【題目】TED Talks: An Idea Worth Spreading

Have you heard of TED? TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. TED is a set of meetings, held in different cities around the world every year. With different speakers – also from different parts of the world – all the speeches are uploaded (上傳) to their website, for everyone to see.

TED meetings invite speakers to give speeches on different kinds of topics. The different speakers are usually successful in their fields and talk about new ideas and recent developments that are important to their work. The speakers are often also well-known, with people such as Bill Gates and Jane Goodall, having given talks. There are many talks on environmentalism.

For example, and on international development, aid work, and how to help poor people. There are a number of talks about education and topics that are important in the news.

While the talks cover many kinds of topics, all speakers have a strict time limit – each speech must last less than 18 minutes.

As with all organisations (組織), however, TED has had its downs as well as ups. The organization has been criticised for turning great scientists into stars. Perhaps a bigger and more important criticism of the organization is that only special people can attend the meetings. Those who attend the meetings must be special enough to get tickets because TED events costing $6000 or more.

However, ted.org, the organisation’s website, is where the many interesting talks become reachable to everybody who has an Internet connection. Every weekday, a new video is uploaded from a TED event, allowing people from around the world to listen to the talks for free. At only 18 minutes, even if the video is not that interesting, you know you are not going to waste too much time.

Most TED talks are in English but there are talks in other languages, too. Besides, most of the English-language talks also have the choice of subtitles (字幕) in different languages and, as a result, the website is great for practising English and learning new vocabulary, especially in a topic that you find interesting and enjoyable. With so many choices of subject, the videos are often much more exciting.

【1】What does TED stand for?

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【2】Can everyone see the speeches on the website?

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【3】How long is every TED speech?

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【4】According to Paragraph 4, what is TED criticised for?

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【5】How often is a new video uploaded?

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【答案】

【1】Technology, Entertainment and Design.

【2】Yes.

【3】Less than 18 minutes.

【4】It is criticized for turning great scientists into stars and only special people can attend the meetings.

【5】Every weekday.

【解析】

文章大意：本文是一篇說明文，介紹了一個致力于傳播偉大思想的非營利性組織TED的相關(guān)信息。

【1】

細節(jié)理解題。題意：TED代表什么?根據(jù)TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design.可知，TED代表科技、娛樂和設(shè)計。故答案為：Technology, Entertainment and Design.

【2】

細節(jié)理解題。題意：每個人都能在網(wǎng)站上看到演講嗎?根據(jù)With different speakers – also from different parts of the world – all the speeches are uploaded to their website, for everyone to see.可知，應作肯定回答，故答案為：Yes.

【3】

細節(jié)理解題。題意：每次TED演講多長時間?根據(jù)At only 18 minutes, even if the video is not that interesting, you know you are not going to waste too much time.可知，應該少于18分鐘，故答案為：Less than 18 minutes.

【4】

細節(jié)理解題。題意：根據(jù)第4段，TED被批評了什么? The organization has been criticised for turning great scientists into stars. Perhaps a bigger and more important criticism of the organization is that only special people can attend the meetings.可知，有人批評它把偉大的科學家變成了明星，只有特別的人才能參加會議。故答案為：It is criticized for turning great scientists into stars and only special people can attend the meetings.

【5】

細節(jié)理解題。題意：一個新視頻多久上傳一次?根據(jù)Every weekday, a new video is uploaded from a TED event,可知，應該是每一個工作日，故答案為：Every weekday.

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