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Listening to songs is a great way to learn English . Here are a few reasons.

1.________ And when you are enjoying yourself, you learn without even realizing it. The best thing is that there are so many good songs in English and there are so many kinds of music, including pop , country, R&B,rock, soul and so on Let David Bowie, Madonna, The Beatles, Alicia Keys…be your teachers!

2.________Just take your MP3 player with your favorite tracks and press “play”.And you can listen to them whenever and wherever you want, so you can learn English while you’re walking , driving , doing sports or relaxing on the sofa.

3.________While you’re listening to songs, you are raising your awareness of language structures. And you’re seeing how the structures are formed and used.

4.________And after singing along to the songs several times, all those phrases and expressions will become firmly fixed in your long-term memory. Then later you’ll find that you use them naturally when you’re speaking or writing.

5.________For example , the song American Pie is about the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly ,Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, which was an important event in US history.

So, load up your MP3 player, put on your headphones and press “play”!

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A. Learning English by listening to music is easy, too.

B. Songs can also teach you about history, culture and traditions.

C. Songs are full of useful language that you can use when you’re speaking and writing,.

D. Songs are good for developing your understanding of English grammar.

E. Listening to music is fun.

There is an old saying in English, “Laughter is the best medicine”. Until recently, few people took the saying very seriously. Now however, doctors have begun to study laughter and the effects (作用) it has on the human body. They have found evidence that laughter really can improve people’s health.

Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart rate and the rate of breathing. It also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be helpful.

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to make the effect of pain on the body less. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group which could bear the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. The reason why laughter can make pain less seems to be that it helps to produce endorphins (内啡肽) in the brain. These are natural chemicals which make both stress and pain less.

There is also some evidence to suggest that laughter helps the body’s immune system that is the system which fights infection (感染). In an experiment, one group of students watched a funny video while another group served as the control group — in other words, a group with which to compare the first group. Doctors checked the blood of the students in both groups and found that the people in the group that watched the video had an increase in the activity of their white blood cells that is the cells which fight infection.

As a result of these discoveries, some doctors and psychiatrists (精神病学) in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they try to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce good effects similar to those caused by laughter.

1.We learn from the first paragraph that laughter __________ .

A. is good for one’s health

B. has something to do with some illness

C. has been studied long since

D. has no effect on the body

2.Doctors have found that laughter ___________ .

A. keeps down blood pressure

B. has similar effects to physical exercise

C. decreases the heart rate

D. increases stress

3.Which of the following statements is NOT true of laughter according to the passage?

A. It makes pain less.

B. It exercises the body.

C. It improves the body’s immune system.

D. It can cure cancer.

4.Smiling can produce _________.

A. about the same effects as laughter

B. more effects than laughter

C. fewer effects on the human body

D. no effects on the human body

5.In a laughter clinic doctors __________ .

A. laugh at their patients

B. encourage their patients to laugh

C. smile when they don’t feel like laughing

D. never stop laughing

6.The main idea of this passage is that _________.

A. the doctors should learn how to make people laugh

B. there are several ways of studying the advantages of laughter

C. tests show that laughter can produce positive effects on human body

D. laughter and physical exercise have the same effects on human body

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