B. Harley had tried to end her life many times.

C. Harley liked blue dresses and rainy days.

D. In 2013, Harley changed something inside and outside.

23. What can be a suitable title?

A. Transforming a sad girl into a joyous girl

B. How to overcome difficulty

C. A blue dress on rainy days

D. A girl rose from the dark

B

TIME edited a list of the top 10 movies in the USA in 2016. As it’s too extensive a list to go through, introduce four of them as follows. Yomay add a movie yolike to your plan.

●TOWER (documentary)

Nearly fifty years ago, a gunman rode the elevator to the twenty-seventh floor of the University of Texas Tower and opened fire, killing 16 people. Combining footage with animation (cartoon), TOWER reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America’sinitial mass school shooting. The worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.

Director: Keith Maitland. Release Time: March 13, 2016. Duration: 96m.

●MOONLIGHT (drama)

A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight, records the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood. He struggled to find his place in the world while he was growing up in a tough neighborhood of Miami.

Director: Barry Jenkins. Release Time: November 18, 2016. Duration: 111m.

●EVERYONE WANTS SOME (comedy)

In the summer of 1980, Jake, a freshman, moved into an old college house with his new rowdy teammates. Together they must navigate their way between girls, parties and baseball all in the last weekend before school began. The movie proves that good times never get old.

Director: Richard Linklater. Release Time: April 7, 2016. Duration: 117m.

●THE SHALLOWS (drama)

A young woman was grieving over the loss of her mother and surfing in an isolated area when she got stranded on a buoy and a gigantic great white shark came between her and shore. The short journey to safety became the ultimate contest of wills.

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra. Release Time: June 24, 2016. Duration: 86m.

24. In which movie yocan see different life periods of the leading role(s)?

A. TOWER.B. MOONLIGHT.C. EVERYONE WANTS SOME. D. THE SHALLOWS.

25. What kind of readers will most probably choose to watch EVERYONE WANTS SOME?

A. Those who want to learn communication skills.

B. Those who are trying to be baseball players.

C. Those who are interested in America’s college life in the1980s.

D. Those who like romantic movies.

26. What can we learn about the four movies?

A. MOONLIGHT focuses on a relationship between a black man and his girlfriend.

B. EVERYONE WANTS SOME centers on a year’s college life of several freshmen.

C. THE SHALLOWS mainly shows a young woman fighting against the sea.

D. TOWER is a documentary showing America’s mass school shooting.

27. In which part are yomost likely to find it if the passage appears on the website?

A. Entertainment. B. News.

C. Character. D. Art.

C

“Shake a leg” and “show a leg” are usually discussed together, but it isn’t at all clear how they are connected. Both phrases have more than one meaning.

“Shake a leg” means “hurry up” according to the definition in the New York Magazine in 1904. Before that, “shake a leg” had another meaning, which was “to dance”. There are several quotations from all kinds ofAmerican and Britain sources from the mid-19th century that are related to dancing; for example, the Dubuque Democratic Herald, October 1863, in an advertisement for a local ball: “Nearly every man in town able to shake a leg has purchased a ticket.”