If Mickey Mouse is a westerner who has captured the world,Hello Kitty is the world’s sweetheart from Asia. With its two innocent black eyes and the cute ribbon on its ear, this white-faced kitten has captivated(迷住)the hearts of women of all ages since 1974.
Hello Kitty is found on more than 50 thousand items,including toys,school supplies, make-up and even neckties.
To celebrate the character’s 38' birthday, an exhibition called “Inside Kitty" is underway at the Seongnam Arts Center in Yatab-dong.
“Kitty was not popular at all at first,even in Japan. Only since 1985, 11 years after it was born,have people started to pay attention to it,” Yuko Yamaguchi, one of the designers of the character,told the press.
“Hello Kitty was only for kids then. But in 1987, I got a letter from a high school student who said that her friends teased her because she had a Hello Kitty product. She asked the company to make something that did not look strange for her to carry around. Since then we’ve tried to come up with things that all ages can enjoy,” Yamaguchi said.
Hello Kitty became popular after being displayed in Anna Sui boutiques(精品店)in the United States. Young women from all over the world have been in love with the character ever since. The boutique of MAC,a make-up brand,packed,on the day the brand was released,its first products made in collaboration with Hello Kitty.
“The character has to communicate with people. It should change over time,and always stay fashionable,” Yamaguchi said.
“Inside Kitty" starts by viewing the past of the character. Kitty fans will be delighted to see Hello Kitty items from throughout the past 38 years on display.
Hello Kitty 1.____________ its 38th birthday | |
Appearance | Two innocent 2.__________ eyes, a cute ribbon on its ear, and a white face. |
Related products | About 50 thousands items 3._________ toys, school supplies, and make-up. |
4.________ | It came into 5._______ in 1974 . It has been 6.________ since 1985, 11years after its 7._______. In 1987, it was designed to appeal to all ages instead of only to 8._______. |
The 38th birthday celebration | An exhibition 9._________ “Inside Kitty” is being held where Hello Kitty items from throughout the past 38 years will be on 10._______. |
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If Mickey Mouse is a westerner who has captured the world,Hello Kitty is the world’s sweetheart from Asia. With its two innocent black eyes and the cute ribbon on its ear, this white-faced kitten has captivated(迷住)the hearts of women of all ages since 1974.
Hello Kitty is found on more than 50 thousand items,including toys,school supplies, make-up and even neckties.
To celebrate the character’s 38' birthday, an exhibition called “Inside Kitty" is underway at the Seongnam Arts Center in Yatab-dong.
“Kitty was not popular at all at first,even in Japan. Only since 1985, 11 years after it was born,have people started to pay attention to it,” Yuko Yamaguchi, one of the designers of the character,told the press.
“Hello Kitty was only for kids then. But in 1987, I got a letter from a high school student who said that her friends teased her because she had a Hello Kitty product. She asked the company to make something that did not look strange for her to carry around. Since then we’ve tried to come up with things that all ages can enjoy,” Yamaguchi said.
Hello Kitty became popular after being displayed in Anna Sui boutiques(精品店)in the United States. Young women from all over the world have been in love with the character ever since. The boutique of MAC,a make-up brand,packed,on the day the brand was released,its first products made in collaboration with Hello Kitty.
“The character has to communicate with people. It should change over time,and always stay fashionable,” Yamaguchi said.
“Inside Kitty" starts by viewing the past of the character. Kitty fans will be delighted to see Hello Kitty items from throughout the past 38 years on display.
Hello Kitty 1.____________ its 38th birthday | |
Appearance | Two innocent 2.__________ eyes, a cute ribbon on its ear, and a white face. |
Related products | About 50 thousands items 3._________ toys, school supplies, and make-up. |
4.________ | It came into 5._______ in 1974 . It has been 6.________ since 1985, 11years after its 7._______. In 1987, it was designed to appeal to all ages instead of only to 8._______. |
The 38th birthday celebration | An exhibition 9._________ “Inside Kitty” is being held where Hello Kitty items from throughout the past 38 years will be on 10._______. |
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Mickey Mouse and Shrek are just a couple of the American animated (动画的) characters loved the world over. And they are examples of the evolution of animation, which has brought unique new life to the film industry.
Among the first American animated films was Light of the Moon, a silent movie produced in 1911 using silhouette (剪影) animation, where the characters are represented only as black silhouettes.
The real breakthrough for American animation came with Steamboat Willie, created by Walt Disney and released in 1928. It was the first animated film to be accompanied by sound, and its main star, Mickey Mouse, became one of the most loveable and enduring animated characters ever created. Disney also created the first American full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Released in 1937, it enjoyed worldwide box-office success.
Disney’s extremely careful attention to high-quality detail in the thousands of hand-painted drawings required at that time to make an animated film elevated this film technique to the level of a serious art form.
Clay animation is a type of stop-motion animation using forms made of clay. Clay animation films have been produced in the United States since 1908. But this form of animation only won wide popular appeal in 1955 with a short film called Gumbasia, created by Art Clokey.
Computer-generated imagery, or CGI, brought animation to a new level of artistry and realism. Used in film since the 1960s, CGI animation began to develop rapidly in the mid-1990s. Toy Story, released in 1995 and created by Pixar and Disney Studios, was the first completely computer-generated animated feature film.
In 2001, DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images released Shrek, the first computer-animated feature film to win an Oscar. Shrek returned in 2004 with his talking donkey, his princess bride Fiona and an army of fairy-tale characters in Shrek 2. Hugely popular, that film became the highest-grossing (票房最高的) animated film of all time.
In addition to strictly animated movies, animation has been mixed into films showing live actors as well. Who can forget the terrifyingly real dinosaurs thundering through Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park movies and the actors they chased? Thanks to the powerful capabilities of today’s computers and the unlimited imagination of American filmmakers, animation will be entertaining audiences worldwide for a long time to come.
1.The passage is mainly about the __________ of animation.
A.influence B.popularity
C.characters D.development
2.Which film marked the beginning of the complete digital age of American animation?
A.Light of the Moon. B.Steamboat Willie.
C.Toy Story. D.Shrek.
3.It can be learned from the passage that _______.
A.Jurassic Park movies involve only live actors
B.clay animation enjoys long-lasting popularity
C.computers make animated characters more lovely
D.Disney played a very important role in promoting animation
4.What can be inferred about the future of animation from the passage?
A.Animation will forever remain an essential form of entertainment.
B.Animation will be replaced by new forms of films in the near future.
C.Animation will continuously gain new life due to computers and imagination.
D.Animation will get more popular in the future for the developing film technology.
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---Which bag would you like to choose?
---The one there is a Mickey Mouse.
A. where B. which C. what D. that
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Traditional Chinese culture is1.(begin) to capture the attention of the world,this is also true even if popular culture2.has traditionally been considered Western begins to spread throughout China.
China Kung Fu,especially,has had a great impact3.millions of people in the world4.it has been so fascinating in the eyes of westerners.Apart from that,they may come to China and learn about other aspects of this culture,such as traditional operas like the Beijing and Sichuan ones.Asian nations have long known about the5. (great) of ancient Chinese culture.Their own cultures are a mix of native ones and those Chinese characteristics.
Actually,Korea and Japan long ago6.(adopt) ideas such as Confucianism as something that continues today even as it is challenged by Pop Culture.This strength comes from the ideas7.(give) in the Four Books(四书)of Confucianism (The Great Learning,The Doctrine of the Mean,The Analects of Confucius,and The Book of Mencius). These books built upon the ideas of8.even more ancient period codified in the Five Classics(五经).From them, the West learns such things as Fengshui and other concepts that are9.(unique) Chinese.
In recent years,China has taken steps to further this spread of culture by10.(establish) Chinese Cultural Centers in foreign counties,the United States and Europe,in particular.
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The world’s youngest DJ who is just two years old has thousands of fans thanks to his ability. Oratilwe Hlongwane, whose DJ name is AJ, is ______ learning to put together words, but the baby is already able to ______ and play music from a laptop and has become famous in South Africa. His abilities have even ______ him special appearances, with fans ______ to hear his bass-heavy house music.
His recent ______ at a supermarket in his home of Johannesburg ______ a large crowd as he moved his head to the ______, with large headphones around his neck. His mother, Refiloe Marumo, _____ his success to his father Glen Hlongwane’s decision to buy an iPad for his then unborn son. Mr. Hlongwane, a gymnastics coach and _______ DJ, had planned to download some educational apps for the child as well as a DJ app for himself.
A mobile phone recording of him playing music was shared online and the youngster now has nearly 25,000 Facebook ______. However, some people ______ his parents of abusing and making money from their child’s ability. Mr. Hlongwane said he would not “______ his kid” and said he wasn’t allowed to play in clubs or at parties ______ his age. The parents also insisted that they would not ______ their son to be a DJ when he grows up, but said they believed his interest in electronic equipment would probably decide his future. Mr. Hlongwane added, “I can see a ______ Bill Gates here. ”
1.A.never B.still C.therefore D.merely
2.A.create B.adopt C.select D.tease
3.A.earned B.exchanged C.risked D.updated
4.A.desperate B.unwilling C.admirable D.appropriate
5.A.movement B.competition C.reputation D.appearance
6.A.moved B.benefited C.attracted D.disappointed
7.A.rhyme B.flash C.pattern D.beat
8.A.exposed B.accustomed C.appealed D.owed
9.A.allergic B.cautious C.devoted D.ridiculous
10.A.competitors B.followers C.sponsors D.experts
11.A.accomplished B.acquired C.accused D.convinced
12.A.take charge of B.take possession of C.take advantage of D.take place of
13.A.due to B.in spite of C.rather than D.even if
14.A.demand B.allow C.doubt D.force
15.A.realistic B.contemporary C.future D.predictable
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There is no doubt _________ the world climate has been changing in recent years.
A.that | B.what | C.if | D.whether |
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One of the greatest killers in the Western world is heart disease.The death rate( 率) from the disease has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past thirty years.Today in Britain,for example,about four hundred people a day die of heart disease.Medical experts know that people can reduce their chances of getting heart disease by exercising regularly,by not smoking,by changing their diets,and by paying more attention to reducing stress(压力) in their work.
However,Western health-care systems are still not paying enough attention to the prevention of the disease.There is a need for more programs to educate the public about the causes and prevention of heart disease.Instead of supporting such programs,however,the U.S.health-care system is spending large sums of money on the surgical( 外 科 的 ) treatment of the disease after it develops.This emphasis( 强 调 ) on treatment clearly has something to do with the technological advances that have taken place in the past ten to fifteen years.In this time,modern technology has enabled doctors to develop new surgical techniques.Many operations that were considered impossible or too risky(有风险的) a few years ago are now performed every day in U.S.hospitals.The result has been a huge increase in heart surgery.
Although there is no doubt that heart surgery can help a large number of people,some people point out that the emphasis on the surgical treatment of the disease has three clear disadvantages.First,it attracts interest and money away from the question of prevention.Second,it causes the costs of general hospital care to rise.After hospitals buy the expensive equipment that is necessary for modern heart surgery,they must try to recover the money they have spent.To do this,they raise costs for all their patients,not just those patients whose treatment requires the equipment.The third disadvantage is that doctors are encouraged to perform surgery—even on patients for whom an operation is unnecessary—because the equipment and expert skills are there.A government office recently stated that major heart surgery was often performed even though its chances of success were low.In one type of heart surgery,for example,only 15 percent of patients improved their conditions after the surgery.However,more than 100,000 of these operations are performed in the United States every year.
1.What effect has modern technology had on medicine?
A.It has reduced the costs of medical treatment.
B.It hasn’t helped save any patients.
C.It has encouraged doctors to do more heart surgeries.
D.It has helped educate people about the prevention of heart disease.
2.“To do this”(in Paragraph 3) means _____ .
A.to help patients recover
B.to increase the number of heart surgeries
C.to get back the money spent on the equipment
D.to buy new equipment for the treatment of heart disease
3.The author would agree that _____ .
A.more money should be spent on the prevention of heart disease
B.heart surgery has helped most patients improve their conditions
C.modern technology has made heart surgery more risky than before
D.the public have known a great deal about the causes of heart disease
4.Which would be the best title for the passage?
A.The Greatest Killer in the West
B.Heart Disease:Treat or Prevent
C.Old Technology and Heart Surgery
D.Heart Surgery:Advantages
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The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and for the environment. Those findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.
David Tilman is a professor at the University of Minnesota. In the study, he examined information from 100 nations to show what people ate and how diet affected health. Mr. Tilman noted a movement beginning in the 1960s. He found that as nations industrialized(工业化), population increased and earnings rose. More people began to adopt what has been called the Western diet. The Western diet is high in sugar, fat, oil and meat. By eating these foods, people began to get fatter and sicker.
“The food, let us say, in the 15 richest nations of the world, right now contains about 400 or 500 extra calories(热量) a day that are eaten beyond what people need, and that leads people to gain weight.”
David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk for diseases like diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. Diabetes is shooting to very high rates in the United States and across Europe. Heart disease is a major cause of death in the Western nations. Unfortunately when people become industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these same health problems.
A diet bad for human beings, it seems, is also bad for the environment. As the world’s population grows, experts say more forests and areas will become farmland for crops or grasslands for raising cattle. These areas will be needed to meet the increasing demand for food.
Mr. Tilman calls the link between diet, the environment and human health, “a dilemma”, a situation where it is very difficult to decide what to do. He says one possible solution is leaving the Western diet behind.
1.Why did people get fatter in the 1960s?
A. They ate foods high in calories.
B. They adopted a western lifestyle.
C. They set aside little time for exercise.
D. They had a better life and became lazier.
2.According to the text, overweight people may suffer the following diseases EXCEPT_______.
A. diabetes B. skin disease
C. cancers D. heart disease
3.What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?
A. To tell people effective ways to keep healthy.
B. To call on people to give up the Western diet.
C. To show the problems industrialized nations are facing.
D. To draw people’s attention to environmental protection.
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The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and the environment. These findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.
David Tillman, a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, America, examined information from 100 countries to identify what people ate and how diet affected health. He noted a movement beginning in the 1960s. He found that as nations industrialized, population increased and earnings rose, more people began to adopt(采纳) what has been called the Western diet.
The Western diet is high in sugar, fat, oil and meat. By eating these foods, people began to get fatter and sicker. David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk for non-infectious diseases like diabetes(糖尿病)and heart disease.
Unfortunately when people become industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these health problems, especially in developing countries in Asia. China is an example where the number of diabetes cases has been jumping from less than one percent to 10 percent of the population as they began to industrialize over a 20-year period. And that is happening all across the world, in Mexico, in Nigeria and so on.
And, a diet bad for human beings, is also bad for the environment. As the world's population grows, more forests and tropical(热带的)areas will become farmland for crops or grasslands for cattle. We are likely to have more greenhouse gas in the future from agriculture than that coming out of all forms of transportation right now.
Mr. Tillman calls the link between diet, the environment and human health, "a trilemma": a problem offering a difficult choice. He says one possible settlement is leaving the Western diet behind.
1.According to the passage, more greenhouse gas might be given off in the future from ____________.
A. transportation B. developing countries
C. agriculture D. developed countries
2.David Tilman believes that__________.
A. diet, the environment and human health are closely connected
B. the Western diet is the only choice as the nation industrializes
C. people in tropical areas are more likely to have heart disease
D. traditional diets are more balanced than the Western diet
3.We can infer from the passage that ___________.
A. Nigeria has the largest number of diabetes cases
B. overweight people are at higher risk of infectious diseases
C. the examined information comes from developing countries
D. industrialization contributes to the spread of the Western diet
4.The main purpose of the passage is to___________.
A. call on us to protect the environment
B. warn us of the danger of the Western diet
C. remind us of the importance of health
D. advise us to have a balanced diet
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The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and for the environment. Those findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.
David Tilman is a professor at the University of Minnesota. In the study, he examined information from 100 nations to show what people ate and how diet affected health. Mr. Tilman noted a movement beginning in the 1960s. He found that as nations industrialized(工业化), population increased and earnings rose. More people began to adopt what has been called the Western diet. The Western diet is high in sugar, fat, oil and meat. By eating these foods, people began to get fatter and sicker.
“The food, let us say, in the 15 richest nations of the world, right now contains about 400 or 500 extra calories(热量) a day that are eaten beyond what people need, and that leads people to gain weight.”
David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk for diseases like diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. Diabetes is shooting to very high rates in the United States and across Europe. Heart disease is a major cause of death in the Western nations. Unfortunately when people become industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these same health problems.
A diet bad for human beings, it seems, is also bad for the environment. As the world’s population grows, experts say more forests and areas will become farmland for crops or grasslands for raising cattle. These areas will be needed to meet the increasing demand for food.
Mr. Tilman calls the link between diet, the environment and human health, “a dilemma”, a situation where it is very difficult to decide what to do. He says one possible solution is leaving the Western diet behind.
1.Why did people get fatter in the 1960s?
A. They ate foods high in calories.
B. They adopted a western lifestyle.
C. They set aside little time for exercise.
D. They had a better life and became lazier.
2.According to the text, overweight people may suffer the following diseases EXCEPT_______.
A. diabetes B. skin disease
C. cancers D. heart disease
3.What can we infer from Paragraph 5?
A. There will be fewer and fewer forests.
B. People won’t care about the environment.
C. The world’s population will grow faster than ever.
D. Raising cattle will be the most moneymaking business.
4.What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?
A. To tell people effective ways to keep healthy.
B. To call on people to give up the Western diet.
C. To show the problems industrialized nations are facing.
D. To draw people’s attention to environmental protection.
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