MAGIC WORLD
How has technology changed the way we watch TV?
Watching TV shows has become the most popular activity. A survey points out that people have many ways to watch shows besides cable TV. They include smart phones, computers, and tablets. Technology has not only changed where but also how we watch TV. Streaming(流媒体) networks have helped viewers watch their favorite shows when it’s most convenient for them.
Binge-watching(刷剧) has become a new trend. Without having to wait for next week’s episode(集), viewers can watch the whole season in a day, or at whatever pace(速度) they choose. In the US, content(内容) providers also release a choose-your-own-adventure movie, where your choices can affect(影响) how the story ends, an idea not possible before with traditional TV.
From Teens
1. The news was reported in ________.| A．TV Daily | B．China Daily | C．Teens | D．Youth Daily |
| A．Cable TV | B．Smart phones | C．Tablets | D．Technology |
a. watch programs anywhere and anytime
b. change any content
c. enjoy a whole season at once
d. choose how the story ends
| A．abc | B．acd | C．abd | D．bed |
| A．MAGIC WORLD | B．SOCIETY | C．CULTURE | D．SPORTS |
| A．The competition between TVs—and other devices. |
| B．New kinds of TV shows. |
| C．How technology changes the way people entertain themselves. |
| D．How people change their lives through entertainment. |
相似题推荐
【推荐1】
Music is an international(国际的) language. It plays an important role in our daily life.
In America, popular music is what all the students like best. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy speakers and play music loudly as they drive on the street. Adult(成年人) drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, politics(政治), and activities of the American people. Most of the radio broadcast is music.
Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make CDs or tape which radio stations use in every state. Once the singer’s songs are heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.
There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It has stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Then it became popular in the south of the United States in the 1920s. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music. Serious music for the concert halls is called classical music. Music for instruments (乐器) is called orchestra music, such as the symphonies of Beethoven.
So, what kind of music do you prefer? Pop, folk, country classical or orchestra?
1. American students like _____ music best.| A．pop | B．folk | C．country | D．classical |
| A．make CDs | B．sing loudly | C．talk with others | D．listen to music |
| A．tells stories about the common life of Americans |
| B．shows us love between a country boy and his girl |
| C．is a kind of serious music for the concert halls |
| D．is sung by cowboys when they are watching cows |
| A．History of Popular Music. | B．Kinds of Music in America. |
| C．Symphonies of Beethoven. | D．How to Become a National Star. |
【推荐2】Some friends are playing hide-and-seek (捉迷藏) in Mike’ s room. They have great fun. It’ s time for Lily to find her friends. Lily first finds Sally. Sally is behind the door. Then, Lily sees Bob. Bob is under the table. Mike is there, too. Now it’ s time to find David and John. David’ s hat is on the sofa. Is David under the sofa? No, he isn’ t. John’ s schoolbag is on the chair, but he isn’ t there. “Where are they? ” Lily thinks. Shh! Don’ t let her know. They are under the bed!
1. The friends are _________.| A．in Lily’ s room |
| B．in Mike’ s room |
| C．in Sally’ s room |
| A．Bob and Mike |
| B．Bob and Lily |
| C．Mile and Lily |
| A．David’ s hat |
| B．John’ s schoolbag |
| C．John |
| A．behind the door |
| B．under the table |
| C．under the bed |
| A．five | B．six | C．seven |
【推荐3】Many people enjoy watching movies in a cinema. They think the cinema has a better atmosphere(气氛) to enjoy the movie. However, I think people are happier and freer when watching movies at home.
Watching movies at home is more comfortable. To watch movies in a cinema, you have to buy a ticket before you go there for a better seat. However, there is no need for people at home to worry about the ticket. They can enjoy movies at any time they like and with the most comfortable seat. What’s more, people watching movies at home wouldn’t have to face any traffic problems.
It is free to watch movies at home. In the cinema, we can’t go outside and do something else because the movie won’t wait for us. But at home, we can pause(暂停) the movie at any time.
In a word, a cinema is a good place to watch movies, but it isn’t the best place to enjoy the movies. I think watching movies at home is better.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1. What does the writer think of watching movies at home?
| A．Boring | B．Enjoyable. | C．Terrible |
| A．Has a better atmosphere | B．Don’t worry about the ticket. | C．Feel freer and happier. |
| A．health problems | B．eating problems. | C．traffic problems |
| A．Enjoy Watching Movies in a Cinema. |
| B．Better to Watch a Movie in a Cinema or at Home? |
| C．Come to My Home and Watch a Movie. |
【推荐1】While most TV stations try to attract people by using different kinds of reality shows, Henan TV has spread rapidly by raising traditional culture through Chinese dance.
On Feb. 13th, 2021, a dance piece titled A Tang Dynasty Banquet, which is about five minutes long, was on show on Henan TV. With a connection of live dance and technology like 5G and AR, the dance piece has spread rapidly on social media (媒体), watched more than 500 million times.
Since then, Henan TV has produced seven dance pieces highlighting (突出) traditional culture for traditional festivals, such as Rhapsody on the Luo River Goddess, a two-minute underwater dance for the Dragon Boat Festival. Guardian Warriors of Longmen, another dance piece supported by AR technology at Longmen Grottoes (龙门石窟) in Luoyang, Henan Province, was performed during the Qixi Festival.
“The total views of the seven dance pieces have achieved nearly 30 billion hits on social media platforms,” says Yao Wei, vice-director of Henan TV. “It’s a huge success for Henan TV.” Yao adds that Henan TV station has been producing shows highlighting traditional culture, such as traditional operas and Wushu for nearly thirty years.
根据短文内容，判断句子正(T)误(F)。1. These dance pieces from Henan TV connect famous stars with live dance together.
2. Guardian Warriors of Longmen was produced for the Dragon Boat Festival.
3. People have a strong love for these seven dance pieces on social media platforms.
4. Henan TV has been producing shows on traditional culture for almost twenty years.
5. Traditional Chinese culture has been developed widely in the form of Chinese dance on Henan TV.
There are many different kinds of TV shows. Which do you like best?
| A bite of China is a documentary(纪录片) that started on CCTT on May 14th, 2012. It tells the stories behind delicious food from different places in China and shows a lot about Chinese culture. |
| Britain’s Got Talent(英国达人秀) is a British television talent show and competition which began in June 2007. Anyone of any age with some kinds of talent(才能) can apply for(申请) a chance against each other to win prize. |
| The voice of China is a television singing competition. It started on July 13th, 2012 on Zhejiang TV. It is like The voice of Holland which started in Holland in 2010. |
| Mythbusters(流言终结者) is a science entertainment(科技型娱乐) TV program. It is one of the oldest and the most popular shows on Discovery Channel. On the show, the hosts(主持人), Adam Savage and Jamie Hynema, take a scientific look at what people say or think to see if it is true. |
| A．Some scientific stories. |
| B．Some best singers. |
| C．Stories about delicious food. |
| D．Some talent people. |
| A．Only man. | B．Only woman. |
| C．Any talented people. | D．Teenager aged 12. |
| A．On July 13th, 2012. | B．On July 14th, 2012. |
| C．On June 13th, 2013. | D．On June 14th, 2013. |
| A．They introduce delicious food. |
| B．They tell some jokes. |
| C．They use a scientific mind to see if what people say or think is true. |
| D．They choose the best singers. |
| A．One. | B．Two. |
| C．Three. | D．Four. |
【推荐3】This week, in Los Angeles, the MasterChef Junior (少年大厨) contestants (选手) showed what was supposed to be the world’s largest cake. Instead, they made the smallest cake in the world.
What happened to the great cake? They wanted to make a 3, 000-pound cake baked for 35 hours in a 6-foot-wide by 8-foot-deep pan. Sadly, the pan broke up. The chefs quickly came up with the idea to make the world’s smallest cake. But Guinness World Records (吉尼斯世界纪录) will only judge the largest food but not the smallest.
The event was held to improve the new show MasterChef Junior. They hold the competition to open the door for kids interested in cooking. Here’s how it works. Twenty-four chefs, ages 8 to 13, are selected and put through some cooking tests. Contestants are eliminated (淘汰) two at a time until one is finally named MasterChef Junior.
As the kids complete the challenges, some judges (裁判) taught or helped them. They are Gordon Ramsey, Joe Bastianich, and Graham Elliot.
The young cooks didn’t fear the adult judges. “Gordon, Joe and Graham were all really helpful and really knew about what we were doing,” said Tommy from California. He is a 12-year-old contestant on the show.
The exciting chefs agreed that competing on the show taught them useful lessons. They would remember it forever.
1. The MasterChef Junior contestants end up ________.| A．making the biggest cake | B．making the smallest cake | C．giving up the contest | D．giving up their dreams |
| A．a kind of food | B．something delicious | C．something terrible | D．something for cooking |
| A．Kids who are interested in cooking | B．Kids who would like to eat delicious food |
| C．Adults who are interested in cooking | D．Adults who would like to eat delicious food |
| A．two | B．four | C．three | D．five |
| A．Boring. | B．Interesting. | C．Helpful. | D．Expensive. |
Vienna, the capital of Austria(奥地利) is known as the city of music. It is also the top city in the world for overall quality of living(全面的生活品质) according to the survey of 231 cities around the world. Vienna has held the title(头衔) for 8 years. |
On March 23, Yu Dabao helped China beat South Korea in the 2018 World Cup qualifying match (资格赛) in Changsha, Hunan. He was called “China’s Lucky Star” since he saved his team many times in important games. |
In March, more than 80 bushfires(森林大火) were burning at the same time in New South Wales, Australia, 42 farms were burnt to the ground because of the fires. Many of the farms cover more than 1000 sqkm(平方公里), while the biggest is larger than 20,000 sqkm. |
On April 26, a big Chinese ship, China’s first homemade aircraft carrier(航空母舰) hit the water in Dalian, Liaoning. It is the largest and best ship China has ever built. The new carrier was designed(设计) in China building began in 2013. The ship now must be completed at sea. |
1. On March 23, Yu Dabao helped China beat ________.
| A．New South Wales | B．Australia | C．South Korea | D．Austria |
| A．20,000 | B．1000 | C．80 | D．42 |
| A．was built | B．was designed | C．was burnt | D．hit the water in Dalian |
| A．Vienna is the top city among 200 cities. |
| B．Yu Dabao made the aircraft in Liaoning. |
| C．Bushfires burnt 42 farms to the ground in New South Wales, Australia. |
| D．In 2013, China’s first homemade aircraft was completed. |
| A．a story book. | B．a newspaper | C．a novel | D．a science magazine |
A. It has millions of books including(包括) poems, short stories, novels and even fairy tales(童话) for children. What’s special about it is that you can use it to download book recordings(录音) that can be listened to. B. It catches the main idea of each book you have downloaded so that you can save time by finishing reading a book within 5 minutes. C. It is a good friend for children under 3 years old. Kids can learn to speak, understand numbers and draw pictures with the help of this app. D. It may help you learn more English words while you are playing games. So if you have problems remembering the new words when you learn English, just use it! E. It is a fantastic English learning app with word exercises of different levels. Only when you pass a test of a certain level can you go on to learn words of a higher level. F. It can be the best helper when you feel it hard to buy the train or airline tickets. You can buy tickets anywhere at any time. G. The app, a free-to-play online game with over 40 million downloads, brings quick-fire tank(坦克) fights. A lot of tanks, a lot of people and a lot of fun. It will be the best choice to kill your time. |
【推荐3】Odinn studies at Rainworth State School in Queensland, Australia. Last year, he was found to have a disease. He has had lots of tests and treatments (疗法), and now he stays in hospital all the time.
Odinn is a happy kid and he loves school. Being away from his school and his classmates was getting him down. He was learning with the help of the workers at Queensland Children’s Hospital when he was receiving treatments, but it wasn’t the same.
Luckily, there is MissingSchool, a non-profit(非营利的)group. It began in 2012, when three mothers were looking for answers for their own seriously sick children. Since 2017, MissingSchool has been using robots in schools across Australia. They connect seriously sick kids with their normal classroom. It now has more than 180 robots in schools, connecting about 5, 400 classmates.
Now Odinn can take classes at home, with Odinn 2.0 in the classroom. The robot has wheels at the bottom, a thin body and a screen as its head. Odinn’s happy face is shown on the screen. He controls the robot using his computer. As the robot goes through the space between his classmates’ desks, be says hello to his friends. It is like he is right there in the classroom.
1. What do we know about Odinn?| A．He can’t go to school now. | B．He is an American boy. |
| C．He had the illness at the age of 9. | D．He has a twin brother Odinn 2.0. |
| A．Angry and afraid. | B．Sad and lonely. |
| C．Happy and excited. | D．Nervous and shy. |
| A．It started in 2017 in Queensland, Australia. |
| B．It’s a non-profit group to answer sick children’s questions. |
| C．Over 180 robots are used in schools to help sick children. |
| D．Three mothers started the group to help Odinn. |
①What Odinn thinks of the robot.
②How Odinn controls the robot.
③What the robot looks like.
④How the robot helps Odinn.
| A．①②③ | B．①②④ | C．②③④ | D．①③④ |
| A．Let’s help poor Odinn together. |
| B．A robot called Odinn 2.0 teaches in the classroom. |
| C．Sick children can go to MissingSchool. |
| D．A robot helps sick Odinn connect with school. |
| News A On November 10th, the soccer training base for teenagers opened in Central China’s Henan Province. The government built the base in order to bring kung fu to soccer training. There are two classes with 50 boys and 50 girls in the base. The government sent three soccer teachers to the base. Soccer training, kung fu practice and school courses(课程) will keep these teenagers very busy. —November 12th, 2015 |
| News B Orchetre De L’Opera De Lyon is a band from France. It performed (演出) at the Grassland Music Festival in Shenzhen Bay Park in Nanshan District on Sunday night. The ticket for the concert was free. About 10,000 people went to the concert that night. —November 17th, 2015 |
| News C Gurtej Singh is an Indian in Shenzhen. He is the owner of Eden’s Indian Cuisine in the Xiangmihu neighbourhood. Born in India, Singh moved to Hong Kong at 16 and then moved to Shenzhen in 2007. In August, he opened Eden’s. He hopes the restaurant will become an Indian food chain in the future. Eden’s held a dinner and dance party on Nov. 14 to celebrate the Diwali Festival, a traditional Hindu festival. More than 100 people attended it. —November 23rd, 2015 |
| A．50 | B．100 | C．150 | D．200 |
| A．How to play soccer. | B．How to practice kung fu. |
| C．How to write books. | D．How to study Maths. |
| A．In Shenzhen Bay Park. | B．At the Grassland Square. |
| C．In Futian District. | D．In Shenzhen Safari Park. |
| A．To become the best cook in the world | B．To open a restaurant in Hong Kong. |
| C．To make his restaurant an Indian food chain. | D．To celebrate the Diwali Festival in India. |
| A．On November 10th | B．On November 11th |
| C．On November 12th | D．On November 14th |
【推荐2】Over the last six months,the coronavirus pandemic(冠状病毒疫情) has affected different countries and regions in different ways. Here, we’ll take a look at a few of the most important events that have happened.
Italy shuts down
On March 10, the Italian government decided to put the whole country on lockdown after the number of cases(病例) in the country started increasing quickly. People were suggested not leaving their home. The first case was detected(检测到) as early as January 31. In the following weeks, the number of cases reached over 10,000 by the time of the lockdown. The lockdown affected 16 million people across the country. Italy was one of the first of many countries that carried out lockdowns to prevent the spread of the virus.
WHO announces(宣布) pandemic
On March 11,World Health Organization(WHO) officially characterized(描述) COVID-19 as a pandemic. This was because of a growing number of cases around the world. By this time, there were more than 20,000 cases in Europe, including 1,000 deaths, as well as 1,000 cases in the US.
Summer Olympics delayed
2020 Summer Olympic Games, which were planned to be held in Tokyo, has been put off until the following year in order to make sure of the public safety.
US hits over 1 million cases
On April 28, the US officially recorded over one million COVID-19 cases nationwide(在全国). This came just four days after it was reported that the virus had caused over 50,000 deaths across the country. The virus spread rapidly across the country, as the first case had been recorded three months earlier.
1. The events in the passage are all connected with ________.| A．Italy’s lockdown | B．Olympic games | C．US cases | D．the coronavirus pandemic |
| A．封城 | B．控制 | C．关押 | D．锁定 |
| A．caused the lockdowns | B．had a growing number of cases in the world |
| C．could result in death | D．spread quickly in Europe |
| A．people may not go during the pandemic | B．the cases in Asia increased quickly |
| C．it hasn’t been well-prepared | D．it’s necessary to protect public safety |
| A．four days | B．twenty-eight days | C．three months | D．four months |
【推荐3】April 15 was a sad day for France. A fire broke out in Notre Dame, a centuries-old cathedral (大教堂) in the heart of Paris. The cathedral’s spire(尖顶) and a large part of its roof were destroyed.
Built between 1163 and 1250, Notre Dame is one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture (哥特式建筑). The cathedral is home to many valuable works of art. Among the most famous artworks inside are its three stained-glass rose windows, and the cathedral’s bronze statues which had been taken away before the fire for repairs.
Notre Dame is one of the world’s most famous tourist attractions. About 13 million people visit it every year. It lies in the center of Paris along the Seine River. French writer Victor Hugo used it as the setting of his famous story The hunchback of Notre-Dame.
French President Emmanuel Macron described the fire as a terrible tragedy, but added, the worst had been avoided. Macron has promised that the French people will rebuild the cathedral together. He announced that he will launch an international fund raising campaign (募捐活动). Notre Dame is our history, it’s our literature, and it’s our imagery. We will rebuild it. This is probably part of the French destiny, and we will finish it in the next five years. Starting tomorrow, a national donation plan will be started at home and abroad.” Macron said. “Paris without Notre Dame? Madness.”
1. How old is the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral till 2021?| A．About 850 years. | B．About 1160 years. |
| C．About 1250 years. | D．About 2410 years. |
| A．The cathedral’s spire. | B．The cathedral’s roof. |
| C．The top of the Gothic cathedral. | D．The cathedral’s bronze statues. |
| A．You can buy lots of artistic treasure in it. |
| B．It sits in central Paris, by the Seine river. |
| C．French writer Hugo finished his famous story in. |
| D．It’s one of British most famous places of interest. |
| A．The most valuable part of the church was damaged in the fire. |
| B．French government will pay all the money for the rebuilding. |
| C．Tourists can visit Notre Dame de Paris in the next five years. |
| D．People around the world may have already donated some money. |
