题目内容
仔细阅读下面的短文，短文中有10个空格或画线句子。请按照每小题括号内的具体要求完成语法填空、词形变化、句子合并、句子改写以及病句改正等。Background music may seem 1 (harm),but it can have a powerful effect on those 2 (引导词) hear it. 3 (record) background music first found its way into factories, shop and restaurants in the US. But it soon spread to other arts of the world. Now it is becoming ?increasingly difficult to go shopping or eat a meal 4 (介词) listening to music.
To begin with, “muzak” was 5 (intend) simply to create a soothing(安慰) atmosphere. Recently, however, it's become big business—thanks in part to recent research.［6］Dr. Ronald Milliman, an American marketing expert, has shown that music can improve sales or increase factory production by as many as a third.(改正错误)
But it has to be light music.［7］A fast one has no effect on sales.(改成倒装句) Slow music can increase receipts by 38%.This is probably 8 (连词) shoppers slow down and have more ［9］opportunity(同义词) to find items they like to buy. Yet, slow music isn't always answer. Dr. Milliman found, for example, that ［10］in restaurants slow music meant customers took longer to eat their meals. It reduced overall sales. (合并句子) So restaurants owners might be well advised to play up－tempo music to keep the customers moving, unless of course, the resulting indigestion leads to complaints!
