阅读理解 Do you like table tennis? If you had travelled to cities in the UK li
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summer, you might have seen one of the dozens of free tablesthat were there as part of a project (项目)
called Ping!.
What is Ping!?
Ping! is a three-year table tennis project. It has been running since 2010 and this year, 2012, is the
final year. The idea is to put free table tennis tables in eight different towns in the UK for four weeks
during the summer. Each table comes with its own bats and balls and is free to play. You can find the
tables outdoors.
What does Ping! hope to achieve?
It would be great if Ping!helped find a new Olympic table tennis star but what Ping! really hopes.
To achieve is just to get people playing and having fun together."Putting a ping pong table on the street
gives people a chance to connect with other people," said MeeraSodha, Ping! Project Manager.
One of the towns that took part in the project was Hull, a city in England. Forty-five tables were put
into the city. JakobAdamski, an ESOL student learning.English, said, "I really enjoyed playing table tennis
in the park. It was alsoagood way for me to practise my English and meet people."
B. Last winter.
C. In 2010.
D. In 2012.
B. Holding table tennis matches.
C. Teaching people how to .play table tennis.
D. Putting free table tennis tables in some towns.
B. to invite people to visit the UK cities
C. to get people to play and have fun together.
D. to encourage people to take part in the 2012 0lympics
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ike a wolf (狼). Other animals like the fox, came from this ancestor, too.Thousands of years ago, man began to tame (驯服) the wild dogs . When the dogs were tame, they
were trained (训练). The strong dogs became working animals. They were trained to pull heavy loads
(担子). They learned to keep watch over the sheep and other animals. Working dogs had other jobs,
too.
Some dogs were not strong. But they could help man hunt for game
. Other dogs were best as pets.At first, there were only a few kinds of dogs. Today there are more than 10
0 kinds.( )2. The story make us believe that Man has helped change animals.
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and trees an
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are longer and the night are shorter.
The weather in autumn is very nice. It"s always warm and sunny in September and October.
People like going out in this season.
The winter is always from December to February. It"s very cold in winter and it snows sometimes.
songs, music tones in themselves have no specific meanings. Different people may get different things from
the same musical performance. Though some music works are difficult to understand, people need music
in their daily life because it brings fun to them. Different people like different music: some love classical
music, and others take pleasure in pop music. Most young people like pop music.
Pop music began in the USA and became popular around the world during the 1950s and 60s. The
best-known early kind of pop music was “rock and roll”. Pop music has taken the place of native music
in many parts of the world. It has caused the number of people for “jazz” music to become much smaller
than in the 1950s and earlier and it has now begun to become the most popular. Much pop music is
without artistic value (价值), but the works of some pop singers such as the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the
groups like Pink Floyd and Crosby are excellent. And there is still great interest in it today. Pop music
concerts and festivals are held all over the world.
B. lyrics and tones
C. languages and countries
D. meanings
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C. as great as
D. as small as
B. Class.
C. Feature.
D. Entertainment.
B. Jazz.
C. Pop music.
D. Classical music.
B. Pop music began to be popular in the mid-twentieth century.
C. The best known early form of pop music was “rock and roll”.
D. Much pop music is of great artistic value, so it interests young people greatly.