正确答案: B

Golden time.

题目：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 <u>that</u>.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 <u>heyday</u>,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.

解析：词汇题。heyday所在的句子为“In the music industry's heyday,it produced a lot of schlock.But，it got great music out to the masses，too.”可以看出，这两句用一般过去时，叙述的是音乐界过去的辉煌成就，句意为“在音乐的黄金时代，虽然作品参差不齐，但也为大众带来了很多经典音乐”。故本题选B。

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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( )。

正迁移

解析：正迁移也叫"助长性迁移"，是指一种学习对另一种学习起到积极的促进作用。如学习数学有利于学习物理，掌握平面几何有助于掌握立体几何，懂得英语或俄语的人很容易掌握法语等。

[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.

Product-oriented

解析：考查写作教学模式。重结果的写作教学模式强调写作的机械练习和准确度，例如语法、句法、词汇和拼写等句子层面上的教学。使用该模式进行写作教学，可以让学生在写作前就对要写文章的文体、组织结构等有清晰的概念。

[单选题]我国传统文化中的"杏林"指的是( )。

医学界

解析：三国吴董奉隐居庐山，为人治病不取钱，但使重病愈者植杏五株，轻者一株，积年蔚然成林，因此称医学界为杏林。故选择B。A选项，孔子曾于杏坛讲学，后称教育界为杏坛。D选项，唐玄宗曾教乐工、宫女在"梨园"演习音乐舞蹈，因此称戏曲界为梨园。菊坛也称"菊部"，泛指梨园行。传说宋高宗时内富有菊夫人，善歌舞，精音律，宫中称为"菊部头"。

[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( )。

培养能力

解析：题干中"教是为了不教"强调的是学会学习，也就是解决问题的能力培养，而与传授知识、发展个性和养成品德无关，因此排除ACD选项，故选择B。

[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( )。

探询性问题

解析：探询性问题是在学生对问题有了一个回答以后接着追问的一个问题，用于以下方面：

[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 ________.

the uncertain

解析：1.细节题。文中第二段提到“…whom should parents believe?”可见家长对调查结果也很不确信，故选C。 2.细节题。USA Today的调查结果显示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，即空气污染严重，故选C。 3.细节题。文中第二段第一句提到“Since December，when the report came out，the mayor, neighborhood activists and various parent-teacher associations have engaged in afierce battle over its validity…”即引起了激烈的争论，故选D。 4.细节题。文中最后一段提到“But such concrete hazards are beside the point”，故选项 A和C不符合题意；选项D不是Pediatrics的研究；第三句提到“…that nervous parents have more to fear from fire,car accidents and drowning than from toxic chemical exposure”，所以选B. 5.态度题。从最后一段可以判断，作者觉得更可怕的是那些不可以确定的事物；选项 C是其中一个方面，不够全面。故选A。