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ain of my ship. But for my hair, I would never have known that. 24. After the author’s brother died, she _____________. A. lost her job and was bathed in tears B. was very sad and unable to do anything C. couldn’t recover from the loss of her brother D. filled her daily life with work to lift up her spirits 25. What did the author think was the key to rebuilding her life? A. Saving on a tight budget. B. Getting a dog for pany. C. Acquiring a wellpaid job. D. Fixing the problem of her hair. 26. What can we learn from the author’s experience? A. Everyone should learn to love himself and care for others. B. Changing oneself takes patience and is a way to control his life. C. It is necessary to fet one’s past and live in harmony with nature. D. Hair shows one’s unique qualities and is a symbol of difficulties in life. 27. What may be the best title for the text? A. Start from the Head B. Clear up the Mess C. Make up for the Loss D. Just Do It Yourself C Bob Dylan has own the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced Sara Danius, Swedish Academy’s permanent secretary, on Oct. 13, 2021 in Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish Academy said it chose Dylan for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. “As an artist, he is outstandingly allround: he has been an active painter and actor, said the official statement. U. S. President Barack Obama congratulated Dylan on Twitter, describing him as one of his favorite poets. Singer and songwriter Dylan is recognized worldwide for the influence he has had on music. He became a symbol of the 1960s counterculture (反主流文化 )but his voice has reached widely into the American past. Since early in his career, Dylan has experimented with the bination of the literary and the musical. Dylan had been mentioned in the Nobel prediction for years, but few experts expected the academy to extend the award to a genre (體裁) such as pop music. He’s the first American winner of the Nobel Literature Prize since Toni Morrison in 1992. The choice was met by a long round of applause from journalists attending the prize announcement. Sara Danius said that while Dylan performs his poetry in the form of songs, that,s no different from the ancient Greeks, whose works were often performed to music. Dylan’s early rock classics such as The Times They Are AChangin’, and A Hard Rains Gonna Fall, help to get cross the thoughts and feelings of the counterculture. The music publication Rolling Stone released a list of the “100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs” in honor of his 75 th birthday earlier this year. 28. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 2? A. What Nobel Prize Dylan won in 2021. B. How Dylan influences music worldwide. C. Who congratulated Dylan on winning the prize. D. Why Dylan was awarded the Nobel Literature Prize. 29. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “extend” in Paragraph 4? A. allocate B. deliver C. offer D. pensate 30. What do we know about Dylan from the text? A. He is Barack Obama’s favorite finger. B. He performs poetry in the form of songs. C. He had never been expected to win a Nobel Prize. D. He is the first American to win the Nobel Literature Prize. 31. What’s the journalists’ attitude towards Dylan’s winning the Nobel Literature Prize? A. Favorable. B. Objective. C. Skeptical. D. Uncaring. D A new study, a project of the researchers from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, finds the fitness tracker probably does not help with weight loss. The devices are designed to record your physical activity. They are usually worn around the wrist, where they measure a person’s heart rate. The research team looked at two groups of individuals. The first wore a fitness tracker and took part in health counseling (咨詢 ) with experts to consider the best weightloss plan. The researchers pared this group with people who only got health counseling. The study found that those only speaking with the health experts lost nearly 6 kilograms, but those using a fitness tracker lost only kilograms. John Jakicic, the lead researcher, questioned the use of electronic devices for weight control in place of “effective behavioral counseling for physical activity and diet. ” The study involved 470 subjects aged between 18 and 35. Some of them were overweight, while others were considered obese (肥胖的) .Over three fourths of the subjects were women. All the subjects were told to increase physical activity and start on a lowcalorie diet. They had their weight measured once every six months. After six months, researchers divided the group into two parts: one continued with monthly counseling, while members of the other group were given a fitness tracker. Eighteen months later, both groups “showed significant improvements