Michelle Rasul, aged 9, is one of the world’s top DJs—people who play recorded music on the radio or at celebrations or parties. Rasul even competed in this year’s international championship and placed 14th out of 85 DJ stars from around the world.
At her home in Dubai, the rising star from Azerbaijan described how she got her start. “I looked at my dad while he was practicing DJ-ing, ‘Wow, is he doing magic or something? He’s a real magician(魔术师).’” Michelle said recently. She added, “When I turned 5 on my birthday, I told him, ‘Dad, I want to be a world-famous DJ. I’m going to start practicing.’”
Rasul is the youngest-ever person in the DMC World DJ Championship. She placed 14th out of 85 DJ stars from around the world. Although she did not go to the next round this time, she is determined to beat her father, Vagif “DJ Shock” Rasulov, in next year’s competition. Rasulov came in 9th place this year and taught Rasul how to DJ.
Sadia Rasulova, a former violinist, is Rasul’s mother. “She just catches things so fast,” she said. “I realized that she’s a star, and that she’s really talented(有天赋的). When children of her age were listening to children’s music, she listened to rap artists like Tupac Shakur, Chuck D, Jay-Z, the Notorious B. I. G. and Michael Jackson, who remains her favorite.”
Her parents started putting video of her DJ-ing online, and Rasul’s popularity grew. Her Instagram page has around 110,000 followers. Online messages from DJs aged 6 to 65 came in from around the world.
While the rest of the world pay attention to her achievements(成就)as a DJ star, Rasul is busy attending online school, reading and hanging out with friends and dogs at her neighborhood park. But her heart is always in turntables. “I can’t imagine my life without music,”she said.
1. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?| A．When Rasul began to learn music. | B．How Rasul’s great dream formed. |
| C．What a good DJ Rasul’s father is. | D．How important the family background is. |
| A．To keep her own record. | B．To learn more skills from her father. |
| C．To try to place ninth in the competition. | D．To challenge her father in the competition. |
| A．Much concern. | B．Mother’s love. | C．Great expectation. | D．High praise. |
| A．She prefers school life. | B．She focuses on music completely. |
| C．She lives a normal life as a kid. | D．She does her best to please her followers. |
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【推荐1】A man in North Dakota was greeted by a surprise when he left his truck parked under a walnut (核桃) tree. It seemed like a hard-working squirrel had shed blood, sweat and tears to collect all the walnuts.
The salesman, 56, said that on returning from a four-day trip in early September he opened the hood (引擎盖) of his truck, only to find lots of walnuts stored inside.
Since 2013, the red squirrel has been hiding walnuts in his truck every two years when his neighbor’s tree produces walnuts. Fischer said this year’s walnut collection is the most the squirrel has ever filled in the hood of his truck — around 42 gallons of walnuts.
Every walnut season, once the tree is bare, he empties the hood of his truck and gives the walnuts away. “The squirrel will sit in the tree and watch me clean up his winter storage almost like: ‘That’s mine, buddy,’ ” Fischer said.
Fischer also said the squirrel has ignored his other vehicles. “I’ve got other vehicles that sit very close to that tree, and it’s always my truck.” he said. “I’ve even parked purposely out on the street — as far away as I can from the walnut tree — but it still finds my truck and hides them in there.”
“It’s very possible that this funny squirrel considers Bill Fischer’s truck to be part of its home,” Aliperti said, who led a study that found that ground squirrels’ personalities are tied to risk-taking. Aliperti added that the hood of a truck is a perfect hiding place to a squirrel because it’s concealed and dry. Since the squirrel taking over Fischer’s truck appears to be a repeat offender, Aliperti said this one might be particularly brave.
1. What trouble did the squirrel cause for Bill Fischer?| A．Building a home in his truck. | B．Packing walnuts in his truck. |
| C．Opening walnuts in his truck. | D．Breaking the hood of his truck. |
| A．They were returned to the squirrel. |
| B．They were collected for the winter. |
| C．They were cleaned up from the hood. |
| D．They were hidden in another place. |
| A．The truck is red, clean and empty. |
| B．The truck is convenient to transporting walnuts. |
| C．The truck is considered as its home. |
| D．The truck is closest to the tree. |
| A．secret. | B．quiet. | C．open. | D．large. |
【推荐2】My father was a close friend of Albert Einstein. As a boy and then as an adult, I never lost my wonder at the personality that was Einstein. He was the only person I knew who had come to terms with （安于现状）himself and the world around him. He knew what he wanted and he wanted only this: to understand within his limits as a human being the nature of the universe and the logic and simplicity in its functioning. He knew there were answers beyond his understanding. But this did not frustrate him. He was pleased to go as far as he could.
In the 23 years of our friendship, I never saw him show jealousy, vanity, bitterness, anger, resentment, or personal ambition. He didn't seem to be affected by these emotions. He was beyond any pretension （做作）.
To do his work he needed only a pencil only a pencil and a pad of paper. Matenal things meant nothing to him. I never knew him to carry money because he never had any use for it. He believed in simplicity, so much so that he used only a safety razor （剃刀）and water to shave. When I suggested that he try shaving cream, he said, "The razor and water do the job. "
"But Professor, why don’t you try the cream （膏状物）just once? " I argued. "Il makes shaving smoother and less painful".
He shrugged. Finally, I presented him with a tube of shaving cream. The next morning when he came down to breakfast, he was cheerful with the pleasure of a new, great discovery. "You know, that cream really works," he announced. "It doesn't pull the beard. It feels wonderful. n Thereafter, he used the shaving cream every morning until the tube was empty. Then he returned to using plain water.
Einstein was purely a theorist. He didn't have the slightest interest in the practical application of his ideas and theories. His E=mc2 is probably the most famous equation in history - yet Einstein wouldn't walk down the street to see a reactor（反应堆）create atomic energy.
One puzzle that Einstein could never understand was his own fame. He had developed theories that were profound and capable of exciting relatively few scientists. Yet his name was a household word across the civilized world. "I’ve had good ideas, and so have other men, " he once said. "But it's been my good fortune that my ideas have been accepted". He was bewildered by his fame: people wanted to meet him; strangers stared at him on the street； scientists, statesmen, students, and housewives wrote him letters. He never could understand why he received this attention, why he was singled out as something special.
1. The writer wrote this article to show ________.| A．Einstein was a simple, modest and ordinary man. |
| B．Einstein had an endless curiosity about science. |
| C．Einstein only concerned himself with theoretical things. |
| D．Einstein and the writer had a long period of friendship. |
| A．Because Einstein never carried money to buy one tube of that. |
| B．Because Einstein wanted to keep things simple. |
| C．Because Einstein felt great with only razor and water. |
| D．Because Einstein always thought about theoretical things. |
| A．Disappointed. | B．Annoyed. | C．Angry. | D．Confused |
| A．creative and imaginative | B．ambitious and jealous |
| C．satisfied and modest | D．practical and greedy |
【推荐3】Sally Smith is an unbelievable woman who looks like a fit 40-year-old, although she just turned 70. She follows a special raw(生的；未加工的) diet and only drinks rainwater.
She looks so young that people mistake her for her daughter when she’s out with her husband of 54 years, but I think he isn’t complaining.
Mrs. Smith says the secret to her beauty lies in her special diet, consisting of organic vegetables, fruits, seeds and nuts grown in her own garden; she calls it the “fountain(源泉) of youth”. The woman doesn’t touch anything that has been cooked.
And another strange thing she does is to collect rainwater, to keep her garden blossoming, but also to drink. But Mrs. Smith, who is from Miami-Dade County, Florida, didn’t always have such a healthy lifestyle. In fact, she ate meat regularly, as her husband used to own a meat factory way back in the 1960s. It was then that she decided to change her eating habit forever. And what a great decision that was! I mean, just look at her!
When she started off, Mrs. Smith was just looking for a few health benefits and never expected that she would look like a 40-year-old at the age of 70. Over the 27 years, she has been eating raw food, and she has written two booklets called Journey to Health and also produced a DVD containing all her healthy secrets.
Her husband, Mr. Smith, wishes he had followed her example, because now he looks much, much older and also suffers from diabetes (糖尿病) and high blood pressure. He takes prescription medicine every day, but Sally doesn’t even take an aspirin(阿司匹林).
1. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?| A．Her raw diet. | B．Her beauty. | C．Specially cooked food. | D．The organic food. |
| A．Careless. | B．Honest. | C．Strong-willed. | D．Open-minded. |
| A．She sold them to the local people. |
| B．She gave up them at the age of 70. |
| C．She shared them with the public in various ways. |
| D．She improved them with her husband’s help. |
| A．Uninterested. | B．Doubtful. | C．Negative. | D．Supportive. |
【推荐1】They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them. With little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, who died at 101 on Monday, calculated (计算) the precise track that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969 and, after Neil Armstrong’s history—making moonwalk, let it return to Earth.
Yet throughout Mrs. Johnson’s 33 years in NASA and for decades afterward, almost no one knew her name. Mrs. Johnson was one of several hundred educated, capable but largely unrecognized women who well before the modern feminist (女权) movement, worked as NASA mathematicians. But it was not only her sex that kept her long unsung. For some years at mid-century, the black women were forced to a double segregation (隔离):They were kept separate from the much large group of white women who in turn were segregated from the agency’s male mathematicians and engineers.
Mrs. Johnson broke barriers at NASA. In old age, Mrs. Johnson became the most celebrated of black women who served as mathematicians for the space agency. Their story was told in the 2016 Hollywood film “Hidden Figures,” which was nominated for three Oscars, including best picture.
In 2017, NASA dedicated a building in her honor. That year, The Washington Post described her as “the most high - profile of the computers” — “computers ” being the term originally used to describe Mrs. Johnson and her colleagues, much as “typewriters” were used in the 19th century to represent professional typists.
“She helped our nation enlarge the frontiers of space,” NASA’s administrator, Jim Bridenstine, said in a statement on Monday, “even as she made huge steps that also opened doors for women and people of color in the universal human quest to explore space.”
As Mrs. Johnson herself was fond of saying, her tenure (任期) at Langley — from 1953 until her retirement in 1986 — was “a time when computers wore skirts.”
1. What is the function of the first paragraph?| A．To present the Apollo moon mission. |
| B．To stress Mrs. Johnson’s contributions |
| C．To honour Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk. |
| D．To present breakthroughs in moon exploration. |
| A．Gender inequality and color line. |
| B．Mrs. Johnson’s unrecognized talents. |
| C．The agency’s male mathematicians and engineers. |
| D．The hardships before the modern feminist movement. |
| A．Because they used computers to keep their work secret. |
| B．Because they were the NASA’s human calculators |
| C．Because computer systems engaged them deeply. |
| D．Because they opened a door to outer space. |
| A．Try things that may not work. |
| B．The world awaits our discovery. |
| C．Use knowledge to wipe out ignorance |
| D．Never be limited by the labels given by others. |
【推荐2】Mary Lyon was a leader in women’s education in the nineteenth century. It was a time when women’s education was not considered important in the United States. States did require each town to provide a school for children, but there were not enough teachers. Most young women were not able to continue their education. If they did, they often were not taught much except the French language, how to sew clothing, and music.
Mary Lyon felt that women’s education was extremely important. She believed women were teachers both in the home and in the classroom. Mary opened a school for young women in the village of Buckland. She suggested new ways of teaching, including holding discussion groups for students.
Then, Mary began to raise money for her dream school for the higher education of women. This school would own its own property, guided by an independent group of directors. Its finances would be the responsibility of the directors. It would not depend on any one person to continue. And, the students would share in cleaning and cooking to keep costs down. In 1837, Mary Lyon opened Mount Holyoke Seminary for Women. In 1893, 44 years after her death, under a state law, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary became the first college to offer women the same kind of education as men.
Mary’s efforts led to the spread of higher education for women in the United States. Her influence lasted as the many students from her schools went out to teach others.
1. What was American women’s problem with education in the 19th century?| A．They had no chance to continue their education. |
| B．They had few choices about the subjects. |
| C．The government paid no attention to education. |
| D．Teachers were careless about teaching. |
| A．Mary thought little of women’s education. |
| B．Mary preferred women to be educated at home. |
| C．Mary attached importance to women’s education. |
| D．Group discussions were not held in Mary’s school. |
| A．It would depend on some important person. |
| B．It would have very strict rules. |
| C．It would be independent in finance. |
| D．It would be owned by the government. |
| A．She set up the first college. |
| B．She made women equal to men. |
| C．She helped to pass American education law. |
| D．She improved American women’s education. |
【推荐3】The 60-foot-tall rocket took off in West Texas, sending a group of six people into space and giving them a few minutes of weightlessness before they landed by parachute (降落伞).
Most of the passengers paid a secret sum of money for their seats. But Katya Echazarreta, an engineer and science communicator, was selected by a nonprofit organization to join this travel from a pool of thousands of applicants (申请⼈). The organization’s goal is to send great leaders into space and allow them to experience the overview effect, which was reported by astronauts who say that viewing the Earth from space gives them a great change in their view.
“Looking down, you see everyone is down there, all of our past, all of our difficulties, everything — everything is there,” Echazarreta said. “When I came back down, it just completely strengthened my wish to continue enabling people of different backgrounds to go into space and do whatever they want to do.”
Echazarreta is the first Mexican-born woman to travel into space. She moved to the United States with her family at the age of seven. She recalled (回忆说) that she felt uncertain in a new place where she didn’t speak the language and that a teacher warned her she might have to repeat a grade. “It just really fueled me and after that, I just studied harder,” Echazarreta said. Later she was the main breadwinner in her family. She had sometimes up to four jobs at the same time, just to try to successfully graduate from college.
She worked in NASA before and didn’t see other female engineers like her, which inspired her to popularize science among the public. These days, Echazarreta is studying for her master’s degree in engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She also has a following of more than 330,000 fans on TikTok, and hosts a science-focused YouTube series.
1. Why was Echazarreta chosen to travel into space?| A．She made great efforts to set up a nonprofit organization. |
| B．She supported the project with a big sum of money. |
| C．She was considered to be an excellent woman. |
| D．She was an expert in space science. |
| A．To make women scientists known to the public. |
| B．To share the beauty of space on social media. |
| C．To encourage the public to learn science. |
| D．To help more people travel into space. |
| A．Beat. | B．Drove. | C．Confused. | D．Attracted. |
| A．Inspiring and hardworking. | B．Humorous and outgoing. |
| C．Talented and creative. | D．Calm and confident. |
