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湖南省娄底市2016届九年级上学期英语期中考试试卷
For this month's Young World magazine, I interviewed 19-year-old Asian pop star Candy Wang.Candy told me that she used to be really shy and took up singing to deal with her shyness.As she got better, she dared to sing in front of her class, and then for the whole school.Now she' s not shy anymore and loves singing in front of crowds. I asked Candy how life was different after she became famous.She explained that there are many good things, like being able to travel and meet new people all the time.“I didn't use to be popular in school, but now I get tons of attention everywhere I go.” However, too much attention can also be a bad thing.“I always have to worry about how I appear to others and I have to be very careful about what I say or do.And I don't have much private time anymore.对我来说和朋友闲逛是不可能的now because there are always guards around me.” What does Candy have to say to all those young people who want to become famous? “Well, ” she begins slowly, “you have to be prepared to give up your normal life.You can never imagine how difficult the road to success is.Many times I thought about giving up, but I fought on.You really require a lot of talent and hard work to succeed. Only a very small number of people make it to the top.
A.He loves to listen to drums. He says he's not a player, just a listener. He claims to like rock. |
B.He is violinist, so it's natural that he should favor the violin. He prefers country music. |
C.His favorite is the guitar. However, he hasn't played for years, so he keeps hoping to start again. His favorite style of music is classical music. |
D.He says jazz is his favorite music. He goes to listen to jazz every Friday evening. He also likes opera, heavy metal, classical but jazz is the best. He plays the piano, but his favorite instrument is the guitar. |
E. He claims the piano is more versatile than any other instrument. He loves to go to see a performance. He says opera has everything, color and spectacle and theatre and great music.
F. He played drums when he was at primary school, and now he plays drums with his friends at weekends. They have a band. His favorite style of music is classical music.
Jia Meng used to keep a diary in Chinese. But one year ago, the 14-year-old girl from Heilongjiang began to write her diaries in English, because Jia found her mother was reading her diary secretly. She changed the language because her mother can't read English. "It's like killing two birds with one stone," said Jia. "My privacy(隐私) becomes safe and my English improves a lot."
Jia's mother is not the only mom who reads her child's diary. Recently, Renmin University of China had a national survey among over 2,300 parents. The results show that about 40% of parents read their children's secrets.
That's why many teenagers try to find ways to protect their privacy.
Wu Lei, 15, from Shanxi, keeps a diary, too. But he doesn't write it on paper. He writes online, which he thinks is perfectly safe because his parents "know nothing about the Internet".
Lu Huan, 13, from Guangdong, said her parents always secretly listened to the talk between her friends and her on the telephone in their room. To solve this problem, Lu asked her parents to buy her a cell phone.
"Parents want to know what is going on in their children's lives," said Shao Xiaozhen, a teenage expert in Beijing. "But sometimes they go about it the wrong way." Shao suggested the teenagers that instead of hiding their secrets, talking with parents is a better solution. "If your parents know that you are safe, they'll let you keep your secrets."
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The age of Jia Meng |
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The person who read Jia Meng's diary |
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The number of parents who read their children's diaries according to the survey |
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The place that Wu Lei writes his diary |
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The way to let parents know you are safe |
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