The following is the information about plays which will be on these days.
Big and Little
It is a play written by Botho Strauss and directed by Laurence Strangio, featuring (由……主演) second-year Performing Arts students. It is about a lonely woman living in a big city. From the play, we can learn how to get along well with our friends, our family, our lovers, ... and with ourselves.
A dreamlike journey in search of identity ...
When:15-17 March, 7:30 pm
Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus (校园)
Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions (优惠票价) $5
You can get the tickets at the door.
Love Play
It is written by Moira Buffini and directed by Trent Baker, featuring Performing Arts students.
First-year Performing Arts students present
Love Play. It follows a series of unexpected meetings that have taken place in the same place in London across 2,000 years, through the centuries from the Romans to the Elizabethans to the present day. Love Play is a comedy that challenges the reasons and ways we want love.
When:17-19 April, 8 pm
Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus
Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5
You can get the tickets at the door.
Smashed
It is a play written by Lally Katz and directed by Suzanne Chaundy, featuring second-year Performing Arts students. Smashed is about friendship, time travel and death. Writing for TheAge, Helen Thomson calls the play "a wonderful memory of childhood on the edge (边缘) of adulthood."Smashedp raises invention, imagination and girl power.
When: 24-26 April, 8 pm
Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus
Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5 You can get the tickets at the door. We can know from the passage that Moira Buffini ______.
A.is a character in Big and Little |
B.is the director of Smashed |
C.wrote the play Love Play |
D.once wrote for The Age |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.All the plays begin at 8 pm on Clayton campus. |
B.The tickets have different prices but all are sold at the door. |
C.Love Play is a comedy which has a different idea about love. |
D.All the plays are performed by second-year Performing Arts students. |
The play Big and Little is mainly about _________.
A.friendship, time travel and death |
B.the life experience of a lonely woman |
C.the life of a Performing Arts student on Clayton campus |
D.unexpected meetings in London during the past 2,000 years |
Scholars and researchers have tried to discover what personality characteristics go along with success in different cultural experiences. Their findings have often been unclear or incomplete. But three typical characteristics stand out in their reports: patience, a sense of humor, and the awareness of being unclear.
Patience, of course, is the ability to keep calm when things do not go as one wants them to, or as one hopes they would, or even as one was sure they would. Impatience sometimes brings improvements in relations with other people, but usually it does not.
A person with a sense of humor is less likely to take things too seriously and more ready to see the humor in his own reaction than a humorless person. The value of a sense of humor really needs to be paid more attention to.
“The awareness of being unclear” is a more difficult concept to understand than patience and a sense of humor. Foreigners often find themselves in situations that are unclear as they are newcomers. That is, they do not know what is happening in a certain situation. Perhaps they do not understand the local language well enough, or they do not know how some system or organization works, or they can’t be sure of different people’s roles in what is going on. “It’s like that I just got here from the moon,” a Chinese graduate student who newly arrived in the United States said. “Things are just so different here.”The passage mainly tells us ______.
A.about some uneasy traveling experiences in foreign countries |
B.about the three main ways to communicate with foreigners |
C.about some typical characteristics in different cultural experiences |
D.how to show your characters to foreigners |
According to the passage, which characteristic should be focused on most?
A.The ability to keep cool. | B.The sense of humor. |
C.Patience. | D.The awareness of being unclear. |
“The awareness of being unclear” refers to “______” .
A.not knowing what is happening in a situation |
B.not understanding the local language well enough |
C.being aware that the situation is unclear |
D.not knowing how some system or organization works |
By what the Chinese graduate student said, we can learn that ______.
A.he is not used to the culture of America |
B.he went to the United States to study the moon |
C.he is a person with a sense of humor |
D.he has just returned from the moon |
The home computer industry has been growing rapidly in the United States in the last ten years. Computers used to be large, expensive machines that were very difficult to use. But scientists and technicians have been making them smaller and cheaper while at the same time they have been made easier to use. As a result, their popularity has been increasing as more people have been buying computers for their homes and businesses.
Computers have been designed to store information and compute problems that are difficult for human beings to work out. Some have voices that speak to their operators. Stores use computers to keep records of their inventories and to send bills to their customers. Offices use computers to copy letters, record business and keep in touch with other offices. People also use computers in their homes to keep track of the money they spend.
One important new use of computers is for entertainment. Many new games have been designed to be played on computers. People of all ages play these games. People also buy home computers to watch movies and listen to concerts at home. They have become very popular indeed.Compared with those of today, computers used to ______.
A.work rapidly | B.be used for fun |
C.be large and expensive | D.be easy to use |
In recent years, computers have become ______.
A.more and more difficult to use | B.slower and slower |
C.more and more expensive | D.smaller and smaller |
Home computers can be used for ______.
A.doing business | B.writing letters |
C.playing games | D.all of the above |
Salesmen use computers mainly to ______.
A.talk with their friends | B.write letters |
C.check the list of goods and send bills | D.play games for pleasure |
"I didn't hear them call my name," explained Shelley Hennig to Active Teens (AT) as she talked about that exciting moment on national television when she won the honor of Miss Teen USA 2004. "Are you ready?" is what she heard. Then she said, "I shook my head no, and then they said ‘yes’ and it was announced again."
It was four days after that life changing moment for the seventeen-year-old high school student from Destrehan, Louisiana----she was still on cloud nine.
"I was so shocked! I never believed that it could actually really happen." Present in the audience(观众)that day were: her mother and father, older brother, her friends, and her dance teacher.
Understanding why members of her family and her friends would be there, AT asked why her
dance teacher had traveled so far to see her compete(比赛)."She's always been my role model.I've danced with her since I was six. She's been through so many difficulties and came through them all. I've learned to get over bad life's experiences and learned how to move on because of her."
One of those bad life's experiences for Shelley happened three years ago when her brother Brad was killed in a drunk driving accident. He was 18. She found writing helped her get through the rough days. She said, "I write a lot about my brother. I write a lot, a lot, a lot...”
As Miss Louisiana Teen, she traveled around the state speaking to teens(青少年)about the dangers of drinking and driving. In her role as Miss Teen USA, Sheiley will continue to speak to youth about safe driving, in addition to many other things to help the youth.
When AT asked Miss Teen USA if she had any advice for our readers, she said, "Don't let anyone change you. Hang out with people that make you feel good about yourself. That way, it is easy to be yourself."What do the words “on cloud nine” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A.frightened | B.troubled | C.very happy | D.very angry |
Shelley takes her dance teachers as a role medel mainly because she is .
A.determined | B.friendly | C.strict | D.experienced |
How many children did the Hennigs have according to the text?
A.1. | B.2. | C.3. | D.4. |
What suggestion does Shelley give to the teens?
A.Be yourself with the support of friends |
B.Meet friends whenever possible |
C.Go easy on yourself and others |
D.Have a good role model |
The way we do things round here
Some years ago, I was hired by an American bank. I received a letter from the head of the Personnel Department that started, "Dear John, I am quite pleased that you have decided to join us." That "quite" saddened me. I thought he was saying "we're kind of pleased you decided to join us although I wish we had hired someone else." Then I discovered that in American English "quite" sometimes means "very", while in British English it means "fairly".
So the first lesson about working in other countries is to learn the language and by that I don't just mean the words people speak. It is body language, dress, manners, ideas and so on. The way people do things highlights many of the differences we see between cultures(文化).
Some of these differences may be only on the surface-dress, food and hours of work-while others may be deeper and take longer to deal with. Mostly, it is just a question of getting used to the differences and accepting them, like the climate(气候),while getting on with business.
Some of the differences may be an improvement. People are more polite; the service is better; you ask for something to be done and it happens without having to ask again. However, other differences can be troubling, like punctuality(准时).If you invite people to a party at 7 o'clock your guests will consider it polite to turn up exactly on time in Germany, five minutes early in the
American Midwest, an hour early in Japan, 15 minutes afterwards in the UK, up to an hour afterwards in Italy and some time in the evening in Greece. I prefer not to use the word "late" because there is nothing wrong with the times people arrive. It is simply the accepted thing to do in their own country.The author was unhappy as mentioned in paragraph 1 because he thought_____.
A.the American bank didn’t think much of him |
B.the American bank might hire another person |
C.it’s difficult to get used to American culture. |
D.it’s easy to misunderstanding Americans |
The word “highlights”in paragraph 2 probably means_____
A.encourage | B.helps to marrow |
C.increase | D.draws attention to |
According to the author, what should we do with most cultural differences?
A.Ask the native people for help. | B.Understand and accept them. |
C.Do things in our own way. | D.Do in-depth research. |
. When invited to a party the people who are usually punctual are______.
A.Italians | B.Germans | C.Greeks | D.the British |
Most people know that Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the first person to win it twice. However, few people know that she was also the mother of a Nobel Prize winner.
Born in September, 1987, Irene Curie was the first of the Curies’ two daughters. Along with nine other children whose parents were also famous scholars, Irene studied in their own school, and her mother was one of the teachers. She finished her high school education at the College of Sévigné in Paris.
Irene entered the University of Paris in 1914 to prepare for a degree in mathematics and physics. When World War I began, Irene went to help her mother, who was using X-ray facilities(设备) to help save the lives of wounded soldiers.Irene continued the work by developing X-ray facilities in military hospitals in France and Belgrum. Her services were recognised in the form of a Military’s Medal by the French government.
In 1918, Irene became her mother’s assistant at the Curie Institute. In December 1924, Frederic Joliot joined the Institute, and Irene taugh him the techniques required for his work. They soon fell in love and were married in 1926. Their daughter Helene was born in 1927 and their son Pierre five years later.
Like her mother, Irene combined family and career. Like her mother, Irene was awarded a Nobel Prize, along with her husband, in 1935. Unfortunately, also like her mother, she developed leukemia because of her work with radioactivity(辐射能). Irene Joliot-Curie died from leukemia on March 17, 1956.Why was Irene Curie awarded a Military Medal?
A.Because she received a degree in mathematics. |
B.Because she contributed to saving the wounded. |
C.Because she won the Nobel Prize with Frederic. |
D.Because she worked as a helper to her mother. |
Where did Irene Curie meet her husband Frederio joliot?
A.At the Curie Institute. | B.At the Cniversity of Paris. |
C.At a military hospital. | D.At the College of Sevigne. |
When was the second child of Irene Curie and Frederic Joliot born?
A.In 1932. | B.In 1927. | C.In 1897. | D.In 1926. |
In which of the following aspects was Irene Cuire different from her mother?
A.Irene worked with radioactivity |
B.Irene combined family and career. |
C.Irene won the Nobel Prize once |
D.Irene died from leukemia. |