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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.

  • How does the writer perceive Swift's attitude towards the future of the music industry?

  • A. She is no doubt over-optimistic about it.
    B. She is too young to make a reliable judgment.
    C. She is professional enough to predicate it wisely.
    D. She doesn't follow what others have said about it.

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  • [单选题] What's the starting point and destination of English course?
  • A. Knowledge impartation.
    B. Students' development.
    C. Language usage.
    D. Habit formation.

  • [单选题]某些学校认为"明亮的教室要干净,神圣的教室要安静。"不少教师强调课堂要鸦雀无声,追求课堂秩序井然。学校的做法( )。
  • A. 正确,体现了教书育人的理念
    B. 不正确,没有以学习者为中心
    C. 正确,体现了学校对教学环境的重视
    D. 不正确,没有培养学生的创新精神

  • [单选题]学生已经有了"鸟"的观念,再学习"百灵鸟"这种动物。这种学习是( )。
  • A. 下位学习
    B. 上位学习
    C. 命题学习
    D. 并列结合学习

  • [单选题]探究学习实施的过程是( )。
  • A. 计划阶段一一问题阶段一一研究阶段一一解释阶段一一反思阶段
    B. 问题阶段一一计划阶段一一研究阶段一一解释阶段一一反思阶段
    C. 问题阶段一一计划阶段一一研究阶段一一反思阶段一一解释阶段
    D. 计划阶段一一问题阶段一一解释阶段一一研究阶段一一反思阶段

  • [单选题]心理学研究表明,个体的遗忘曲线变化规律是( )。
  • A. 前后一样
    B. 先快后慢
    C. 先慢后快
    D. 没有规律

  • [单选题]以美国教育家杜威为代表的现代教育派倡导的"三中心"是( )。
  • A. 儿童、教材、活动
    B. 教师、活动、经验
    C. 儿童、活动、经验
    D. 教师、经验、教材

  • [单选题]Which of the following sets of phonetic features characterizes the English phoneme/i:/?
  • A. [low, front, rounded]
    B. [high, back, rounded]
    C. [low, back, unrounded]
    D. [high, front, unrounded]

  • [单选题]Students should get the main idea of the listening content, at the same time they should find some specific information. This is a procedure in ________.
  • A. while-listening
    B. post-listening
    C. pre-listening
    D. pre-reading

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