With so many new songs coming out every month, it can be difficult to find the good ones. Luckily, Time magazine announced its Top 10 songs of 2019. Here we have picked out four for you. Perhaps it’s time to tune in.
Old Town Road
Holding Billboard’s No. 1 spot for 19 weeks, the song Old Town Road by US rapper Lil Nas X was a hit in 2019. It’s a country music. But the song has qualities of many music types, including rap and pop. “Creatively, I think it’s always a good idea when there’s a mixture of many types, with cross-cultural conversations going on,” said US musician Tom Willett.
Don’t Start now
Since releasing her first album in 2017, UK singer Dua Lipa is famous for her honey-smooth voice. But she wants to try more. In her latest song, Don’t Start Now, she adds an infectious disco sensibility. With lively and energetic vocal twists, “it’s a tune that celebrates independence and promises joy in the process,” noted The Times.
Juice
If you feel blue and want to lift up your spirits, Juice may be one of the best choices. Sung by US rapper Lizzo, Juice is full of self-love and confident lyrics. She sings, “If I’m shiny, everybody goanna shine. I was born like this, don’t even gotten try.” Lollie King of Bustle wrote that the song “is sure to give you that much-needed confidence increase when you’re feeling low”.
Happier
Marshmello can toast to being the No. 1 Hot Dance/Electronic Songs Artist as Happier with Bastille. Happier held the No. 1 spot on the weekly Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for the entire year, shattering the record, for the most weeks at No. 1 since the chart’s January 26, 2013 inception （开始）. By the end of the 2019 chart year, Happier became only the third song in Billboard chart history, across all formats, to hit at least 60 weeks at No. 1.
1.Which song can cheer you up easily?
A.Old Town Road. B.Juice.
C.Don’t Start Now. D.Happier.
2.What can we learn about Old Town Road?
A.It held Billboard’s No. 1 spot more than 19 weeks.
B.It describes the beautiful scenery of an old town.
C.It contains different music types.
D.It is sung by US musician Tom Willett.
3.From which is the text probably taken?
A.A textbook on music. B.A research paper.
C.A travel brochure. D.A musical magazine.
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On Oct. 2, carpentry students from Harvard H. Ellis Technical High School（ET）in the United States were putting the finishing touches on a handicapped ramp（残疾人坡道）at Northeast Placement Services. It was a thing of beauty, leading from a deck outside one building to the entryway of the new Community Education Center.
Students started the project a year ago, in April. ET has a rotating（循环的）schedule-two weeks of academic work followed by two weeks of shop work（车间工作）. For this ramp, some students were required to cut wood on a table saw. Others needed to cut a piece of deck railing to fill a gap. Department Head Jim Gallow moved among them, answering questions.
Their academic schedule made it difficult to finish the job very quickly. During the summer, work stopped altogether.
Senior Gabe Martel didn’t know he wanted to be a carpenter when he first arrived at ET. He soon found that the hands-on activity suited him.
“I knew I wanted a trade,” he said. “From day one, I thought carpentry was amazing.”
“There were a few tough people,” said Tristan Madden. “You have to learn to work with people.”
At the end of a job, there are just a few items to finish. Everyone else gets assigned clean-up duties.
Timothy Carpentier knew he wanted to be a carpenter since the sixth grade. He’d spent time working on projects with his father.
“I’d go to Home Depot when they taught things,” he said. “It was fun. Now, this is preparing me for the workforce”
“It’s rewarding to see what the students produce,” Gallow said.
The next project will be at the Brooklyn Fairgrounds, where students will rebuild a portion of the main stage. They’ll work through the winter months, unless it’s brutally cold.
“Like I tell them, you have to eat in the winter, too,” he said.
1.what do we know about ET’s project at Northeast Placement Services?
A.It took no more than one year to complete.
B.It is inside a building for disabled people.
C.Students designed it on their own.
D.Students had to put theory into practice.
2.What did Martel get from this project?
A.It helped him choose a career for the future.
B.It taught him to get along with people.
C.It prepared him for his dream job.
D.It taught him how to make a plan.
3.What was Gallows attitude toward the students’ product?
A.Doubtful. B.Satisfied.
C.Unconcerned. D.Disappointed
4.What does the underlined word “brutally” in the second to the last paragraph?
A.Warmly. B.Generally.
C.Extremely. D.Slightly.
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Oindrila Basu from India, 25, is a key member of a global forestry organization. Back in her youth, she had to be taught the importance of nature. She used to destroy nests of the bulbul bird just for fun. Once, her mother caught her and forced her to find the eggs and replace the nest. With a heavy heart, the girl realized she had done something terrible.
This is just one way that Basu’s parents shaped her understanding and appreciation of nature. Living in the countryside, she spent her youth studying ants before a rain, watching sunbirds drink bottlebrush nectar, counting fireflies and watching seedlings grow. Then her parents decided to move to a nearby city with better educational opportunities and she stopped having firsthand experiences with nature.
As she struggled to choose a college major, her mother suggested a career in forestry. That’s when her journey began and she fell in love with forestry. Away from the crowded concrete cities, in the lap of the Himalayas, she got her bachelor’s degree in forestry from Kumaun University, India. When she went on to study for a master’s in forestry from the Forest Research Institute, India, she finally got introduced to a like-minded group of people, devoted to the same cause-the International Forestry Students’ Association（IFSA）.
IFSA is a global organization connecting students to exchange knowledge and participate in forestry activities. The youth joining IFSA are encouraged to undertake its mission-to enrich forest education and spread a love of nature through events and intercultural exchanges.
After six months of exciting international conferences and workshops, Basu, found her home-a family that loved forests as much as she did. She felt rejuvenated（重生的）; her passion had a direction. Now she wanted to do more.
Now with the IFSA, Basu recalled her experience of joining, “On purpose or by chance we chose forestry, or rather, forestry chose us”.
1.What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?
A.Basu fell in love with nature when she first saw bird nests.
B.Basu didn’t go to school when she lived in the countryside.
C.Basu’s parents didn’t like her to spend much time in nature.
D.Basu’s love for nature grew as she learned more about it.
2.What is the text mainly about?
A.The development of an Indian family. B.The road to forestry of an Indian girl.
C.The importance of protecting forest. D.The influence of IFSA on everyone.
3.In IFSA the youth can_____.
A.communicate with nature lovers B.escape city life
C.take a master’s degree course D.organize forestry activities
4.Which word can best describe the work of IFSA?
A.Challenging. B.Moving.
C.Inspiring. D.Promising.
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Our smartphones are amazing, but our connections can be so slow. The future in sci-fi movies seems so close, yet so far away. 5G technology makes that future look easily achievable. Schools, hospitals, transportation, factories- even our homes will soon use this powerful wireless network. Read on to see the ways 5G will change our world.
The initial hype（宣传）around 5G seems to be all about phones. Last year, China started testing 5G mobile networks and the Hongkou district of Shanghai was the first to implement（实行）a 5G network.
But 5G has the ability to transform more than just phones. It has huge influences for robots, cars, health devices, retail and nearly every industry you can think of.
5G is the latest generation of cellular network technology. It is faster and more stable than 4G, the previous generation. The benefits of 5G come mostly from its speed and connectivity. The advantage of higher speeds is fairly obvious-people will be able to browse the internet and watch videos at a much greater speed than before. Imagine being able to download an entire movie in just a few seconds!
But speed brings other advantages that might not be so apparent. While there are many challenges in developing driverless cars, one of the biggest technical problems is latency, which refers to the delay between sending a signal and receiving it. Driverless cars will need to be able to react nearly instantly to sudden changes in their environment. This will require these cars to process huge amounts of data within milliseconds.
So what about connectivity? 5G will allow us to develop “smart” environments. Imagine having a smart home that automatically turns the lights on when you open your front door.
No matter where it is implemented, it looks like 5G will bring us a more exciting and convenient future.
1.Who will possibly benefit most from 5G first?
A.People living in the city. B.Telecom equipment resellers.
C.Driver. D.Businessmen.
2.What is special about 5G according to the text?
A.It has replaced 4G completely.
B.It has been used in every industry.
C.It was firstly developed in China.
D.It has a faster speed and a better connectivity than 4G
3.What can we infer about driverless cars in paragraph 5?
A.They will be driven by robots.
B.They have no weaknesses.
C.They will react immediately with the help of 5G.
D.They don’t need to analyze lots of data.
4.What is the best title for the text?
A.5G- The best choice B.Differences between 4G and 5G
C.5G- Changing our life D.Driverless cars -A new trend
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“Team building” is a term you probably first encountered years ago. And you’ve probably do team-building activities in the workplace, too. The right kinds of team-building exercises can bring people closer together, help teams work more effectively, and identify gaps and strengths in individual members. 1. .
At the base level, team building allows people to get to know each other-their interests, their strengths and weaknesses, and how they communicate among other things. 2. , teams at work can and should do the same thing. And just like you can’t jump onto the field with a team that has zero clue, you can’t achieve anything if your team members don’t understand one another.
3. . It’s one of the most important aspects of a successful team. Building a sense of trust among teammates allows people to bring the full power of their skills and personalities. When people don’t have trust to do that, they hold back, thus sometimes limiting their abilities to be at their best.
Finally, team-building activities can help remind people that work is never just about them. It’s about the entire group 4. , rather than solo, it brings to life the idea that the group’s success should be a priority. 5. . They are overly competitive, or lack unity and confidence as a result of a bad manager or hard times. Team-building activities can be a particularly useful learning experience for them.
A.Some teams struggle with teamwork.
B.Here are our suggestions for icebreaker games.
C.When you’re encouraged to do something together,
D.Just like any professional sports team works and practices to be at their best,
E.They can make people who don’t drink feel left out.
F.They can also provide companies and employees with plenty of added benefits.
G.Team-building activities also build good-fellowship and trust.
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Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. “The only thing that I love is dance,” she told CBS News. That ambition nearly _______ one night in 2010.
Hill, then a 17-year-old high school senior, was in a car accident that put her in the hospital for 51 days and that _______ her paralyzed from the waist down. For most people, that would have _______ any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the _______ . Far from being a（n） _______ , her wheelchair encouraged her. “I wanted to _______ to my community and to myself that I was still ‘normal’.” Whatever normal meant, normal for her meant _______ . so Hill did it in her wheelchair right alongside her _______ high school dance team. “Half of my body was _______ from me, and I have to move it with my hands,” “It ________ took a lot of learning and patience.”
After graduation, Hill wanted to ________ her dance network to include women like her. She met people online who had suffered various spinal cord injuries and shared her ________ , and she invited them to dance with her. “It was such a（n） ________ experience.” Hoping to ________ more people in a larger city, Hill moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she calls the Rollettes, a ________ to the Rockettes, a famous dancing team. “I want to ________ the prejudice of wheelchair users and show that dance is dance, whether you’re walking or you’re ________ ,” she said to CBS News. Hill has attained what many of us never will: her childhood dream. She’s a dancer. But the Rollettes have helped her find something ________ . She calls it the Rollettes Experience, and in 2019, 173 participants from ten countries attended it. For many, it was the first time they’d felt they ________ . “It was the most unimaginable thing when I rolled into a room and everyone was at ________ level.” Hill told CBS News.
1.A.escaped B.ended C.passed D.arose
2.A.prevented B.avoided C.left D.protected
3.A.built B.disappointed C.motivated D.destroyed
4.A.beginning B.result C.incident D.experience
5.A.effect B.object C.gift D.barrier
6.A.announce B.explain C.prove D.advocate
7.A.dancing B.living C.continuing D.performing
8.A.considerate B.nondisabled C.disabled D.energetic
9.A.cut off B.brought out C.left over D.taken away
10.A.barely B.definitely C.probably D.merely
11.A.expose B.explore C.expand D.expect
12.A.experience B.determination C.comment D.adventure
13.A.embarrassing B.tiring C.regrettable D.amazing
14.A.reach B.evaluate C.appreciate D.observe
15.A.kick B.shake C.nod D.pat
16.A.give in to B.pick up C.look into D.break down
17.A.rolling B.standing C.sitting D.lying
18.A.sympathetic B.significant C.sufficient D.serious
19.A.succeeded B.benefited C.belonged D.won
20.A.eye B.head C.nose D.arm
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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
It is a well-known fact that laughter is the best medicine. Everyone needs to learn how to get 1. （much）into their lives. You need to learn about the benefits of laughter since it is good for you in 2. （surprising） various ways. It can help you as the stress relief and make your pain on 3. decrease. Scientists have even proved that laughter has the ability 4. （improve）our immunity. That is 5. it’s time to look for ways to get more laughter into your daily life.
Some of the health benefits of laughing are 6. （fantasy）. When you are laughing the level of stress hormones（荷尔蒙） 7. （reduce） in your body. This is a natural release of feeling that requires no visit 8. the doctor or medicine. You will usually feel more relaxed and comfortable after a good laugh。
Most people will get 9. （catch）up in your laughter and that help you connect with others because laughter just has a way of spreading all by itself. It doesn’t need any formal 10. （introduce）-it just spreads from one person to another.
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear peter
I’m writing to share a piece of good news with you.
We school will run a Peking Opera Club for international students. It starts from October 11 and ends on October 20, lasts ten days. Some famous artists will offer basic courses on this national treasures, including singing, dialogues, movements as well facial makeup. Which they want to communicate through the courses is that Peking Opera is not just a art. It is also a symbol of traditional China culture which deserved to be passed down from generation to generation.
Since you’re always interested in Peking Opera, I sincere hope you’ll seize this chance. Join in the club and have a good time there!
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假设你是某国际学校的学生会主席李华，请你给你的同学John写一封邮件，告知他学校要为近期举行的排球比赛（the 2020 Student Volleyball Match）招募志愿者。内容包括：
1.招募目的；
2.招募条件；
3.报名方式（volunteers @135. com）及截止日期（3月31日）。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：招募recruit
Dear John,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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