What are the two new forms of music developed by the musicians in the southern United States?

A. Jazz
B. The blues
Country music
D. R&B

The text is mainly about _____.

A. the life of Elvis Presley
B. the history of American music
C. the development of rock and roll
D. black Africans and white European music

If you want to help, you can get the information about the community service scheme from your school.

A. 对
B. 错

A person who spends more time at work doesn’t always accomplish more.

A. 对
B. 错

The Wright brothers’ accomplishment changed world travel.

A. 对
B. 错

What was their dream?__________________.

Last week I overslept three days _____ a row.

The following four sentences are examples of metaphor, alliteration, analogy and hyperbole. Please identify them respectively and write your judgments in the brackets.Please use the knowledge which you have learned in the mini-lecture. （填入所选答案前的大写字母）1. Every wave of new comers is reviled when it arrives, and everyone winds up refreshing America’s strength and spirit. ( 1 )2. The city is a jungle where no one is safe after the dark. ( 2 )3. He ran down the avenue, making a noise like ten horses at a gallop. ( 3 )4. What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them, full of possibilities, peaks to be scaled only by the most daring. What plants of high altitudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venture-some. ( 4 )A.analogyB.hyperboleC.metaphorD.alliteration

Read paragraphs 4 to 7 of the text“14 Days With (Almost) No Internet: Did My Digital Detox Pay Off?”and answer the following question.Why did the author start his own digital detox experience?

A. He has been always online for such a long time that he even sometimes cannottell the difference between the digital and real world.
B. For a while he’d felt the impulse to free himself from the internet.
C. He curiously wanted to know what would happen to him without internet.
D. He started his own digital detox experience since he went to a remote place where no internet was provided.

Read paragraphs 8 to 12of the text“14 Days With (Almost) No Internet: Did My Digital Detox Pay Off?” and answer the following question.What discovery did the author make during his digital detox experience?

A. What he learned from his short experiment was actually not too unlike what Miller learned.
B. He discovered that it was the technology that made him who hewas both professionally and personally.
C. He found it was a great pleasure for one to spend hours online mindlessly moving from one tasty content to another.
D. He got to know that reading longer, thoughtful articles and good books could greatly nourish his mind.