Susan, ________ university student from Europe, teaches me ________ art in her spare time.
A. an; / B. a; the C. an; the D. a; /
Only in this way ___ to make progress with your English.
A hoped B wished C liked D expected
--Why were you so angry?
--The shop assistant ______ me too much for the book.
A. cost B. charged C. required D. requested
假如你是李华，在最近的研究性学习当中，受《21世纪中学生英语报》 （The 21st Century）之邀，你对你所在的班60名同学（男女各半）进行了上网目的的调查。现将调查结果（如下表所示）用英语给报社的编辑写一封信，报道此事，以引起舆论的关注，并提出你的观点和建议。
注意：
*1、报道应包括图表所示全部内容，可适度发挥。
*2、文章的开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
*3、词数：100—120
*4、要点提示：(1)上网的目的；(2)读新闻；(3)发送邮件；(4)聊天；(5)学习；(6)玩游戏；(7)评语
Dear editor,
I have recently made a survey among 30 boys and 30 girls in my class about their purpose of getting on the Internet.
One night, while surfing the Internet, I happen to find a 1.
chatting room, there people were talking to each other happily 2.
in English. I couldn’t help chat with some of them. Much to 3.
my surprised, I found the oral English of some teenagers was 4.
much better than me. I realized my oral English needed improving 5.
badly. I asked them for advices and encouraged me to practice 6.
more whenever possibly. So every day after that I would spend 7.
about an hour practising my oral English. Day by day I made a great 8.
progress in my oral English. With time was going by, my efforts paid off 9.
and I could even communicate foreigners freely. 10.
When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an education priority（优先）. This view is shortsighted. In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students.
Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it reflects their thinking and values, as well ad the social environment it came influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values. It gives us identity as a society.
Music provides a kind of perception（感知）that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts explore the emotive（情感的）meaning of the same phenomenon. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.
The arts are forms of thought as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language of civilization through which we express our fears, our curiosities, our hungers, our discoveries, our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children access to an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.
Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love.
So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.
1.According to Paragraph 1, students _______.
A. regard music as a way of entertainment
B. disagree with their parents on education
C. view music as an overlooked subject
D. prefer the arts to science
2.In Paragraph 2, the author uses jazz an example to
A. compare it with rock music
B. show music identifies a society
C. introduce American musical traditions
D. prove music influences people’s lifestyles
3.According to the passage, the arts and science .
A. approach the world from different angles
B. explore different phenomena of the world
C express people’s feelings in different ways
D. explain what it means to be human differently
4.What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Music education deserves more attention.
B. Music should be of top education priority.
C. Music is an effective communication tool.
D. Music education makes students more imaginative
