题目内容
--What’s Joan dong?
-- ______ newspapers in the room.
A. She reading B. She reads C. To read D. Reading
HANS Christian Andersen put Denmark on the map of the world literature with his stories The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Mermaid (小美人鱼) and The Ugly Duckling.Now Copenhagen, the country's capital, has become the center of the world political map, with 190 world leaders attending the climate talks there, not to mention thousands of reporters.
Just how much do you know about the Scandinavian country?
Denmark is famous for its design culture.At the heart of “Danish Design” is the idea that, as poet and designer Piet Hein puts it: “There is one art, not more, nor less, [and that is] to do all things with artlessness (朴实)”.
Danish design places equal emphasis on practicality and quality.From Lego toys to furniture, Danish products are known for their clean lines, simplicity and functionality.“Remove material where it's not needed.Keep things simple and functional and make them carefully,” explained Hans J.Wegner, the first Danish designer to achieve worldwide fame: “The aim is not to create a work of art, but to produce a good chair.”
“The Danes have done a better job than most in promoting arts in Europe, considering their country's size and population, in the fields of architecture, sculpture and design,” writes Helena Smith, reporter with British newspaper the Guardian.
The simplicity of Danish design may extend to the quality of life there.Some even claim that the Danes have the highest quality of life of any nation in the world.
Kate Vial, a 55-year-old American who has lived and worked in Denmark for more than 30 years, explaining why she chooses to live in Denmark rather than the US, told Germany's biggest news weekly Der Spiegel: “I just chose a simpler lifestyle, one where I could ride my bike all over and where I don't have to make a great living to survive.”
【小题1】What’s the writer’s purpose of mentioning Denmark’s literature?
A.To show the readers that Denmark is best known for its stories. |
B.To arouse readers’ interest in Denmark. |
C.To tell the readers that this passage is related to literature. |
D.To show why Denmark can attract so many political leaders. |
A.Design culture | B.Making chairs |
C.Writing poems | D.Climate prediction |
A.Danish design pays more attention to arts than its function. |
B.Danish products don’t need much material. |
C.Danish people like to keep simple life. |
D.Compared with other countries in Europe, Denmark does little in promoting arts. |
A.Creative | B.Complicated | C.Impractical | D.Simple |
A.Danes conquer the world with simple designs. |
B.Denmark—a new political center. |
C.Life in Denmark. |
D.Designer’s idea of Denmark. |
Motorists who used to listen to the radio or their favorite tunes on CDs may have a new way to entertain themselves, after engineers in Japan developed a musical road surface.
A team from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has built a number of“melody roads,”which use cars as tuning forks to play music as they travel.
The concept works by using grooves(凹槽).They are cut at very specific intervals in the road surface. The melody road uses the spaces between to create different notes.
Depending on how far apart the grooves are, a car moving over them will produce a series of high or low notes, and designers are able to create a distinct tune.
Paten documents for the design describe it as notches “formed in a road surface so as to play a melody without producing simple sound or rhythm and reproduce melody-like tones”.
There are three musical strips in central and northern Japan—one of which plays the tune of a Japanese pop song. Reports say the system was invented by Shizuo Shinoda. He scraped some markings into a road with a bulldozer before driving over them and found that they helped to produce all kinds of tones.
The optimal speed for melody road is 44kph,but people say it is not always easy to get the intended sound.
“You need to keep the car windows closed to hear well,”wrote one Japanese blogger.“Driving too fast will sound like playing fast forward, while driving around 12mph[20km/h]has a slow-motion effect, making you almost car-sick.”
1.According to the passage, melody roads use to create different notes.
A.cars |
B.grooves |
C.spaces between intervals |
D.bulldozers |
2.We can learn from the passage that the highness of notes is depended on .
A.how far the grooves are |
B.how big the grooves are |
C.the number of the grooves |
D.the speed of the car |
3.The underlined word “optimal” in the passage might mean .
A.fastest |
B.possible |
C.best |
D.suitable |
4.In order to hear the music well, you have to .
A.drive very fast |
B.drive slowly |
C.open the windows wide |
D.keep the windows closed |
5.What’s the best title of the passage?
A.A New Type of Music |
B.Melody Roads in Japan |
C.A Musical Road Surface |
D.A New Invention in J |