题目内容
The fastest runner ____ and the others followed.
A.kept pace B. set the pace C. paced D. walked
B
D
“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.
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Type of music |
Speed |
Description |
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High Energy |
Very fast |
Lots of remixed seventies songs |
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Garage |
Fast |
Lots of bass and keyboards |
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Acid Jazz |
Quite fast |
A mix of old and new jazz |
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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
Electronic waste, or e-waste, refers to electronic products that are no longer usable. This can include TVs, cell phones and computers and other office electronics, electronic toys and videos machines. Today, the average turnover(更换)rate for a computer in the United States is every two years, according to the environmental group, Greenpeace.
The group's Dai Yun says e-waste is a global problem. "The electronic industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The high speed of growth in this industry means more and more electronic products are being wasted and thrown away. If no one decides to retrieve the old products and process them properly, the electronic waste will sweep over the earth like the huge wave behind me and pollute the Earth seriously."
Greenpeace works out that 20 to 50 million tons of e-waste are produced globally each year. The components(部件)in many electronic products contain harmful chemicals that pollute ground water and the environment.
At present , the U.S. has no federal law for the disposal (处理) of e-waste although a few states have e-waste recycling programs in place, but there is no law. The U.S. exports much of its e-waste to third world countries, such as India and China, where workers took apart computers for valuable parts, hoping to sell them for money. But harmful wastes expert, Dr. Bakul Rao, says that's a dangerous practice. "From now on, the recyclers are not very educated. All they know is they can retrieve copper or gold out of it. So, the easiest way to do that is leach (过滤) it out in an acid or burn it off to retrieve it. So, that's where they don't know how to deal with it, neither do they have any health systems in place. So, their exposure is more."
1.What does the underlined word "retrieve" (paragraph 2) probably mean?
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A.look into |
B.take apart |
C.get back |
D.throw away |
2.What of the following statements is true according to the passage?
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A.The U.S. has strict national laws for dealing with e-waste. |
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B.Third world countries import e-waste to get valuable parts, which is a safe and easy way to make money. |
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C.The way uneducated workers deal with old computers does great harm to the environment as well as to their own health. |
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D.More and more electronic waste is being wasted and thrown away mainly because of people's bad habits. |
3. What is the purpose of writing the passage?
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A.To attract more people's attention to e-waste. |
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B.To call on people not to throw away e-waste anywhere. |
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C.To tell people what e-waste is and how to deal with it well. |
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D.To warn people to break away from the electronic industry. |
4.The next paragraph probably concerns ___.
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A.how to deal with e-waste properly |
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B.how to protect ourselves from harm by e-waste |
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C.How to slow down the development in the electronic industry |
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D.how to make full use of e-waste |