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2018年高考英语真题试卷(江苏卷)
How Arts Promote Our Economy
When most people think of the arts, they imagine the end product, the beautiful painting, a wonderful piece of music, or an award-winning performance in the theater. But arts groups bring broader value to our communities. The economic impact of the arts is often overlooked and badly judged.
The arts create jobs that help develop the economy. Any given performance takes a tour bus full of artists, technical experts, managers, musicians, or writers to create an appealing piece of art. These people earn a living wage for their professional knowledge and skills.
Another group of folks is needed to help market the event. "If you build it they will come" is a misleading belief. Painters, digital media experts, photographers, booking agents and promoters are hired to sell tickets and promote the event. According to the Dallas Area Cultural Advocacy Coalition, arts agencies employ more than 10,000 people as full-or part-time employees or independent contractors.
A successful arts neighborhoods creates a ripple effect(连锁反应)throughout a community. In 2005, when the Bishop Arts Theatre was donated to our town, the location was considered a poor area of town. After investing more than $1 million in reconstructing the building, we began producing a full season of theater performances, jazz concerts, and year-round arts education programs in 2008. Nearly 40 percent of jazz lovers live outside of the Dallas city limits and drive or fly in to enjoy an evening in the Bishop Arts District.
No doubt the theater has contributed to the area's development and economic growth. Today, there are galleries, studios, restaurants and newly built work spaces where neighbors share experiences, where there is renewed life and energy. In this way, arts and culture also serve as a public good.
Teco Theatrical Productions Inc. made use of Bloomberg's investment of $35,000 to get nearly $400,000 in public and private sector support during the two-year period. Further, Dallas arts and arts-based businesses produce $298 for every dollar the city spends on arts programming and facilities. In Philadelphia, a metro area smaller than Dallas, the arts have an economic impact of almost $3 million and support 44,000 jobs, 80 percent of which actually lie outside the arts industry, including accountants, marketers, construction workers, hotel managers, printers, and other kinds of art workers.
The arts are efficient economic drivers and when they are supported, the entire small-business community benefits.
It is wrong to assume arts groups cannot make a profit. But in order to stay in business, arts groups must produce returns. If you are a student studying the arts, chances are you have been ill-advised to have a plan B. But those who truly understand the economic impact and can work to change the patterns can create a wide range of career possibilities.
Arts as an economic driver | Our communities from arts in terms of economy. |
of arts' promoting our economy | Arts activity demands a(n) effort. It involves creation, performance, and . ★Artists make a living through their creative work. ★Others get paid by marketing the event. |
Arts have a gradually spreading . They could help promote other industries whether they lie inside or outside arts. ★Besides tickets, some jazz lovers will pay their to and from the events. ★Arts contribute to cultural development when people gather together to share their experience and renew their energy. | |
Investment in arts could produce potential economic results. ★TeCo used a $35,000 art investment to attract an overall support of $400,000. ★In Dallas, one dollar invested in arts could harvest and extraordinary return of nearly $300. ★In Philadelphia the arts have created about 35,000 job opportunities for workers arts industry. | |
Art students making a good living | With these in mind, art students need not worry about their career and have a(n) plan. |
Children in kinder gardens have a lot of chances to interact(互动)with other children at their age.If your child is not in it, it can be fun and helpful to create chances to play with others.Here are some things you can do to support your child's early partner relationship.
Schedule regular playmates.
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Join a playgroup.
Many communities have organized playgroups for young children.{#blank#}2{#/blank#},and learn to feel comfortable in a new setting.As an added benefit, while your child plays, you can talk with other parents who have children the same age as your own.
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You can organize a playground in your own home.It may involve just one other child, or as many as three or four.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}.Remember: safety first.
Offer guidance when needed.
If you see a child playing in a way that might hurt another, certainly you need to help her find a safer way to have fun.{#blank#}5{#/blank#}.But remember that some children need to watch for a while before they feel comfortable joining in —encourage everyone to join the fun, but don't push.
A.Make your home safe for play. B.Make sure there are enough parents to talk with C.You'll need a safe space that has been carefully child-proofed. D.It is also necessary to help a child who does not know how to get started. E.This can be a great way for your child to interact with her partners F.It is enough to have a few interesting and safe toys to help everyone feel comfortable. G.If you have older children, of course, they will do a lot of playing with your younger ones. |
Reducing the amount of sleep affects students' performance at school. An American study asked schoolteachers to look at the effects of sleep restriction(限制) on children between six and twelve years of age. The teachers found that children who stayed up late had trouble thinking clearly and had more learning problems.
{#blank#}1{#/blank#} Doctor Fallone now works at the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri. He presented the results last month at a science reporter conference in Washington, D. C. The Publication Sleep also reported the findings.
The teachers were asked to complete weekly performance reports on seventy-four schoolchildren. The study lasted three weeks. During that period, Doctor Fallone and his team controlled the amount of sleep the children received.
{#blank#}2{#/blank#} During another week, every child was kept awake later than normal. Each night, the youngest boys and girls had less than eight hours of sleep. The older ones were limited to six and a half hours. During the final week of the study, each child received no less than ten hours of sleep a night.
The teachers were not told about how much sleep the students received. The study found that students who received eight hours or less had the most difficulty remembering old information. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}
The study did not find that sleep restriction caused hyperactivity(极度活跃) in the children. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}
Doctor Fall one said that the results provided experts and parents with a clear message: {#blank#}5{#/blank#}
A. The sleeping time that the students have can be changed easily. B. They also had trouble learning new information, completing difficult work and following directions. C. During one week, the children went to bed and awoke at their usual time. D. The teacher should restrict the amount of sleep of the students. E. Gahan Fallone did the study at the Brown Medical School and Bradley Hospital in the state of Rhode Island. F. The teachers reported that students were, in fact, a little less active at school when they got less sleep. G. When a child has learning problems, the issue of sleep must be considered among the possible causes. |
Most people have some regret that they just can't seem to get rid of. But holding on to regret about the past that can't be changed can have a bad impact on the possibility of a happy future. Regret is a waste of time, emotion and energy. To make sure that your life is a successful one, you need to take action to live in a way that you have no regret holding you back.
Some people make very big decisions with very little consideration at all, and as a result they often regret their decisions. Before choosing a college major, getting married or accepting a job, you must think about all conditions carefully and make a conscious decision rather than a careless one. Big decisions aren't the only ones that require forethought, though. Before you become angry and say something you will regret later, think about what you're going to say.
Some of things will be easy to do and some will be hard, but keep your eyes on the prize of living a successful life without regret, and you'll find that achieving your goals might be easier than you think. But don't just daydream about those goals—make an actual list, written down in black and white, and refer to it now and then to see what you have left to do.
When you're feeling happy and full of energy, taking care of yourself isn't a problem. But in those days when you feel like crawling beneath the bed and never coming out again, you still must take care of yourself. You can do what you want and don't get angry with yourself about your shortcomings. On the contrary, you just admit them and try to change them and move on. Improving your mental health is just as important as taking care of yourself physically.
Keep those who are important to you very close and be sure to let them know how important they are to you. Family, friends, co-workers and people who are as close as your families are your lifelines that you can depend on whenever you need them to help you remember what's important in life. You should make sure of repairing your relationships with your friends if something bad happens.
Last but not least, learn to give yourself some relaxation and not to waste your time regretting things you cannot change. Treat those things properly and move on. Life is hard, but it is precious. Don't waste time regretting the past, or your future will get here before you know it.
Title: Living without regret | ||
Theme | Regret is a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} part of life. What you should do is to take action to make you life a success without regret. | |
{#blank#}2{#/blank#} for getting rid of regret | ▲Regret about the past can greatly {#blank#}3{#/blank#} your possible happy future. ▲Regret wastes time, emotion and energy. | |
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} | {#blank#}5{#/blank#} twice before you act. | ▲ Take everything into careful {#blank#}6{#/blank#} before making decisions or say something. |
{#blank#}7{#/blank#} the things you want to do. | ▲Focus your eyes on the things which will bring you happiness. ▲Put your goals into {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. | |
Take care of yourself. | Make sure that you are in good {#blank#}9{#/blank#} both physically and mentally. | |
Keep close relationships. | Keep close to those who are important to you. | |
Don't care about small things. | Don't regret things that are {#blank#}10{#/blank#} and treasure the present-day life. |
Why the youth sense anger in faces
We tend to believe that older people are more positive and younger people are more sensitive to social cues (暗示).
Recently scientists investigated this idea by testing 10,000 men and women. They wanted to see if age affected a person's ability to identify facial emotions, such as fear and anger.
The researchers from McLean Hospital in the US used a Web-based platform to collect happiness data. It showed the participants two headshots (头部特写)of random people. They were then asked to identify which subject was angrier, happier, or more fearful.
The research found that younger people were able to better identify angry and fearful facial cues than older people.
"From studies and anecdotal evidence, we know that the everyday experiences of an adolescent are different from an older person, but we wanted to understand how these experiences might be linked with differences in basic emotion understanding,wrote Laura Germine, the study's senior author.
But what is it that makes young people more sensitive?
"This is the exact age when young people are most sensitive to forms of negative social cues, such as bullying," Lauren Rutter, the study's lead author, told Science Daily. "The normal development of anger sensitivity can contribute to some of the challenges that arise during this phase of development.
On the contrary across the whole 10,000-person survey, researchers found no decline in the perception (感知)of happiness among older participants.
"What's remarkable is that we see declines in many visual perceptual abilities as we get older, but here we did not see such declines in the perception of happiness, Germine told Neuro Science News.
She added that these findings fit well with other researches, showing that older adults tend to have more positive emotions and a positive outlook.
Following the paper's release, Rutter told Neuro Science News that gathering their primary research online allowed the team to research into a "much larger and more diverse sample set" than previous studies.
Title: Why the youth sense anger in faces | |
Purpose of the research | The idea {#blank#}1{#/blank#} whether age affects people's ability to identify facial emotions. |
Process of the research | The researchers {#blank#}2{#/blank#} happiness data on a web-based platform. |
Two {#blank#}3{#/blank#} head shots were shown to the participants. | |
Participants were asked to identify the more {#blank#}4{#/blank#} subject. | |
{#blank#}5{#/blank#}of the research | Younger people are {#blank#}6{#/blank#} at identifying negative social cues. |
Adolescence is the exact age when anger sensitivity reaches its {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. | |
Perception of happiness isn't on the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} with age. | |
Self-assessment of the research | What the research proves {#blank#}9{#/blank#} with other researches. |
In comparison with previous studies, the sample set of the research is superior in its size and {#blank#}10{#/blank#}. |
The urge to share our lives on social media
People have long used media to see reflections of themselves. Long before mobile phones or even photography, diaries were kept as a way to understand oneself and the world in which one lives. In the 18th and 19th centuries, as diaries became more popular, middle-class New Englanders, particularly white women, wrote about their everyday lives and the world around them.
These diaries were not a place into which they poured their innermost thoughts and desires, but rather a place to chronicle (记录) the social world around them. The diaries captured the everyday routines of mid-19th-century life, and women diarists in particular focused not on themselves but on their families and their communities.
Diaries today are, for the most part, private. But things were different for these New England diaries. Young women who were married would send their diaries home to their parents as a way of maintaining kin (血缘) relations. When family or friends came to visit, it was not uncommon to sit down and go through one's journal together.
Diaries are not the only media that people have used to document lives and share them with others. We have long used media like photo albums, baby books and even slide shows as a means of creating traces (痕迹) of our lives. We do this to understand ourselves and to see trends in our behaviour. We create traces as part of our identity and part of our memory.
Sharing everyday life events can strengthen social connection and intimacy (亲密感). For example, you take a picture of your child's first birthday. It is not only a developmental milestone: the photo also strengthen the identity of the family unit itself. The act of taking the photo and proudly sharing it further reaffirms (再次证实) one as a good and attentive parent. In other words, the media traces of others figure in our own identities.
Today's social media platforms are, by and large, free to use, unlike historical diaries, which people had to buy. Today, advertising subsidises (补贴) our use of networked platforms. Therefore these platforms encourage use of their networks to build larger audiences and to better target them. Our pictures, our posts, and our likes are commodified—that is, they are used to create value through increasingly targeted advertising.
Instead of social media merely connecting us, it has become a craze (狂热) for information, continually trying to draw us in with the promise of social connectivity—it's someone's birthday, someone liked your picture, etc. There's a multibillion-dollar industry pulling us into our smartphones, relying on a longstanding human need for communication.
The urge to be present on social media is much more complex than simply narcissism (自恋).
Social media of all kinds not only enable people to see their reflections, but to feel their connection as well.
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Features of {#blank#}1{#/blank#}media |
♦ People kept {#blank#}2{#/blank#}to understand themselves and the world they live in. ♦ Middle-class Englanders, especially white women diarists focused on their families and communities. ♦ It was common for young married women to {#blank#}3{#/blank#}their diaries with family members or friends. |
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♦ We have long used media to partly show {#blank#}5{#/blank#}we are and what we have experienced in our lives. ♦ Sharing daily life events can make family members {#blank#}6{#/blank#}to each other. |
Present situation of media |
♦ Today's social media platforms can be used for {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. ♦ Private data about us are used as {#blank#}8{#/blank#}through targeted advertising. ♦ Social media are trying to draw more people in by {#blank#}9{#/blank#}to their need for communication. |
Conclusion |
People are greatly interested in the use of social media for narcissism and social {#blank#}10{#/blank#}. |
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