If your ears are working well, you hear sounds all the time. You can't switch(关掉) your ears off, even when you are asleep.

Listening

When you really want to listen to something, you tell your brain to focus on that sound. If your ears are healthy and are both working well, they can turn down other sounds while you focus on what you want to hear. If one ear isn't working as well as the other, they can't do this. If your hearing cells(细胞) have been damaged by too much noise or music, what you want to hear can get mixed up and lost in the other sounds around. With__healthy__ears__you__can__choose__what__you__want__to__listen__to,__but__you__can't__choose__what__you__hear.

Understanding

Your brain deals with the received sounds and tells you what they mean. Some people have problems understanding what they are hearing because their ears don't work well and they don't hear all the sounds. The brain does not get enough information to understand the messages or they may be mixedup.

Selective(选择的) hearing

Lots of mums and dads think that kids have this “problem”. They think that the kids select what they are going to hear and what they can't hear! Many mums say that dads do this, too. In fact, this is something we may all do to try and make our lives a bit easier. Some children wrote what they liked to hear and what they didn't like to hear.

31题完成句子;32~33题简略回答问题;34题写下本文的主题句;35题将文中画线句子译成汉语。

1.If one ear isn't working as well as the other,

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2.What does your brain do when you are listening?

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3.Which of the suggestions do you think is the most important for you? Why?

(Please answer within 25 words.)

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Once upon a time, a hippo(河马) lived in a river next to a big tree.

One day, a bird came and nested(筑巢) in the tree. The songs of the bird filled the hippo with so much envy(羡慕) that he couldn't think of anything else. Every day he would think why he wasn't born to be a bird even though the bird told him many times he was so lucky to be so big and such a good swimmer.

Finally, the hippo made up his mind that he would come out of the river, climb the tree, and start singing. However, when he tried to climb the tree, it__was__very__clear__that__the__hippo__didn't__have__wings,__nor__claws__to__climb__with.

Realizing that he would never climb up the tree, he angrily hit the tree until it came crashing to the ground. Then he stepped onto the leaves of the fallen tree, and began singing.

Unfortunately, hippos can't sing, either. All that came from his mouth were terrible noises, and when the other animals heard this, they all came around to make fun of the hippo.

He was so ashamed by this. He also felt bad about having knocked the tree over. He used all his strength to raise the tree back up again, and look after it until it completely recovered(康复).

From this experience, the hippo knew it's wrong to do something against his nature.

30题完成句子;31~32题简略回答问题;33题写下本文的主题句;34题将文中画线句子译成汉语。

1.The hippo envied the bird because ____________________.

2.Did the bird envy the hippo as well?

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3.What did the hippo do after he knocked down the tree?

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4.________________________________________________________________________

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