Good morning. The program today is about music. The word “music” comes from the Greek word “muse”. The Muses are the goddesses of the arts. The Music is only one of the arts. It is like the spoken language, but it uses sounds. Today’s program brings together music from different concerts of the world. Who invented music? Who sang the first song? No one knows exactly the answers to these questions. But we know that music plays an important part in almost everyone’s life. Babies and young children love to hear people singing to them. When they are a little older, they like to sing the songs they have heard. When children go to school, their world of music grows. In the middle grades, students take music lessons. When they reach high school, they become interested in listening to pop music. 

The records we have chosen for you today are from American country music, Indian music, pop music and so on. Music has meaning for everyone. It can make people happy or it can make them sad. In this program we shall study the language of music. We shall be trying to find out more about how music works. We shall try to find out how music says what people feel.

Now, here comes the music today , I shall explain why they are all good music.

1.The first paragraph is mainly about the             .

A．styles of music      B．history of music     C．taste of music      D．knowledge of music

2.Which is NOT the purpose of this music program?

A．To study the language of music .            B．To learn more about the music.

C．To give a complete background to the music.   D．To give people some music to listen to.

3.The speaker is probably        . 

A．a host            B．a singer           C．a dancer          D．a teacher

My teachers thought I was the worst student. My family also had the   1  thought as my teachers.
When I was going to give up my studying, a new teacher, Miss White came to our school. She was young, beautiful and knowledgeable (知识渊博的).
One day, I was sitting ___2___in my classroom, There was nobody else here. Miss White came in and came up to me and talked to me happily. Soon her smile  3  away my unhappiness.
“Do you think I can go to college?” I didn’t   4   why I asked such a question. I thought she must say “no”. 5____ everyone else said so. But she said, “Dear, you can do___6___ you want. Just try and you’ll get closer to success. I believe you are the best!”
I was touched deeply(深深感动) by her words. I decided to study__7____ From then on, we became good friends. She often ___8___  me with my study in her free time. In the end, I did  9_____ in my studies and went to a good college .Miss White is an angel(天使). Her words have kept me going forward. She helped me to see that I can be 10________ in life.

Rico is a dog who lives in Germany(德国). His owners trained him from a young age to find his toys. When they say the name of a certain toy, Rico can find it. In fact, he seems to know the names of 200 toys!

   Some researchers in Germany wanted to test Rico. They put his toys in a room and then told him to go in the room and find a certain toy. Since nobody was in the room with Rico, he had no help from anyone finding the right toy. The researchers did this test forty times. Rico found the right toy thirty-seven times!

   Then the researchers tried something else. They put seven of Rico’s toys in the room together with one new toy that Rico had never seen before. Then they told Rico to go into the room and get the new toy. This new toy had a name Rico had never heard before. Rico found the right toy seven out of ten times!

   Researchers cannot really say that Rico knows words or language. However, these tests seem to show that Rico can think about what he hears and think about what he knows. In fact, Rico seems to think and remember things as well as a three-year-old child.

From these tests, animal researchers know one thing for sure. Rico has given them a lot to think about.

1.From the passage we know that Rico is good at ______.

A. catching toys     B. counting toys    C. finding toys    D. putting toys in order

2. At first researchers asked Rico to ______.

A. bring a certain toy out of a room       B. choose a toy that he liked best

C. name toys and put them away         D. put his toys into his room

3.Rico went into the room _______ times to find a new toy he did not know.

A. seven          B. thirty-seven      C. ten         D. forty

4. The best title for the passage is ________.

A. German dogs are the smartest         B. An unusual dog

C. How dogs use language              D. The best toys for Rico