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   Iggy Azalea doesn't look like a rapper(说唱乐歌手).On May 17, she attended the 2015 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, US, with pink hair and a blue coat. She looked like a model, but won big as a rapper. The Australian beat out big names like Nicki Minaj and Drake to win the award for Top Rap Artist.

It's a great achievement in many people's eyes, but Azalea knew what she wanted from the beginning. At 15 she dropped out of high school because she was only interested in art classes. She worked as a house cleaner to save money for her dream the following year. Before her 16th birthday, Azalea left her home, a tiny town in Australia, for the US, making up her mind to become a rapper. Moving from Miami to Houston to Atlanta, she started rapping in the Southern-style accent of her surroundings and her single Ignorant Art came out in 2011.From then on, she never looked back.

However, her style has caused lots of discussions. She might be one of the most polarizing artists. She raps with a southern American accent, even though she speaks with an Australian one. Many people say that she overuses black culture in her music.

Her supporters are against it. Female American rapper MC Lyte defended(为……辩护)Azalea in an interview, saying she should not be judged because of where she's from. "Hip hop is universal(全世界的), and has no color line, "MC Lyte said. Azalea herself is proud of her music. "I really want to be focused on what I'm doing, "she said in an interview." That's really dangerous when you're trying to figure out ways to entertain people and make them happy. I don't want to be a part of that."

【小题1】After leaving for America, Azalea ________.
A.went to an art school for her dream
B.worked as a cleaner in the first year
C.never returned to her hometown in Australia
D.developed her Southern-style accent rap
【小题2】Azalea's music style is questioned because ________.
A.she sings with an Australian accent
B.she looks like a model herself
C.people think her music has too much black style
D.people don't accept singers from Southern America
【小题3】By saying "I don't want to be a part of that" Azalea means that ________.
A.she's unwilling to become popular
B.her music is for entertainment
C.she refuses to learn from other rappers
D.her music is not affected by others' taste
【小题4】Which of the following can best describe Iggy Azalea?
A.Kind and easy-going.
B.Determined and confident.
C.Honest and serious.
D.Talented and friendly.
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Steve Jobs knew from an early age that he was adopted (收养). “My parents were very open with me about that,” he recalled. He had a clear memory of sitting in the yard of his house, when he was six or seven years old, telling the girl who lived across the street. “Does that mean your real parents didn’t want you?” the girl asked. “My whole world was falling apart,” according to Jobs. “I remember running into the house, crying. And my parents said, ‘No, you have to understand.’ They were very serious and looked me straight in the eyes. They said, ‘We specially picked you out.’ Both of my parents said that and repeated it slowly for me. And they stressed every word in that sentence.”
Abandoned (被抛弃). Chosen. Special. These words became part of who Jobs was and how he thought of himself. His closest friends think that the knowledge that he was given up at birth left some scars (伤疤). “He wants to control everything because of his personality and the fact that he was abandoned at birth,” said one longtime colleague (同事), Del Yocam.“He wants to control his environment, and he sees his product as a part of himself.” Greg Calhoun, who became close to Jobs right after college, saw another effect. “Steve talked to me a lot about being abandoned,” he said. “It caused great pains and made him independent. He was different from others because he was born into a different world.”
Later in life, Jobs became a father and abandoned one of his children. Andy Hertzfeld, who worked with Jobs at Apple in the early 1980s, is among the few who remained close to Jobs. “To understand Jobs, you have to know the reason why he can’t control himself and is sometimes cruel and harmful to others,” he said. “That goes back to being abandoned at birth. The real problem was the theme of abandonment in Steve’s life.”
【小题1】Which of the following is true about Jobs’ childhood?
A.He left his parents at the age of six or seven.
B.He was shocked knowing he was abandoned.
C.He couldn’t remember how he was abandoned.
D.His parents chose him because his family was poor.
【小题2】What did Del Yocam think of Jobs?
A.He hated to be born with scars.
B.He liked to get things under control.
C.He enjoyed good working environment.
D.He wanted to influence everyone.
【小题3】What does the underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refer to?
A.The fact that Jobs was abandoned.
B.Jobs’ pain from the abandonment.
C.Jobs’ talk with Greg Calhoun.
D.The world where Jobs lived.
【小题4】What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A.Jobs didn’t bring up any children.
B.Jobs had a lot of close friends.
C.Abandonment influenced Jobs.
D.Nobody likes Jobs’ character.
【小题5】What is the best title for this text?
A.Steve JobsB.Jobs’ Childhood
C.The AbandonmentD.A Terrible Memory

同类题2

   William Butler Yeats was born in Sandy mount,County Dublin,Ireland on June 13th,1865.His father John was a law student who later pursued art,and young William and his siblings moved back and forth between Dublin and London during much of their _________.

Most of their holidays were _________with their mother's family in Sligo,a region whose landscape,culture and folklore(民俗)_________ his own works.

While his family belonged to the main Protestant minority which _________ themselves with the British,Yeats firmly _________ himself Irish. Indeed many of his poems and plays reflect Irish legends and castles. In 1885,Yeats started _________ poems as a young man of 20.Many of his early works were later published as The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems.

He became _________ in politics,which resulted in his becoming an Irish senator(参议员)in 1922 when the Irish Free State was formed. He _________ for 6 years but continued to _________ well into his seventies.

Later in London,he also co-founded the Rhymer's Club for __________ to share their verses,with his own __________becoming popular with other poets.In1899,as Yeats began writing dramas,he established the Irish Literary Theatre __________ other like-minded people to stage Irish plays. His __________ were influenced by the Japanese Noh style of writing,a type of traditional Japanese theatre which tended to be musical rather than __________ on prose.

Yeats became __________ when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923,becoming one of the first Irish laureates(桂冠诗人).His book The Tower was set in his own __________,which he had bought and restored. __________,many of his best works were written when he was well past 50,and they continue to be __________ today.

In 1939,Yeats died in France on a trip there. He was __________ at Roquebrune,but according to his __________,his remains were later taken to Sligo and buried at Drumcliff in 1948.

【小题1】
A.childhoodB.lifeC.holidayD.education
【小题2】
A.wastedB.spentC.sharedD.scheduled
【小题3】
A.attractedB.explainedC.basedD.influenced
【小题4】
A.associatedB.providedC.relatedD.mixed
【小题5】
A.devotedB.treatedC.consideredD.wished
【小题6】
A.composingB.readingC.appreciatingD.analyzing
【小题7】
A.sensitiveB.independentC.activeD.mild
【小题8】
A.preparedB.servedC.waitedD.applied
【小题9】
A.performB.learnC.teachD.write
【小题10】
A.singersB.politiciansC.poetsD.musicians
【小题11】
A.commentsB.contributionsC.thoughtsD.conclusions
【小题12】
A.forB.ofC.aboutD.with
【小题13】
A.playsB.storiesC.novelsD.songs
【小题14】
A.focusB.callC.dependD.keep
【小题15】
A.wealthyB.vainC.famousD.accessible
【小题16】
A.churchB.castleC.palaceD.square
【小题17】
A.UnusuallyB.FortunatelyC.HopefullyD.Eventually
【小题18】
A.disturbingB.humorousC.popularD.breathless
【小题19】
A.burnedB.buriedC.locatedD.honored
【小题20】
A.expectationB.promiseC.determinationD.will

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William Herschel was born on November 15th, 1738 in Hanover in a family of musicians. In 1757,he fled to England and began earning a living as an organist and later composer and conductor. In 1772, he convinced his sister Caroline to join him as a singer. In their spare time the brother-sister team became occupied in astronomy. William died at his home in Slough, near Windsor on August 25th,1822,and Caroline on September 1st,1848.
Herschel’s first major discoveries were to show that Mars and Jupiter exhibit axial rotation(绕轴自转). Herschel struck fame in 1781,when on March 13th he discovered the planet Uranus(天王星) while engaged in work aimed at determining stellar parallax(恒星视差).This being the first new planet discovered since ancient times, Herschel, until then a mere amateur astronomer relatively unknown even in England, became world-famous. Adopting a historically proven strategy, Herschel named the new planet Georgium Sidum,in honor of the then ruling English king GeorgeⅢ. The trick worked once again, as King GeorgeⅢ gave William and Caroline the titles of“The King’s Astronomer”and“Assistant to the King’s Astronomer”, an honor which came with a life’s pension for both. In 1782 they moved to Bath, and shortly thereafter to Slough, and from this point on William and Caroline could devote themselves entirely to astronomy. The Herschels went on to discover two moons of Uranus in 1787.
While Caroline became increasingly occupied with the search for comets at which she was quite successful, William became for a time interested in the Sun. Inspired by Wilson’s 1774 work, he put forth the theory of sunspots(太阳黑子),an opinion that continued to exist well into the nineteenth century. In 1800,he became interested in the solar spectrum(太阳光谱),and uncovered the first evidence for solar energy output outside of the visible spectrum, in what is now known as the infrared(红外线).In 1801, he published two papers that effectively started the field of solar influences on Earth’s weather.
【小题1】Herschel made himself known to the world mainly by .
A.discovering the planet Uranus
B.determining stellar parallax
C.discovering two moons of Uranus
D.uncovering the evidence for the infrared
【小题2】It can be inferred from the passage that George Ⅲ .
A.liked science and technology
B.liked Herschel’s naming of the new planet
C.was interested in astronomy
D.gave Herschel a lot of useful suggestions
【小题3】What do we know about Caroline from the passage?
A.She was successful in music.
B.She was given the title of“The King’s Astronomer”.
C.She died later than her brother.
D.She published two papers.
【小题4】This passage mainly tells readers .
A.some information about Herschel and his sister
B.how Herschel and his sister discovered the planet Uranus
C.Herschel and Caroline got along well with each other
D.Herschel and Caroline’s major scientific publications

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Do you suppose Darwin, one of the greatest scientists of all time, really did foolish experiments? Or did he do experiments that were so simple and basic that other people just thought they were foolish?

Sometimes, people think they already know the answer to a question or the solution to a problem. Sometimes, they really do know an answer or a solution, but without thinking they are important.
Charles Darwin didn’t settle for(满足于)just thinking he knew something. And, he believed all things could be important however simple they seemed to be.
Suppose you drop sheets of paper that are of exactly the same size and shape. If you drop them at the same time in the same place, they will fall in the same way. Now make one of the sheets of paper into a tight little ball and let it drop along with the other sheets. What happens? You have done an experiment that is so simple that you might think it couldn’t be worth anything.
But this simple experiment is important. It explains part of our present-day understandings of physics, ideas that were worked out long ago by Galileo and Newton. And these understandings set aside some of ancient Greek physics.
Scientists sometimes stop to look at very simple things and to think very hard about them. Even the simplest idea, which we might think is foolish, can shake the foundations of science.
【小题1】The passage tells us that Charles Darwin    .
A.was a great English scientist
B.always liked doing the experiments that others thought difficult
C.thought even the simplest thing was important
D.didn’t get well with others
【小题2】The underlined phrase “set aside” most probably means    .
A.throw awayB.store up
C.put to useD.realize
【小题3】The author of the passage tries to    .
A.convince us that Charles Darwin, Galileo and Newton are the greatest scientists in the world
B.draw the conclusion that basic sciences are simple things
C.prove that two sheets of paper, with the same size and shape, will fall at the same speed
D.draw our attention to everyday happenings around us
【小题4】Which of the following is TRUE?
A.Darwin really did foolish experiments.
B.According to some people Darwin did foolish experiments.
C.It is believed by all the people that things could be important though they seemed to be simple.
D.Galileo and Newton worked out ancient Greek physics.