5.Music is magic!Music speaks louder than words and it is a"language"that the whole world can understand.A piece of music can produce a response in the heart and mind.Like feeling an electrical current or receiving a personal radio signal,music has a spiritual effect on a person.Different kinds of music influence people in different ways.
I have listened to music all my life.When I was twelve years old,the Beatles came to America and my whole world opened up.Maybe young people today cannot understand the influence of the Beatles when they exploded across America.Their influence changed the way we dressed,looked,acted and spoke…even our culture.The Beatles arrived in America from the UK just under three months after the assassination(暗杀) of President John Kennedy,which had put America into a great depression.And the freshness and lively spirit of the Beatles was exactly what the country needed to refresh itself.
Music links the heart of the hearer with that of the composer.This means that it mixes the spirit of the composer with your spirit when you listen to it.And the music can take your spirit out of your body and transport you into another world.Music has a great way of touching people.Music can make you laugh,cry or shout.It's also a great source of inspiration.
Try this one day and notice what happens:make yourself a cup of tea,sit on your sofa and play one of your favorite songs.Close your eyes,and soon you'll find yourself creating vivid mental images-matching the music that you are listening to.
28.Music has magical power because itD.
A.is a kind of language
B.can be played much louder than words
C.receives a personal radio signal
D.can influence a person's spirit
29.One can learn from the second paragraph that the BeatlesC.
A.were the biggest band in American history
B.are not accepted by modern American people
C.appeared at a special time in American politics
D.represented the roots of American culture
30.One will do all of the following while listening to music EXCEPTC.
A.feeling very refreshed  
B.having emotional changes
C.painting some vivid pictures  
D.feeling inspired by the composer
31.It can be inferred from the passage that the authorA.
A.has been influenced by the Beatles
B.enjoys drinking tea in his spare time
C.admires President John Kennedy very much
D.likes to match his own feeling with that of the composer.
20.Arriving in Sydney on his own from India,my husband,Rashid,stayed in a hotel for a short time while  looking for a house for me and our children.
During the first week of his stay,he went out one day to do some shopping.He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone.He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers,including his passport.
He reported the case to the police and then sat there,lost and lonely in a strange city,thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.
Late in the evening,the phone rang.It was a stranger.He was trying to pronounce my husband's name and was asking him a lot of questions.Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can(垃圾桶) that had been left out on the footpath.
My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents.Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers.Her parents had carefully sorted them out,although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents.At last they had seen a halfwritten letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.
That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people.We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.
21.What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?B
A.Go shopping.
B.Find a house.
C.Join his family.
D.Take a vacation.
22.The girl's parents got Rashid's phone number fromC.
A.a friend of his family
B.a Sydney policeman
C.a letter in his papers
D.a stranger in Sydney
23.What does the underlined word"restored"in the last paragraph mean?D
A.Showed.
B.Sent out.
C.Delivered.
D.Gave back.
24.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?C
A.From India to Australia
B.Living in a new country
C.Turning trash to treasure
D.In search of new friends.

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