1 . The music industry is highly competitive. It requires you to improve your musical skills continuously for a higher level of artistry.     1    . Being a musician also requires the ability to think in business terms—you must know how to get your music out to the public in cost-effective ways. This means developing and adopting an effective marketing strategy.

    2    . Normally, a person or business looks at what a particular type of customer wants and then figures out what products or services meet the needs of those customers. In this regard, it is the customer that determines what is to be sold. With music marketing, just the opposite is true.     3    . Music marketing strategies thus must match a musician’s music with an audience.

Music marketing strategies involve one or more marketing techniques. Examples include giving free promotional (促销的) singles, putting advertisements on different media, and getting email addresses at concerts so audience members can get updates about the artist.     4    , but a good marketing strategy in music always uses the techniques familiar to the matching audience.

In many cases, music marketing strategies are limited by the artist’s funds. Many beginning artists don’t have the money to promote their work heavily and have to rely on techniques that are free or low-cost.     5    . Once the agency (中介处) gets behind the artist, the musician has access to the agency’s resources for marketing purposes. Agencies are more than willing to provide these resources and develop a marketing strategy, because a good strategy translates into profit for the agency.

A．The artist already has a product ready to go

B．Music marketing strategies differ from regular ones

C．Musical talent alone, however, is not necessarily enough

D．No two musicians have to use the same techniques when marketing

E．An artist doesn’t need to promote all of his/her songs at the same time

F．That’s why most beginning artists dream of being “discovered” by an agency

G．Technology makes it cheaper and easier for artists to promote their work themselves

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Seeing these “gardens” is like looking at a universe in a plant pot. The miniature (微型的) branches spread and twist,       1       (demonstrate) the beauty of nature, so as to allow viewers to stop and reflect on the circle of life. The potted landscape of penjing.     2       (be) a representative of top-ranking garden art ever since its existence.

    3     (expected), the Suzhou-style penjing cultivation technique was listed as a national-level intangible cultural heritage (非物质文化遗产) in 2011.     4     penjing, Suzhou gardens wouldn’t be as charming as they are today. Once the construction of a garden is completed, its buildings are set, but planting can grow and change, which makes gardens     5     (live).

The history of penjing     6       (date) back to the Tang Dynasty when the great poet Bai Juyi used some stones     7       (create) miniature landscapes in pots. And the Ming Dynasty marked a boom in the economy of Suzhou, the very period       8     turned the city into a major cultural center. Because of that long history, Suzhou-style penjing is often seen as       9     fundamental school of Chinese planting art.

Penjing works are beautiful, but people think that they were owned by the rich. However, only when they are enjoyed by general     10       (consume) can they benefit from being part of people's wider modern artistic taste.

3 . The effect of climate change extends beyond ruining Earth’s environment and our physical safety. A report published this week suggests that climate change has a negative effect on our mental health, too.

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States(PNAS), links an increase in monthly temperatures to a rise in mental health issues. The experimental evidence stems from meteorological (气象的) data paired with information collected from nearly 2 million randomly sampled residents in the United States. The data was collected over the span (跨度) of a decade.

“We find that experiences with hotter temperatures and added rainfall each worsen mental health, that long-lasting warming associates with an increased popularity of mental health issues, and that exposure to tropical cyclones(热带气旋), likely to increase in frequency in the future, is linked to worsened mental health,” authors of the study stated. “These results provide added large-scale evidence to the growing link between climate change and mental health.”

The report specifically focused on mental health outcomes due to the effects of environmental stress - such as temperature, rainfall, and tropical cyclones - but other climate change-related issues are likely to affect mental health as well - specifically, the stress and anxiety of knowing natural disasters could be more frequent as temperatures rise.

1. From the newly-published report, we learn that the climate change may _________.

A．save a lot of people’s lives

B．cause unbelievable disasters

C．influence people’s mental health

D．greatly change people’s life styles

2. Why did the author mention “the span of a decade” in Paragraph 2?

A．To stress the importance of the study.

B．To show that the study cost too much money.

C．To explain the difficulties and hardships of the study.

D．to indicate that the study is objective and believable.

3. Where can we find some specific results of the study?

A．In Paragraph 1	B．In Paragraph 2
C．In Paragraph 3	D．In Paragraph 4

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．The study has its limits.

B．The results of the study aren’t satisfactory.

C．The environmental problems can’t be solved.

D．Mental health is determined by climate change.

4 . I used to be extremely shy, so I wasn’t good at meeting new people. I was_______I’d do or say something wrong, so usually I just smiled and listened to other people’s_______. My teacher Mrs. Smith always_______me to communicate with others.

One day, she_______that our class was going to perform a play she’d written. “I_______someone to play the lead role. Anybody want to try?” she said. A few_______hands shot up—mine wasn’t one of them. Mrs. Smith walked up to me and said, “I think you’re_______for it. But you didn’t _______your hand when I asked who was interested in the part.”

Me, the lead? Was she_______? Mrs. Smith continued, “I had been in consideration of you for the role while writing the play! If you really don’t want to, though, I won’t force you. You’re your                           ________.” Suddenly, I realized it was time to________my shyness and show the world who I really was. I looked Mrs. Smith right in her eyes and said________, “OK, I’ll try.”

After five months of practicing, I was________nervous when the big day arrived My knees________. My heart beat like I’d just run a mile. “It doesn’t matter how you do tonight,” said Mrs. Smith, as if reading my________when she came backstage for a final________ “You’ve already shown yourself how wonderful you’re. That’s the most________thing.”

I smiled because I knew she was right. I proved I could take chances, be daring (大胆的), and have fun doing it! At the end of the play, when the audience stood and________, I knew they were not just ________for my performance that night, but for the performances they knew would come in later years because of my newly-found________.

1.

A．certain

B．afraid

C．ashamed

D．doubtful

2.

A．arguments

B．comments

C．analyses

D．conversations

3.

A．encouraged

B．attracted

C．forced

D．challenged

4.

A．realized

B．intended

C．announced

D．concluded

5.

A．advise

B．remind

C．appoint

D．need

6.

A．amused

B．excited

C．relaxed

D．satisfied

7.

A．perfect

B．responsible

C．famous

D．concerned

8.

A．wave

B．hang

C．show

D．raise

9.

A．strict

B．reliable

C．crazy

D．sensitive

10.

A．choice

B．duty

C．award

D．honor

11.

A．end with

B．make out

C．throw away

D．see through

12.

A．slowly

B．firmly

C．softly

D．warmly

13.

A．still

B．never

C．always

D．hardly

14.

A．bent

B．froze

C．broke

D．shook

15.

A．opinions

B．expressions

C．thoughts

D．impressions

16.

A．check

B．test

C．motivation

D．promotion

17.

A．interesting

B．important

C．personal

D．intelligent

18.

A．greeted

B．withdrew

C．whispered

D．applauded

19.

A．waiting

B．cheering

C．thanking

D．applying

20.

A．pride

B．dignity

C．confidence

D．achievement

5 . Chaplin was one of the famous clown-style actors of the silent time. It was through Charlie Chaplin that the Hollywood comedy movies became famous.

Then in the 1920s came another trend of animated cartoons. They were the most popular Hollywood comedy movies of the time. The several popular characters of that era were Felix the cat, Krazy Kat and Betty Boop. However, the popularity of these movies was blocked out due to lack of sound and color. The end of 1920s, the Hollywood comedy industry marked a change brought about by the introduction of sound into the movies. This has allowed the industry to create dramatic new film styles and use verbal humor. These films were soon replacing silent movies. These films used dialogue of comedians such as the W. C Fields and the Marx Brothers. Charlie Chaplin was the last comedian to have acted in the silent films.

When the United States entered into World War ll, Hollywood movies changed its course to themes related to the conflicts, and Hollywood comedy movies described more on military themes. The war time experienced a boom, where restrictions on the traveling made nearly a quarter of the money spent on attending movies.

In the 1950s, the interest shifted where the TV became popular. During this time the release of Hollywood comedy films declined(衰落). The 1960s saw an increasing number of broad, star-packed comedies. In 1970 Hollywood comedy movies reflected the anti-war sentiment, which was popular then.

In the 1980s the gag(笑料)based comedy Airplane was released, and Hollywood comedy movies paved its way for more of the same. The popular comedians of this time included Dudley－Moore, Tom Hanks, etc. Jim Carrey, the Canadian actor and a comedian, came into Hollywood comedy movies in the late 1980s where he won the role in such a comedy, Copper Mountain.The most popular Hollywood comedy movies were of John Hughes, which includes Ferris Buellers Day Off and Home Alone series of 1990s. The later films focused more on family audience. This was a revival in comedy movies. Comedy movies remain popular till date.

1. Why did Hollywood movies grow rapidly during World War ll?

A．People had more money at that time.

B．The government spent a lot of money on films

C．.People couldn’t travel freely.

D．People were made to see movies by the government.

2. The theme of the 1970s Hollywood comedies is________.

A．protests against wars

B．domestic violence

C．oversea military activities

D．desire for freedom

3. What does this passage mainly talk about?

A．Outstanding comedies made in Hollywood.

B．Famous comedians in Hollywood history.

C．Chaplin’s contribution to comedies.

D．Development of Hollywood comedy movies.

4. Which of the following shows the correct order of what happened to the Hollywood comedy movies?
a. Hollywood comedy movies focused on family audience.
b. Fewer and fewer Hollywood comedy films were released.
c. Animated cartoons of Hollywood comedy movies were popular.
d. Hollywood comedy movies once developed quickly during the war time.
e. The Hollywood comedy industry made a reform of applying sound to the movies.

A．cedba

B．decab

C．dabec

D．ecbda

6 . Dr. Harvey Gates, the noted scientist, might never have discovered the Kamron lizard (蜥蜴) in Blovia, if it had not been for a childhood accident. As a boy, he decided to become a baseball player, but when he broke his arm in practice at the age of fourteen and was forced to stay off the playing field for a while, he took notice of the natural world around him and liked what he saw.

After he had recovered from his injury, he caught a squirrel (松鼠) and raised it as a pet. Soon he was bringing home snakes and other creatures from the woods near his school.

In 1962, he entered Blakeford College and majored in biology. By 1966 he had received his Bachelor (学士) of Science degree and two years later at Drysdale University, he received his Doctor of Science degree. It was while he was doing field research for his doctoral studies in South America in 1967 that he discovered and named the Kamron lizard. This animal was different from others of its kind in that it had only four toes on its front feet. In other respects, it was similar to others of the same family. It could change its color and go for long periods without food.

1. Of the four statements, which one best indicates (表明) the author’s idea?

A．Dr. Gates is a scientist who can always attract the public attention to his research.

B．Dr. Gates is a very famous scientist, though he wanted to be a sportsman at first.

C．Dr. Gates is a scientist who always carries a notebook with him wherever he goes.

D．Dr. Gates is very popular for his determination to become a baseball player.

2. In the first paragraph of the passage, the phrase “in practice” means “________”

A．while doing some practical work

B．while studying animals

C．while making up his mind to become a baseball player

D．while playing baseball

3. In the second paragraph, the word “creatures” can best be replaced by “________”.

A．people

B．animals

C．things

D．living things

4. It was ________ that Dr. Gates discovered the Kamron lizard.

A．after he had graduated from Drysdale University

B．right after he had finished his study for the doctor’s degree

C．after he had received his highest degree

D．during the time when he was studying for the doctor’s degree

7 . 根据汉语意思选出正确的短语
1. 偶然碰到

A．come across

B．come out

C．come up

D．come by

2. 容忍

A．put away

B．put forward

C．put up with

D．put aside

3. 挤出一条路

A．push one’s way

B．make one’s way

C．feel one’s way

D．fight one’s way

4. 穿过

A．go after

B．go against

C．go along with

D．go through

5. 撞上

A．run across

B．run into

C．run after

D．run short of

6. 令人讨厌

A．turn out

B．turn into

C．turn around

D．turn sb off

7. 诚实地说

A．to sum up

B．to be belief

C．to begin with

D．to be honest

8. 提防，留心

A．look out

B．look down on

C．look around

D．look through

9. 看管，负责

A．free of charge

B．in charge of

C．charge sb money

D．in the charge of

10. 不挂断电话

A．hang about

B．hang on

C．hang up

D．hang back

11. 在视线之外

A．in sight

B．out of sight

C．catch sight of

D．at the sight of

12. 来来回回

A．in an instant

B．be keen on

C．in vain

D．back and forth

13. 陷入困境

A．die out

B．adapt to sth

C．in command of

D．be trapped in

14. 理解

A．be related to

B．figure out

C．knock over

D．count on

15. 有意义

A．in a flash

B．make sense

C．now that

D．in particular

8 . 根据汉语意思选出正确的单词
1. 详细的，特定的adj.

A．special

B．species

C．specific

D．spell

2. 钦佩v.

A．adore

B．admire

C．admirable

D．adopt

3. 命令v.

A．command

B．commitment

C．comedy

D．complex

4. 良心n.

A．consistent

B．consist

C．component

D．conscience

5. 抵制vt.

A．insist

B．resist

C．persist

D．assist

6. 凌乱的adj.

A．messy

B．mass

C．mossy

D．miss

7. 责骂v.

A．fight

B．scratch

C．stout

D．scold

8. 紧张的adj.

A．stress

B．tension

C．tease

D．tense

9. 使泄气vt.

A．courage

B．encourage

C．discourage

D．courageous

10. 推荐v.

A．recommend

B．command

C．restriction

D．ridiculous

11. 代理人n.

A．agency

B．agent

C．agenda

D．aggressive

12. 明显的adj.

A．applaud

B．amuse

C．approach

D．apparent

13. 小心翼翼的adj.

A．caution

B．cautious

C．caught

D．cause

14. 优雅的，精致的adj.

A．polished

B．precise

C．politician

D．profession

15. 成熟的adj.

A．monument

B．manner

C．mature

D．musical

9 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Last week , my friends and I got together to eat delicious Asian chicken wings in our college. After dinner, I     1     (notice) that my friend Tom didn't want to leave and it seemed as if he needed     2     (we) company at that time.Earlier that night during dinner , he had said his secondyear in college was really rough，    3     l asked him about his experience again.This time the floodgates of emotions opened. He shared with us problems of mental health he had been dealing     4     throughout the year.

Another friend and I were ready     5     (leave) , but we decided to stay and listen to Tom.We spent another 30 minutes     6     (listen) to his story of pressure，     7     (anxious) and depression.

After our talk , Tom felt     8     (thank) because we spent time with him and lent an ear.This experience showed me how being attentive and caring about others can     9     (true) make their day. It doesn't have to be     10     nice gift. Taking time to listen and care may be the best gift.

10 . I should write thank-you notes after Christmas when the thank-you note competition took place in our house.We couldn't get out of the _________   to play with our new toys until we _________   at least one thank-you note to the person who wasn't there when we opened that _________   up under the tree.That was the _________ : You had to write a thank-you note to the person you couldn't thank _________   ,even if you didn't _________   me present , or the shirt you got was the wrong color , or the book was one you _________   wanted to read.You had to _________   that you were grateful.

All these years later , I can say I'm _________   for The Contest of the thank-you notes or maybe I should call it The __________   of the thank-you notes because learning how to be grateful and how to __________   it is one of the best lessons of life.Every week I have to write at least one thank-you note if not __________   .And often when I do it , l think , "I'm not sure what I’ll __________   .”

But thankfulness is __________   .You put some of it down on paper , and you start discovering more of it all over. It might feel __________   to write it out at first but not for long.

Thanksgiving is around the __________   , a day when we put gratitude on the __________   ,a celebration of thankfulness for all that we have. It's the __________   thank-you note experience.

"In everything we __________   thanks," I wrote in my thank-you letter. Nothing __________   writing it down and sharing your gratitude.For that , l give thanks.

1.

A．office

B．house

C．group

D．playground

2.

A．read

B．explained

C．wrote

D．received

3.

A．door

B．book

C．invitation

D．present

4.

A．rule

B．issue

C．theory

D．answer

5.

A．as usual

B．after all

C．on behalf

D．in person

6.

A．share

B．like

C．make

D．prepare

7.

A．ever

B．still

C．never

D．also

8.

A．show

B．blame

C．believe

D．require

9.

A．regretful

B．grateful

C．proud

D．hopeful

10.

A．Type

B．Symbol

C．Lesson

D．Sign

11.

A．change

B．express

C．discuss

D．imagine

12.

A．more

B．less

C．faster

D．quicker

13.

A．prove

B．say

C．choose

D．become

14.

A．admitted

B．accepted

C．doubted

D．rewarded

15.

A．creative

B．fair

C．hard

D．pleasant

16.

A．club

B．room

C．corner

D．nation

17.

A．way

B．stage

C．research

D．calendar

18.

A．rare

B．first

C．original

D．basic

19.

A．give

B．describe

C．desire

D．ignore

20.

A．beats

B．avoids

C．forbids

D．finishes