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.
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Our communities (1) from arts in terms of economy. |
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Arts activity demands a(n) (3) effort. It involves creation, performance, and (4) . ◆Artists make a living through their creative work. ◆Others get paid by marketing the event. |
Arts have a gradually spreading (5) . They could help promote other industries whether they lie inside or outside arts. ◆Besides tickets, some jazz lovers will pay their (6) to and from the events. ◆Arts contribute to cultural development when people gather together to share their experience and renew their energy. |
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Investment in arts could produce potential (7) 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 (8) arts industry. |
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With these (9) in mind, art students need not worry about their career and have a(n) (10) plan. |
【2015·浙江】第二节:下面文章中有5个段落需要添加首句(第61-65题)。请从以下选项(A, B, C,
D, E和F)中选出适合各段落的首句,并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。
A. Come in with something to say.
B. Prepare general comments.
C. Bring materials with you.
D. Don’t make them wait.
E. Have no fear.
F. Go it alone.
One of the best things you can do any time in the semester is go see the professor. So hoof on over to an office hour and have some one-on-one face time with someone who’ll help you master the material and improve your grade, to boot. But how should you have this conversation with the professor? Here are five insider tips about how to make that office hour really count:
No need to get all bent out of shape about going to see the professor. The professor would actually like to see you and answer your questions. Believe it or not, he or she is on your side and is eager to see you do well. And besides, he or she has seen many students stupider than you, so nothing you’re gong to ask will set the record for stupidity.
Even though you might feel more comfortable going with a friend or partner, the office hour will go better if it’s just you and the professor. You’ll get in more questions, the discussion will be tailored to what you need most help on, and two-party communication is almost always more productive than committee work. You friend can wait outside for the discussion.
If you can’t make the official office hours, most professors are willing to make individual, appointments to help you out. If you’re lucky enough to land such an accommodation, though, be sure you’re 100 percent on time. There’s nothing that ticks off a professor more than making him-or herself available for a custom office hour only to find that you don’t care enough to come on time. And besides, the professor might leave after ten minutes, which would make your trip a total loss.
If you’re meeting with the professor to go over a paper or test, or to ask questions about a particular lecture or reading, make sure you bring that paper or test, or your lecture notes or a copy of the article. The professor doesn’t remember the comments he or she wrote on your individual piece of work—though he or she will be able to recall them after just a brief glance at your work. And if you have your lecture notes or the article in hand, you and the professor will be able to examine specific points that are confusing to you, rather than just talking in a general way about the contents.
Office hours almost always go better if you bring a few specific questions to the meeting. It’s almost never good to start a meeting with general comments such as:“I didn’t understand what you said about [main topic of the course]”or“I couldn’t understand any of your lectures last week.”Much better is to come in with two or three conversation-starters, about a specific concept, point, or problem you didn’t understand. Keep in mind that in a fifteen-minute office hour (which is how long these things usually last), two or three questions are usually the most you’ll have time to discuss.
In much of Asia,especially the so-called"rice bowl" cultures of China,Japan,Korea, 41Vietnam,food is usually eaten with chopsticks.
Chopsticks are usually two long,thin pieces of wood or bamboo.They can also be made of plastic,animal bone or metal.Sometimes chopsticks are quite artistic.Truly elegant chopsticks might 42 (make)of gold and silver with Chinese characters.Skilled workers also combine various hardwoods and metal 43 (create)special designs.
The Chinese have used chopsticks for five thousand years.People probably cooked their f ood in large pots, 44 (use)twigs( 树枝 )to remove it.Over time, 45 thepopulation grew,people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly.
Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which 46(gradual)turned into chopsticks.
Some people think that the great Chinese scholar Confucius, 47 lived from roughly 551 to 479 B.C.,influenced the 48 (develop)of chopsticks.Confucius believed knives would remind people of killings and 49 (be)too violent for use at the table.
Chopsticks are not used everywhere in Asia.In India,for example,most people traditionally eat 50their hands.
第二节(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
根据短文内容,从下框的A~F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余项。
A. The mistaken belief
B. The need for tolerance
C. Unpunctuality at dinners
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Sam is an in-real-life streamer(播主),and he live streams himself just going about his day.While riding his bike home 14 a cold night,he came across a sad-looking elderly woman wandering the streets by herself.The poor woman wasn't able to give him any information about 15 she lived.Sam walked her to a nearby convenience store so that she could 16 (safe) wait for the police to take her home.
【2015·江苏】任务型阅读 (共 10 小题; 每小题 1 分, 满分 10 分)
请阅读下面短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意: 请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。 每个空格只填一个单词。
People select news in expectation of a reward. This reward may be either of two kinds. One is related to what Freud calls the Pleasure Principle, the other to what he calls the Reality Principle. For want of better names, we shall call these two classes immediate reward and delayed reward.
In general, the kind of news which may be expected to give immediate reward are news of crime and corruption, accidents and disasters, sports, social events, and human interest. Delayed reward may be expected from news of public affairs, economic matters, social problems, science, education, and health.
News of the first kind pays its rewards at once. A reader can enjoy an indirect experience without any of the dangers or stresses involved. He can tremble wildly at an axe-murder, shake his head sympathetically and safely at a hurricane, identify himself with the winning team, laugh understandingly at a warm little story of children or dogs.
News of the second kind, however, pays its rewards later. It sometimes requires the reader to tolerate unpleasantness or annoyance — as, for example, when he reads of the threatening foreign situation, the mounting national debt, rising taxes, falling market, scarce housing, and cancer. It has a kind of “threat value.” It is read so that the reader may be informed and prepared. When a reader selects delayed reward news, he pulls himself into the world of surrounding reality to which he can adapt himself only by hard work. When he selects news of the other kind, he usually withdraws from the world of threatening reality toward the dream world.
For any individual, of course, the boundaries of these two classes are not stable. For example, a sociologist may read news of crime as a social problem, rather than for its immediate reward. A coach may read a sports story for its threat value: he may have to play that team next week. A politician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting, not for its delayed reward, but very much as his wife reads an account of a party. In any given story of corruption or disaster, a thoughtful reader may receive not only the immediate reward of indirect experience, but also the delayed reward of information and preparedness. Therefore, while the division of categories holds in general, an individual’s tendency may transfer any story from one kind of reading to another, or divide the experience between the two kinds of reward.
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● News of immediate reward will seemingly take their readers to the very frightening scene without actual . ● Readers will associate themselves closely with what happens in the news stories andsimilar feelings with those involved. |
● News of delayed reward will make readers suffer, or present ato them. ● News of delayed reward will induce the reader to for the reality while news of immediate reward will lead the reader to from the reality. |
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● What readers expect from news stories are largely shaped by their . ● Serious readers will both get excited over what happens in some news stories andthemselves to the reality. ● Thus, the division, on the whole, on the reader. |
Population Change
Why is the world's population growing? The answer is not what you might think. The reason for the explosion is not that people have been reproducing like rabbits, but that people have stopped dropping dead like flies. In 1900, people died at the average age of 30.By 2000 the average age was 65.But while increasing health was a typical feature of the 20 thcentury, declining birth rate could be a defining one of the 21 st.
Statistics show that the average number of births per woman has fallen from 4.9 in the early 1960s to 2.5 nowadays. Furthermore, around 50% of the world's population live in regions where the figure is now below the replacement level(i.e.2.1 births per woman)and almost all developed nations are experiencing sub-replacement birth rate. You might think that developing nations would make up the loss(especially since80% of the world's people now live in such nations), but you'd be wrong. Declining birth rate is a major problem in many developing regions too, which might cause catastrophic global shortages of work force within a few decades.
A great decline in young work force is likely to occur in China, for instance. What does it imply? First, China needs to undergo rapid economic development before a population decline hits the country. Second, if other factors such as technology remain constant, economic growth and material expectations will fall well below recent standards and this could invite trouble.
Russia is another country with population problems that could break its economic promise. Since 1992 the number of people dying has been bigger than that of those being born by a massive 50%,Indeed official figures suggest the country has shrunk by 5% since 1993 and people in Russia live a shorter life now than those in 1961.Why is this occurring? Nobody is quite sure, but poor diet an above all long-time alcoholism have much to do with it. If current trends don't bend. Russia's population will be about the size of Yemen's by the year 2050.
In the north of India, the population is booming due to high birth rates, but in the south, where most economic development is taking place, birth rate is falling rapidly. In a further twist, birth rate is highest in poorly educated rural areas and lowest in highly educated urban areas. In total, 25% of India's working-age population has no education. In 2030, a sixth of the country's potential work force could be totally uneducated.
One solution is obviously to import foreign workers via immigration. As for the USA, it is almost unique among developed nations in having a population that is expected to grow by 20% from 2010-2030. Moreover, the USA has a track record of successfully accepting immigrants. As a result it's likely to see a rise in the size of its working-age population and to witness strong economic growth over the longer term.
任务型读写(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
Self-motivation is a great way for doing things better in life. Exercising not only helps you to stay fit, but also freshens up your body from within. Despite being aware of the benefits of exercise, people fail to put it in their lives, because their motivation is very limited.
An optimistic attitude will not only help you to try continuously, but also make sure you fight all possible difficulties easily. On the other hand, a pessimistic attitude will show you only the bad in what you want to do, stopping your will to try at the very beginning.
To be determined about something takes a lot of courage. It’s very easy to give up and everyone can do it. To continuously keep at it, putting in the same efforts all the time, takes courage. Be determined to lose weight. Tell yourself you have to do it.
If your role model has been in your mind, then you are very likely to follow him or her. So why not follow the path by which they have got an envious figure?
Always feel good about where you work out. This way you will be regular with your workout schedule, gradually noticing the positive effects it has on you. This makes sure that you think your surroundings positively in your mind and that your probability of visiting it increases.
Every time you lose a decided number of pounds, congratulate yourself, relax your muscles or shop for relaxation.
If you have a fast-paced lifestyle, you won’t even realize when time flies by. By exercising regularly, you’re adding more years to your life. A long life is the best motivation, isn’t it?
Apart from all these things, you must set a goal and encourage all your energy towards achieving it. Last but not least, it’s very important that you enjoy what you are doing, whether it’s working out at the gym, or practicing yoga at home.
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People can’t insist on exercising in their lives because they don’t have _______ motivation. |
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●When you have an optimistic attitude, you can try continuously and have no difficulty ____ all possible difficulties. ●To lose weight, you should put in the same efforts all the time and _____ at it with courage. ●Choose a person who has got a perfect figure as your _____ and follow their path to exercise. ●Feeling good about where you work out has some _____ effects on you. ●Once you have _____ a certain number of pounds, you’d better congratulate yourself. ●For a long term, exercising regularly ______ that you’re adding more years to your life. ● ____ a goal is helpful for encouraging all your energy towards achieving it. |
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Since exercise has so many ____, you’d better enjoy what you are doing, whether it’s working out at the gym, or practicing yoga at home. |
Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. counting B. determined C. distraction D. environmental E. focus F. modified G. naturally H. performing I. worsening J. comprehensively K. significant |
Myopia, or short﹣sightedness, is a condition in which distant objects appear blurred (模糊的), but closer objects can usually be seen in sharp focus. Its biological basis is an eye that, during childhood, has grown too long for its optical power. The focal plane for images of distant objects ends up in front of the retina, causing out﹣of (1) perception.
Myopia was once regarded as almost totally genetically (2) . But its prevalence (流行) has increased spectacularly in urban mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan and South Korea, where 80﹣90% of those completing high school are now short﹣sighted. This is up from 20﹣30% only two generations ago. Since gene pools do not change that fast, these massive changes must be due to(3) change. In 2005, we (4) reviewed the research on myopia and found a correlation with education. (This was not a particularly novel insight: such a link was supposed as far back as Kepler in 1604.) We found locations with a high prevalence of myopia were all top performers in surveys of international educational outcomes.
Fortunately, not all high (5) locations, Australia among them, showed a high prevalence of myopia. This shows that high educational outcomes do not necessarily lead to myopia. We also hypothesized that all human population groups had a tendency to develop myopia under particular environmental conditions. Indeed. North America and Europe have seen growing rates of myopia, although they are still nowhere near as high as in East and Southeast Asia.
A common cutoff for high myopia is 5 diopters (屈光度). This means vision is blurred beyond 20cm from the eyes. Such severe or high myopia increases with age and can lead to visual impairment that can't be corrected. The prevalence of high myopia has now reached 20% in young adults in East and Southeast Asia, which foreshadows major increases in visual (6) and blindness as these young adults age. So prevention of myopia has become crucial, particularly for East and Southeast Asia.
Australia has (7) low levels of myopia with a lifestyle that emphasizes outdoors activities. Young children report spending two to three hours a day outside, not (8) time outdoors at school. However, there are formidable barriers to achieving this benchmark in locations where spending time outdoors is seen as a(n)(9) from study. Policy responses must therefore also aim to slow the progression of myopia, the phenomenon in which mild to (10) myopia becomes more severe during childhood. There is currently controversy over whether time outdoors slows progression, but strong seasonal effects on progression suggest that it may.
Chengdu has dozens of new millionaires, Asia's biggest building, and fancy new hotels. But for tourists like me, pandas are its top____61_(attract).
So it was a great honour to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit Panda Base, where ticket money helps pay for research, I_____62_(allow)to get up close to these cute animals at the 600-acre centre. From tomorrow, I will be their UK ambassador. The title will be __63___(official) given to me at a ceremony in London. But my connection with pandas goes back ____64__ my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, ____65_ I was the first Western TV reporter__66___ (permit) to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild. My ambassadorial duties will include ____67_(introduce) British visitors to the 120-plus pandas at Chengdu and others at a research in the misty mountains of Bifengxia.
On my recent visit, I help a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by _____68_ (it) mother. The nursery team switches him every few __69__( day) with his sister so that while one is being bottle-fed, __70____ other is with mum-she never suspects.
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
ㅤXiao long bao(soup dumplings),those amazing constructions of delicate dumpling wrappers,encasing hot,(1)____(taste)soup and sweet,fresh meat,are far and away my favorite Chinese street food. The dumplings arrive steaming and dangerously hot. To eat one,you have to decide whether(2)____(bite)a small hole in it first,releasing the stream and risking a spill(溢出),(3)____to put the whole dumpling in your mouth,letting the hot soup explode on your tongue. Shanghai maybe the (4)____(recognize)home of the soup dumplings but food historians will actually point you to the neighboring canal town of Nanxiang as Xiao long bao's birthplace. There you will find them prepared differently﹣more dumpling and less soup,and the wrappers are pressed (5)____hand rather than rolled. Nanxiang aside,the best Xiao long bao have a fine skin,allowing them (6)____(lift)out of the steamer basket without allowing them tearing or spilling any of (7)____(they)contents. The meat should be fresh with (8)____ touch of sweetness and the soup hot,clear and delicious.
ㅤNo matter where I buy them,one steamer is (9)____(rare)enough,yet two seems greedy,so I am always left (10)____ (want)more next time.
For thousands of years,people have told fables (寓言)(1) (teach) a lesson or to pass on wisdom.Fables were part of the oral tradition of many early cultures,and the well﹣known Aesop's fables date to the(2) (six) century B.C.Yet,the form of the fable still has values today,(3) Rachel Carson says in " A Fable for Tomorrow. "
Carson uses a simple,direct style common to fable.In fact,her style and tone (口吻) are seemingly directed at children. "There was once a town in the heart of America,(4) all life seemed to enjoy peaceful existence with its surroundings," her fable begins,(5) (borrow) some familiar words from many age ﹣ old fables.Behind the simple style,however,is a serious message (6) (intend) for everyone.
(7) (difference) from traditional fables,Carson's story ends with an accusation instead of a moral.She warns of the environmental dangers facing society,and she teaches that people must take responsibility(8) saving their environment.
The themes of traditional fables often deal with simple truths about everyday life.However,Carson's theme is a more weighty(9) (warn) about environmental destruction.Carson proves that a simple lyric form that has been passed down through the ages can still (10) (employ) today to draw attention to important truths.
Why do we dream?Scientists aren't completely sure,and they have diverse 11 (idea).Dreams might be a side effect of memory making.When you sleep,your brain sorts through everything 12 happened during the day,trying to link new experiences to old memories. As it 13 (connect) things,your brain tums them into a story,and you get a dream.
After reading the passage below , fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word , fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word ; for the other blanks , use one word that best fits each blank.
Millions of Baby Olive Ridley Turtles Emerge in Orissa
Nature is full of wonders. In (1) is one of the most breathtaking sights in nature, millions of baby Ridley turtles broke out of their eggshells under the sand at one of their mass nesting grounds in coastal Orissa. The baby turtles started their journey towards the Bay of Bengal (2) they emerged from their nest in the southern district of Ganjam, about 175 km from Bhubaneshwar.
Orissa is the home to three mass nesting sites of the Oliver turtles, a species (3) (threaten) with extinction, and one of the sites, Gahirmatha,(4) around 70 to 80 million turtles lay eggs on the beach every year, is considered one of the world's largest nesting sites.
The female turtles drag (5) up the beach from the sea, dig a nest, lay at least one hundred eggs, cover and conceal their eggs and nest, and then return to the sea. The females never visit the nest again to take care of the eggs that (6) (deposit) in the warm sand.
The baby turtles emerge from the eggs after 45 60 days, then the babies grow without their mother, which is a rare phenomenon in nature, Interestingly, it is on the same beach where they were born (7) the females lay their eggs.
In the recent years, sea erosion has led to many turtles' nest (8) (damage) or destroyed. Also, some fierce animals such as dogs and birds (9) (reduce) the number of nesting turtles. And of course man has also had a negative impact (10)
using engine﹣powered fishing boats near the turtles' nesting grounds.
Secret codes (密码)keep messages private。Banks, companies, and government agencies use secret codes in doing business, especially when information is sent by computer.
People have used secret codes for thousands of years. 36 Code breaking never lags(落后) far behind code making. The science of creating and reading coded messages is called cryptography.
There are three main types of cryptography. 37 For example, the first letters of "My elephant eats too many eels" Spell out the hidden message "Meet me."
38 You might represent each letter with a number, For example, Let's number the letters of the alphabet, in order, from 1 to 26. If we substitute a number for each letter, the message "Meet me" would read "13 5 20 13 5."
A code uses symbols to replace words, phrases, or sentences. To read the message of a real code, you must have a code book. 39 For example "bridge" might stand for "meet" and "out" might stand for "me." The message "bridge out" would actually mean "Meet me." 40 However, it is also hard to keep a code book secret for long. So codes must be changed frequently.
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Only people who know the keyword can read the message. |
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As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them. |
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You can hide a message by having the first letters of each word spell it out. |
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With a code book, you might write down words that would stand for other words. |
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Another way to hide a message is to use symbols to stand for specific letters of the alphabet. |