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How important is music? When they are asked this question, students and parents usually answer that music is nice, but not very important. It is often considered only as entertainment, but not the first choice for education. This opinion is shortsighted. In fact, music education is necessary and important for all students.
Music tells us who we are. Music reflects the creators’ thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. For example, just as Mozart music represents a lifestyle, rock music represents a lifestyle, too. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions.
Music provides a kind of ability to know the world in a different way. Science explains how the sun rises and sets. Music explores the emotive meanings. We need every possible way to discover and response to our world because no one way can get it all.
Music is a form of thought, as powerful as science. It is a way we human beings “talk” to each other. Through the language we expresses our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas, our imagination and our hopes so that they can be shared with others. When we do not let our children receive good music education, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses. Science does not tell us what it means to be human. Music does.
So music education is much more necessary than people generally realize.
Title: Music education is of 【小题1】
| Passage outline | Detailed information |
| Introduction | Shortsighted opinion: Music is only a way of entertainment, not the top choice for education. Truth: Music education is necessary and important for all students. |
| Main Body | A way to tell who we are: Music not only reflects the social environment it came from but also expresses people’s thinking and __【小题2】____ |
| A way to know the world: We can’t discover and respond to our world in just one way. Science explains how nature 【小题3】. Music explores the emotive meanings of nature. | |
| A way to communicate with others: We use music to【小题4】our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas, our imagination and our hopes with others. Music, 【小题5】from science, tells us what it means to be human. | |
| Conclusion | Music education is necessary. |
Have you ever noticed that your fingertips are winked when you’ve just finished swimming or washing dishes? It seems as if your hands have aged 30 years in a second. But is this an accident? Or is it something that nature has built into our bodies?
If your finger’s wrinkling up had no use at all, “ it wouldn’t need to.” Professor Tom Smulders from Newcastle University, UK, told BBC News. By studying wet fingers closely, Smulders and his partners found that the wrinkles looked a bit like the patterns on the car tire or on the bottom of the running shoes. So they made a guess that wrinkles on fingers might be able to help the hand hold things more tightly.
To test this, researchers asked 20 people to pick up marbles from water with their hands. But before they started, some of the people had to keep their hands in water for half an hour.
The researchers found that the people with wrinkled fingers completed the task the task faster than those with dry hands. But when they were asked to move dry marbles, all the people performed equally well, no matter they had the wrinkled fingers or not.
Our ancestors might not have played with marbles, but wrinkled fingers could have made it easier for them to climb around in the wet forests and catch fish from rivers, researchers say.
Similarly, our toes also get wrinkled in water. This may have developed from our ancestor’s need to run on wet ground.
But the question is, if wrinkled fingers are so helpful, why don’t our hands just stay that way all the time? Researchers explained that wrinkling has its disadvantage: wet fingertips are far less sensitive than smooth ones, reducing our sense of touch.
【小题1】What does the underlined world “this ” in the third paragraph refer to?
| A.Whether fingers have wrinkles after they are put in water. |
| B.Whether wrinkled fingers can hold things more tightly. |
| C.Why keeping things in water makes them wrinkled. |
| D.Why wrinkles help hands hold things more tightly. |
| A.winkled hands hold dry things more tightly than dry hands do. |
| B.dry hands hold dry things more tightly than wrinkled hands do. |
| C.winkled hands hold wet things more tightly than dry hands do. |
| D.dry hands hold wet things more tightly than wrinkled hands do. |
| A.They are too sensitive to be touched. |
| B.They might be more likely to get hurt. |
| C.They cannot hold things tightly enough. |
| D.They are not so sensitive as dry fingers. |
Summer holiday is coming , what do you like to do ?here are four students telling us what they will do in the coming summer holiday.
Mai hajui Baihetiya, 14 .
I am from Xinjiang . I am studying at Tianjin No.2 Middle School now. I will go on a trip to Beijing . I am going to the Great Wall , the Summer Palace and the Palace Museum . I will go to Wangfujing Street to buy a sweater for my mother, a scarf for my father and a T- shirt for my brother.
Wu Jun, 13.
I come from Shanghai . My favourite season is summer . I like going swimming with my friends in the swimming pool. It is very exciting .
Mike ,13 .
I am studying at Nanjing No. 5 Middle School . I miss my parents very much . I will go back to America to see my family . Summer is a good season to go out . I will have a picnic with my friends in the countryside . I can also play football and baseball with my friends . How happy we will be .
Liu Shuyi, 14,
I am from Shanghai . I like summer best because I can eat ice cream and wear a dress. I am not good at English . I will join an English club to learn English .
【小题1】How many family members will Mai hajui Baihetiya buy presents for? _________
| A.Three . | B.Four . | C.Five . | D.Six . |
A. Wu Jun B. Mike C.Mai hajui Baihetiya D. Both A and B.
【小题3】Who likes playing baseball according to the passage?
| A.Wu Jun. | B.Mike . | C.Liu Shuyi | D.Mai hajui Baihetiya . |
| A.eat ice cream | B.go boating . |
| C.eat fish . | D.go fishing . |
| A.Mike is from America. |
| B.Liu Shuyi speaks English very well. |
| C.Mai hajui Baihetiya lives in Tianjing now |
| D.Wu jun and Mike are of the same age. |
Chuck Wall teaches management and human relations at Bakersfield College. He walked into class one day and told his students that their homework was to perform one act of random(任意的) kindness. His students did not understand the homework and didn’t know what to do, but the professor would not answer their questions. He encouraged his students to work it out for themselves.
One week later, the students entered the classroom excited to share their stories. One student told of giving away blankets to the homeless. Another reported on helping a dog to find its owner, and another student had been trying to find a long, lost friend. Students were energized (给予活力) by the homework assignment and wanted other people to be kind too. With the support of local businesses, the students made stickers to put on cars that invited people to do something kind for others. They sold the stickers and decided to donate the money to a center for the blind---not surprising as Professor Wall is blind.
Since then, similar kindness activities have been started in schools around the world. Many schools organize a Random Acts of Kindness Week, around November 13th, to celebrate World Kindness Day. Some schools use each day of Random Acts of Kindness Week to perform a different kind act, such as making a new friend, helping someone, doing community service, or raising money for a charity. Students learn to consider other people and thank about how small actions can make the world a better place.
【小题1】The professor’s homework was to ask his students _________.
| A.to write about kindness. |
| B.to be kind to strangers |
| C.to spend time helping other |
| D.to go out to raise money |
| A.Chuck’s students are not clever enough |
| B.the students didn’t do Chuck’s homework |
| C.Chuck Wall is an unusual teacher |
| D.no students enjoyed Chuck’s homework |
| A.the students got good grades in Chuck’s class |
| B.kindness activities are not widely accepted |
| C.Chuck Wall was not good at designing homework |
| D.the students only helped people they knew |
| A.to deal with difficult things |
| B.to do great things every day |
| C.to know about the world |
| D.to consider other people |
| A.Learning Kind Things | B.Teaching Kindness |
| C.World Kindness Day | D.Bakersfield College |
“Why does the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side!”
That’s an old joke in the west, but it came to my mind again when I saw people crossing the road at the intersection of Shanxi Road and Huaihai Road in Shanghai.
When the traffic light was red, a group of people were waiting for the light to change. Suddenly one man began rushing to the other side of the road. Soon others followed him at the crossing and more people did the same. Just like chickens, they didn’t mind the honking horns(喇叭声) and kept crossing the road in a mess.
Every year several thousand people are either killed or hurt on the roads in Shanghai. And at least one third of them were jaywalking(乱穿马路). Jaywalking is very common in Shanghai. It seems that jaywalkers are not afraid of the danger to themselves.
Traffic laws are to keep people safe. So we should obey them, and have good road-crossing habits. When someone starts to jaywalk, we should stop him, and never follow him. That way we can avoid the traffic accidents.
【小题1】The underlined word “intersection” here probably means “ ”.
| A.road | B.bridge | C.crossing | D.traffic |
| A.crossing the road in a mess | B.waiting for the green light patiently |
| C.crossing the road with chickens | D.hurting each other in the street |
| A.He thinks it’s OK. | B.He thinks it’s wrong. |
| C.He has no idea of it. | D.He doesn’t mention it |