题目内容
Who ______ us what to do?
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A. am going to tell B. is going to tell
C. is telling D. shall tell
Cars are lots of fun, but they could also be dangerous. We have to be careful when we drive them or ride in them.
It's always a good idea to put on your seat belt when you're in a car. Why? Think about this example: You put an egg on a skateboard and give it a push. If the skateboard hits a stone, it will stop, but the egg won't. It will fly through the air, hit the ground and break.
Now, think what would happen if you tied the egg to the skateboard. When the skateboard hits a stone, the egg won't go flying; it will stay safely on the skateboard.
Volvo, a famous Swedish carmaker, was the first to use seat belts in 1849.
Air bags are also very important for car safety, because sometimes a seat belt isn't enough. If the car is going really fast and runs into something, seat belts could even hurt the people who wear them. Most new cars have air bags in front of and next to the seats. When a car hits something, its air bags will come out quickly in less than one second to keep the people inside safe.
【小题1】The passage mainly tells us .
| A.two important ways to keep safe in cars | B.how air bags work to make cars safe | C.how seat belts work to make cars safe | D.why we must tie the egg to the skateboard |
| A.tell us that eggs are easy to break |
| B.show how to wear a seat belt |
| C.show why it's important to wear a seat belt in a car |
| D.tell us what a skateboard is |
| A.we are interested in them |
| B.they can stop us from hitting other cars |
| C.they can help us stay safely on the seats |
| D.they are made of strong materials |
| A.they are made of plastic |
| B.they can also help us to keep safe in a car |
| C.they can keep cars running slowly |
| D.they are put in front of and next to the seats |
| A.It won't be dangerous if there are seat belts or air bags in a car. |
| B.Now most of new cars still have only one air bag. |
| C.When a car hits something, its air bags will come out a few minutes later. |
| D.Volvo was the first to use seat belts. |
When students and parents are asked to grade subjects according to their importance, the arts are usually at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is only viewed as entertainment, but certainly not an education priority(优先). This view is shortsighted. In fact, music education is very important for all students.
Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it shows their thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. Rock music represents a lifestyle just as surely as does a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values. It gives us identity(身份,特性)as a society.
Music provides a kind of perception(感知)that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts can express the emotive(情感的)meaning of the same thing. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.
The arts are forms of thought as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language through which we express our fears, our hungers, our discoveries, our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.
Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the value of peace and love.
So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.
1.What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
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A.Students regard music as a way of entertainment. |
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B.Students disagree with their parents on education. |
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C.Students take music as an important subject. |
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D.Students prefer the arts to science. |
2.In Paragraph 2, the writer uses jazz as an example to____________.
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A.compare it with rock music |
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B.show music identifies a society |
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C.introduce American musical traditions |
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D.prove music influences people’s lifestyles |
3.According to the passage, the arts and science____________. .
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A.explain the world in different ways |
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B.explain different facts of the world |
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C.express people’s feelings in different ways |
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D.explain what it means to be human differently |
4.What is the main idea of the passage?
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A.Music education is worth more attention. |
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B.Music should be of top education priority. |
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C.Music is really a good communication tool. |
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D.Music education makes students more imaginative. |