Pedal Street by Breeze
Reviewer Anna Martino, age 13
Breeze has released Pedal Street after a two-year wait, in. spite of pressure from fans and the record company. Fans had been told to expect something special and this is a masterpiece. This band’s music is exceptional. The song lyrics (歌词) express emotions that are felt by everybody, focusing on topics other artists seem to prefer not to sing about. Breeze uses an interesting mix of styles including classical strings (弦乐器) and modern guitar riffs (重复段).
Thrill by Skydiggers
Reviewer Alexis Walker, age 14
Skydiggers, a Canadian rock group, have released the album Thrill, which was recorded over two years. Although some tunes are difficult to tell apart from each other in the sense that Suzi Tarrant’s voice doesn’t vary from song to song, the album will soon be permanently fixed on your playlist.
Silver Honeybees by Lena and the Lantanas
Reviewer Sam Roberts, age 16
Lena has been allowed to sing all types of songs here in order to really show what she can do. And in case you think that her new far-ranging style may not be attractive to a youthful teenage fan base, remember that her teen audience is sure to grow along with her as she makes more music. While some bands include good beats but have meaningless lyrics that make you feel slightly sick, or sing songs with meaningful words yet make a terrible sound, the Lantanas are different and a rare find.
Hungry Rock by April Sapa
Reviewer Julie Zhang, age 14
The album covers everything a teenager can feel: love, hate, acceptance and even boredom. It is an excellent combination of easy listening, even though there are several songs that could easily have been left out, resulting in a better album overall.
1. What can we learn about Pedal Street?| A．It was a let-down for fans. | B．It was prepared in a short time. |
| C．It is emotional and unusual. | D．It mainly consists of rock music. |
| A．It attracts people of all ages. | B．It has both good words and sounds. |
| C．It covers several types of music. | D．It makes you feel heartbroken. |
| A．To inform. | B．To entertain. | C．To persuade. | D．To appeal. |
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【推荐1】Are you looking for somewhere special to go this weekend? Do you want to try something new?
Check out one of these hot new restaurants.
Fast Best
Fast food doesn’t have to be junk food, as this café proves. Do you fancy (喜欢) a really good hamburger made with the best ingredients, or old-fashioned fish and chips fried to perfection, all on the table in super-quick time? Speed and quality are important here, and the prices aren’t bad either.
Your Local Caff (小餐馆)
Remember when cafés served full English breakfasts—sausages (香肠), beans, fried bread, bacon (培根) and eggs — with a strong cup of tea? Well, this place still does and you can have your breakfast at any time you like during the day while you listen to your favorite songs from the 1980s.
Last Days of the Raj
A centrally located Indian restaurant, perfect for eating before or after the cinema or a show. In summer enjoy your meal in the beautiful garden. The most popular dishes are lamb and chicken cooked with mild, medium or hot spices. For brave customers there is extra hot!
The Chocolate Box
The owner of this small café used to cook all kinds of food, but then she realized she preferred desserts (甜点) to anything else. If you want meat or fish, don’t come here. They only do desserts! Lots of different kinds of sweets. Chocolate lovers will be excited by the range of chocolate cakes.
1. Fast Best suits a person ________.| A．who has a sweet tooth | B．who loves spicy food |
| C．who wants to have good breakfast | D．who gets 30 minutes off for lunch |
| A．It serves hot food with pepper. | B．You can listen to great music in it. |
| C．You can have good hamburgers. | D．It is perfect for vegetarians (素食者). |
| A．Fast Best. | B．Your Local Caff. |
| C．Last Days of the Raj. | D．The Chocolate Box. |
【推荐2】Application and Essays
You can apply to Stanford by submitting online either the Coalition Application or the Common Application.
Both applications include essay prompts for your personal essay. In addition to the personal essay, you also need to reply to the Stanford Questions, which you can access in either application once you add Stanford University to your list of colleges.
When you apply to Stanford, we encourage you to indicate potential majors and career interests in the application, but please know you are not bound by these selections in any way.
Stanford Questions
We ask applicants to choose one of the three topics below and write a short essay.
◆ Reflect on an idea or experience that makes you genuinely excited about learning in Stanford.
◆Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate know you belter.
◆Tell us about something that is meaningful to you, and why? How to Submit Required Materials
◆We suggest using Coalition or Common Application online forms whenever possible to Submit documents, which is the speediest method.
◆If online submission is not possible; school personnel may send materials as an email Attachment to personnel@ stanford.edu.
◆When ordering college transcripts, please use credentials@stanford.edu as the contact email.
◆If your checklist is not complete by the deadline, simply continue to check your Application Status Portal until we have received all items.
1. What is necessarily included in an application?| A．A personal essay. | B．Career interests. |
| C．Personal hobbies. | D．The selected major. |
| A．Writing an essay to include the three topics. |
| B．Writing a note about something that interests you. |
| C．Writing an essay on what inspires your learning in Stanford. |
| D．Writing a note to recommend something meaningful to your roommate. |
| A．personnel@ stanford.edu | B．credentials@ stanford.edu |
| C．Application Status Portal. | D．Coalition or Common Application. |
【推荐3】2024 Arts Illustration Competition
Enter the competition most respected and admired in the industry for creativity in illustration, the Communication Arts Illustration Competition. Selected by distinguished professionals, the winning entries will be distributed worldwide in the Communication Arts Illustration Annual and on commarts.com, ensuring important exposure of the creations. Each winner will receive a professionalized Award of Excellence and an award certificate. Communication Art’s Award of Excellence is one of the most desired awards. If chosen, winning places you in the highest ranks of your profession.
What To Enter With
Any illustration first published or produced from Jan. 2023 to Jan. 2024 is qualified. Entries may originate from any country. Descriptions in English are necessary for the judges to read.
Entries Can Be Submitted In The Following Formats
Digital Images: RGB images in JPG format with a maximum file size of 2 MB. GIF images may be livelier, but would be turned down, and so would the PNG ones.
Motion Entries: In MOV, MP4 or MPG format, with a maximum file size of 500 MB.
Illustration Competition Categories & Entry Fees
| Category | Single illustration | Series of illustrations |
| Books (covers, jackets, etc. ) | $40 | $80 (limit of 5) |
| Motion (media for films, videos, etc. ) | $90 | $180 (limit of 2) |
| Student Work | $20 (Image) $45 (Video) | $40 (Images, limit of 5) $90 (Video, limit of 2) |
For more categories, please download the category PDF.
Late Fees
Entries must be registered no later than Apr. 13, 2024. Entries registered after that date will be charged a fee of $10 each. No entries can be registered after Apr. 27, 2024.
1. What will the winner gain?| A．Wide recognition in the industry. |
| B．Exposure to world-famous works. |
| C．A personalized award certificate. |
| D．A reward from Communication Arts. |
| A．A student work from Argentina. |
| B．LA newly produced motion entry. |
| C．A PNG image with a file size of 1 MB. |
| D．A series for covers of three illustrations. |
| A．$80. | B．$90. | C．$110. | D．$120. |
【推荐1】Beethoven was born over 250 years ago, yet his music is still played daily around the world. Beethoven wrote many famous pieces of music, but he’s probably best known for his nine symphonies (交响曲). Before Beethoven died in 1827, he began a 10th Symphony, but never finished. What he left behind were some notes about the piece and a few “sketches” (草图) — short bits of written music.
In 2019, a special team of musicians, computer scientists, and historians was formed. Their goal: to try to complete Beethoven’s 10th Symphony to celebrate his 250th birthday. The team wanted to come as close as possible to producing the symphony that Beethoven meant to write.
The team trained an AI to help with the symphony. They turned every piece of music that Beethoven ever wrote into a form the computer could understand. By feeding the program all of Beethoven’s music, the AI could look for the way Beethoven wrote. Other members of the team studied Beethoven’s notes and sketches, and attempted to find out what Beethoven was planning to do.
One early test told the team they were on the right track. They took a few minutes of music created by the AI based on Beethoven’s sketches, and played it for Beethoven experts, musicians, and reporters. No one could tell which parts had been written by Beethoven and which parts the AI made up. Finally, the AI connected the little musical bits into a symphony. It took the team over two years to complete Beethoven’s 10th Symphony-40 minutes’ music.
So Beethoven now has a 10th Symphony. And though Beethoven didn’t write it all, the team feels sure that the music is very much like what he might have written, if he’d had the chance.
1. What is the purpose of the team?| A．To train an AI to create music. | B．To finish Beethoven’s 10th Symphony. |
| C．To celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday. | D．To find out what Beethoven wrote. |
| A．The challenge of the team. | B．The functions of the AI. |
| C．The technology the team used. | D．The great efforts the team made. |
| A．It’s created by the AI entirely. | B．It’s played for the public at first. |
| C．It’s like Beethoven’s original. | D．It took two years to practice. |
| A．Science. | B．Sports. | C．Health. | D．Education. |
【推荐2】The Guide to the Lively Arts
Free Country
Wednesday, June 21 at 7 pm
Marine Band summer concerts are back now! Enjoy outdoor & live-streamed concerts around the DMV. This week Free Country takes the stage for a lineup of Motown, Classic Rock & the like. Check out full programs and the diverse schedule of performances for the summer online. No tickets required.
Dance to the Music
Friday, June 23 at 8 pm
Friday night Concerts at the Capitol are back! This week, the pop/rock group, Downrange, presents a program of upbeat popular hits. Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy world-class music under Washington, DC skies.
Price: $19-$39.
Summer Concert Series
Saturday, June 24 at 7 pm at National Harbor
Tuesday, June 27 at 8 pm at the U. S. Capitol Steps
Join the Concert Band for two FREE concerts in the Summer Concert Series on Saturday evening at the National Harbor Waterfront and Tuesday evening on the West Lawn at the steps of the U. S. Capitol.
C. S. Lewis on Stage
June 28 — 30 three shows only!
Award-winning actor Max McLean’s outstanding performance captures C. S. Lewis’s charming personality and astonishing eloquence (口才) to create an onstage experience exploring deep into the soul of one of the most influential thinkers of the century. With McLean’s talent for humor, expect plenty of laughs in this show.
Price: $79-$99.
The Guide to the Lively Arts appears: ·Sunday in Arts. ·Monday — Thursday in Style. ·Friday in Weekend. ·Saturday in Culture.
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1. What do Free Country and Dance to the Music have in common?| A．They charge ticket fees. | B．They are broadcast online. |
| C．They feature classic music. | D．They are performed outdoors. |
| A．Free Country. | B．C. S. Lewis on Stage. |
| C．Dance to the Music. | D．Summer Concert Series. |
| A．Arts. | B．Style. | C．Weekend. | D．Culture. |
【推荐3】Tickets for the New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Concerts
Due to extremely high demand, tickets for the three traditional end of year concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic are drawn by lot (抽签) over this website at the beginning of each year. In this way, music lovers from all over the world have an equal chance to purchase these highly desired tickets.
Application Period: February 1—28, 2020
During this period, interested persons are invited to apply on this website for tickets to the Preview Performance (December 30, 2020, 11:00 am), the New Year’s Eve Concert (December 31, 2020, 7:30 pm), and the New Year’s Concert (January 1, 2021, 11:15 am).
Price Categories
The number of the tickets for the New Year’s Concert is limited to two, and the number of the tickets for the Preview Performance and New Year’s Eve Concert can be up to four. The ticket prices range between $35 and $1,200 for the New Year’s Concert, $25 and $860 for the New Year’s Eve Concert, and $20 and $495 for the Preview Performance.
You can view the status of the draw at any time under your personal account. Should you make a change in your application, you would only do so during the application period (February 1—28). In March, you will be informed of the results of the draw in the “My Account” area and by e-mail.
1. How long is the application accessible?| A．About one month. | B．About ten months. |
| C．About eleven months. | D．About half a month. |
| A．6. | B．12. | C．8. | D．10. |
| A．On December 30. | B．On December 31. | C．On March 1. | D．On January 1. |
【推荐1】2023 Big Thinkers Series
10, November 2023, 6 p. m.—7 p. m.
The 2023 Big Thinkers series from New Scientist events features four online talks streamed throughout 2023, covering a wide range of topics all brought to you by world-class scientist speakers and experts.
What We Don’t Know About Gravity
We are all familiar with the concept of gravity, from the force that keeps us firmly on the ground, to the phenomenon that explains the whole structure of our universe. In this talk, Professor Claudia de Rham will explore how much we actually know about gravity and how much more there is left to uncover.
Physics at the End of the Universe
The Big Bang theory tells the story of the beginning of the universe. But how does the story end? Join astrophysicist (天体物理学家) Katie Mack as she shares what modern astrophysics tells us about the final result of the universe.
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them
In the talk, leading physicist Tony Padilla takes us on a tour of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, using them to build a picture of how the universe works. Padilla proves how these numbers are the key to unlocking such puzzling phenomena as black holes.
A Brief History of Timekeeping
From Stonehenge to atomic clocks, here is the 5, 000-year history of how science is used to mark time. Chad Orzel offers us an amusing journey through scientific theory and unusual historical detail to show the amazing physics that makes time something we can set, measure and know. He’ll also consider the future of timekeeping and find new ways of measuring tomorrow.
Save £20 off the standard ticket price by purchasing a series ticket to all four talks in the Big Thinkers series (also available on-demand) or purchase single tickets for just £13 per lecture (early booking rate), to hear from the finest minds in science in 2023.
1. What does Tony Padilla depend on to do his research?| A．Theory of gravity. | B．Big Bang theory. |
| C．The history of timekeeping. | D．Remarkable numbers. |
| A．Chad Orzel’s. | B．Katie Mack’s. | C．Tony Padilla’s. | D．Claudia de Rham’s. |
| A．£13. | B．£20. | C．£32. | D．£52. |
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【推荐3】Yellowstone National Park offers a variety of ranger programs throughout the park, and throughout the year. The following are descriptions of the ranger programs this summer.
Experiencing Wildlife in Yellowstone (May 26 to September 2)
Whether you’re hiking a backcountry trail (小径), camping, or just enjoying the park’s amazing wildlife from the road, this quick workshop is for you and your family. Learn where to look for animals and how to safely enjoy your wildlife watching experience. Meet at the Canyon Village Store.
Junior Ranger Wildlife Olympics (June 5 to August 21)
Kids can test their skills and compare their abilities to the animals of Yellowstone. Stay for as little or as long as your plans allow. Meet in front of the Visitor Education Center.
Canyon Talks at Artist Point (June 9 to September 2)
From a classic viewpoint, enjoy Lower Falls, the Yellowstone River, and the breathtaking colors of the canyon (峡谷) while learning about the area’s natural and human history. Discover why artists and photographers continue to be drawn to this special place. Meet on the lower platform at Artist Point on the South Rim Drive for this short talk.
Photography Workshops (June 19 & July 10)
Enhance your photography skills — join Yellowstone’s park photographer for a hands-on program to inspire new and creative ways of enjoying the beauty and wonder of Yellowstone.
6/19 — Waterfalls &Wide Angles: meet at Artist Point.
7/10 — Wildflowers &White Balance: meet at Washburn Trailhead in Chittenden parking area.
1. Which of the four programs begins the earliest?| A．Photography Workshops. | B．Junior Ranger Wildlife Olympics. |
| C．Canyon Talks at Artist Point. | D．Experiencing Wildlife in Yellowstone. |
| A．Works of famous artists. | B．Protection of wild animals. |
| C．Basic photography skills. | D．History of the canyon area. |
| A．Artist Point. | B．Washburn Trailhead. |
| C．Canyon Village Store. | D．Visitor Education Center. |
