2 . To stream or not to stream? That is a question facing both music listeners and musicians.

Taylor Swift made news recently by pulling her music off Spotify, the world’s biggest streaming music service and turned to iTunes downloading and stores for sales. Back in July, Swift swept the pop music industry by selling almost 1.3 million copies of her album, 1989 in its first week. In an article Swift wrote, “The music industry is not dying... it’s just coming alive.”

Her cheerful attitude surely comes from her own unique position. So far this year, Swift has made $64 million, according to Forbes. She’ll make plenty more by bringing in about 70 cents for each dollar paid to download her music. It is much more than the royalty (版税) rate paid out by Spotify of between $0.006 and $0.0084 per song stream.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), money from streaming on YouTube, Pandora and Spotify has helped bring in more money. But the small amount Spotify pays to musicians still caused many of them to withhold some or all of their music from the service, like artists from Beyoncé to The Beatles.

Yet for bands struggling to get by, struggling even to be heard, keeping their music off streaming services is not so easy. Such bands need to get their music out any way they can, and if they’re going to make money, they need to make their music easily accessible to listeners.

To stream or not to stream is a difficult choice for fans, too. The streaming model puts ownership (所有权) of the music in the hands of the music industry. Rather than letting you own your collection, the music business is moving toward a model similar to on-demand cable TV. Every song written is available online whenever and wherever you’d like to hear, but the problem is that you, the user, need to pay over and over again each time you stream it.

1. Why did Taylor Swift say “music industry is coming alive”?

A．Because she got a unique position in music industry.

B．Because her new album made a great offline success.

C．Because the birth of streaming brings great chances to music.

D．Because Spotify becomes the world’s biggest streaming music service.

2. What does the underlined word “withhold” in paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Keep back.

B．Pick out.

C．Hold onto.

D．Put away.

3. What can we learn from the text?

A．Taylor Swift promotes free music streaming.

B．Streaming puts ownership of music in the hands of fans.

C．Some bands still depend on streaming for chances to be heard.

D．Fans can own music with a once-for-all pay on streaming platforms.

4. What can be a suitable title for this text?

A．The Music Industry Is Coming Alive

B．Streaming Leaves Musicians and Fans in a Dilemma

C．To Pay or Not to Pay: a Tough Choice for Music Fans

D．The Rise of Streaming: a Threat or Opportunity for the Music Industry

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What does the speaker mainly talk about?

A．The changes of talk shows.

B．The ways of enjoying our lives.

C．The future of entertainment industry.

2. What do most talk shows usually rely on to make their shows lively?

A．Having a live audience.

B．Doing video-chat interviews.

C．Inviting their family members.

3. What does Jimmy Kimmel do in the video?

A．He makes a pizza at home.

B．He chats with a pop star.

C．He plays with his kids.

4. How does the speaker feel about these hosts?

A．Encouraged.

B．Disappointed.

C．Sympathetic.

5 . 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。

A realistic drama A Lifelong Journey has become a huge hit on TV and online recently.    1    (focus) on the ups and downs of Zhou’s family over five decades, it has caused nostalgia (怀旧) among many viewers. With the drama    2     (release) on China Central Television and streaming platform iQiyi on Jan 28, its viewership is    3    (steady) on the rise. Many viewers issued a    4    (describe) of the show that it was like a time machine to drift into the past, reflecting how they got here.

Adapted    5    Liang Xiaosheng’s award-winning novel of the same name, the show explores themes of family, friendship and romance in a bittersweet story. Set in    6    1960s, it’s not surprising that the family has to deal with lots of social    7    (change). like the restart of Gaokao, the country’s Reform and Opening-up, the boom of Xiahai and the nation’s anti-corruption campaign. Following the lives of Zhou’s family, the Grama gives viewers an insight into the ordinary Chinese who have turned a country in    8    (poor) into the second largest economy in the world.

The show’s director Li Lu,    9    became well known for his anti-corruption series in the Name of the People in 2017, said “China    10    ( witness) dramatic changes over the past five decades and it is time to create such a drama to remember the past.”

7 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

As COVID-19 continues to spread in China, watching a fitness livestreaming (网络直播) video,     1     (host) by Liu Genghong, has been a daily must for millions of people stuck at home.

Liu,     2     was a little-known singer born in Taiwan, took the Internet by storm and became the hottest fitness broadcaster on Chinese social media, with his videos     3     (attract) 230 million followers. Since the popularity of Li Jiaqi, China’s “Livestreaming King” famous     4     his eye-catching online sales strategy, no one     5     (enjoy) such a rise in livestreaming field. A comment says, “Li empties our wallets, while Liu empties our bodies.”

Experts voiced     6     (different) on whether the new trend would last long. “It has driven people to exercise, but in the long term, I think     7     difficult to form a new area within livestreaming”, according to Wang Peng from Renmin University of China. But Huang Haidong,     8     expert from the Chinese online fitness platform Keep, says the fitness wave is certain to be a firm, long-term trend, whether it’s about Liu Genghong or not.

China has the largest fitness market in the world. However, whether this trend has long-lasting power will depend on how money     9     (give) to the livestreaming platforms. Now broadcasters mainly have three     10     (source) of income including fans offering cash “gifts”, advertising brands, and selling products through videos. Yet, organizers and networks haven’t found a better solution to the problem.

8 . Adapted from Liang Xiaosheng’s award-winning novel, the realistic drama A Li felong Journey recently has been a huge hit on TV and online.     1    

Given that A Lifelong Journey is set in the 1960s, it’s not surprising that the family has to deal with lots of social changes and uncertainties, like the restoration of Gaokao, the country’s reform and opening-up, the passion for private business and so on.     2     To create the neighborhood, the shooting crew built a set covering 8, 000 square meters in Changchun, Jilin province, collecting many old items, such as old-fashioned televisions and calendars, to re-create the past. The clothing, like Lei Feng-style hats, and interior spaces, also play an essential part, changing with time as the plot develops.

The five virtues in Confucianism—benevolence (仁), righteousness (义), courtesy(礼), wisdom and trust can be found in the lead character Zhou Bingkun, the youngest son in the family.     3     In the show, Zhou Bingkun used to be a factory worker, the one who has taken care of the big family and friends selflessly.

Following the lives of Zhou’s family, the drama gives viewers an insight into the lives of ordinary Chinese.     4     It is the kind of show that strikes your heartstrings and leaves you in tears even if you’ve already read the book.     5    

A．No wonder viewers thought highly of this drama.

B．It is time to create such a drama to remember the bygone times.

C．China has witnessed dramatic changes over the past five decades.

D．And it explores themes of family, friendship and romance in a bittersweet story.

E．He was played by Lei Jiayin, who says he can almost “see his father” in the drama.

F．Disney has also announced it has acquired the drama series for an international release.

G．Most of the narrative took place in a shantytown (棚户区), where Zhou’s family lives.

9 . The kid’s face is glowing green from the iPad in her hands, which shows a cartoon boy singing a nursery rhyme and dancing with dinosaurs. She’s so attracted that she doesn’t respond when her mother calls her name. “It’s literally like crack for her,” says her mom Meng Zhou at their home.

It is CoComelon, which may be the most streamed children’s entertainment program in the world. The show was watched for 33 billion minutes last year and had 3.6 billion views on YouTube in January, as many as three-quarters of whom were from outside the U. S. . CoComelon was a Top 10 show on Netflix for more than 100 straight days in 2021, and its music is streamed 1.3 million times a day on Spotify.

CoComelon is not only a ratings juggernaut (收视率主宰). It’s also a model for a new approach to children’s TV. A room of adults could work very hard for years on a concept that helped kids learn important ideas, only to find out viewers weren’t interested. CoComelon’s parent company, Moonbug Entertainment, searches digital platforms like YouTube for popular kids’ programming to figure out what the audience want to watch.

It’s clear that much of CoComelon’s popularity is caused by this program. As parents juggled childcare and remote work, demand for kid content increased greatly, thus making CoComelon successful. The success of the show is the influence that CoComelon has on babies and kids. You can see the evidence in the dozens of TikTok videos showing kids who hear the marimba tones of its theme song. And, Zhou’s daughter’s third word, after Mama and Dada, was CoCo.

As the show and others like it become inescapable, parents are going to have to deal with whether this type of children’s programming works for their families. Sure, their kids may love it — but does that mean it’s any good for them?

1. Why does the author mention the kid in the first paragraph?

A．To explain a phenomenon.	B．To introduce a topic.
C．To make a prediction.	D．To present a fact.

2. What do we know about Cocomelon from the text?

A．It only attracts babies and kids in the U. S.

B．Its music is streamed 1. 3 million times a day on Netflix.

C．It serves as a model showing how to make children’s TV.

D．It is the most popular entertainment program on YouTube.

3. What does the underlined word “juggled” mean in Paragraph 4?

A．Balanced.

B．Matched.

C．Compared.

D．Connected.

4. What’s the author’s attitude towards the popularity of Cocomelon?

A．Objective.

B．Dissatisfied.

C．Uninterested.

D．Supportive.