Chopsticks Brothers, China’s Internet singing stars, will sing their hit Little Apple at the 2014 American Music Awards. Chopsticks Brothers are known as director Xiao Yang and musician Wang Taili. They played a middle-aged singing group in the film Old Boys: The Way of the Dragon. In the film, they sang Little Apple when they took part in an American music talent show and they succeeded.

Now, life is following art. Chopsticks Brothers will really go to America to sing their song. They will join well-known singers including Taylor Swift. “I did not expect the plot in our film to come true in real life,” Xiao Yang said during an interview. “It doesn’t seem real. This is another story of dreams coming true for ‘old boys’,” said Wang Taili.

This is the first time a Chinese Internet song will be on the international stage. Little Apple has been more and more popular on China’s Internet. Its MP3 received 579 million hits. And people have watched the music videos 823 million times on China’s Internet. The song has had at least 500 million listeners around the world.

China’s famous singer and songwriter Liu Huan said he liked Little Apple during an interview. “Everybody’s singing and dancing with Little Apple and I think that’s a good phenomenon (现象). And I’m glad I can see Taylor Swift and Chinese singers sing on the same stage.”

1.What will Chopsticks Brothers do?

A.They will sing the song Little Apple on the Internet

B.They will take part in an American music talent show

C.They will sing the song Little Apple at the 2014 American Music Awards

D.They will play a singing group in the film Old Boys: The Way of the Dragon

2.What does the underlined word “plot” mean?

A.A song in the film.

B.A person who directed the film.

C.The story that was told in the film.

D.A person who performed in the film.

3.How many people have ever listened to the song Little Apple?

A.579 million

B.823 million.

C.Less than 500 million

D.Over 500 million.

4.What can be learned from the text?

A.Liu Huan will sing Little Apple.

B.Taylor will appear on the same stage.

C.Liu Huan asks people to dance with Little Apple.

D.Taylor will sing Little Apple with Chopsticks Brothers.

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Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers.1.According to a recent research, the most common argument between parents and teenagers is that regarding untidiness and daily routine tasks.2.On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blame them for dropping the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room.

The research, conducted by St. George University, shows that different parents have different approaches to these problems.3.For example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness, but later clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their children’s behavior. On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the thrills of their actions can do better.4. Parents should talk to their children but at the same time they should lend an ear to what they have to say.5.It is only by listening to and understanding each other that problems between parents and children can be settled.

A. On the one hand, parents go mad over messy rooms.

B. There are many reasons for this.

C. Then again, teenagers have similar feelings about their parents.

D. Communication is a two-way process.

E. However, some approaches are more successful than others.

F. Psychologists say that communication is the most important thing in parent-child relationships.

G. It is better for children and parents to understand each other.

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Two weeks before Christmas,two little girls were walking down the street1.t hey saw old Harry,who was on his knees pulling weeds from around a tree. He wore a pair of worn gloves.His fingers were sticking out 2.the ends,blue from the cold. They stopped to talk to him.

Harry told them he 3.(get) the yard in shape as a Christmas gift for his mother,who had died several years before.“My mother was all I had. She loved her yard and trees,so I do this for her every Christmas."

His -words touched the girls and soon they 4.(join) him,pulling weeds. When they finished,Harry pressed a coin into each of their hands.“I wish I could pay you more,but that's all rve got right now,”he said.

The girls had often passed his house,and they remembered that it had always been 5. poor condition. No decorations to add cheeriness were anywhere in sight.

As they walked on,the coin in one little girl's hand seemed to burn a hole of 6.(guilty).The next day she called her friends7.they agreed to put their coins in a jar marked“Harry's Christmas Gift".Then they began to seek out small jobs to earn more.Every coin they earned went into the jar.

Finally,they had enough 8.(buy)new gloves. Christmas Eve found them on Harry's

doorstep singing carols. They presented him with the gloves. With9.(tremble)hands,he held the gloves to his face and wept. No doubt he once again felt10.love of others as the girls reached out to him.

Even when you’re extremely busy, you aren’t using your time with 100% efficiency. There are gaps in everyone’s schedule where they aren’t doing anything important. Even if your schedule has no gaps, there is probably lots of time where you aren’t working as fast or as effectively as you possibly could.

Why aren’t you completely efficient? It’s because time isn’t the limiting factor. If it were the limiting factor, people could work non-stop without breaks or any unproductive distractions. Instead, people, even those who are highly productive, need to take breaks, occasionally procrastinate(拖延) and slow down on tasks throughout the day.

The real and most important limiting factor for productivity is your energy levels to pay attention. Energy levels limit your productivity because when you’re tired, you can have ample time and still not get everything done. Your attention ability is also limited, because even if there are a million things that need to be done, you can only focus on one or two at a time.

You might not be able to insert another 4-5 hours into your schedule without making some sacrifices. But even extremely busy people can add an hour or two into their schedule without cancelling anything. The reason it’s hard to “find time” isn’t a lack of time. It’s because you don’t have enough energy left to focus on something else that needs to fit into your day.

I first suspected time wasn’t the real problem during an extremely busy period in my life over a year ago. I was insanely busy, but at that time I still exercised regularly. I had daily-to-do lists with over twenty items, and I still found time to exercise. However, after a few weeks off, due to illness, stopped exercising. I was not busy by any standards, in fact, my schedule was incredibly light. Despite this free time, I found it hard to find time to exercise. It seemed to get pushed later and later into my schedule until it was gone. How can I explain this odd experience? I believe you have known it.

1.If someone can’t work with 100% efficiency, the most important limiting factor is ______.

A. a schedule without gaps B. breaks and distractions

C. the limited time D. the limited energy

2.According to paragraph 4, everyone, including the extremely busy people, can ______.

A. work without any rest

B. focus on many things at a time

C. find some more time in a day

D. do some exercise regularly

3.After a few weeks off, what was the change of the writer’s life?

A. He had a longer daily to-do lists with over twenty items.

B. He stopped doing exercise because of the lack of energy.

C. He found it hard to find time to exercise because he was busier.

D. He pushed most of the things later and later in his schedule.

4.The writer gives the example of himself in the last paragraph in order to ___________.

A. prove what the real limiting factor is

B. show us how busily he needs to work

C. explain how important a healthy body is

D. tell us what an odd experience he has

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