars along the streets, there are trees. People can now enjoy a neighborhood that is cleaner, safer, and more beautiful.
Plant Your Own Seeds
If you want to start a community garden in your area, you can get information from the Community Gardening Association at www.communitygarden. org.
1. How are communities around the US going green besides recycling or controlling pollution?(不多于四个词)2. Write one of the benefits of gardening . (不多于六个单词)
3. What did the Puerto Rican women do in the vacant lot? (不多于五个单词)
4. Why does the author mention the story of Norris Square in Philadelphia?(不多于八个单词)
【推荐3】These days, I walk down the steps leading toward the south end of the All England Club in Wimbledon, and still look for the Crow’s Nest, a small green observation tower with an outer ladder that I used to climb on for a wide view of the grounds, but which has since been knocked down.
The Crow’s Nest was a particularly useful point, because it allowed a tennis writer to keep track
of the action on as many as 10 outside courts at a time. At days end, reporters from different nations would share notes on what they had observed all over the grounds.
Twenty-seven years later, the press room has touch screens that allow us to watch live videos from any court, and even go back to watch key moments in key matches long after they have finished. You could cover Wimbledon without leaving your seat. But that is a bit like spending all your time ordering room service and looking up fun facts on Wikipedia.
More than at any other tennis tournament, there is also an appetite for stories that deal with the setting, the history and the traditions.
If they change the price of the fish tacos (鱼肉卷饼) at the United States Open, it’s not a story. If they change the price of the strawberries and cream, the signature treat at Wimbledon. It’s time to email your editor using capital letters.
The new retractable (可伸缩的) roof was put in place in 2009. Until then, you always had to have a rainy-day story in your notebook because there were no guarantees any matches would be played. Now tennis is a sure thing on Centre Court, which has made tennis reporters a bit less creative. But at least it guarantees us daily access to the most atmospheric place in the sport.
So much has changed, but Centre Court remains true to its original spirit: more a theater than a stadium. Catching that feeling is part of covering Wimbledon, too.
1. What did the author do on the Crow’s Nest in the past?| A．He made friends with reporters. |
| B．He reported on tennis matches. |
| C．He appreciated the beautiful scenery. |
| D．He exchanged experiences with tennis players. |
| A．It lacks fun. | B．It is expensive |
| C．It is not convenient. | D．It is not quick enough |
| A．To compare popular foods. |
| B．To introduce the typical treat at Wimbledon. |
| C．To describe people’s craze for traditional dishes. |
| D．To show the traditions of Wimbledon are an attraction. |
| A．Audiences have easier access to a tennis court. |
| B．There’s less fun in watching Wimbledon indoors. |
| C．Reporters are struggling to find original material. |
| D．rainy-day stories about Wimbledon have become history. |
【推荐1】When Chris Visions began painting a ground painting in Richmond, he had no idea his street art might help save lives.
Since the painted crosswalk was finished in September, the crossroads has become safer for walkers and motorists. The overall changes were fairly small but still significant in the community, and part of a larger study in various cities that showed far fewer crashes at the art crossroads compared with the prior year.
While the initial purpose of the painting was to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Jackson Ward, it came with an unexpected benefit: The painting has encouraged walkers and motorists to “slow down and take safety into consideration,” said Visions, 37, a local comic book artist.
The painting, which was created with a group of art students from a local arts nonprofit, is one of three new crosswalk art projects in Richmond. The nonprofit base funded 42 street paintings in 41 cities across the country since 2019, with funds of up to $25,000.
As part of the project, Bloomberg Philanthropies collaborated with Sam Schwartz Engineering, a consulting firm, to explore what effect the street art was having on safety. The results of the study showed a drop in the number of traffic accidents in areas with art.
The study examined the crash history at 17 art sites across the country that have a minimum of two years of crash data. It found 83 fewer crashes at the analyzed crossroads — more than a 50 percent decrease compared with data from before the crosswalks were painted.
“Crosswalk art can improve behavior behind the wheel and it can protect the weakest people on the road,” said Janette Sadik-Khan, a principal for Bloomberg Associates and the former officer of the New York City Department of Transportation.
1. What was the unexpected advantage of Visions’ street art?| A．It made streets safer than before. | B．It reflected his original purpose. |
| C．It promoted the sale of comic books. | D．It brought big changes to communities. |
| A．Dealt with. | B．Agreed with. | C．Cooperated with. | D．Competed with. |
| A．It protects behaviour art. | B．It goes beyond description. |
| C．It costs more than expected. | D．It benefits drivers and walkers. |
| A．A book review. | B．A scientific survey. | C．A news report. | D．A diary entry. |
【推荐2】In this day and age taking a photograph is easier than ever. There are cameras built into our phones, computers, iPods…The way we share photos has also changed. There was a time when you’d print your photos and put them into photo albums, but because of the advance in technology, all in technology, all this has changed.
Not only do we have what seems like an endless amount of space to store photos on our devices, but we also have the Internet, especially social media. Social networks such as Facebook allow us to post our pictures and albums to share friends and family.
While you could argue this easy ability to store, share and enjoy photos is fantastic, it could also be said that photographs have lost some of their meaning. I have over 1000 pictures on my smart phone and several thousand stored on my computer. I love posting my pictures on Facebook. Sometimes, however, I try to ask myself, will I really want to look back at this picture of a coffee or a selfie taken in a bathroom by myself? Probably not.
Even though I’m guilty about sometimes taking meaningless and boring pictures like this, a couple of years ago, I decided to find a way to make my photographs more meaningful. How did I do this? Disposable (一次性) cameras! When I go on a trip, I always try to take a disposable camera. With only 27 pictures you can take, you really think about the photograph straight away. And finally, it’s so much fun to get the pictures developed and look through them again.
I admit that I couldn’t live without social media or taking photographs with my smart phone, but I do think taking photographs has become less meaningful. That’s why I’ll continue using disposable cameras. It’s a great way to make your photographs more meaningful.
1. What’s the purpose of posting pictures on the Internet according to the author?| A．To become famous. |
| B．To make a living. |
| C．To show them off. |
| D．To share with others. |
| A．Meaningless. | B．Fantastic. |
| C．Valuable. | D．Helpful. |
| A．They are built into our phones. |
| B．They are cheap and very easy to use. |
| C．They allow us to take limited pictures. |
| D．They can help us see photographs immediately. |
| A．By putting pictures into photo albums. |
| B．By posting pictures on social networks. |
| C．By looking back at our pictures often. |
| D．By using disposable cameras to take pictures. |
【推荐3】Many of the new ideas and attitudes that marked the Renaissance times were shown in art.A new idea called humanism put a focus on human interests,needs,and abilities.This new ides changed how artists painted their subjects as well as the choice of subjects they painted.
Change of Subjects
In the Middle Ages,the subject of almost all European art was religion,specifically Christianity and the Catholic Church.Although Renaissance artists continued to paint religious paintings,they also branched out to other subjects including Creek and Roman mythology（神话）,historical subjects,and portraits（肖像）of individuals.They also focused on the details of everyday life.
Realism
One of the big changes in art was to paint and sculpt subjects realistically.This is called realism and concerned with a number of techniques that make the subjects and background look like what they would in real life.This also meant giving the subjects more emotional qualities.
Many new techniques were introduced during the Renaissance.These techniques helped to improve the quality and realism of the art.
Perspective—perspective is drawing or painting a picture such that it looks like there are three dimensions.It gives the illusion（错觉）that some objects in the painting are further away than others.
Balance and Proportion—Drawing subjects such that they are the correct she when compared to each other.
Use of Light and Dark—Many artists started using light and shadows in their works to add drama, perspective,and timing to their art.
Sfumato—a technique used by Leonardo da Vinci to add additional perspective and dimension to paintings.It was a way of blurring（变暗）the lines between subjects.This technique was used in Leonardo's Mona Lisa.
Foreshortening—It is another technique that adds perspective and depth to paintings;foreshortening is a way of shortening lines to give the illusion of depth.
1. Before the Renaissance,what was(were) the primary subject(s) of paintings during the Middle Ages ?
| A．Kings and Queens. | B．Portraits of people. |
| C．Greek Mythology. | D．Christianity. |
| A．That the subjects and background appear as they would in real life. |
| B．That the paintings are landscapes of nature with no people. |
| C．That the painting is flat with little perspective. |
| D．That the subjects are only people. |
| A．Perspective. | B．Balance and Proportion. |
| C．Sfumato. | D．Light and Dark. |
| A．When artists painted people shorter than they really were. |
| B．A way of making people look taller than they really were. |
| C．A technique where artists shortened lines to make some special effects. |
| D．When artists used shadow and light in their paintings to give the illusion of depth. |
| The Penguins
Skipper and his fellow penguins were originally just supporting roles in animated film Madagascar (2005). But in 2008 they took leading roles in their own TV series, and in 2014 starred in the film Penguins of Madagascar. The penguins’ wisdom and humor not only appeal to kids, but also serve adult audiences well. So, it’s not surprising that they get their own movie. |
| Scrat
A small and furry squirrel with a long tail from animated movie Ice Age (2002), Scrat played a supporting role but has won the hearts of both children and grown-ups with his persistence(毅力). In the film, his chasing after his prized acorn(橡子) causes an Earth-shattering geological event. Scrat is a big part in the lasting attraction of the movie series Ice Age. Today, Scrat has his own animated mini-movies. |
| Puss in Boots
Originally a fairy tale written by French author Charles Perrault, Puss in Boots features a cat that helps his low-born master gain wealth and power through trickery(哄骗). The cat later appeared as a supporting role in Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek 3 (2007) and Shrek 4 (2010). In 2011, he had his own movie titled Puss in Boots. His lovable and funny characteristics easily break the boundaries between different ages of audiences. |
| A．Scrat contributes a lot to the movie series Ice Age. |
| B．Scrat won children’s hearts by playing with his acorn. |
| C．Skipper took a leading role in Madagascar (2005). |
| D．Puss in Boots(2011) features a cat helping poor people. |
| A．They used to play leading roles successfully. |
| B．All of them have starred in their own movies. |
| C．They won their popularity through trickery. |
| D．Only children show great affection for them. |
【推荐2】Shanghai Tour Bus Center
Besides Shanghai’s own attractions, tourist attractions around the city are well worth a visit. Shanghai Tour Bus Center has several branches(分部) in different parts of the city. It offers over 170 Itineraries(行程) to more than 270 attractions in the city and neighboring provinces.
Here below are some places Shanghai tour buses visit:
*Zhouzhuang Town
Fee: CNY 150 for a return air-conditioned bus fare and admission to the attraction.
*Xitang Town
Fee: CNY 150 for a return bus fare and admission to the attraction； CNY 75 for a roundtrip bus fare only.
* West Lake
Inclusions: a one-way bullet train trip from Shanghai to Hangzhou, a bus trip from Hangzhou Railway Station to the attraction site, a bus trip from the attraction site to Hangzhou Railway Station, the local guide service, and admission to the attraction.
Fee: CNY 330.
*Two Days of Yellow Mountain
A round-trip bus trip to the foot of Yellow Mountain, a hotel room for one night on Yellow Mountain, and the tour guide service.
Fee:
Standard Hotel Room Stay | VIP Hotel Room Stay | |
Fridays | CNY 358 | CNY 668 |
Saturdays | CNY 418 | CNY 768 |
Sundays to the following Thursdays | CNY 318 | CNY 568 |
Note:
General Station of Shanghai Tour Bus Center
Address: BI, No. 240. 9. South Zhongshan 2nd Road
Tel: 021-240 95555
South Railway Station Branch
Address: South Long Distance Bus Station, No. 666, Shilong Road, Xuhui District
Tel: 021-54363617
Hongkou Branch
Address: No. 5 Gate, Hongkou Football Stadium, No.444, East Jiangwan Road, Hongkou District
Tel: 021-56963248
Yangpu Branch
Address: Yangpu Sports Center, No. 640, Longchang Road, Yangpu District
Tel: 021-65803210
1. What is covered in a CNY 150 ticket for Xitang Town?| A．The local guide service. |
| B．A one-way bullet train fare. |
| C．The entrance ticket for the town. |
| D．A bus fare from Xitang to Hangzhou Railway Station. |
| A．CNY 318. | B．CNY 358. |
| C．CNY 418. | D．CNY 568. |
| A．General Station of Shanghai Tour Bus Center. |
| B．South Railway Station Branch. |
| C．Hongkou Branch. |
| D．Yangpu Branch. |
I’m a Senior 1 student in a middle school. This term, my favourite teacher, Miss Mao, no longer teaches us. I want to see her, but I’m afraid that she no longer likes me and I don’t want to trouble her. I really miss her. What should I do?
Tian Yan
Dear Tian Yan,
It’s bad luck that you have lost your favourite teacher. But, if she is still in your school, nothing can stop you going to see her. When she isn’t busy, ask her if she minds having a quick chat. You can then tell her she was your favourite teacher. Everyone is happy to know they are liked!
If she has left the school, it will be more difficult to meet her. It will be hard, but remember people always come and go in our lives. We can’t depend on them being with us all the time.
You may be sad to say goodbye to her, but we can remember and learn from her. Think of her best qualities.
You could also try looking for similar qualities in your other teachers. Study hard and give your new teacher a chance. In time, you might start to see that he or she has different qualities to learn from.
Finally, you can not completely depend on other people getting you through your studies, or even your life.
Editor
1. Tian Yan ______.| A．is a troublemaker | B．likes Miss Mao very much |
| C．is happy these days | D．doesn’t like to tell her secret to anyone |
| A．Find a time to see Miss Mao. | B．Have a short chat with Miss Mao. |
| C．Tell Miss Mao she likes her. | D．Keep quiet about the thing. |
| A．over a period of time | B．on time |
| C．at the right time | D．a long time ago |
| A．completely by their favourite teachers | B．completely by their favourite classmates |
| C．mainly by their parents | D．mainly by themselves |
