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from all over the world to Switzerland to compete. Teams sculpt for sixty-five hours over five days. Each team hopes that when the time is up, its sculpture will be judged the best.
As the championship begins, the fourteen teams are faced with huge blocks of snow that weigh twenty
tons each. The sculptors bring out their favorite tools that work best on the hard iced snow, but they are not
allowed to employ tools that use electricity.
Most teams are inspired by what they have seen in daily life. For example, one team carved a teapot with
tea pouring out. Another team sculpted a little cat on its hind feet (后脚) reaching into a fish bowl complete
with water ripples (涟漪) and a crab (螃蟹) trying to attack the cat. In 2006, Team USA sculpted a golden dog
looking at its image reflected in a mirror. To create the effect that the little dog saw its reflection in the glass,
the artists carved two dogs facing each other with their paws (脚爪) touching.
As the final hours of the competition tick by, exhausted team members add last-minute detail. They use
small brooms to brush off snow caught in tiny holes. One team member counts down the last five minutes
while others are busy cleaning up the tools. If they leave any tools behind, they will be out. When the whistle
bows, everyone must step away from the sculpture. The judges then vote on creativity, technical skills, and
visual impact (视觉效果)of the designs.
In 200, Team USA took first place for their golden dog sculpture titled"Discovery". But the competition is
not just about medals and ribbons. "It"s not about the prize," said Rob Neyland, Team USA"s captain."It"s about
touching the audience."
Every year, as the championship ends, each team is already dreaming of the next masterpiece it will design.
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2. What gives the sculptors ideas for their creative work? (回答词数不超过9个)
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3. Why did Team USA win the competition in 2006? (回答词数不超过15个)
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答案
2. The things they have seen in daily life
3. Because its scuopture was judged the best for creativity, technical skills and visual impact
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That"s very good, since an urban landscape viewed from above can be an unlovely thing-block after block
of tarred (铺有沥青的) black rooftops, sticky in summer, ugly year-round. Or at least that"s the way it used
to be.
But urban roofs are going green. Environmental designers have begun to realize that the tops of buildings
don"t have to be wastelands. Indeed, they can be gardens, planted with grasses, flowers and bushes.
A planted roof usually comes in one of two varieties: extensive or intensive. The extensive type is wide
and shallow, with a soil depth of less than 8 inches, able to support smaller plants. The intensive type may
be smaller, but it"s relatively deeper and home to larger plants. Whatever the design, green roofs are not so
simple as ordinary gardens. The have multiple layers beneath the soil, including a drainage layer, waterproofing,
structural support, and so on. But this system can do a great deal of good. A recent paper in the journal Bio
Science tells that green roofs can control temperature, contain water and clean the air. And most impressively,
they can cut heat loss from a building by 50%, lower air-conditioning costs by 25%, and reduce the
urban-heated-island effect by 2℃.
Of course, apart from the square feet greened and heat reduced, green roofs are even more valued since
people can gain some psychological comfort simply by having a quiet place to go. as so often happens, what"s
good for the planet can also be good for the spirit.
This could mean the public would reject future Microsoft products. The public would lose trust in the company. Some people say this will not happen. They say Microsoft sent out several thousand copies of their new product to computer experts to test several months before it was released. Problems that these testers found were
immediately corrected. Microsoft representatives are working to solve all the other problems buyers find when
they try the new system. Computer industry experts say that if there are no major problems Microsoft can
expect to earn about 7 thousand million dollars from Windows 95 in the first two years. The experts say this
could be just a beginning for Microsoft and the whole computer industry. The experts say Windows 95 can
help the user do many different and difficult tasks. They say this means the sale of more powerful computers
and other computer products will increase as people learn about the new Microsoft product. Other companies
say Windows 95 is not a big improvement. The Apple Computer Company says its Mackintosh Operating System has been able to do many of the same things since 1989. For example, it has been able to let users work two
different programs at the same time. The Amega Computer also has offered this for almost ten years. And IBM
says the operating system it developed about 7 years ago is very similar.
B. is doubtful about what Microsoft Company has promised
C. shows no opinion of his own
D. is advertising Windows 95 for Microsoft Company
B. threat (威胁) other computer companies
C. help sell other products produced by Microsoft Company
D. bring about changes in other fields
B. Windows 95 will bring about a great change in the whole computer industry
C. other companies don"t think highly of Windows 95
D. Windows 95 will help sell more powerful computers
brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly
believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main
market is. In Mollie"s opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which
is what every writer should be doing."If you aren"t telling a story, you"re a very dead writer indeed," she says.
With the chief function of a writer being to entertain (让人愉快), Mollie is indeed an entertainer."I have this
great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language," she says. "This love goes back
to early childhood. I"ve told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like
to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said
I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said "Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you"ll be a writer." So finally
I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine
that I would be a writer."
This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third
person is clearly autobiographical (自传体的) and gives a picture both of Mollie"s ambition (理想) and her
struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably(不可避免地) brought thoughts of the
time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fields-sadly now covered with
modern houses."I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my
childhood. I"ll never go back," she said."Never.""When I set one of my books in Scotland," she said,"I can
recall my romantic (浪漫的) feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at
work. And that"s important, because children now know so much so early that romance can"t exist for them,
as it did for us."
B. It should be attractive to young readers.
C. It should be based on original ideas.
D. It should not include too much conversation.
B. Being short of writing skills.
C. The weakness of description.
D. The absence of a story.
B. She didn"t enjoy writing stories.
C. She didn"t have any particular ambitions.
D. She didn"t respect her teacher"s views.
B. better informed
C. less eager to learn
D. less interested in reality
B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter"s books.
C. To introduce Mollie Hunter"s work to a wider audience.
D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter"s existing readers.
the National Gallery of Art (美术馆); Paris has the Luvre; London, the British Museum. Florida International
University (FIU) in Miami also shows art for people to see. And it does so without a building, or even a wall for
its drawings and paintings. FIU has opened what it says is the first computer art museum in the United States.
You don"t have to visit the University to see the art. You just need a computer linked to a telephone. You can
call the telephone number of a university computer and connect your own computer to it. All of the art is stored
in the school computer. It is computer art, produced electronically by artists on their own computers. In only a
few minutes, your computer can receive and copy all the pictures and drawings.
Robert Shostak is director of the new computer museum. He says he starts the museum because computer
artists had no place to show their works.
A computer artist can only record his pictures electronically and send the records, or floppy discs, to others
to see on their computers. He can also put his pictures on paper. But to print good pictures on paper, the
computer artist needs an expensive laser printer.
Robert Shostak says the electronic museum is mostly for art or computer students at schools and universities. Many of the pictures in the museum are made by students. Mr Shostak said the FIU museum will make
computer art more fun for computer artists because more people can see it. He says artists enjoy their work
much more if they have an audience. And the great number of home computers in America could mean a huge
audience for the electronic museum.
B. an electronic art museum in Miami, U.S.A.
C. art exhibitions in Florida International University
D. latest development of computer art
B. a computer and a printer
C. pictures and drawings on paper
D. a computer connected to the museum by telephone line
B. Robert Shostak wanted to help computer artists
C. art students needed a place to show their works
D. computer scientists wanted to do something about art
B. computer owners
C. exhibits in the museum
D. those who will enjoy art
uncles, aunts, and elder cousins--in a word, any relative who is older than you. But that doesn"t really answer
the question, does it? In a normal family, there is a big difference between being elderly and being an elder.
Elders are the storytellers, the cooks, the historians, the authorities, the knitters, and the workhorses. They
are the people we respect and turn to for answers or help when we are in trouble, because of their many years
of life experience. Most of all, they are the people who raised you and your loved ones and helped you growing
into the people you are. For many years, they carried the burden of caring for your family and leading it to
better times. Now it"s your turn to dote on them. Ensuring the welfare of your elders should come as naturally
to us as raising our children.
Unfortunately, too many people take their parents" and grandparents" ability to care for them for granted.
And in a country where so many of us live hundreds of miles from our families, looking after loved ones can
be difficult. Even so, you should make sure your loved ones are taken care of no matter where they live, and
try to look after the seniors living alone in your neighbor, too. Taking responsibility for the elders in our society
in an important thing that all citizens should do.
B. bring us up by working hard
C. give us money and food
D. have many interesting stories
B. It"s our duty to take care of the elders when they are old
C. We should take care of the elders even if a long distance separates us from them
D. Looking after the elders is as important as raising our children
B. Parenting
C. Society
D. Family
B. criticize those people who don"t respect elders
C. Explain why we should love elders
D. Call on people to respect and love elders
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