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中考置学员
英语
第21课时
Units 9-10
一、阅读理解
Do you know what music people like listening to?
If you ask them,you may likely get many different
B.
answers.Why do different people have different
musical preferences(偏好)?What do these differences
say about us?
D.
Researchers from Cambridge University set out to
)4.What can we learn from the last paragraph?
answer these questions.They asked 350,000 people
A.Language and culture act as bridges.
from 50 different countries.Then,they discovered
B.People can be grouped by their musical
musical preferences have some relation with
tastes.
personalities.Outgoing people,for example,prefer
C.Different people have different music
dance-able music with strong beats such as rap.
preferences.
Country music fans are shown to be more serious in
D.Music helps people all over the world
their jobs.One of the findings is quite interesting.The
communicate.
researchers thought that people with much stress should
)5.Why is this text written?
like either sad music or rhythmic(有节奏的)music.
A.To give advice.
But it turned out that these people like neither.
B.To make plans.
Instead,they prefer loud music.Perhaps they
C.To offer information.
like to listen to this kind of music to lower their stress.
D.To express feelings.
The researchers also found that climates(气候)
二、完形填空
may influence people's musical preferences and
In a small Chinese town lived a poor young man
personalities.People in hot weather prefer dance-able
named Liang.He loved 6.One night,an old man
music.They are more outgoing.This may be a result
7 Liang in a dream.He gave Liang a paintbrush
of longer daylight hours.They encourage people to go
(画笔).
outdoors to dance.
“Use this magic paintbrush to_8_the poor,”
Of course,nothing is clear-cut.We may not
he said,"but don't use it to help people who are rich
group people simply by their musical tastes.The
and greedy(贪婪的),or the skill will9your
Cambridge study just showed us that people of different
fingers and you will never paint again.
cultures