Thursday, March 13, 2003

Hundreds of Japanese fans at Bangkok’s National Stadium fell into silence when the referee whistled on Wednesday dusk, ending Kashima Antlers’ struggle to change their 3-4 failure to China’s Shanghai Shenhua.

“This time the luck isn’t on us, ”said the Kashima Antlers coach Toninho Cerezo.

“But it’s an exciting match, ”said an anonymous official of the Asia Football Confederation(AFC) after the match.

If only judged by the number of shots, the match between Antlers and Shenhua was really an exciting one, which witnessed the most shots of seven in the AFC Champion League 2002/2003 quarter-final Group A.

The shot of Chinese player Yang Guang in two minutes seemed to predict the high frequency of shooting at this game.

In less than 10 minutes, Shenhua’s Chinese international Zhang Yuning scored one more goal for Shenhua.

Under the swift attack of Shenhua, Antlers’ Takuya Nozawa pulled one goal back at the 25th minute, while Shenhua’s Martinez Ascel scored the third goal in the 32nd minute.

The game grew more and more intense in the second half after Antler scored one more goal at the 14th minutes.

Wishing to draw the rival, Antlers beefed up its attack, while the match was interrupted several times by controversial whistles.

But Shenhua’s Martinez found the opportunity in about 80 minutes to have his second successful shoot, which almost set the result of the game.

Antlers’ desperate efforts brought them one more goal a few minutes before the end, but it was too late and the game ended at 4-3.

In a later game, Thailand’s BEC beat South Korea’s Taejon Citizen 2-0. BEC and Antlers, which drew on Monday’s match, will fight against Shenhua and Citizen respectively on Friday. Shenhua lost to Citizen by 1-2 on Monday.

1. What time did the match between Kashima Antlers and Shanghai Shenhua come to an end?

A. In the morning. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　   B. At noon.

C. Before daybreak. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　   D. In the dusk.

2. What kind of match was it between Kashima Antlers and Shanghai Shenhua? It was 　　　　　　   .

A. a match in Chinese series A league

B. a match in the AFC Champion League 2002/2003 quarter-final Group A

C. a match between Japanese teams

D. a match between Italian teams

3. An anonymous man is a person who 　　　　　　   .

A. didn’t want anybody else to know who he is for some reason

B. didn’t like to tell anybody else about his team

C. a referee who doesn’t like to tell out the result of the match

D. a coach who doesn’t like to meet the journalists

4. How many goals did Martinez shoot?

A. 1. 　　　　    B. 2. 　　　　　　 C. 3. 　　　　　　　　   D. 4.

If music makes you smarter and exercise helps you to think, surely exercising to music can turn you into an intelligent person.

A team of scientists from Ohio State University did experiments on 33 volunteers who were getting better from heart disease following operation. They found that people who exercised while listening to Italian musician Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” did much better on language ability tests than without music.

“Facts suggest that exercise improves the learning ability of people with heart disease,” said the psychologist Charles Emery, who led the study. “And listening to music is thought to enhance understanding. We just wanted to put the two results together,” he added.

The volunteers said they felt better emotionally and physically after working out with or without the music. But their improvement on the test doubled after listening to music during exercise. Scientists have proved that music can be good for health, education and well-being. It helps reduce stress, sadness and nervousness; encourages relaxation or sleep; wakes up the body and improves memory and thoughts.

In medical fields, music is used widely for patients who have had head hurts before and after operation. “The Four Seasons” was used because of its moderate tempo（舒缓的节拍）and positive results in earlier research. “Exercise seems to cause positive changes in the nervous system(神经系统) and these changes may have a direct result on learning ability,” Emery said.

Scientists have been studying the results of music on understanding since the early 1950s. By 2000, psychologists were using Mozart’s music, especially his violin pieces, to help children with speech disorders. Mozart was chosen because his music is not overexciting and has clear structures. A study showed students who listened to Mozart went on to score higher marks in an intelligence test. With important exams drawing near, your parents will not probably allow you to listen to music. But perhaps now you have good reasons to argue with them.

1.The underlined word enhance can be replaced by ______.

A．impress           B．improve           C．provide           D．produce

2.The text mainly tells us that _____.

A．music and exercise lead to relaxation or sleep

B．33 volunteers work on music in medical fields

C．exercising to music makes people healthy and bright

D．scientists give suggestions on choosing music to exercise to

3.It can be learned from the last paragraph that ______.

A．you are supposed to follow your parents’ words

B．students should not listen to music before exams

C．you have some good reasons to exercise to music

D．music might help you to get higher grades in tests

4.Which of the following statements is true?

A．Exercise seems to cause negative changes without music.

B．Exercise reminds people with head hurts of what they’ve learned.

C．Scientists often use Mozart’s music, for it is not too exciting.

D．“The Four Seasons” is used to help children with speech disorders.

Eleven top universities are joining the Open University to launch free Internet courses. King’s College London, along with the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Anglia, Exeter, Lancaster, Leeds, Southampton, St Andrews and Warwick, has partnered with FutureLearn, a company set up by the Open University that will offer free and non-credit bearing courses to Internet-users around the world.

The courses are modeled on the US phenomenon “Massive open online courses” ( Moocs ), which have attracted millions of users around the world and are especially popular in emerging economies.

FutureLearn will improve UK institutions for international students, said Prof Martin Bean, voice-chancellor of the Open University. “At the moment, foreign students’ perception of UK Universities is: wonderful history, great tradition, really good teaching, but a bit boring.”

Leeds University says the partnership will benefit students studying on campus. “Students will have access to a rich set of resources from both Leeds and our partners. They can also broaden their education beyond their main subject areas.”

The UK higher education industry stands among the top five export earners for Britain Moocs have grown rapidly in the US over the past year, with two providers leading the field. Coursera offers courses from 33 Universities, including Princeton, Brown, Columbia and Duke, and has reached more than 1.7 million users, EdX, a nonprofit start-up from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology courses this autumn.

Simon Nelson, one of the key architects of BBC Online, will head FutureLearn as launch CEO. “It’s really meaningful for these universities to come together –we’ll punch much harder collectively than any other university will individually,” he said.

Partner Institutions will be responsible for their own content while the OU, which has been providing distance-learning courses since 1971, will assist with course delivery and infrastructure. Details of further universities will be revealed next year, as will the courses on offer.

1. What does the underlined word “perception” in paragrah3 mean?

A．expectation        B．view             C．dream            D．proposal

2. We can learn from the passage that              

A．Coursera, one of the two providers, leads the online courses in the US.

B．Economics is the most popular subject among these online courses.

C．FutureLearn is only set up for the Internet-users.

D．About 1,7million users are taking the free courses launched by UK.

3.What is implied in Simon’s words?

A．It’s really meaningful for these universities to cooperate.

B．Single university can’t do the work very well.

C．These universities will compete with each other.

D．Joint efforts by these top universities will help the program go more smoothly.

4.All of the following statements are true except             

A．Internet-users don’t need to get credit for the courses.

B．UK may top the list of online education one day.

C．The UK higher education industry stands among the top five export earners for England.

D．Some foreign students may think UK universities are not so satisfying.

5. In which magazine would you most likely find this passage?

A．Entertainment      B．Science           C．Education         D．Business Week