1 . Have you ever tried reading music? If so, you probably noticed a lot of new symbols and words. Maybe you saw the word presto at the beginning. Perhaps you read piano and crescendo throughout the song.
Italian is sometimes called the language that sings.
However, it wasn’t always so. Thousands of years ago, people didn’t write music. Instead, they passed songs down orally and taught each other to play them on instruments.
Around 1000 CE, an Italian man named Guido d’ Arezzo came up with the four-lined staff (四线谱), which eventually led to the development of the five-lined staff still used in modern music today. Over the next few centuries, many of the people writing music were Italian. Of course, people in other parts of the world were writing music, too. In an effort to standardize written music, many of them used Italian terms.
| A．Many think it sounds musical. |
| B．Others wrote music in their own languages. |
| C．Still, Italian is the primary language used in music. |
| D．You probably needed to ask your teacher what these words meant. |
| E．Learning to read music is an important part of practicing those skills. |
| F．People who write music even have ways to communicate techniques. |
| G．Ancient people in Babylonia, Greece, and Rome were some of the earliest to write music. |
2 . Boston University Summer Term High School Programs
DetailsSession Start: June, July
Session Length: Two Weeks, Three Weeks, Six Weeks
Entering Grade: 9th to 12th
Minimum (最低的) Cost: $1,500-$2,999
Call: (617) 353-1378
Overview
Boston University Summer Term High School Programs invite you to experience pre-college summer study at one of the world’s top teaching and research universities.
With four programs to choose from, you can earn college credits, discover new subject areas, perform research in university labs, or improve yourself through hands-on learning. You will have the opportunity to push yourself academically while experiencing college life and making friends with other students from 87 countries.
Session Information● High School Honors — Rising seniors and outstanding rising juniors take undergraduate courses and earn up to 8 college credits. Six weeks — July 2-August 15.
● Research in Science and Engineering (RISE) — Rising seniors conduct university-level research with some of the nation’s brightest minds. Six weeks — July 2-August 11.
● Academic Immersion (AIM) — Rising juniors and seniors focus on one subject, combining classroom work with hands-on experiential learning. Three track options: Introduction to Experimental Psychology (心理学), Introduction to Medicine, or Creative Writing. Three weeks — Psychology: July 2-July 21; Medicine, or Creative Writing: July 23-August 11.
● Summer Challenge — Rising sophomores (二年级学生), juniors, and seniors explore two subjects of their choice and experience college life. Two weeks — Session 1: June 18-June 30; Session 2: July 9-July 21; Session 3: July 23-August 4.
1. What do we know about the programs?
| A．They are free of charge. | B．They run from June to July. |
| C．They prepare students for college life. | D．They are aimed at US high school students. |
| A．Rising freshmen. | B．Rising sophomores. |
| C．Rising juniors. | D．Rising seniors. |
| A．High School Honors. | B．Research in Science and Engineering. |
| C．Academic Immersion. | D．Summer Challenge. |
3 . For many Americans, home is where the heart is. However, some people are forced to leave their homes because of rising costs.
“Hawaii is everything. Of course, it’s very beautiful. The weather is beautiful, but you only get a deeper connection to a place when it’s connected to you,” said Lehua Kalima, who grew up and raised her kids in Hawaii.
Nearly three years ago, Kalima and her husband left the Hawaiian islands for Clark County, Nevada. According to United Van Lines, the US’s largest household goods mover, Clark County has about 20,000 native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. The Kalimas represent some of the 7 million Americans who move to a different state every year.
“You know, we were already working really hard to make ends meet, but with three college tuitions (学费) now to pay, it was almost impossible,” Kalima said.
United Van Lines has long tracked state-to-state migration (移居), as well as the main reasons people move. In 2018, nearly half of the people surveyed said they moved due to changes in employment. Four years later, a third of respondents said employment was the reason they moved. A rising number said they wanted to be close to family, and 8% stated a reason that three years earlier wasn’t even on the survey — the improved cost of living.
“If you have roots in a place, you have a relationship with a place, with a piece of land, only then can you really understand what it’s like to have to go away from it,” Kalima said.
Despite missing her home, Kalima looks at the other side of things.
“The things we do in life don’t necessarily keep us in one place. Sometimes they take us to all kinds of different places, but that’s necessary because, you know, that’ll take us to where we’re eventually supposed to be,” Kalima said.
1. What was the Kalimas’ life like before moving to Nevada?| A．They had nowhere to live. | B．They lived beyond their means. |
| C．Kalima and her husband lost their jobs. | D．Kalima’s children failed to get into college. |
| A．The effects of state-to-state migration. |
| B．The change of American family connections. |
| C．The reasons for people moving to other states. |
| D．The connection between employment and migration. |
| A．Her pain of being away from home. |
| B．Her worries about her life in Nevada. |
| C．Her fear of being misunderstood by others. |
| D．Her dissatisfaction with new social relationships. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Passive. | C．Uninterested. | D．Positive. |
Giant panda Fu Bao arrived at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport in Sichuan province on Wednesday, returning from South Korea.
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Fu Bao’s parents reached the park in March 2016 from the giant panda center in China,
According to the giant panda center, China and South Korea
