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Sarasota, Florida teen band The Garbage-Men is performing on the stage. The band has five members. They are Jack Berry, Ollie Gray, Harrison Paparatto, Austin Siegel and Evan Tucker. The five teens are making music from waste. The Garbage-Men band’s instruments are made from recycled things. The guitars are boxes. A horn(号) is made from pipes. The keyboard is formed from old bottles.
The band started about two years ago. Jack Berry who was in eighth grade at the time decided to make a playable, home-made guitar, after some trial-and-error(反复试验), he ended up building it from a cereal box, a yardstick and toothpicks. After Jack showed his creation to his friend Ollie Gray, Ollie had the idea to form a band using other home-made instruments as a way to improve recycling. “We want to show people there is more to recycling than throwing things away in the bin.” Jack, 16, told TFK. “You can actually reuse materials.”
The Garbage-Men plays at local events around Sarasota, including festivals, farmer’s markets and community fundraisers. Typically, the teens will set up on the street and perform popular songs from the 1960s, including classic Beatles tunes and crowd favorite “Wipe Out,” by The Surfaris. In between sets, they talk about recycling and offer tips for how to help the environment. While they perform, Jack’s little brother Trent, 11, gives out flyers(宣传单) about recycling and helps sell the band’s CDs and other musical products.
The band donates(捐赠) the money from sales to charity. They have raised more than $2,500 for Heifer International. The organization gives farm animals, seeds and agricultural(农业的) training to people in poor countries to help end poverty and hunger. “It’s a good, sustainable-development (持续发展的)charity,” Jack says, “By donating one animal, you help the whole community.”
The band, all tenth graders, tries to play a show every week. They’ve also played on a Tampa, Florida radio station and auditioned(试演) for America’s Got Talent. The teens hope to eventually take their shows on the road by touring in other states. “Music is a really good way to get a good message across to people because it’s really accessible(可接近的),” Jack says. Their instruments may be rubbish, but their message isn’t.
1.Who is NOT a member of the Garbage-Men band?
A. Ollie Gray. B. Trent Berry.
C. Austin Siegel. D. Jack Berry.
2.The five teens formed the band in order to ________.
A. show how to make musical instruments from rubbish
B. earn more money to help support their own families
C. make their musical products known all around the world
D. ask more people to recycle daily rubbish around them
3.What did the Garbage Men Band mainly do according to the passage?
A. They told people how to protect the environment and do some charities.
B. They collected the rubbish in communities and cleaned up the markets.
C. They raised money for the old people by selling their own instruments.
D. They joined the Heifer International and made their own musical CDs.
4.What’s the best title for the passage?
A. Music and Environment
B. The Garbage-Men Band
C. Home-made Musical Instruments
D. A Pioneer of American Country Music
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Sarasota, Florida teen band The Garbage-Men is performing on the stage. The band has five members. They are Jack Berry, Ollie Gray, Harrison Paparatto, Austin Siegel and Evan Tucker. The five teens are making music from waste. The Garbage-Men band’s instruments are made from recycled things. The guitars are boxes. A horn(号) is made from pipes. The keyboard is formed from old bottles.
The band started about two years ago. Jack Berry who was in eighth grade at the time decided to make a playable, home-made guitar, after some trial-and-error(反复试验), he ended up building it from a cereal box, a yardstick and toothpicks. After Jack showed his creation to his friend Ollie Gray, Ollie had the idea to form a band using other home-made instruments as a way to improve recycling. “We want to show people there is more to recycling than throwing things away in the bin.” Jack, 16, told TFK. “You can actually reuse materials.”
The Garbage-Men plays at local events around Sarasota, including festivals, farmer’s markets and community fundraisers. Typically, the teens will set up on the street and perform popular songs from the 1960s, including classic Beatles tunes and crowd favorite “Wipe Out,” by The Surfaris. In between sets, they talk about recycling and offer tips for how to help the environment. While they perform, Jack’s little brother Trent, 11, gives out flyers(宣传单) about recycling and helps sell the band’s CDs and other musical products.
The band donates(捐赠) the money from sales to charity. They have raised more than $2,500 for Heifer International. The organization gives farm animals, seeds and agricultural(农业的) training to people in poor countries to help end poverty and hunger. “It’s a good, sustainable-development (持续发展的)charity,” Jack says, “By donating one animal, you help the whole community.”
The band, all tenth graders, tries to play a show every week. They’ve also played on a Tampa, Florida radio station and auditioned(试演) for America’s Got Talent. The teens hope to eventually take their shows on the road by touring in other states. “Music is a really good way to get a good message across to people because it’s really accessible(可接近的),” Jack says. Their instruments may be rubbish, but their message isn’t.
1.Who is NOT a member of the Garbage-Men band?
A．Ollie Gray.
B．Trent Berry.
C．Austin Siegel.
D．Jack Berry.
2.The five teens formed the band in order to ________.
A．show how to make musical instruments from rubbish
B．earn more money to help support their own families
C．make their musical products known all around the world
D．ask more people to recycle daily rubbish around them
3.What did the Garbage Men Band mainly do according to the passage?
A．They told people how to protect the environment and do some charities.
B．They collected the rubbish in communities and cleaned up the markets．
C．They raised money for the old people by selling their own instruments．
D．They joined the Heifer International and made their own musical CDs．
4.What’s the best title for the passage?
A．Music and Environment
B．The Garbage-Men Band
C．Home-made Musical Instruments
D．A Pioneer of American Country Music
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Florida teen band The Garbage-Men is performing on the stage. The band has five members. They are Jack Berry, Ollie Gray, Harrison Paparatto, Austin Siegel and Evan Tucker. The five teens are making music from waste. The Garbage-Men band’s instruments are made from recycled things. The guitars are boxes. A horn(号) is made from pipes. The keyboard is formed from old bottles.
The band started about two years ago. Jack Berry who was in eighth grade at the time decided to make a playable, home-made guitar, after some trial-and-error(反复试验), he ended up building it from a cereal box, a yardstick and toothpicks. After Jack showed his creation to his friend Ollie Gray, Ollie had the idea to form a band using other home-made instruments as a way to improve recycling. “We want to show people there is more to recycling than throwing things away in the bin.” Jack, 16, told TFK. “You can actually reuse materials.”
Last year, the Garbage-Men played at local events, including festivals, farmer’s markets. Typically, the teens set up on the street and performed popular songs from the 1960s, including classic Beatles and crowd favorite “Wipe Out”. They talked about recycling and offered tips for how to improve the environment. While they were performing, Jack’s little brother Trent, 11, gave out leaflets about recycling and helped sell the band’s CDs and other musical products.
The band donated the money from sales to charity. They have raised more than $2,500 for Heifer International. The organization gives farm animals, seeds and agricultural training to people in poor countries to help end poverty and hunger. “It’s a good, sustainable-development (持续发展的)charity,” Jack says, “By donating one animal, you help the whole community.”
The band, all tenth graders, tries to play a show every week. They’ve also played on a Florida radio station. The teens hope to take their shows on the road by touring in other states. “Music is a really good way to get a good message across to people because it’s really close.” Jack says. Their instruments may be rubbish, but their message isn’t.
1.They are all members of the Garbage-Men band EXCEPT ________.
A．Ollie Gray B．Trent Berry C．Austin Siegel D．Jack Berry
2.Which of the following is the correct order of what the teens have done?
① The Garbage-Men played at local events.
② Jack Berry made a playable, home-made guitar.
③ The band donated the money from sales to charity.
④ Ollie decided to form a band using home-made instruments.
A．③②④① B．②①④③ C．③①②④ D．②④①③
3.What’s the best title for the passage?
A．Classical music and rubbish
B．A special band
C．Home-made musical instruments
D．A pioneer of country music
4.The five teens formed the band with the purpose of ________.
A．making musical instruments from rubbish
B．earning more money to help support their own families
C．asking more people to recycle daily rubbish around them
D．making their musical products known all around the world
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Florida teen band The Garbage-Men is performing on the stage. The band has five members. They are Jack Berry， Ollie Gray， Harrison Paparatto， Austin Siegel and Evan Tucker. The five teens are making music from waste. The Garbage-Men band’s instruments are made from recycled things. The guitars are boxes. A horn(号) is made from pipes. The keyboard is formed from old bottles.
The band started about two years ago. Jack Berry who was in eighth grade at the time decided to make a playable， home-made guitar， after some trial-and-error(反复试验)， he ended up building it from a cereal box， a yardstick and toothpicks. After Jack showed his creation to his friend Ollie Gray， Ollie had the idea to form a band using other home-made instruments as a way to improve recycling. “We want to show people there is more to recycling than throwing things away in the bin.” Jack， 16， told TFK. “You can actually reuse materials.”
Last year， the Garbage-Men played at local events， including festivals， farmer’s markets. Typically， the teens set up on the street and performed popular songs from the 1960s， including classic Beatles and crowd favorite “Wipe Out”. They talked about recycling and offered tips for how to improve the environment. While they were performing， Jack’s little brother Trent， 11， gave out leaflets about recycling and helped sell the band’s CDs and other musical products.
The band donated the money from sales to charity. They have raised more than $2，500 for Heifer International. The organization gives farm animals， seeds and agricultural training to people in poor countries to help end poverty and hunger. “It’s a good， sustainable-development (持续发展的)charity，” Jack says， “By donating one animal， you help the whole community.”
The band， all tenth graders， tries to play a show every week. They’ve also played on a Florida radio station. The teens hope to take their shows on the road by touring in other states. “Music is a really good way to get a good message across to people because it’s really close.” Jack says. Their instruments may be rubbish， but their message isn’t.
1.They are all members of the Garbage-Men band EXCEPT ________.
A．Ollie Gray B．Trent Berry
C．Austin Siegel D．Jack Berry
2.Which of the following is the correct order of what the teens have done?
① The Garbage-Men played at local events.
② Jack Berry made a playable， home-made guitar.
③ The band donated the money from sales to charity.
④ Ollie decided to form a band using home-made instruments.
A．③②④① B．②①④③
C．③①②④ D．②④①③
3.What’s the best title for the passage?
A．Classical music and rubbish
B．A special band
C．Home-made musical instruments
D．A pioneer of country music
4.The five teens formed the band with the purpose of ________.
A．making musical instruments from rubbish
B．earning more money to help support their own families
C．asking more people to recycle daily rubbish around them
D．making their musical products known all around the world
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Five teenagers from Sarasota, Florida, are making music from garbage. The Garbage-Men band’s instruments are made from old things. The guitars are boxes. The horn (喇叭) is made from pipes . The keyboard is formed from old bottles.
The band started about two years ago. Jack, who was in eighth grade at the time, decided to make a homemade guitar. After some hard work, he ended up building it from a cereal box, a big ruler and some little sticks. After Jack showed his guitar to his friend Ollie, Ollie had the idea to make a band using other homemade instruments as a way to suggest people recycle old things. “We want to show people there is more to recycling than throwing things away in the rubbish box,” Jack, 16, told TFK. “You can actually recycle old things.”
Ollie, 15, plays the drums made from rubbish cans. Evan, 14, plays the guitar; Harrison, 15, plays the horns and the violin; and Austin, 16, plays the keyboard. They make up the band The Garbage-Men and play at local parties around. They wand to help people get interested in recycling old things. “Music is a really good way to get a good message across to people because it’s really easy for people to understand,” Jack says. Their instruments may be garbage, but their message isn’t. 
1.What are the Garbage-Men band’s instruments made from?
A. Big boxes.
B. Little sticks.
C. Old things.
2.Which of the followings is NOT true?
A. Evan is the youngest in his band.
B. Jack came out of the idea to make a band first.
C. There are five members in the Garbage-Men band.
3.Ollie’s drums are made of .
A. B. C.
4.What do the five teenagers suggest people do?
A. Making instruments.
B. Listen to music.
C. Reuse garbage.
5.The best title of the passage is .
A. Five music Fans
B. Reduce, Reuse, Replay
C. A Strange Band
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British band “Duran Duran” is going to be the first pop group to perform online concerts on the online game Second Life.
Second Life is an online 3-dimensional, digital world, which is imagined, created and owned by the players—people all over the world.
It is thought that 370,000 computer game players worldwide have Second Life characters that exist in the Second Life world, on the Internet.
Earlier this year, BBC Radio held music festivals and played an interview from inside the game.
In May of 2006, it held a music festival in Scotland, but also created a festival inside the Second Life game so that people all over the world could take part in their computers.
One of the members of the band, Nick Rhodes, told the BBC News website: “When I first saw Second Life a few months ago, I couldn’t believe my eyes. When I started looking at the people on screen, talking, walking around and doing normal things, I thought this is somewhere between a strange TV show, a strange experience and a video game. I wanted “Duran Duran” to be part of it.” Each band member has a 3-dimensional person and it is hoped they will do their first online concert soon. The audience will be able to join in and react (反应) while the band is on stage.
Rhodes said new technologies like Second Life will become more and more important in the music industry in the future.
The number of people joining the Second Life is growing quickly. Some computer experts said it probably would be the ‘Next Big Thing’ in the future.
1.Is Second Life an online game?
2.What did BBC Radio create inside the Second Life?
3.What was Nick Rhodes’ new idea?
4.How will the band show their first concert online?
5.What does the writer tell us in the last two paragraphs?
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The rock band is going on a world tour in ______they will perform in different cities.
A.that B.which C.whom D.where
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A famous violinist enters the stage to perform a solo at a New York City music hall. Getting on stage is no small task for him. A brain disease he got as a child forces him to walk with crutches（拐杖）.
Seeing him walk across the stage is hard to forget. He walks painfully, but gracefully（大方地）, until he reaches his chair. He sits down slowly, puts his crutches on the floor and places his legs in the correct place. Then he picks up the violin, puts it under his chin, nods to the conductor and starts to play.
But suddenly something goes wrong. The violinist finishes the first few parts of the piece, but one of the strings on his violin breaks. Everyone hears it clearly.
People think the violinist will need to stop to find another string or violin. But he doesn’t. Instead, he stops for a moment, closes his eyes and goes on. He plays from where he left off, with a passion and power that people had never heard before.
It is impossible to play how he does with only three strings. But this musician refuses to give up. He seems to play the strings in new ways to make the sounds he needed from the missing string.
When he finishes, everyone in hall bursts into applause. The musician smiles and says: “Sometimes it is up to the musician to find out how much music he can make with what he has left.
1.The first two paragraphs aim to show that .
A. the violinist is very famous B. it’s hard for the violinist to do such work
C. the violinist is not confident in himself D. it took the violinist a lot of time to prepare
2.What does the violinist do when his violin string breaks?
A. He finds another string. B. He finds another violin.
C. He goes on playing. D. He gives up playing.
3.What message does the story tell us?
A. A good musician can hardly deal with every challenge.
B. Playing the violin is an easy job.
C. Learn how to be a good audience.
D. Make full use of what we still have.
4.What’s the best title for this passage?
A. Do the best you can do B. Nobody is perfect
C. The life of a famous violinist D. How to play the violin
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The musician along with his band members ______ ten performances in the last three months.
A.gives B.has given C.have given
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The Readers is a popular TV show. It invites different people to read aloud on the stage(台阶).The_________also tells the moving stories behind those people .They can read everything _________poems, books, and letters. By reading_________, the words on the paper come to life.
Many people are fans of the show .They begin to_________on reading aloud at home .Now, the show gives people a_________place to read across China. It's a reading pavilion(朗读亭). They are in many cities, including Shanghai, Hangzhou and Xi'an.
The pavilion is very small. Only one person can_________it each time. There is a microphone(麦克风)in it and it _________ people's voices .Everyone can read for 3 minutes in the pavilion. They can read_________they like. The show will pick some of the readers _________ invite them to read on TV. All the readers can express their true feelings by reading aloud. That’s __________they like the show. It's a good show.
1.A.show B.lesson C.research D.play
2.A.in B.with C.at D.such as
3.A.quietly B.quickly C.aloud D.slowly
4.A.mind B.finish C.keep D.enjoy
5.A.strange B.special C.beautiful D.wonderful
6.A.come int B.go out C.take out D.put into
7.A.makes B.uses C.records D.improves
8.A.nothing B.everything C.someone D.everyone
9.A.but B.or C.after D.and
10.A.why B.what C.how D.where