河北省定州中学2016-2017学年高二（承智班）上学期周练（12.30）英语试题

河北定州中学2016-2017学年第一学期高二承智班英语周练试题(12) 一、阅读理解 Life gets noisier every day and very few people can be free from noise of some sort or another. It doesn’t matter where you live - in the middle of a modern city, or a faraway village - the chances are that you’ll be disturbed by jet planes, transistor radios, oil-powered engines, etc. we seem to be getting used to noise, too. Some people feel quite lonely without background music while they’re working. Scientific tests have shown that total silence can be a very frightening experience for a human being. However, some people enjoy listening to pop music which is very loud, and this can do harm to their eardrums (耳鼓). The noise level in some discos is far above the usual safety level for heavy industrial areas. One recent report about noise and concentration suggested that although a lot of people say that any noise disturbs their concentration, what really influences their ability to concentrate is a change in the level of noise. It goes on t