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5.        Americaenters the 21st century full of hope,many of our needi

est students are being left behind.

5. As as引导时间状语从句，意为“当……；随着……”。

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1. We are interested in the weather because it          us so directly    —  what

we wear,what we do,and even how we feel.

5.这两个单词在拼写上不同，然而在发音上却很相似。

These two words         each other in spelling while they each other in pronunciation.

  Music is the food of love,according to poets. And classical music,it seems,may be fine rain for restaurants. The music of Mozart,Bach and Beethoven played in restaurants makes diners feel richer and encourages them to spend money,according to the research made by the University of Leicester in centralEngland.

“When you hear a piece of music,it activates(激活)   all types of knowledge,^ said Adrian North,a senior lecturer in psychology at a university who carried out tests in a restaurant near Leicester over a period of three weeks. “If you hear classical music，it gives you the feeling of wealth and it makes you feel a bit noble.In a restaurant,this has the effect of making you spend a bit more money. ” Researchers found that classical music，often connected with wealth,was the most successful in encouraging people to pay cash,with diners spending more than 24 pounds a head.

But when the music was Britney Spears’，diners spent less than 22 pounds a head，they found. With no background music，spending fell to around 21 pounds. “Where people were really spending the money was on the luxurious(奢侈的) things，such as desserts and coffees，” said James Davis， owner of Softleys Restaurant in Market Bosworth，where the research was carried out. He also said, “I think this research will certainly affect what we will play in the future. ”

1. How did people feel while listening to classical music?

   A. They only feel noble.

   B.  They feel they are luxurious.

   C.  They feel that they are a little noble and wealthy.

   D.  They have the feeling that money is less important.

2. Which music has the most obvious effect on people’s spending?

   A. Britney Spears’ music.

   B.  Classical music.

   C.  Pop music.

   D.  Not mentioned in the passage.

3. What does the underlined sentence mean?

   A. People like to have desserts and coffees.

   B.  The desserts and coffees are very expensive.

   C.  People spend money in enjoying music in restaurants.

   D.  Having desserts and coffees makes people spend more money.

4. It can be inferred from the passage that          .

   A. James Davis might accept the idea

   B.  most people don’t believe the idea

   C.  restaurants will never play Britney Spears’music

   D.  every restaurant will play classical music in the future

5. What is the best title of the passage?

   A. Classical music makes diners spend more money

   B.  Music and restaurants

   C.  Diners love music

   D.  Music is the food of love

  Something interesting 1.        (happen) by the end of the last Christmas shopping hour in London. A poor man,who,though no fault of his own,2.        (find) that he himself 3.        (lock) in a big store late on Christmas Eve.

 No doubt the store was crowded with people buying presents and the assistants 4.        (be) dead beat and wanted to go home. It seemed that all the necessary checks 5.        (make) before the store was locked,and the assistants 6.          (go) home to enjoy the three-day holiday.

  However,the man was still in the store. When he 7.        (realize) that，he decided to make the best of it. In the store,of course,there was plenty of food,drink and bedding. There must 8.        (be) radios and television sets,which no one could tell whether the man 9.        (use) .  When the store reopened，the man was discovered in bed with a large number of empty bottles beside him. He seemed to have been very happy. Everyone else was enjoying Christmas,so he saw no reason why he 10.        (do) the same.  Happily enough he let the police take him away. Perhaps he 11.        (have) a better Christmas than usual. It was reported that the man would have to stay in prison for seven days. It seemed,however,the judge was not going to do anything for the store，as he said that the store 12.        (become) better

known through the story in the newspaper and on television.

10. She had just finished her homework       her mother asked her to practise playing the piano yesterday.

7.        (eat) at the cafeteria before,Tina didn’t want to eat there again.

  Since my retirement(退休)   from teaching music in 2001，I have spent a good deal of time painting as an artist. I actually began drawing again in the summer of 1995 when my father died,so perhaps I was trying to recover from the loss of my father,or maybe it was just that it brought back memories of him. In any case，I drew pen and ink animals and landscapes(风景画)   much influenced by Krenkel and St. John for five years.

For some strange reason，I had been waiting until my retirement to start doing watercolours again,but as soon as I walked out of the school door for the last time I picked up my brushes and rediscovered Andrew Wyeth,who quickly became my favourite artist. I had looked through all the art books I had on my shelves and found his watercolours to be the closest to how I thought good watercolours should look. So I painted landscapes around Minnesota for three years and tried out many other types of painting. However,watercolours remained my first choice，and I think I did my best work there,showing my paintings at a number of art exhibitions.

Art is now together with my piano playing and reading. There is a time for everything in my world，and it is wonderful to have some time doing what

I want to do. As Confucius once said, “At seventy I can follow my heart’s desire.”

1. What is the text mainly about?

   A. Learning to paint in later life.

   B.  How to paint watercolours.

   C.  An artist-turned teacher.

   D.  Life after retirement.

2. The author started drawing again in 1995 because      .

   A. he hoped to draw a picture of his father

   B.  he couldn’t stop missing his father

   C.  he had more time after retirement

   D.  he liked animals and landscapes

3. We can infer from the text that the author       .

   A. had been taught by Krenkel and St. John

   B.  painted landscapes in Minnesota for 5 years

   C.  believed Wyeth to be the best in watercolours

   D.  started his retirement life at the age of seventy

4. How does the author probably feel about his life as an artist?

   A. Very enjoyable.

   B.  A bit regretful.

   C.  Rather busy.

   D.  Fairly dull.

3. Many factors        (对......有影响) American pronunciation. 

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