“Can I learn to play the piano, Daddy?” Ann asked her father.

“That sounds good. But how long can you learn?”

“A month,” Ann said. “After a month, I can play for you. If I don’t play well, I won’t play it.”

“All right,” her father said.

He soon found a piano teacher and Ann started her lessons. The fee(费用) was expensive, but her father didn’t say anything.

A month passed(过去). The time came for Ann to play for her father.

She said to her father, “I want to play for you, Daddy.”

“OK, Ann,” her father said. “Start.”

She started to play. She didn’t play well. Her father had a friend with him, and the friend couldn’t stand(忍受) it.

When Ann stopped, her father said, “Great! Ann, you can have more lessons.”

Ann ran out of the room. Her father’s friend said to him, “I don’t think your daughter plays well.”

“Well, you’re right,” her father said. “But she’s very happy, right?”

1.Ann thought playing the piano was ________, so she wanted to learn it.

A.noisy B.difficult C.boring D.interesting

2.Ann wanted to learn to play the piano for ________.

A.two weeks B.six weeks C.a month D.six months

3.________ found a piano teacher to teach her.

A.Ann’s father B.Ann’s mother C.Ann herself D.Ann’s friend

4.Ann’s father wanted Ann to have more lessons because________.

A.Ann played well B.the fee was very cheap

C.he loved Ann D.he liked playing the piano

5.From this passage we can see that ________.

A.Ann doesn’t like playing the piano B.Ann can have more lessons

C.Ann doesn’t want to have more lessons D.Ann’s father doesn’t have a friend

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Many people think the ____ time is spent, the more work will be done. So students have to spend the whole ____doing school work except the three meals.

Modern students have many ___. They love sports, computers and music. A __holiday can get them away from too much school work, and they can do ____ they like. But still teachers do not think about it. Because students have too much homework, they have no time to ____ themselves. Students are really tired ___their weekend homework. So they don’t do it ___ Sunday night. And there is not enough time to finish the homework ____. The poor weekend homework usually makes teachers __.

Things always get __ without right ideas. Too much school work makes students lose interest in learning. It’s also bad for their ____ . A horse runs faster after a ___ . But for students only rest is not enough. So such a condition (状况) should be ____ to give students both ___ and knowledge.

1.A.many B.much C.more D.most

2.A.week B.morning C.evening D.day

3.A.interests B.books C.pens D.friends

4.A.two days B.two-days C.two-day D.two-day’s

5.A.that B.If C.What D.when

6.A.learn B.enjoy C.teach D.look after

7.A.with B.of C.at D.for

8.A.in B.on C.After D.until

9.A.carefully B.angrily C.quickly D.fast

10.A.happy B.angry C.worried D.surprised

11.A.better B.best C.worse D.worst

12.A.eyes B.ideas C.healthy D.health

13.A.meal B.rest C.moment D.while

14.A.changed B.kept C.taught D.made

15.A.food B.pleasure C.money D.time

It sounds almost too good to be true, but a new study on sleeping brains suggests that listening to languages while you sleep can actually help you to learn them.

For the study, researchers played recordings of foreign words and their translations to students who were enjoying slow-wave sleep. During this period, a person has little knowledge of their environment. To make sure that the results were not compromised by foreign language words that students may have had some connection with at some point in their waking lives, researchers made up the words which cannot be found in the foreign language at all.

When the students woke up, they were presented with the made-up words again without their translations. The students were then asked to imagine whether this made-up word showed an object that was either smaller or larger. This vague (not very clear) way of testing their understanding of the words is a method that is supposed to make use of the unconscious (无意识的) memory.

The researchers were surprised to find out that the students were able to correctly group the words in this way. And their accuracy rate (精确度) was 10 percent higher than accidental chance. That’s not a rate high enough to help them get ability of communicating with others in a foreign language, but it is enough to suggest that the brain is still taking in information on some level, even during sleep.

It has been long believed that sleep is important for memory, but before this research its role in memory was thought to relate only to the preservation (保存) and organization of memories that students got during wakefulness. This is the first time that memory formation ( 形 成 ) has been shown to be active during sleep. In other words, our brains are listening to the world, and learning about it, even when we are unconscious of what is happening around us.

The next step for researchers will be to see whether new information can be learned quicker during wakefulness if it was already presented during sleep. If so, it could forever change how we train our brains to learn new things. Sleep learning might become a widespread practice.

1.The word “compromised” in Paragraph 2 probably means “ ”.

A.influenced B.depended C.finished D.studied

2.What were the students asked to do in the study?

A.Group the words they heard by size. B.Repeat the words they heard in the sleep.

C.Imagine the meaning of the made-up words. D.Make up a word to describe “large” or “small”.

3.The researchers probably agree that .

A.sleep is necessary for a good memory B.memory formation goes on during sleep

C.listening during sleep is good for our health D.learning languages in sleep has better effects

4.What will be the researchers’ next plan?

A.To train people how to learn during sleep.

B.To dig out the reason for unconscious learning.

C.To explain the benefits of unconscious memory.

D.To study the effect of sleep learning on conscious learning.

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