Listening to Music 写作要点: 1.听音乐对人们生活的重要性。 2.我从听音乐中获得的益处。 3.
The process of thinking and that of listening to music are similar in that ______
A.both are mental acts
B.muscles participate in both processes
C.both processes are performed by the entire body
D.we derive equal enjoyment from them
A.Yes, I do
B.My hobby is listening to music
C.I like watching TV
A、another
B、other thing
C、others
D、the other
将括号中的各词变为适当的形式填入空白。
56.Nowadays,youngsters like listening to CD music more than (go) to concerts
57.It seems the roof (leak)for some time. We’d better call in the repairman.
58. It is reported that daydreaming improves a person’s ability (solve) everyday problems.
59. Ever since the paintings of contemporary artists went on exhibitiln at the gallery,there (be) many visitors every day.
60.Every student in this class likes the film (base) on the novel by D.H.Lawrence.
61. Some enjoy (meet)new people,while others want to be left alone.
62. Looking through the window, I found him (seat) in a sofa.
63. Deeply (touch) by her speech, many offered finacncial support to the school.
64.If I (follow) my teacher’s suggestions,I would have passed the examination.
65.Shortly afterwards,the government announced its (decide) on the future of the railways.
Sometimes there are power cuts and we have no electricity in the house. This does not worry us as we just light candles and carry on with what we were doing before. Our friends are lost—no television! So they don't know what to do. On such evening our house is very full as they all come to us. They all have a good time. Instead of sitting in silence in front of the television, everybody talks and plays games. Yes, life is possible without television.
The author's friends like______.
A.sitting and playing chess in the evening
B.attending classes in the evening
C.listening to music in the evening
D.watching television in the evening
My mother was quieter and talked less than my father did. She was also a much more patient person than my father. My father was more experienced in life. He was () to doing everything quickly. My mother, on the other hand, worked and spoke more slowly.
They were fond of nature and sports, such as walking, gardening and swimming. They were both () in reading and music, but my father preferred history books, while my mother liked to read romantic novels. In music, their types were similar, and they were never proud of listening to it. Most of the time they were in agreement on bringing () their children.They both believed in giving them love and neither one believed in punishing them physically. At times, their personalities were very much alike, but at other times, they seemed very (). Perhaps that is why none of their children knows which parent he looks or behaves like.
1.
A.however
B.interested
C.up
D.used
E.different
2.
A.however
B.interested
C.up
D.used
E.different
3.
A.however
B.interested
C.up
D.used
E.different
4.
A.however
B.interested
C.up
D.used
E.different
5.
A.however
B.interested
C.up
D.used
E.different
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
William Shakespeare described old age as "second childishness"—sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste. In the case of taste he may, musically speaking, have been even more perceptive than he realized. A paper in Neurology by Giovanni Frisoni and his colleagues at the National Centre for Research and Care of Alzheimer's Disease in Brescia, Italy, shows that one form. of senile dementia can affect musical desires in ways that suggest a regression, if not to infancy, then at least to a patient's teens.
Frontotemporal dementia is caused, as its name suggests, by damage to the front and sides of the brain. These regions are concerned with speech, and with such "higher" functions as abstract thinking and judgment. Frontotemporal damage therefore produces different symptoms from the loss of memory associated with Alzheimer's disease, a more familiar dementia that affects the hippocampus and amygdala in the middle of the brain. Frontotemporal dementia is also rarer than Alzheimer's. In the past five years the centre in Brescia has treated some 1,500 Alzheimer's patients; it has seen only 46 with frontotemporal dementia.
Two of those patients interested Dr. Frisoni. One was a 68-year-old lawyer, the other a 73-year-old housewife. Both had undamaged memories, but displayed the sorts of defect associated with frontotemporal dementia—a diagnosis that was confirmed by brain scanning.
About two years after he was first diagnosed, the lawyer, once a classical music lover who referred to pop music as "mere noise", started listening to the Italian pop band "883". As his command of language and his emotional attachments to friends and family deteriorated, he continued to listen to the band at full volume for many hours a day. The housewife had not even had the lawyer's love of classical music, having never enjoyed music of any sort in the past. But about a year after her diagnosis she became very interested in the songs that her 11-year-old granddaughter was listening to.
This kind of change in musical taste was not seen in any of the Alzheimer's patients, and thus appears to be specific to those with frontotemporal dementia. And other studies have remarked on how frontotemporal dememia patients sometimes gain new talents. Five sufferers who developed artistic abilities are known. And in another lapse of musical taste, one woman with the disease suddenly started composing and singing country and western songs.
Dr. Frisoni speculates that the illness is causing people to develop a new attitude towards novel experiences. Previous studies of novelty-seeking behavior. suggest that it is managed by the brain's right frontal lobe. A predominance of the right over the left frontal lobe, caused by damage to the latter, might thus lead to a quest for new experience. Alternatively, the damage may have affected some specific neural circuit that is needed to appreciate certain kinds of music. Whether that is a gain or a loss is a different matter. As Dr. Frisoni puts it in his article, De Gustibus Non Disputandum Est. Or, in plainer words, there is no accounting for taste.
For Shakespeare, old age as "second childishness" for they have the same______.
A.favorite
B.memory
C.experience
D.sense