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“I started going to clubs when I was nineteen. My friends went and they told me that I’d love it. They were right.” –Lara
Lara is a twenty-one-year old student who loves dancing. “At the moment, my favorite kind of music is acid jazz. I’d love to go to a Fatboy Slim or Ken Ishii gig. They’re so cool,” says Lara. Fatboy Slim and Ken Ishii are not pop stars—they are famous DJs. Being a DJ these days means more than playing records at a nightclub. DJs like Fatboy Slim have also produced a lot of successful CDs of their own music.
Nightclubs have been popular since the seventies but today’s clubs are different. They don’t usually open until at least 11 pm, and people often stay until 7 or 8 o’clock the next morning. Some clubbers will keep on dancing until 12 o’clock in the morning.
Why has dance music become so popular? Some people believe that clubs give young people what the hippies found in the sixties. They have somewhere to meet people just like them. Many clubbers say that dance music helps them to escape from their problems. They feel they are part of a big happy family. But most people just love to dance.
Dance Dictionary
So, what is the difference between Garage and High Energy? Not sure? Well, you’re not alone! There are lots of different types of dance music. A few are described below.
|
Type of music |
Speed |
Description |
|
High Energy |
Very fast |
Lots of remixed seventies songs |
|
Garage |
Fast |
Lots of bass and keyboards |
|
Acid Jazz |
Quite fast |
A mix of old and new jazz |
|
Ambient |
Slow or fast |
Sometimes difficult to dance to |
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CITY CLUB GUIDE |
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Club Blue Cover charge: $12 (includes two drinks) Music: mostly acid jazz Free on Sunday night Closes at 3 a.m. |
99 Cover charge: $6 Music: garage, Closes at 2a.m. |
The Warehouse Cover charge: $15($12 after 3am) Music: high energy |
SOHO No cover charge, but drinks are $6 each. Music: ambient Open from 10p.m to 2 a.m. |
71. Which of the following is not right about DJs?
A. They not only play records art a night club.
B. They are very cool in the eyes of music lovers.
C. Fatboy Slim and Ken Ishii are famous DJs.
D. Every DJ can produce his own CDs.
72. Many clubbers day that dance music helps them _________.
A. forget about their problems B. escape from their families
C. keep fit D. become famous
73. Which of the following clubs is the cheapest?
A. 99 before 2 a.m. B. Club blue on Sunday night
C. The Warehouse after 3 p/m/ D. SOHO after 10 p.m.
74. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. These days nightclubs usually stay open until 7 or 8 pm.
B. Most people go to the dance club because they like to meet people.
C. The Warehouse has the fastest dance music of all the clubs.
D. Now music played in the clubs are only new music.
75. If you like dancing to the fast and a mix of old and new Jazz, you’d better to ________.
A. Club Blue B. 99 C. The Warehouse D. SOHO
阅读快车系列答案科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
A Chilean(智利)soap-opera star, a beauty from Ancient Pompeii and a freckled (雀斑的)boyish girl hardly make an average beauty show line-up.
The first world-wide digital beauty contest to the surprise of many online fans was won by a woman who is virtually(虚拟) real flesh and bones. "Virtual models are not the anti-real, they are a different representation of reality," said Franz Cerami, the organizer of Miss Digital World (数字世界小姐).
Each of the contestants had to provide the charming photo of high degrees, with date of birth and body measurements.
Chilean Rodolfo Perez Ayala decided that no figure of his imagination could beat the beauty of his wife, Katty Kowaleczko, so he hired artist Flavio Parra to recreate her. Kowaleczko, who plays Paula Sandoval in the popular Latin American soap opera Tentacion, was transformed into Katty-ko and won the digital contest with more than 17,000 online votes.
"I'm so happy Katty-ko won. I think her strength is her similarity to a real woman - not too luxurious or exposed", Kowaleczko, 40, told reporters. "Her beauty is in her simplicity." Kowaleczko was not afraid of being replaced by her 3D clone in movies or theatres, but hoped she would become "a sort of ambassador(使者) of Chilean beauty".
Cerami said Latin American interest in Miss Digital World had greatly increased since Katty-ko joined the contest, which attracted about 3600 entries from countries from Iran to Australia and even from the ancient Roman empire.
"Pompea" was the digital reconstruction of a young woman killed by the outbreak of Vesuvius in 79 AD．"She was a slave, but also a rich man's lover. When her body was discovered, many jewels and a bangle(手镯) with the writing 'from the master to his servant girl' were found" said Genny Tortora, a professor at the University of Salerno who led Pompea's creative team.
Other contestants included Kaya, the most realistic model with digital freckles, pouty (噘起的) lips and upturned nose.
Now, Cerami's dream is to manage a form of virtual beauties, introducing them for calendars, games, ads, and movies. One is even reported to be heading for Playboy's front page.
The winner in the first Miss Digital World contest was ______.
A．a star who performed in some soap operas
B．a beauty who came from Chilean
C．a beauty who was from the ancient Roman empire
D．a made-up beauty based on a real woman.
Which group of the following are the names for the digital beauties mentioned in the passage?
A．Katty-ko, Pompea, Kaya.
B．Katty Kowaleczko, Pompea, Playboy.
C．Flavio Parra, Genny Tortora, Franz Cerami.
D．Rodolfo Perez Ayala, Pompea, Franz Cerami
The digital beauty “Pompea” was created by ______.
A．Genny Tortora B．a group of people
C．by a young woman D．a rich man
What the organizer of Miss Digital World wants to do next is ______.
A．sell pictures of beauties for calendars B．hold another contest
C．put the digital beauties into practical use. D．start an ads company
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科目：高中英语 来源：2011届湖北省黄石二中高三二月份调研考试英语卷 题型：阅读理解
Why does night fall but never break and day break but never fall?
Why are people who ride motorcycles called bikers and people who ride bikes called cyclists?
In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway?
In what other language do they call the third hand on the clock the second hand?
Let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in an eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweet-meats are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But when we explore its paradoxes (探讨它的矛盾), we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them.
And why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese — so one moose, two meese?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of human beings. That’s why, when stars are out, they are visible; but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it; but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
【小题1】 According to the passage ______.
| A．sweet-meats and sweetbreads are different things |
| B．there should be egg in an eggplant |
| C．pineapples are the apples on the pine tree |
| D．boxing rings should be round |
| A．A wise man and a wise guy. |
| B．Overlook and oversee. |
| C．Quite a lot and quite a few. |
| D．Hot as hell and cold as hell. |
| A．blow | B．roll up | C．get hurt | D．finish |
| A．clever | B．crazy | C．lazy | D．dull |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2011-2012学年江西省白鹭洲中学高二下学期第三次月考英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend’s Liverpudlian accent suddenly becomes too difficult to understand after his clear words on screen; a secretary’s tone seems more rejecting than I’d imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid—hours become minutes, and alternately seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two ordinary days.
For the last three years, since I stopped working as a producer for Charlie Rose, I have done much of my work as a tele-commuter. I submit（提交） articles and edit them by E-mail and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives in England; so much of our relationship is computer-mediated.
If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my money, love and work. In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. I watched most of the blizzard(暴风雪) of ’96 on TV.
But after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal. I start to feel as though I’ve merged（融合） with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another node（波节） on the Net. Others on line report the same symptoms. We start to strongly dislike the outside forms of socializing. It’s like attending an A. A. meeting in a bar with everyone holding a half-sipped drink. We have become the Net opponents’ worst nightmare.
What first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has become an avoidance（逃避），a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult.
At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to chatter in the background, something that I’d never done previously. The voices of the programs relax me, but then I’m jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, or needing to keep up with the latest news and the weather. “Dateline”, “Frontline” , “Nightline,” CNN, every possible angle of every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me. Work moves from foreground to background.
【小题1】Compared to the clear words of her boyfriend on screen, his accent becomes______.
| A．unreal | B．unbearable |
| C．misleading | D．not understandable |
| A．the same city | B．the same country |
| C．different countries | D．different cities in England |
| A．Having worked on the computer for too long, she became a bit strange. |
| B．Sometimes TV programs give her comfort and even makes her forget her work. |
| C．She watches TV a lot in order to keep up with the latest news and the weather. |
| D．She turns on TV now and then in order to get some valuable information. |
| A．At first she likes it but later becomes tired of it. |
| B．She likes it because it is very convenient. |
| C．She dislikes it because TV is more attractive. |
| D．She likes it because it provides an imaginary world. |
| A．going back to the dreaming world |
| B．coming back home from the outside world |
| C．bringing back direct human contact |
| D．getting away from living a strange life |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2012-2013学年天津红桥区高三第二次模拟考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
At the age of sixteen, I joined a volunteer group with my dad．I went on my first volunteer project in West Virginia．On the night we arrived, we discovered that "our family" was living in a trailer（活动房车） that was in poor conditions．A crew had been wolfing on it for two weeks, but every time they finished one problem, another surfaced．
We decided the only reasonable solution was to bridle a new house – something unusual but necessary under these circumstances．The family was overjoyed with their new house that was twenty by thirty feet with three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen．
On Tuesday of that week, while we ate lunch together, I asked the family's three boys, Josh, Eric and Ryan, "What do you want for your new room?" Expecting toys and other gadgets that children suavity ask for, we were astonished when Josh responded, "I just want a bed．"
The boys had never slept in a bed! They were accustomed to plastic mats．That night we had a meeting and decided that beds would be the perfect gift．On Thursday night, a few adults in our group drove to the nearest city and bought beds and new bedding．
When we saw the delivery truck coming, we told the family about the surprise．We could hardly contain ourselves. It was like watching excited children on Christmas morning．
That afternoon, as we fitted the frames of the beds together, Eric ran into the house to watch us．Too dirty to enter his room, he observed with wide-eyed enthusiasm from the doorway．
As my father slipped a pillowcase onto one of the pillows, Eric asked, "What is that?"
"A pillow," he replied．
"What do you do with it?" Eric continued to ask
"When you go to sleep, you put your head on it," I answered softly．Tears came to my eyes as my father handed Eric the pillow．
"Oh．．．that's soft," he said, hugging it tightly．
Now, when my sister or I start to ask for something that seems urgent, my dad gently asks, "Do you have a pillow?"
We know exactly what he means．
1.The author's first volunteer project was .
A．working on a poor trailer
B．helping a poor family
C．donating beds and bedding
D．dealing with a housing problem
2.On hearing Josh's answer, the author was shocked because .
A．the family lived in a trailer
C．Josh didn't know what a bed was
B．Josh expected to get some toys
D．The boys had no bed to sleep in
3.By "We could hardly contain ourselves．", the author means that they all
A．felt confused B．felt excited with joy
C．couldn't help laughing D．failed to keep the secret
4.From the passage, we can learn that what Eric had never seen before is .
A．a trailer B．a bed
C．a pillow D．a truck
5.From the last two paragraphs, the author's father means that
A．what the author wants to get may be unnecessary
B．the author should not waste money on small things
C．the author should do more volunteer work for the poor
D．what he will buy is not what the author wants but a pillow
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014届湖北省高二下学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完型填空
It is three in the morning on a Tuesday, and I’m walking toward table eighteen, the one I call home. I pass the waiters, give a brief nod to the 1. and take my seat. I 2. the “usual,” water and peanut butter pie. Yes, I’m at an all-night diner.
I start to take out my books, 3. full well that I will be 4. on the same page of Socrates that I’ve been on for the better part of the semester. Of course, it’s 5. —for my group that is. I wait for the empty chairs around me to be 6. .
Just as the Muzak songs start to repeat themselves, Shana and Jenny walk in. I am 7. with the usual big hugs and smiles. 8. , the diner stops being a twenty-for-hour restaurant with bad service and becomes my place—my home 9. the prisonlike dorm room. For the next couple of hours, we will joke about people we know, talk about books, reflect on the meaning of life, quote movies and 10. new private jokes. Table number eighteen is our 11. home.
During my senior year of college, I started going to the diner for a temporary escape from a dorm room that felt like it was closing in on me. Not to 12. the phones, the stereo and the computer. How could anyone seriously 13. to have good study habits? Some friends of mine told me about the place; they went there to study, and they really liked it.
So I tried it. It felt remarkably freeing. I start going there every night (except weekends, of course), and, believe me it was not because the pies were 14. great either. Maybe it would force me to open my books and my 15. would improve. Right? Well….
But that’s not the 16. . I mean, anyone who has gone to college knows that it’s not only about forcing yourself to wake up at 7:45 A.M. (after you had gone to sleep two hours earlier) to listen to a professor spoon-feeding you information 17. the significance of the Battle of Hastings. It is 18. about finding a little haven where you can create what will be the most important thing in your life—yourself. At a school of thirty-five thousand people, I found a small place that was as 19. to me as my Social Security number.
Through laughter, tears, learning, growing and the 20. free ice cream, we found a sanctuary. A place where we could be ourselves.
21. A．friends B．strangers C．regulars D．waiters
22. A．make B．take C．bring D．order
23. A．remembering B．knowing C．deciding D．learning
24. A．stuck B．focused . C．fixed D．turned
25. A．certain B．early C．late D．clear
26. A．washed B．cleaned C．filled D．covered
27. A．armed B．satisfied C．occupied D．greeted
28. A．Finally B．Suddenly C．Actually D．Particularly
29. A．away from B．similar to C．apart from D．close to
30. A．create B．play C．write D．hear
31. A．inner B．outer C．warmer D．smaller
32. A．answer B．talk C．mention D．mend
33. A．choose B．determine C．pretend D．expect
34. A．pretty B．that C．too D．rather
35. A．health B．friendship C．conditions D．grades
36. A．place B．benefit C．point D．view
37. A．relate B．requiring C．reflecting D．regarding
38. A．also B．still C． more D．even
39. A．available B．beneficial C．familiar D．encouraging
40. A．special B．occasional C．unusual D．natural
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