Have you ever tried making music with glasses or bottles filled with water? I bet your favorite band hasn’t. Experiment with your own special sounds by turning glasses of water into instruments, make some cool music and find out how it works.

What you’ll need:

Five or more drinking glasses or glass bottles. Water. Wooden stick such as a pencil. If possible, you’d better do it in a small but empty room with a long table in.

Instructions:

Line the glasses up next to each other and fill them with different amounts of water. The first should have just a little water while the last should be almost full, and the ones in between should have slightly more than the first.

Hit the glass with the least amount of water and watch the sound, then hit the glass with the most water, which makes the higher sound?

Hit the other glasses and see what noise they make. See if you can get a tune going by hitting the glasses in a certain order.

What’s happening?

Each of the glasses will have a different tone when you hit with the pencil. The glass with the most water will have the lowest tone while the glass with the least water will have the highest. Small vibrations (震动) are made when you hit the glass, and this creates sound waves which travel through the water. More water means slower vibrations and a deeper tone.

1.What’s needed in the experiment according to the passage?

A. Five bottles of water. B. Seven drinking glasses

C. A big and empty room. D. A pencil and a wooden stick.

2.According to the passage , the purpose of the experiment is to get __________.

A. a tone. B. a tune. C. some vibrations. D. some water

3.Which glass can have the lowest tone when you hit it in the experiment?

A. The one with no water. B. The one with the most water.

C. The one with the least water. D. The one with half of the water.

4.Where is the passage the most likely to come from?

A. A Travelling Guide B. A Child Novel

C. A Fashion Magazine D. A Music Textbook.

Long ago, there was a queen who lived in a palace. She felt bored and said to her advisor(顾问 ),

"AIl the things around me are too boring. I need a different kind of beauty. Let everyone know that I will hold a competition for the most beautiful thing in the world. And the prize will be this crown (王冠)."

Several days later, lots of people came to the competition and showed their things. The queen was not satisfied with what she saw. The advisor suggested, "What you are looking for cannot be brought to you. You must look for it by yourself. What about a journey?"

The queen was interested in the idea, so she started immediately. As she was on top of the hill near her palace, she looked down and suddenly something cried in her heart. "Why have I never found my palace so beautiful?"

The queen spent one year travelling. She saw beauty on the farm, in the forest and even in the stars twinkling(闪烁)at night on her journey. But what was the most beautiful thing? She thought it over. Suddenly, she understood beauty was everywhere. She should learn to enjoy the world. She left the pieces of her crown at different places that she had seen. As time went by, the queen's crown got smaller and smaller until nothing was left.

She found the most beautiful thing at last. It was the world!

根据短文内容判断正、误。

(注意:考生将答题卡相应位置涂黑。正确的涂"A",错误的涂"B" )

1.The queen wanted to hold a competition for the most beautiful thing in the world.

2.Lots of people came to the competition and brought the things that made the queen satisfied.

3.On top of the hill near her palace, the queen suddenly found her palace so beautiful.

4.the queen saw beauty on the farm, in the river and even in the night sky on her journey,

5.The passage tells us that beauty is everywhere if we learn to enjoy the world.

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