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  • [单选题]请阅读 Passage 2,完成1~5小题。   Passage 2   Taylor Swift,the seven-time Grammy winner,is known for her articulate lyrics,so there was nothing surprising about her writing a long column for The Wall Street Journal about the future of the music industry.Yet there's reason to doubt the optimism of what she had to say.   "This moment in music is so exciting because the creative avenues an artist can explore are limitless," Swift wrote."In this moment in musiC.stepping out of your comfort zone is rewardeD.and sonic evolution is not only accepted ...it is celebrated.The only real risk is being too afraid to take a risk at all."   That's hard to reconcile with Nielsen's mid-year U.S.music report,which showed a 15 percent year-on-year drop in album sales and a 13 percent decline in digital track sales.This could be the 2013 story all over again,in which streaming services cannibalize their growth from digital downloads,whose numbers dropped for the first time ever last year,except that even including streams,album sales are down 3.3 percent so far in 2014.Streaming has grown even more than it did last year,42 percent compared to 32 percent,but has failed to make up for a general loss of interest in music.   Consider this: in 2014 to date,Americans purchased 593.6 million digital tracks and heard 70.3 million video and audio streams for a sum total of 663.9 million.In the comparable period of 2013,the total came to 731.7 million.   Swift,one ofthe few artists able to pull off stadium tours,believes it's all about quality."People are still buying albums,but now they're buying just a few of them," she wrote."They are buying only the ones that hit them like an arrow through the heart."   In 2000,album sales peaked at 785 million.Last year,they were down to 415.3 million.Swift is right,but for many of the artists whose albums pierce hearts like arrows,it's too late.sales of vinyl albums have increased 40.4 percent so far this year,according to Nielsen,and the top-selling one was guitar hero Jack White's Lazaretto.The top 10 also includes records by the aging or deaD.such as the Beatles and Bob Marley & the Wailers.More modern entries are not exactly teen sensations,either: the Black Keys,Beck and the Arctic Monkeys.None of these artists is present on the digital sales charts,including or excluding streams.The top-selling album so far this year,by a huge margin,is the saccharine soundtrack to the Disney animated hit,"Frozen" .   When,like me,you're over 40 and you believe the music industry has been in decline since in 1993 (the year Nirvana released in Utero),it's easy to criticize the music taste of "the kids these days" ,a term even the 23-year old Swift uses.My fellow dinosaurs will understand if they compare 1993's top albums to Nielsen's 2014 list.But these kids don't just like to listen to different music than we do,they no longer find much worth hearing.   The way the music industry works now may have something to do with that.In the old   days,musicians showed their work to industry executives,the way most book authors still do to publishers (although that tradition,too,is eroding).The executives made mistakes and were credited with brilliant finds.Sometimes they followed the public taste,and sometimes they strove to shape it,taking big financial and career risks in the process.These days,according to Swift,it's all about the social networks."A friend of mine,who is an actress,told me that when the casting for her recent movie came down to two actresses,the casting director chose the actress with more Twitter followers," Swift wrote."In the future,artists will get record deals because they have fans-not the other way around."   The social networks are fickle and self-consciously sarcastic (see the recent potato salad phenomenon).They are not about arrow-through-the-heart sincerity.That's why YouTube made Psy a star,but it couldn't have been the medium for Beatle maniA.Justin Timberlake has 32.9 million Twitter followers,but he's no Jack White.   In the music industry's heyday,it produced a lot of schlock.But it got great music out to the masses,too.These days,it expects artists to do their own promotion and for those who less good at that than at making musiC.it may mean not getting heard.For fans it means less good music to stream and downloaD.Well,there's always the warm and fuzzy world of vinyl nostalgiA.I guess.

  • Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word "heyday" in the Last PAraGraPH?

  • A. Bad moment.
    B. Golden time.
    C. Rush hour.
    D. Lucky day.

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  • [单选题]先学会了讲俄语的中国人再学习法语时,学得比其他人快、好。这是属于( )。
  • A. 正迁移
    B. 负迁移
    C. 纵向迁移
    D. 逆向迁移

  • [单选题]________ approach in models of teaching writing emphasizes on mechanical aspects of writing and accuracy, such as grammatical and syntactical structures, spelling, etc. Students should have a clear concept of the forms and structures of the written products.
  • A. Product-oriented
    B. Content-oriented
    C. Process-oriented
    D. Form-oriented

  • [单选题]我国传统文化中的"杏林"指的是( )。
  • A. 教育界
    B. 医学界
    C. 文学界
    D. 艺术界

  • [单选题]我国著名教育家叶圣陶先生提出"教是为了不教",强调的是教学中应该重视( )。
  • A. 传授知识
    B. 培养能力
    C. 发展个性
    D. 养成品德

  • [单选题]教师提出"你是行可以用另外一种方式来表达"或"如果把这个答案用于其他情况下会怎样"的问题诱导学生展现出更多他们所知道的,进而了解他们到底对学习内容掌握了多少,教师所提问题属于( )。
  • A. 开放性问题
    B. 探询性问题
    C. 封闭性问题
    D. 过渡性问题

  • [单选题] There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to scare a parent, especially one of the over- educated, eco-conscious type. So you can imagine the reaction when a recent USA Today investigation of air quality around the nation's schools singled out those in the smugly green village of Berkeley, Calif, as being among the worst in the country, The city's public high school, as well as a number of daycare centers, preschools, elementary and middle schools, fell in the lowest 10%. Industrial pollution in our town had supposedly tumed students into living science experiments breathing in a laboratory's worth of heavy metals like manganese(锰), chromium(铬) and nickel(镍) each day. This is a city that requires school cafeterias to serve organic meals. Great, I thought, organic lunch, toxic campus. Since December, when the report came out, the mayor, neighborhood activists and various parent- teacher associations have engaged in a fierce battle over its validity: over the guilt of the steel-casting factory on the western edge of town, over union jobs versus children's health and over what, if anything, ought to be done. With all sides presenting their own experts armed with conflicting scientific studies, whom should parents believe? Is there truly a threat here, we asked one another as we dropped off our kids, and if so, how great is it? And how does it compare with the other, seemingly perpetual health scares we confront, like panic over lead in synthetic athletic fields? Rather than just another weird episode in the town that brought you protesting environmentalists, tlus latest drama is a trial for how today's parents perceive risk, how we try to keep our kids safe-whether it's possible to keep them safe-in what feels like an increasingly threatening world. It raises the question of what, in our time,"safe" could even mean. "There's no way around the uncertainty," says Kimberly Thompson,president of Kid Risk, a nonprofit group that studies children's health."That means your choices can matter, but it also means you aren't going to know if they do." A 2004 report in the journal Pediatrics explained that nervous parents have more to fear from fire, car accidents and drowning than from toxic chemical exposure. To which I say: Well, obviously. But such concrete hazards are beside the point. It's the dangers parents can't-and may never- quantify that occur all of sudden. That's why I've rid my cupboard of microwave food packed in bags coated with a potential cancer-causing substance, but although I've lived blocks from a major fault line (地质断层) for more than 12 years, I still haven't bolted our bookcases to the living room wall.
  • Of the dangers in everyday life, the author thinks that people have most to fear from ________.

  • A. the uncertain
    B. the quantifiable
    C. an earthquake
    D. unhealthy food

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