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The Beatles are reaching a new audience through streaming (流媒體) and Come Together is Fab Four's most popular song.
The best-selling band in history ended a long time of silence and made its songs available through streaming,the fast-growing part of on-demand online music,on Christmas Eve.
According to the largest streaming service Spotify,in the first three days fans had streamed Beatles songs 70 million times,which meant that every user of the website listened to one Beatles sofig around the Christmas holiday. Come Together was well ahead as the most popular song.
The bluesy rock song from 1969 was the opener on Abbey Road,The Beatles,best-selling album,so it may have benefited from listeners who immediately hit play on the album. Here Comes the Sun,off Abbey Road,was also among the most listened although it had fewer listeners than two othqr Beatles songs with themes of hope — Let It Be and Hey Jude.
Spotify said 65 percent of its Beatles listeners were under 34 — too young to have direct memories of the band that broke up in 1970. “We’ re helping to introduce a new generation of fans to the most important band in history/' Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek said.
Ek,32, said that The Beatles’ arrival on spotify reminded him of his childhooi. “The one thing in my youth that everyone in my family — my mom,uncle,aunt and grandparents 一 could all agree on musically was The Beatles,” he said.
5. According to the text,streaming services helped The Beatles .
A. sell the largest number of albums
B. become a best-selling band
C. produce new online music
D. become popular again
6. Which of the .following songs has the smallest number of listeners?
A. Come Together.
B. Here Comes the Sun.
C. Hey Jude.
D. Let It Be.
7. According to Spotify,more than half of its Beatles listeners .
A. were young people
B. paid for their listening
C. were bom in the 1970s
D. knew the history of the band
8. What is Daniel Ek’s attitude towards The Beatles’ arrival on Spotify?
A. Concerned. B. Doubtful,
C. Supportive. D. Unfavorable.
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Maybe it's Katie,the North Carolina native who started a community(社區(qū)) garden at her elementary scRool as a means to support her local food bank,forming an organization that has since spread to nearly 30 states.
Perhaps itJ s Ashley,the Colorado student who,while on a field trip to Africa,saw the bad situation of young girls there and decided to find a way to help them. She went on to found an organization that has since provided education for more than 40 ,000 African girls through 13 new schools in East Africa.
Or maybe it's Shawn,the young man growing up in Queens who decided to work together with his classmates to take back empty land near his school that was plagued with drugs and criminal activities,establishing a garden taken care of by the students.
It is hard for T. A. Barron to pick the young hero. In fact,they all inspire the writer,who was honored for his contributions (^" life.) to literature for diildren and young adults.
In 2001,Barron founded the Gloria Ba?on Prize for Young Heroes,a program that aims to,as Barron describes it, spread the word about the examples young heroes make,so that other young people from all backgrounds will be inspired to do something themselves to make the world better."
In the 15 years since its founding,the Gloria Barron Prize has awarded more than $540,000 to 364 young leaders. The honorees come from 46 states,the District of Columbia,and Canada,and have raised more than $ 15 million for their causes.
“Every single year we have kids that just knock me out with the things they have done to help others,or help the environment,or help the? cortimunity,” says Barron. “I hope their examples will empower other kids to do the same thing,in whatever way they choose."
5. The three young people mentioned at the beginning of the text .
A. improved their communities
B. helped students in Africa
C. are friends of Barron
D. inspire Barron a lot
6. The underlined words “wa& plagued with” in Paragraph 3 most probably mean “”
A. was free from B. was fighting for
C. was suffering from D. was suitable for
7. What's the purpose of the Gloria Barron Prize?
A. To recognize,the best youth for colleges.
B. To raise money for young heroes’ causes,
C. To help young heroes with their education.
D. To encourage the heroic efforts of young people.
8. The last paragraph mainly talks about .
A. Barron's hopes for kids
B. kids that set good examples
C. kids’ ways of doing good deeds
D. Barron's advice on helping others
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