Inside the Rain RoomThe Rain Room has arrived...

Inside the Rain Room

The Rain Room has arrived and local art lovers are taking notice. Is it worth the wait? Yes, I assure you it is. Once inside, visitors find a long, dark room with a high ceiling. A single bright light shines through heavy rain falling around visitors. The mist. The damp air. The noise. It feels like a mighty storm is pouring down. But the storm is inside. And visitors aren’t getting wet. Instead, visitors wander in awe, admiring the rain and the artists who created it.

The Rain Room was created to highlight the connection between humans, nature and technology. With a tracking system that senses movement and stops the rain wherever visitors move, it does just that. Light and sound produce an experience that feels both natural and foreign. The exhibit is moving on to Atlanta next month. I urge you to visit before then. It’s time to experience the Rain Room for yourself!

Welcome to the Rain Room

• The Rain Room features falling water. Please be aware you may get slightly wet. However, visitors wearing raincoats will be turned away.

• This exhibit features advanced technology. To ensure its effectiveness, please avoid wearing dark or reflective clothing.

• Visitors are welcome to take photographs of the exhibit.

• Children must be accompanied by an adult.

• For the convenience of all guests, visits are limited to 10 minutes.

1.What’s the purpose of the text?

A. To attract visitors to a new art exhibit.

B. To explain how an exhibit has been created.

C. To describe the technology used in the exhibit.

D. To promote the artists taking part in an exhibit.

2.What’s the function of the exhibit’s tracking system?

A. To keep visitors from getting wet.

B. To protect the exhibit from water damage.

C. To time how long visitors are in the room.

D. To count the number of visitors in the room.

3.What must you do when visiting the Rain Room?

A. Wear a raincoat.

B. Wear dark clothing.

C. Leave your camera outside.

D. Pass through within 10 minutes.

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Local 10 Third EARTH Day Art Contest

Open only to Florida schools within the Monroe, Miami-Dade and Broward County viewing area.

Local 10 is inviting South Florida art teachers and students, from grades K-12, to participate in its third annual EARTH Day Art Contest.

In the last two years, the popular, environmentally-centered contest has recognized two schools, Air Base K-8 in Homestead and Lawton Chiles Middle School in Hialeah, for their winning entries and awarded a total of $9,000 to the schools’ art programs.

As part of a class project, art students are encouraged to create a work of art with an environmental theme. The entry must be novel and unique. To enter the class project into the contest, the art teacher representing their students and schools must go to www. loca110. com, click on the contest link to enter and submit a photo of the class’s innovative EARTH Day work of art. The art teacher must fill out an entry form, giving school name, teacher name and class, address, email address and phone number. Only paintings and sculptures are eligible. Special consideration will be given to works of art featuring materials taken from nature.

Local 10 will determine the ten finalists. The final winner will be chosen from among the finalists by viewer votes on the Internet. Photos and entry forms may be submitted online from February 3,2020，until 11:59 p.m. March 9,2020. The voting period is from March 23,2020，through April 13,2020. Only timely submitted entries will be eligible to win. The winning school will be announced on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22 and will receive $4,500 in art supplies for their school’s art department.

For more information, click here. The Local 10 EARTH Day Art Contest is proudly sponsored by Publix, where every day is Earth Day.

1.According to the rule, the entry must be　　　　 .

A.attractive B.original C.classic D.portable

2.What is the art teacher expected to do?

A.To complete an entry form. B.To create a work of art.

C.To submit his / her photo. D.To offer kids art supplies.

3.How will the final winner be determined?

A.By Local 10. B.By art teachers.

C.By the sponsor. D.By online voting.

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Ladies and gentlemen, due to the heavy rain, the star who you ______ to see perform will arrive in an hour.

A. have come　　 B. come　　 C. came　　 D. are coming

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The local government in Shenzhen has recently passed a new regulation forbidding supermarkets and stores to _______ free plastic bags to shoppers, in order to protect the environment.

A. give off     B. give in     C. give up    D. give out

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From Art to Zoo, the Smithsonian, the world's largest museum and research complex, has something to interest kids and students of all ages.

Plan ahead online with The Official Kids Guide to the Smithsonian Institution – an interactive guidebook just for kids.

The Last American Dinosaurs: Discovering a Lost World

November 25, 2014 – 2018

Museum: Natural History Museum

Location: 2nd Floor, West

Explore how we learn about past ecosystems and organisms through the study of their fossils and find what goes into making a large-scale fossil exhibition. Watch fossils being prepared in a working fossil preparation lab.

As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, Games

August 22, 2012 – Indefinitely

Museum: American Indian Museum

Location: 1st Floor, near Imaginations Activity Center

All children play. Native American children play like any others, but their toys and games are more than playthings. They are ways of learning about the lives of grown men and women and ways of learning the traditions of their families and their people. The toys, games, and clothing come from all over North, Central, and South America, representing many tribes and many time periods.

The First Ladies

November 19, 2011 – Indefinitely

Museum: American History Museum

Location: 3rd Floor, Rose Gallery

On view are more than two dozen gowns, including those worn by Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, and Jacqueline Kennedy. Four cases provide in-depth looks at Mary Todd Lincoln, Edith Roosevelt, and Lady Bird Johnson and their contributions to their husband's presidential administrations.

Apollo to the Moon

July 1, 1976 – Permanent

Museum: Air and Space Museum

Location: 2nd Floor, East Wing

This gallery traces NASA's manned space program beginning with Project

Mercury's Freedom 7 (1961); then the Gemini Project (1965 – 66); followed by the Apollo Program

(1967 – 1972), with Apollo 17 as the last manned exploration of the moon.

1.The purpose of the text is to ______.

A. promote some scientific projects

B. highlight some children activities

C. release some entertainment videos

D. introduce some museum exhibitions

2.If you are interested in American history and politics, you can go to ______.

A. the 1st Floor　　　　 B. the East Wing

C. the Rose Gallery　　 D. the Natural History Museum

3.Which of the following has been on for the longest time?

A. The First Ladies.

B. Apollo to the Moon.

C. As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, Games.

D. The Last American Dinosaurs: Discovering a Lost World.

4.If you visit all the four locations, you can _______.

A. see gowns once worn by Edith Roosevelt

B. help prepare a dinosaur fossil exhibition

C. learn about Apollo 17's space exploration

D. play with children's toys from Central America

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Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Leonardo da Vinci…the art world has never lacked talent. And now, a new painter is ready to join the list, although this one isn’t even human.

Next month, auction house(拍卖行) Christie’s Prints and Multiples will make history by offering the first piece of art created by artificial intelligence (AI) for sale. The painting is a portrait of a man called Edmond De Belam, and is expected to be sold for up to $10,000 (69,000 yuan).

The work, which features a man with a mysterious look on his face, was created by software developed by the French art group Obvious. Laugero-Lasserre, an art collector, called the work “odd and amazing at the same time”. This isn’t the first example of Al-produced artwork, as AI has already been used to write poems and compose songs. However, many people doubt whether it should be called art at all.

According to Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828 -1910), art is about creating emotion. It’s “a means of…joining people together in the same feelings” he once said.

So, if the emotion behind art is what makes it, the ability to create and use tools is what makes human beings different from other species. And as a tool itself, the AI technology used to create the portrait is the result of a lot of effort made by several designers. Together, they “fed” the AI a huge collection of paintings from the 14th to the 18th centuries, until it was able to work out how to make similar paintings of its own.

The introduction of AI art could be the beginning of a new artistic movement. However, not everyone is ready to welcome these high-tech artists just yet.

“The human mind is what’s behind the AI technology. And the human mind is not a cold, hard fact,” Oscar Schwartz, a professor of AI, said during a Ted X Sydney speech. “Rather, it is something that’s created with our opinions and something that changes over time.”

1.Why are Monet, Picasso and da Vinci mentioned at the beginning of the passage?

A.To list world famous talented artists.

B.To highlight the inhuman painter by contrast.

C.To show the prosperity of the art world.

D.To introduce a new painter as great as them.

2.Why does the painting mentioned in Paragraph 2 gain special concern?

A.It’ll be auctioned in a famous auction house.

B.It’s the first AI-produced artwork for sale.

C.It’s the portrait of a man with mysterious look.

D.Its auction price is expected to be the highest.

3.Which of the following statement may Leo Tolstoy agree with?

A.AI technology is a tool for artistic creation.

B.AI is taught to express human emotions in art.

C.AI copied paintings of the 14th -18th centuries.

D.AI art joins people together in the same feelings.

4.What might be the future of the new artistic movement?

A.Predictable. B.Unacceptable.

C.Popular. D.Unclear.

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National Forecast

LONDON —This Evening and Tonight:

Rain, locally heavy across northwest Scotland. Mostly cloudy but dry in other northern and western areas.  Dry with clear spells(持续时间)in more central and eastern parts, but some low cloud and fog will develop. Generally mild with light winds.

Saturday:

Cloud and rain over western Scotland at the beginning will gradually push down over N. Ireland and northwest England. Largely dry, warm with sunny spells elsewhere, once early fog and low cloud clears.

http://www.times.online.co.uk/tol/news/weather/

The Nation's Weather

Fri, Aug 24,

NEW YORK—Heavy rain was forecast throughout Friday in parts of the Midwest. The heaviest rainfall was over northern Illinois, with more than 4 inches possible around Chicago.

Wet weather was also expected in the Plains as the same storm system tracks through the region.

Periods of heavy rain were also forecast for the Northeast as the remnant(剩余部分)of tropical storm Erin moves into the Canadian Maritimes.

Hot weather was expected to continue in the South and West.

http://www.underground.com

Death toll rises to 36 in China typhoon

Wed, Aug 22,

BEIJING— At least 36 people were killed by Typhoon Sepat in four provinces in eastern and central China in widespread destruction that also forced the evacuation (撤退)of l.37 million people.

More than 60,000 homes in the provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Hunan also were destroyed or damaged, Xinhua News Agency said.

Total economic losses in the provinces have reached $ 663 million.

Fujian was the worst-hit province, with 18 people killed, Xinhua said.

Earlier, the storm, named after a Malaysian fish, killed at least one person in Taiwan, and left three dead in the Philippines.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap

1.On August 25, in N. Ireland and northwest England, there will be _____.

A．low cloud and fog                       B．typhoon and flood

C．cloud and rain                          D．sunshine and mild wind

2.What was the weather like in the south and west of the USA on Thursday?

A．It was hot.                             B．It was rainy.

C．It was foggy.                            D．It was warm.

3.The storm named Sepat _____.

A．caused one death in the Philippines

B．killed 18 people in Taiwan

C．destroyed about 60,000 homes in Fujian

D．caused great economic losses

4.The name of Typhoon Sepat comes from  _____.

A．a tropical storm                         B．a Malaysian fish

C．a place                               D．a person

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Outside，the wind 　　　　　 to pick up，and the rain started coming down even harder.

A. has begun　　 B. had begun

C. would begin　　 D. is beginning

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National Forecast

Fri, Aug 24,

LONDON —This Evening and Tonight:

Rain, locally heavy across northwest Scotland. Mostly cloudy but dry in other northern and western areas. Dry with clear spells(持续时间)in more central and eastern parts, but some low cloud and fog will develop. Generally mild with light winds.

Saturday:

Cloud and rain over western Scotland at the beginning will gradually push down over N.Ireland and northwest England. Largely dry, warm with sunny spells elsewhere, once early fog and low cloud clears.

http ://www. times online. co. uk/tol/news/weather/

The Nation's Weather

Fri, Aug 24,

NEW YORK—Heavy rain was forecast throughout Friday in parts of the Midwest. The heaviest rainfall was over northern Illinois, with more than 4 inches possible around Chicago.

Wet weather was also expected in the Plains as the same storm system tracks through the region.

Periods of heavy rain were also forecast for the Northeast as the remnant(剩余部分)of tropical storm Erin moves into the Canadian Maritimes.

Hot weather was expected to continue in the South and West.

http ://www. wunderground. com

Death toll rises to 36 in China typhoon

Wed, Aug 22,

BEIJING— At least 36 people were killed by Typhoon Sepat in four provinces in eastern and central China in widespread destruction that also forced the evacuation (撤退)of l.37 million people.

More than 60,000 homes in the provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Hunan also were destroyed or damaged, Xinhua News Agency said.

Total economic losses in the provinces have reached $ 663 million.

Fujian was the worst-hit province, with 18 people killed, Xinhua said.

Earlier, the storm, named after a Malaysian fish, killed at least one person in Taiwan, and left three dead in the Philippines.

http ://news. yahoo. com/s/ap

1.On August 25, in N. Ireland and northwest England, there will be _____.

A. low cloud and fog　　　　　　　　 B. typhoon and flood

C. cloud and rain　　　　　　　　　　 D. sunshine and mild wind

2.What was the weather like in the south and west of the USA on Friday?

A. It was hot.　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. It was rainy.

C. It was foggy.　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. It was warm.

3.The storm named Sepat _____.

A. caused one death in the Philippines

B. killed 18 people in Taiwan

C. destroyed about 60,000 homes in Fujian

D. caused great economic losses

4.The name of Typhoon Sepat comes from　 _____.

A. a tropical storm　　　　　　　 B. a Malaysian fish

C. a place　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. a person

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I got caught in the rain and my suit____.

A. has ruined       B. had ruined         C. has been ruined  D. had been ruined

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