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I have always enjoyed listening to music. It helps me clam down after a busy day, and I am also one of those 1. can listen and study at the same time. I am fond of 2.（classic）, but I also like many other types of music. Among all the 3.（talent） musicians, I like Beethoven best, because he is one of the greatest 4.（composer） in the world. Though he went 5.（complete） deaf during the last years of his life, he didn’t give up composing.
When I was a child, I used to listen to music on the radio. 6. the invention of personal computers and cellphones, I prefer 7.（listen） on the cellphone, as new functions 8.（add） to it in the past few years. The technology is developed to meet customer demand. Some people 9.（affect） by anxiety start to feel relaxed when listening to music on the cellphone. And others worry about not being able to use it well. However, I am 10. dependent（依赖） on the cellphone that I fail to live without it.
Music can calm the soul and inspire creativity, but it won’t, according to researchers from Harvard, improve intelligence.
“More than 80 percent of American adults think that music can improve children’s grades or intelligence, “said Samuel Mehr, a Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral student in a statement. “Even in the scientific community, there’s a general belief that music is important to children’s development — but there is very little evidence（证据） supporting the idea that music classes improve children’s intelligence.”
The view that music improves intelligence can date back to a study published in 1993 in the journal Nature, which describes the “Mozart effect” as the ability for people who play instruments to perform better at spatial（空间的） problems. The study later was proved wrong, but the idea that music could make you smarter remained.
To test the connection between music and intelligence, researchers studied 29 parents and their four-year-olds. It turned out that music training did not improve the children’s intelligence. The children who had music training performed only slightly better at one spatial problem.
The researchers then did the study again, but with 45 parents and children. Half the group were given music training and the other half didn’t receive any. As with the first study, the second round produced no evidence that music training made the participants any smarter.
The researchers limited their research to classical music, and didn’t show whether different types of music made any difference. And while they concluded that the idea that music makes you smarter is a myth（谬见）, they argue that teaching children music is still important, and may have other advantages that aren’t all connected with intelligence.
1.What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?
①Music can encourage creativity.
②Most American parents take music seriously.
③Most scientists believe music has no advantages to children’s development.
④The idea that music can improve intelligence is not true.
A.①②③ B.②③④
C.①③④ D.①②④
2.What can we know about the “Mozart effect” from the passage?
A.It was brought up by Mozart.
B.It proved that music could make children smarter.
C.The idea has been completely accepted.
D.It is the origin of the idea that music can improve intelligence.
3.According to the researchers, ______.
A.music can help one become much cleverer
B.music lessons should be stopped in school
C.music is important to children’s development
D.students should learn different kinds of music
4.What is the best title for the passage?
A.Music — the Key to Your Success
B.The Advantages of Learning Music
C.The Connection Between Music and Creativity
D.Music May Not Make You Smarter
I went deaf in my right ear and was left with 50% hearing in my left when I was a little boy. My doctors _______ that I would be completely deaf, and today, my hearing has _______ to 20%, so I think I’m doing pretty _______.
For my 18th birthday, my dad asked me to deejay（当唱片节目主持人） at the restaurant he owned. I was _______. I e-mailed a well-known New York City was DJ: “I know you like challenge. How about _______ a deaf person to deejay?” He wrote back the next day: “Challenge _______.” He tutored me twice a week for two years, helping me develop proper skills. I practiced four hours a day. Now when I’m _______, my muscle memory recovers.
_______ I started, I wouldn’t tell the club managers I was deaf. I would just _______, introduce myself and start playing music. At the end of the night, someone would say, “Oh, here’s the check.” And I’d say, “What? Oh, I can’t hear.” They were always so ________. Sometimes I would bring doctor’s ________ because they wouldn’t believe me. It was reassuring（令人安心的） that they came there not out of ________, but because I was good.________ people started calling me “Deaf DJ”.
It is not all about ________. For each show, I can hear some of the lower frequencies（频率） and feel the ________ in my feet. I can feel the energy of the song and the ________ goes crazy. The next time you go dancing ________ your ears, and you’ll feel a little bit of how I do it. You’ll start using your other senses. You’ll start seeing that you’re able to listen to the music in a ________ way.
Now, I play at all sorts of get-togethers in many different places. I also go to schools for the deaf and talk to the students about motivation and ________ themselves. I tell their parents, “My ________ to you is to let your kids follow their dreams. I’m a deaf DJ, so why not your kids?”
1.A.agreed B.proved C.predicted D.admitted
2.A.increased B.stayed C.dropped D.kept
3.A.well B.much C.bad D.little
4.A.disappointed B.anxious C.shocked D.excited
5.A.changing B.expecting C.teaching D.imaging
6.A.refused B.accepted C.found D.paid
7.A.singing B.watching C.performing D.listening
8.A.When B.While C.After D.Until
9.A.cheer up B.show up C.look up D.call up
10.A.satisfied B.frightened C.worried D.surprised
11.A.notes B.orders C.plans D.letters
12.A.encouragement B.favor C.pity D.respect
13.A.Easily B.Eventually C.Regularly D.Immediately
14.A.sensing B.playing C.feeling D.hearing
15.A.beat B.noise C.clap D.wave
16.A.music B.song C.crowd D.manager
17.A.fold B.cover C.close D.hide
18.A.complex B.traditional C.strange D.different
19.A.believing in B.agreeing with C.concentrating on D.worrying about
20.A.point B.advice C.idea D.message
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1.To make a good ____________, she dressed well and told some ____________ stories about herself, which made the interviewers deeply ____________.（impress）
2.Chongqing is known to us all ______ a “foggy city”.
3.It was when I got back to my apartment ______ I first came across my new neighbors.
4.Almost all pre-school children go to a kindergarten, ______ they learn simple games and songs.
5.______（settle） in Austria for years, he got used to the life there.
6.Born into an artist’s family, she showed a great gift for painting from ______ early age.
7.By the time you receive this letter, I ______（leave） this city for my hometown.
8.A library as well as 5,000 books ______（offer） to the country as a gift last year.
9.The little boy showed his great ______ for painting. We believed he would become a ______ artist.（talent）
10.The air gets thinner and thinner ______ the height increases.
Writing
介绍一下令你印象最深的一位老师(80-100字)。
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Translation
1.有志者，事竟成。where
2.最后，这个牧羊人被绳之于法。justice
3.上海的气温在0℃到35 ℃之间。range
4.我正在街上走着，这是忽然有人从后面拍我的肩膀。when
