Can you tell me ________ makes the video Gagman Style so popular?
A. what is it that B. how is it that
C. what it is that D. how it is that
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Can you tell me ________ makes the video Gagman Style so popular?
A. what is it that B. how is it that
C. what it is that D. how it is that
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-- could you please tell me the answer to the question?
-- __.!It is not my style to help the people cheat.
A. No problem B. No way C. Not at all D. No doubt
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You love Jay Chou's songs and you can sing some quite well. So you make a video of your performance and post it online for your friends to see. But what if this led to something beyond your wildest
imagination—a career in music?
Canadian teenager Justin Bieber, 16, has just had the magical experience: He posted homemade videos of his versions of songs by American singer Chris Brown online for his relatives. He received a phone call from Brown, telling him how much he liked his performance. His singing eventually earned him a fan base and a record contract. After releasing a popular record in November 2009, his album My world 2.0 came out last Tuesday.
Bieber sings ballads（民歌）and songs about puppy love. But is he just another gooey (甜腻的) teen idol? David Malitz, a columnist with the Washington Post, doesn't think so. “If we truly want the best forAmerican children, let us pause and give thanks for Justin Bieber，” he writes. “After years of humdrum bubblegum (乏味的摇滚舞曲) from Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers, the 16yearold has thrown a candycoated wrench (扭转) into Disney's heartthrob (甜心) assembly line by giving young fans something worth screaming their lungs out for lovable pop songs.”
From a boy who grew up below the poverty line with his divorced mom to a star who caused nearriots (近乎失控) in shopping malls, even Bieber himself can't believe his overnight fame, although his kind of success is becoming more and more common in the Internet era.
Interested in hockey, the national sport of Canada, the boy once put up pictures of players on the walls of his bedroom. He dreamed of being a hockey star and used to practice signing his autograph. He doesn't need practice now. He signs autographs, if the girls can get close enough, as a music star.
1.What did Chris Brown think of Justin Bieber's singing?
A．He didn't like it. B. He liked it very much.
C．He didn't say anything. D．He supported Justin Bieber.
2.What can we learn from the fourth paragraph?
A．He had a happy family.
B．His family was very poor once.
C．His family was rich.
D．His family helped him a lot.
3.What's Justin Bieber's hobby?
A．Singing. B．Hockey. C．Signing. D．Making records.
4.What's the best title of the passage?
A．Justin Bieber's overnight singing online.
B.Justin Bieber's common experience.
C．Justin Bieber's life.
D．Justin Bieber's records.
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-- Could you please tell me the answer to the question?
-- _______! It is not my style to help others cheat.
A. No problem B. No way C. No wonder D. No doubt
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. ---- Could you please tell me the answer to this question?
---- ______! It is not my style to help people cheat.
A. No problem B. No way C. No wonder D. No doubt
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— I’d like to buy the new style of computer here, would you please tell me something more about your product?
---_______________.
A. Thank you B. At your service
C. You are welcome D. It’s a pleasure
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--- Could you please tell me the answer to this question?
--- ______ It is not my style to help people cheat.
A. No problem B. No way
C. No wonder D. No doubt
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—Can you tell me Sam’s telephone number?
— . Who is Sam? The newcomer?
A. I think so B. That’s OK
C. I’d rather not D. I’m afraid not
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Have you ever wondered why certain pop songs just make you feel so good?
Researchers studying the question found that the right combination of uncertainty and surprise is what gives listeners the most pleasure.
The study, published in the journal Current Biology, involved an analysis of 80,000 chords( 和弦)in 745 pop songs from the US Billboard “Hot 100” chart between 1958 and 1991.
The researchers - from institutes in Germany, Norway, Denmark and the UK - used a machine-learning model to quantify the level of uncertainty and surprise of these chords, and then asked 39 adult volunteers to rate how pleasurable they found each series of chords.
Each song was stripped of its melody and lyrics(歌词)so that only chord progressions were left and the results couldn’t be influenced by other associations to the songs that listeners might have had.
They found two things: that participants got greater pleasure when they were relatively certain what would happen next but then were surprised by an unexpected chord progression. However, the same number of participants found it pleasant when they were uncertain as to what would follow, and then the subsequent chords were more familiar to them.
“It is fascinating that humans can get pleasure from a piece of music just by how sounds are ordered over time,” Vincent Cheung, the lead researcher on the paper from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany, said in a statement.
“Songs that we find pleasant are likely those which strike a good balance between knowing what is going to happen next and surprising us with something we did not expect. Understanding how music activates our pleasure system in the brain could explain why listening to music might help us feel better when we are feeling blue.”
Cheung told CNN that pleasure in music has a lot to do with what listeners expect. Previous studies had looked into the effects of surprise on pleasure, but he and his colleagues’ study also focused on the uncertainty of listeners’ predictions.
The findings may help improve artificial musical algorithms(算法)and could help composers write music or predict musical trends.
“The idea is that hopefully as a scientist analyzing these patterns of pleasure in humans, you can somehow work out where music can go next,” Peter Harrison, a researcher at Queen Mary University, London, who worked on the project, told CNN.
As part of the same experiment, the researchers also used brain imaging to locate the areas of the brain reflected in musical pleasure. They found the regions involved were the amygdala, the hippocampus and the auditory cortex, which process emotions, learning and memory, and sound, respectively.
Cheung added that another part of the brain, the nucleus accumbens - which processes reward expectations - was perhaps responsible for “directing our attention towards the music so that we will try to find out what will happen next.”
1.This passage mainly deals with _____.
A.how composers create pop music trends B.why popular music makes people happy
C.what kind of music makes people most happy D.which part of the brain produces happy music
2.The underlined words in Paragraph 5 have the closest meaning to _____.
A.reserved B.restored C.removed D.refreshed
3.We can learn from the passage that __________.
A.pleasure in music is connected with listeners’ expectations
B.findings of this study are of little help to music composing
C.the regions of the brain mentioned process music composing
D.only uncertainty followed by familiarity can bring about pleasure
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--- Could you tell me the _______ of making such tasty cakes?
--- Well, I just follow the directions in the cookbook.
A. feature
B. plan
C. cost
D. trick
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