Studying music in high school is good for young people. Unfortunately, students do not think of music studies as a useful subject in high school. 1. However, studies show that the great difference studying music has made in the minds and lives of students.
2. According to Robert A Cutietta and Harvey Mercadoocasio, authors of Raising Musical Kids: A Guide for Parents, “Students who study music in high school, as a group, have higher scores than those not in bands.” Studying music may not immediately lead to higher grades. It does, however, make students gain skills that can lead to success in tests.
3. Performing as a musician increases this joy, while developing selfconfidence. According to Cutietta and Mercadoocasio, “Being involved in music in a meaningful way will add greatly to the quality of your child's life. It increases brain power along the way.”
Studying music in high school allows teenagers to develop many healthy and productive habits that will carry over into their adult lives, giving them a push towards a successful life. 4. “Kids who receive music training often make great progress in math studies.” according to psychologist Maritn Grdiner. “They just shoot ahead in math. This can't be explained by attention alone. 5.” he said. Actually, the Greek mathematician Pythagoras related math with music by ratio thousands of years ago.
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involve参加，加入mathematician数学家 ratio比率
A.There is something special between music and math.
B.They always learn other subjects or sleep in music classes.
C.Some studies find that children who study music have better grades.
D.By listening to music, one can enjoy the joy which music may bring into his life.
E.In addition to these habits, studying music really changes the brain in some ways as well.
My father was always a good gardener. One of my earliest memories is standing without shoes in the freshly tilled soil, my hands blackened from digging in the ground.
As a child, I loved following Dad around in the garden, I remember Dad pushing the tiller ahead in perfectly straight lines. Dad loved growing all sorts of things: yellow and green onions, watermelons almost as big as me, rows of yellow corns, and our favorite—red tomatoes.
As I grew into a teenager, I didn't get so excited about gardening with Dad. Instead of magical land of possibility, it had turned into some kind of prison. As Dad grew older, his love for gardening never disappeared. After all the kids grew up and had started families of our own, Dad turned to gardening like ever before. Even when he was diagnosed with cancer, he still took care of his garden.
But then, the cancer, bit by bit, invaded his body. I had to do the things he used to do. What really convinced me that Dad was leaving us was the state of his garden that year. The rows and rows of vegetables were gone. Too tired to weed them, he simply let them be. He only planted tomatoes.
For the first few years after his leave, I couldn't even bear to look at anyone's garden without having strong memories pour over me like cold water from a bucket. Three years ago, I decided to plant my own garden and started out with just a few tomatoes. That morning, after breaking up a fair amount of soil, something caught the corner of my eye and I had to smile. It was my eight-year-old son Nathan, happily playing in the freshly tilled soil.
1.________ are not mentioned in the second paragraph.
A.Green beans B.Yellow corns C.Red tomatoes D.Yellow onions
2.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the third paragraph?
A.The writer was tired of gardening when he grew up.
B.As Dad grew older, his love for gardening never disappeared.
C.When Dad was diagnosed with cancer, he never took care of his garden.
D.Dad was used to gardening although his children started their own families.
3.What does the underlined word "invaded" mean in Chinese?
A.滋养 B.侵害 C.包围 D.吞并
4.How can the writer convince that his father was leaving?
A.His father was still able to weed corns.
B.His father only planted watermelons.
C.His father liked eating his favorite food.
D.Various vegetables were gone.
5.What can we know from the last paragraph?
A.The writer's son liked playing in the garden.
B.The writer's son will continue gardening as well.
C.The writer's son reminded him of his own father.
D.The writer's son will be happy to be a gardener.
每年的6月6日是我国的“爱眼日(Sight Day)”，可见保护中小学生的视力非常重要。请以“My ideas on protecting eyes”为题并根据以下要点和要求用英语写一篇短文，谈谈你对保护视力重要性的认识和建议。
1. 要点：1)保护视力的重要性；
2)对保护视力的建议；
3)呼吁大家保护视力。
2. 要求：1)文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称；
2)词数100左右。
My ideas on protecting eyes
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Do you know how we can keep healthy? 1. is some advice for you.
First, remember that illness is from our mouths. We 2. get stomachache when we eat dirty food. Eating too much meat is also bad for our health while eating lots of vegetables is good. So we should eat less meat but more vegetables.
Second, we should have a good rest when we feel tired. As students, we study for a long time at school, so we must go to bed early 3. night. Sleeping well is good for our health.
Third, we should go to see a doctor when we are sick. Besides, 4. also important to lie down on the bed to take a rest and take the medicine on time.
Finally, we should know 5. importance of doing sports. We should go out to exercise and breathe fresh air every day.
[素材选自English in Mind Book 1]
野外求生
On 24 December, 1971, 17yearold Juliane KÖpcke got on a plane with her mother in Lima, Peru, to fly to another city to meet her father.
Over the Amazon jungle, there was a heavy rain. The rain fell heavily and there was a strong wind. And then lightning hit the_____ at 3,000 metres, and it exploded. Juliane fell _____ through the air in her seat and hit the trees hard. For three hours, she was unconscious. When she woke up, her right arm was cut, her shoulder hurt badly and she couldn't see in one _____. She was alone. But she was alive.
Juliane's father was a biologist. When she was small, he_____ her how to survive in the jungle. She found a small _____ and walked slowly along it. "If I follow the river," she thought, "I'll find people." The river also gave her clean water to _____. It was very hot, but the river water kept her _____. Sometimes she had to swim in the river _____ it was too deep to walk in. There were crocodiles in the water but they didn't attack her! There was fruit on some trees but she didn't eat it—she knew it was too _____.
Juliane_____ for ten days. At night she stopped to sleep because it was too _____ to walk. Ten days after the _____, she found a small house by the river. There were some woodcutters in the house. They gave her hot food to eat. The next day, a plane took her safely back to the city of Pucallpa.
Juliane was the only person_____ survived the accident. The other 91 people, _____ her mother, all died.
The film director, Werner Herzog, had a plan _____ on the plane but missed it. Thirty years later, he made a film called Wings of Hope about Juliane and her unbelievable story.
1.A.bus B.plane C.bike D.car
2.A.luckily B.safely C.quickly D.kindly
3.A.mouth B.ear C.nose D.eye
4.A.taught B.ordered C.allowed D.refused
5.A.river B.mountain C.beach D.forest
6.A.eat B.drink C.cook D.boil
7.A.dry B.warm C.cool D.thirsty
8.A.because B.unless C.although D.until
9.A.believable B.convenient C.dangerous D.difficult
10.A.slept B.cheered C.remained D.walked
11.A.dark B.dirty C.harmful D.boring
12.A.journey B.accident C.result D.failure
13.A.what B.which C.who D.whom
14.A.between B.behind C.including D.about
15.A.travel B.to travel C.travelled D.travelling
No matter who you are, you need sleep. 1. While sleeping, the body recovers and rests. Throughout the day, we push our bodies to work as much as we need. At night, sleep allows our bodies to return to usual state. Our organs take turns resting, and our bodies fight off illness. In addition, our brains create dreams so that we can let go of mental stress. However, not everyone is able to sleep soundly.
2. They can be caused by physical problems. Some sleeping disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal body functioning. The most common one is snoring. In fact, everyone at some point in their lives snores.3. Therefore, when air passes through the smaller opening, it causes the throat to vibrate, which in turn leads to snoring. Snoring is not a serious problem, but it can disrupt the sleep of the snorers and their bed partners.
Other sleeping disorders that are often mentioned are sleep without breathing, sleep-loving and being sleepless.4. It occurs when the brain fails to tell the body to breathe or something gets in the way of the throat.
Sleep-loving is a nervous system disorder that causes extreme sleepiness during the day. As a result, the person can suddenly go from being fine to being very weak, dreaming while awake, or even falling asleep.5. Like snoring, it is very common, but seriously being sleepless may even stop a person from sleeping completely and it is always dangerous. Reasons for being sleepless can be different, but whatever the causes are, learning to relax helps people sleep better.
A.Sleeping disorders are common.
B.Trouble falling or staying asleep is called being sleepless.
C.It happens when the throat is not kept open enough while sleeping.
D.It is something that all animals and humans must get in order to be alive.
E.Sleep without breathing is when someone stops breathing while sleeping.
