【正文】 ill add some local elements like taking traditional Chinese folk songs, Love Song of Kangding and My Motherland, as acpaniments.Date: January 13 to 18, 7:30 pm Venue: Shanghai Culture SquareAddress: 597 Fuxing Road MiddleTickets: 80 yuan to 800 yuanCall 02164729000 for details[]21. When can visitors enjoy some art free of charge? A. December 20. B. December 15. C. January 14. D. January 18.22. What can we learn about . Lowry? A. The style of his works is negative. B. His exhibition will be held until the end of December. C. His work was only exhibited in his motherland before. D. He preferred to create works on the street.23. What can we learn from the passage? A. The . Lowry Exhibition will be open six days a week before December 16. B. The number of songs at the concert has been announced by the organizers. C. People can enjoy three activities in the same city in late December. D. The first Riverdance show was performed perfectly in Dublin in 1994.BI live on the West Coast of British Columbia with my husband and three children. Our day started like any other day. My husband left for work in the north of the town, which is an hour and a half’s drive. The younger children caught their bus to school ten minutes away. Our oldest attends high school and is a 40minute drive away. I work at home in the office, working on the puter.It was November 2006 and the news had reported gusty winds. When the winds started to get strong I shut the puter down and tried to phone my husband. I left a message telling him the winds were blowing at 80 to 90 km/hr. As I hung up the phone, I heard a tree crack. I went outside and stood in the driveway. Another tree exploded and my heart was racing.When the school bus carrying the youngsters arrived, I ran to get them. No sooner had we made it to the house than another tree exploded. The children were clearly scared, so I loaded them up into the car and we parked in the middle of the yard, where no trees could land on us, it was starting to get dark.My oldest son didn’t e home on the bus and my husband was stranded at work. I called the high school and reached my son. He said he was stranded and didn’t know what to do. I called a friend in town for help. He managed to get my son home to me. Finally, my husband managed to get home.We had been prepared for such events, as we had a generator, candles, a wood stove, fresh water, batteries and two freezers full of food. We were without power for five days. But we didn’t panic―we had all the emergency equipment we needed. Thankfully, none of our neighbours were injured, but the damage was extensive. We are witnessing climate change. We need to be prepared. 24. When did the mother hear a tree crack for the third time?A. When she was on the phone. B. After she hung up the phone.C. Right before she and her kids went into the house.D. Right after she and her kids got into the house.25. Why did the mother park the car in the middle of the yard?A. It was dark inside the house. B. It was safer there than in the house.C. She wanted to wait for her family there. D. She wanted to receive help from others.26. What does the underlined phrase “stranded at work” probably mean?A. Busy pleting his work. B. Under the pressure of work. C. Stuck at the workplace. D. Worried while working.27. Why didn’t the family feel anxious when there was a power failure?A. Everyone made it home. B. They encouraged each other.C. The power would very soon be restored. D. They had got all the necessities for emergency.CDarwin noted that some human emotional expressions might have started as part of a physiological function: for example, exposing the teeth to bite food. The function, however, took on meaning and became a form of munication which signals anger.The same may be true for the animals. Baby monkeys cry for attention. They also cry to signal to an adult that they want to be carried.“Chimpanzees do make upset voice when they are being weaned (斷奶) by their mothers or have lost their mothers or another individual,” says Anne Pusey, a professor at the University of Minnesota. “They whimper (嗚咽) and cry and scream. When we hear these calls, the emotion involved seems obvious. However, they do not weep in the sense of producing tears. I have seen an adolescent male whimpering when he lost sight of his older brother with whom he had been traveling.”Babies of many mammalian species, including rats, cry. Moreover, when a baby rat cries, often his mother brings the fallen pup back into the nest. This is probably a straightforward munication, as it is with humans. However, psychologists at the University of Iowa aren’t convinced.The Iowan res