Music can be a great power to change people’s lives. Regina del Carmen Sanchez, 14, always believes this. The girl from Kansas City, US, leads a hard life. She lives in a small house with her mom and grandparents. Her mom gets a very low pay.
But it doesn’t stop Sanchez’s love of music. She wrote her first song Keep Your Head Up when she was 12. It described the bad situation at her home, but it also sent the message of hope: “My house is old and poor, but it beats (胜过) being homeless… Love yourself and never give up. You’ll see a better life if you keep your head up…”
It took Sanchez several months to finish the song. Sometimes during a break in class, when lyrics (歌词) came into her head, “I would have to write them down right then,” she told the local newspaper The Kansas City Star.
Jeremy Lillie was a spokesman for Bright Futures, a charity fund. When he saw the video of the song, he was moved. He shared it through social media (社交媒体). The fund has provided money for poor students in Kansas City.
Now Sanchez often plays the song in public. “I want to help people understand what is happening in the world in an easy way,” she said.
1.There are ________ people in Sanchez’s family.
A. three B. four C. five D. six
2.What’s true about Keep Your Head Up?
A. It was written two years ago.
B. It showed a feeling of hopeless.
C. It described the good situation of a house.
D. It took Sanchez several weeks to write the song.
3.The Kansas City Star is ________.
A. a music group B. a newspaper
C. a charity fund D. a school
4.The word “moved” can be replaced (代替) by ________
A. surprised B. interested
C. touched D. excited
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In summer, it's common on the street to see many Chinese women holding parasols1 to protect themselves from the sun. But when Amy, an exchange student in Beijing from the US, first saw this, she found it strange, even impossible to understand. She wrote on her blog, "Unlike Chinese women, American women like to put on their tank tops and sunglasses during summer. If you walk around an American college campus2, you will probably see girls out on the grassy fields reading, but they really hope to get a head start on their summer tan3. "
This may be caused by the different standards of beauty between the US and China. Many Americans don't want white skin. They would rather be tanned3. Amy also wrote, "Having darker skin is so popular that many women and men will pay for fake4 tans so that they can keep their sun-kissed appearance during the winter months, too. "
Why do they like tanned skin? Michelle Louis reported in her research, "The process of tanning can help make people's skin smooth and hide marks. " She further explained, "Tans make people's skin appear healthier and make them appear thinner than when they have pale skin. "
Perhaps there is no real ideal standard of beauty. In different cultures and at different times of history, the standards change. On Amy's blog, she also gave two examples: Some women carried parasols around trying to keep their white skin in the US 150 years ago; During the Tang Dynasty in China, heavy women were thought attractive. But now, Chinese women prefer to be slim.
In a word, different standards of beauty should be respected. People may grow up with only one idea of what beauty is, but it doesn't mean that it's necessarily the correct or the best idea.
New words:
1. parasol n. umbrella used to protect people from the sun 阳伞
2. campus n. grounds of school, college or university校园
3. tan n. the brown colour of sun-kissed skin 晒成的棕褐
v. become brown by the sun 晒成棕褐色，晒黑
4. fake adj. not real 假的
1.What did Michelle Louis report in her research?
A. Many Chinese prefer white skin to tanned skin.
B. Darker skin is popular among American women and men.
C. Tans make people's skin appear healthier and make them look thinner.
D. Some women would like to keep their skin white in the US 150 years ago.
2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. People in the US like to have tanned skin only in hot summer.
B. American college girls read on the grass because they want to be tanned.
C. Many Chinese women carry parasols to protect themselves from the sun.
D. Amy thought trying to keep white skin with parasols seemed strange at first.
3.The writer really wants to tell us .
A. we should respect different standards of beauty
B. the standards of beauty change at different times
C. different countries have different standards of beauty
D. it's common for people to have only one idea of beauty
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