1 . “The arrow shot is so straight that it hits the bull’s eye, the young people will have good luck…” Dargye sang as he worked on his handmade bag.
Dargye, 56, an artist who excels at traditional craftsmanship and Tibetan folk music in Drinba village in Dragyib district, Nyingchi, Tibet autonomous region, remembers many folk songs he learned from his father and uncle. Now, it’s his turn to pass them on.
“I have liked traditional songs and dances since I was a child,” said Dargye, who has four apprentices (学徒).“The songs tell the histories of our ancestors and carry our unique culture, and-it’s always a lot of fun to perform these traditional songs and dances at various gatherings.” The song topics vary from archery, love, to labor and praise for the land. In addition to teaching these songs to/his family members and apprentices, he also uses social media platforms such as WeChat to teach songs.
His daughter, Chok Butri, also admires the folk culture. After posting a video of her daughter, Tsering Kyi, dancing on Douyin, she gained a lot of new fans on the popular short-video platform. “We are modern people living in a modern era, so it’s important and our responsibility that we use modern tools to pass on our traditional culture to make it last forever.” said Chok Butri, adding that she often posts songs and dances on WeChat and Douyin.
Dargye and his fellow villagers also recreate songs, adding modern elements such as aircraft and trains to the lyrics. Besides singing and dancing, Dargye makes handicrafts decorated with Tibetan cultural elements, including various hide and hair ropes, bags made of leather and cloth, and knife sheaths.
The local government encourages villagers to inherit (继承) and develop folk songs and other forms of traditional culture. Dargye’s efforts to preserve folk culture have been acknowledged by the government. In 2014, he was chosen as a county-level intangible (无形的) cultural inheritor and receives funds every year.
1. Why does Dargye want to pass the culture on?A.He wants to satisfy his interest. | B.He wants to learn from the seniors. |
C.He wants to bring people fun. | D.He wants to inherit and develop it. |
A.To show folk music’s effect on her. | B.To stress Dargye’s influence on her. |
C.To emphasize her love for folk culture. | D.To reveal the popularity of folk culture online. |
A.Ambitious and honest. | B.Talented and curious. |
C.Devoted and creative. | D.Generous and determined. |
A.All efforts to preserve culture pay off |
B.Craftsman carries tunes to preserve culture |
C.An artist prefers traditional songs and dances |
D.Tibetan culture is being protected and passed on |
2 . Hedy Lamarr, a Hollywood actress, who was called “the most beautiful woman in the world,” starred in dozens of films over a career that lasted decades. But there was more to Lamarr than met the eye. An enthusiastic inventor, she worked on everything from a tablet to frequency hopping — a World War II-era secure communications technology that’s used today in wireless internet, GPS, and cellphones, which makes her regarded as the “mother of Wi-Fi.”
The Austrian-born Lamarr grew up in Vienna without a lot of education in science. Her natural curiosity drove her to explore and understand the world around her.Therefore, her father, who was also interested in science and technology, often walked with her around the city, pointing out what made things work.
Lamarr's informal scientific training continued when, as a young girl in 1933, she married a wealthy arms merchant who worked with the German and Italian military. When all of these generals and admirals were coming around, she listened, absorbed and learned.
The marriage didn’t last, and Lamarr set out to seek her acting career. When she got to Hollywood in the 1930s, she quickly became an international icon(偶像). After watching World War II break out, with growing concern, Lamarr began inventing on her own. As an Austrian, she thought she should do more to contribute to the allies’s(同盟国) war efforts.
In Hollywood, Lamarr met George Antheil, a composer who would become her cooperator on the frequency-hopping technology. Together, they invented a system that made it harder for the enemy to track or jam signals on radio-guided weapons. However, it wasn’t until 1997, three years before her death, that Lamarr received professional acknowledgment(认可) for her invention.
Lamarr played the role she expected to play in Hollywood-a beautiful object to admire on the big screen. However, She never yielded to society’s expectation to women. Her story really encouraged young people, and especially young women, to go into fields that are traditionally male-oriented, and not to judge a book by its covers.
1. What mainly made Lamarr develop her interest in science?A.Her father. | B.Her first husband and his friends. |
C.Her own curiosity. | D.Her teachers. |
A.She was the most beautiful woman in the world at one time. |
B.She was gracefully beautiful as well as scientifically intellectual. |
C.She encouraged young women to invent. |
D.She decided to give up her acting career after World War II broke out. |
A.worried about | B.looked down on |
C.disagreed with | D.gave in to |
A.A Great Inventor. |
B.A Famous Actress. |
C.A Film Star With A Great Contribution. |
D.A Wireless Communication. |
3 . Laughter is so familiar to every one of us. There is an English saying that
But history, as they say, is a thing of the
Efron was born and
Now Efron is also earning more than $3 million for his
Efron has risen all the way to the top of the movie business. And he can now
A.says | B.goes | C.reads | D.talks |
A.As | B.Like | C.For | D.To |
A.teased | B.admired | C.liked | D.hated |
A.strong | B.right | C.wrong | D.active |
A.past | B.present | C.moment | D.time |
A.effective | B.respectful | C.valuable | D.influential |
A.acting | B.promoting | C.advancing | D.performing |
A.thought | B.served | C.described | D.treated |
A.responses | B.pictures | C.words | D.commands |
A.hired | B.raised | C.directed | D.trapped |
A.seriously | B.formally | C.easily | D.cautiously |
A.meetings | B.reports | C.lectures | D.performances |
A.taught | B.took | C.cancelled | D.escaped |
A.admitted | B.recognized | C.realized | D.relieved |
A.that | B.when | C.whether | D.which |
A.career | B.role | C.result | D.movie |
A.even | B.yet | C.still | D.ever |
A.admire | B.observe | C.earn | D.consider |
A.excuses | B.weaknesses | C.strengths | D.descriptions |
A.laugh | B.cry | C.sing | D.run |
4 . There was once a man who penned comics(漫画) under the name Stan Lee. This man originally wished to leave comics behind and write serious literature. But he never made that career change.
Born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922 in New York City, he has contributed more to the world than just a few fun stories. At 17, Lee began working as an assistant for the Timely comics group (today’s well-known Marvel Comics). Two years later he was given a chance to write for his first comic, “Captain America”. His skills in the business led him to become the comic-book division’s editor-in-chief until 1972.
After working with comics for many years, Lee became tired of the material he was told to write. For a long time, comic books were considered silly stories. The characters weren’t complex, and the dialogue was short and simple. Lee wanted more from his work.
The Fantastic Four was born after his wife asked, “Why don’t you write one book the way you would like to do it?” With that comic, Lee helped change comics from simple action stories to the complex narratives (叙述文) they are today. However, he still hasn’t done changing the industry.
In the early 1960s, Stan Lee and another writer created the Spider-Man character. In one edition of Spider-Man, Lee wrote a story in which the superhero’s friend almost dies from drug abuse. From the 1950s until 2011, comic publishers followed the rules given by the Comics Code Authority (CCA), who disapproved of drug use in comics.
But Lee published the comic without CCA’s agreement. The story sold, and there was a positive response to the story’s focus on a serious problem in society. The CCA ended up changing its rules to allow more inspirational stories like this.
From this victory, Lee went on to create more interesting and realistic characters that dealt with both super and real life problems.
1. The underlined part “that career” in Paragraph 1 refers to the job as _____.A.a superhero | B.a comic actor |
C.a comic book creator | D.a serious literature writer |
A.In 1939. | B.In 1941. | C.In 1960. | D.In 1972. |
A.Spider-Man was published. |
B.Stan Lee left the comic industry. |
C.Stan Lee’s wife began to work on comics. |
D.The comics began to tell complex stories. |
A.Spider-Man was created by Stan Lee himself. |
B.Stan Lee likes to discuss social issues in his comics. |
C.The story of Spider-Man came from Stan Lee’s friend. |
D.The CCA has been carrying out rules without changing them. |
The Book of Songs, also known as Shi Jing, is the oldest existing
Then he decided to portray the poems with musical language by inviting composer Ma Jiuyue
The 10 songs are based on 10 poems from Shi Jing, including Qiong Yao, which conveys gratitude to people who are eager to help others, Swallows, which
“Young people gave warm feedback about traditional Chinese music
“The 10 pieces sound
Chaplin made people to laugh at a time when they felt depressed, but they could feel more content with their lives. He was popular to people all over the world for his particular form of humor acting. The little actor became known throughout the world. He played the main character which was poor and homeless, wore large trousers, worn-out shoes and a small round black hat, and carries a walking stick.
The character was a social failure, but he won the love of his audience for his determinations to be kind to others and overcome difficulties. In his film The Gold Rush, Chaplin successful made a sad situation entertaining by eating a boiled shoe.
As everlasting humor master, Charlie Chaplin will always be remembering by us.
1. What did John enjoy doing in his childhood?
A.Touring France. | B.Playing outdoors. | C.Painting pictures. |
A.He did business. | B.He studied biology. | C.He worked on a farm. |
A.For food. | B.For pleasure. | C.For money. |
A.American birds. | B.Natural scenery. | C.Family life. |
8 . Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in Daugavpils, Latvia in 1903. His father immigrated to the United States, fearing that his son would be drafted (招募) into the Czarist army. Mark stayed in Russia with his mother and elder sister; they joined the family later, arriving in the winter of 1913, after a 12-day voyage.
Mark moved to New York in the autumn of 1923 and found employment in the garment trade and took up residence on the Upper West Side. It was while he was visiting someone at the Art Students League that he saw students sketching a nude model. According to him, this was the start of his life as an artist. He was twenty years old and had taken some art lessons at school, so his initial experience was far from an immediate calling.
In 1936, Mark Rothko began writing a book, which he never completed about the similarities in the children’s art and the work of modern painters. The work of modernists, which was influenced by primitive (原始的) art, according to him, could be compared to that of children in that “Child art transforms itself into primitivism (原始主义), which is only the child producing a mimicry (模仿) of himself.” However, in this same work, he said that “The fact that one usually begins with drawing is already academic. We start with the colors.”
It was not long before his multiform developed into the style he is remembered for; in 1949 Rothko exhibited these new works at the Betty Parsons Gallery. For critic Harold Rosenberg, the paintings were a revelation. After painting his first multiform, Rothko withdrew himself to his home in East Hampton on Long Island. The discovery of his definitive form came at a period of great grief; his mother Kate died in October 1948 and it was at some point during that winter that Rothko chanced upon the striking symmetrical (对称的) rectangular blocks of two to three opposing or contrasting, yet complementary colors (对称). As part of this new uniformity of artistic vision, his paintings and drawings no longer had individual titles: from this point on they were simply untitled, numbered or dated. However, to assist in distinguishing one work from another, dealers would sometimes add the primary colors to the name.
1. Mark Rothko’s family have experienced all of the following except .A.a separation from his father | B.the call up of the army |
C.a temporary stay in Russia | D.a 12-day voyage to the United States |
A.His move to the Upper West Side. |
B.His visit to the Art Students League. |
C.His sight of the students’ drawing. |
D.His lessons took in art school. |
A.they are both considered childish and academic |
B.they are both ways of expressing primitivism |
C.they are both a copy of the painters themselves |
D.they ate both striking blocks and colors |
A.It was inspired by Rosenberg. |
B.It resulted from moving to Long Island. |
C.It resulted from his grief. |
D.It evolved (develop gradually) in 1948. |