What are some of your favorite stories? Sometimes music and stories go together. Some songs tell stories. If you’ve sung “Billy Boy”, you’ve sung a story. Sometimes music without words can also seem to tell a story. The sounds can almost make you see pictures in your mind. Some music can make you imagine good people, bad people, singing birds, ships at sea and even the broom’s（笤帚）marching （进行曲）.

    What is brooms marching? That is part of the story told in a famous piece of music for orchestra （管弦乐队）by a Frenchman named Paul Dukas. The music is called The Sorcerer’s （魔法师的）Apprentice（徒弟）.

    When you hear the music for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, you can imagine what’s happening. The quiet-sounding music makes you think of what the sorcerer is doing. Later, when it’s his apprentice’s turn, the music changes into a kind of funny little march, which helps you to imagine how a broom might walk! But then something goes wrong with the apprentice. He can’t make the broom stop! It keeps filling the bucket（桶）with water and bringing it back and watering the floor.

  1. What kind of music can tell us stories?

  2. Who and what can we imagine when we hear music?

  3. Does Paul Dukas make music?

  4. Does the sorcerer practice better or worse than his apprentice?

  5. How does the broom’s marching really sound?

　　Iris sometimes reported that strange objects have been seen high up in the sky. These unknown flying objects (UFOs) have made a lot of people interested. Some of the reports about them are difficult to believe. Some have been explained in scientific ways. Others have never been explained.

　　It is not easy to decide whether a report is true or not. One report of UFOs came from a British plane on its way from New York to London in 1954. The British plane was flying over an island at 19,000 feet high when the captain noticed that something was on their left and a little lower than their plane. It's about five miles away.

　　“It was not one object but several,” the captain said. “We saw one large and six smaller objects. I sent out a radio to report about them and I received the answer that the other planes were coming out to meet us. Before the planes arrived, the smaller objects entered the big object. The big object then became smaller and moved away fast.”

根据短文内容回答问题。

(1) What do we call the strange objects that have been seen high up in the sky?

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(2) Is it easy to decide whether a report is true or not?

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(3) What did the captain see one day in 1954？

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(4) Was the object seen by other people?

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　　Karl Marx was born on May 5,1818. He entered Bonn University in 1835 and went to Berlin University to continue his studies two years later. In October 1842, he became the editor (编辑) of the “Rheinische Zeitung”, and there he began his attack on the old society. Because of his revolutionary activities he was forced to leave his homeland. He moved to France and then to Belgium (比利时) . In 1848, he returned to Cologne to join the revolution directly. After the 1848 revolution failed, he was expelled (驱逐) from Germany. He went to Paris, but was soon forced to leave France. In 1849, he went to London and spent most of his life time there.

　　Marx was also a great learner of languages. He could read all the leading European languages and write in three: German, French and English. He would like to say that a foreign language is a weapon in the struggle of life. He died on March 14, 1883 in London.

(1) When was he born?

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(2) Did Marx go to many countries?

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(3) Was he a great learner of languages?

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(4) When did he die?

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(5) Where did he die?

按照逻辑顺序，新排列句子，使其成为一篇对话。

A．My favourite subject is music.

B．Why do you like music?

C．I don't like music. I like art.

D．Because it's relaxing. What about you?

E．What's your favourite subject?

正确的顺序是：___________________________________

重新排列句子，使其成为一篇完整对话。

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A．What does he do?

B．Yes, he does. He gets up very early.

C．What time does he get up?

D．Does your brother work very hard every day?

E．At 5:40.

F．What time does he go to work?

G．How does he go to work?

H．At 6:00.

I．He makes shoes in a factory. He's a shoe maker.

J．By bus.

正确的顺序是：__________________________________