It had been a hard week for Jack. His parents had to cancel the family’s spring vacation to Disney World.
Soft music with long, gentle notes is what many people play to relax. If you want to relax, try listening to nature sounds.
Music can do more than just help them relax. Playing music while studying helps keep your brain in shape. When you listen to a sound, it travels from the ear to the brain by electrical signal and it involves learning, memory, and emotions. Experts suggest playing slow music to help you concentrate while you study. It may even improve your memory.
No matter what style of music you like, you can use it to help you. The right music can add to a good mood or turn around a bad day. Just ask Jack. After listening to his favorite song, he put his tough week behind him and played a great game of basketball with his sister.
| A．Why does music have these powers? |
| B．It may help make people healthy again. |
| C．His basketball team lost an important game. |
| D．Why can music help you stay longer in a place? |
| E．Or look for music with a single instrument you like. |
| F．So try to match the type of music to the type of learning. |
| G．Music can be just what you need when you’re feeling down. |
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【推荐1】Finding an outlet for emotion
Finland is fertile (肥沃的) ground for heavy metal music. For every 100,000 people, there are 70 metal bands, according to Medium. Heavy metal’s characteristic aggression and loudness attack listeners with brute (粗暴的) force.
The cold and sometimes severe climate has contributed to the population’s interest in heavier forms of rock. “When someone is surrounded by cold and dark for long periods of time, it is only natural that some form of depression will start to set in,” the website A Metal State Of Mind noted. “How do many Finns combat the depression, release the negative energy, and make themselves feel more positive?
According to Medium, most Finnish people are emotionally restrained (克制的). Whatever emotions — soft or hard — they feel, they keep them inside. “I feel that the emotional introversion (内向性) also has to do with the fact that we often want to keep things private.
“The reason why heavy metal might reflect the Finnish mentality is probably because we are so private that it is difficult to discuss our feelings, but still we need an outlet to deal with these negative emotions,” explained Kiljander.
| A．However, heavy metal music offers a way to express these emotions. |
| B．Every year, thousands of “metalheads” gather at Finland’s many metal festivals, especially during summer. |
| C．But why does this seemingly extreme form of music thrive in the Nordic country of Finland? |
| D．It has not been socially acceptable to show great emotions, for example anger or sadness. |
| E．Just as the Chinese proverb goes, “Where you live makes you who you are.” |
| F．Emotional introversion is a form of learned behavior in Finland and the roots go back quite far in history. |
| G．There is no one form of music more tailored to the release of the negative more than metal. |
【推荐2】I grew up like every other teenager of the 80’ and 90’—watching MTV. One day, I decided I was also going to become a rock star and perform on MTV. Then I set off to work to make that dream come true, but I found that doing my own thing was a completely different ball game.
For the first time, I started to listen to things I’d never listened to before, like the drums.
Music taught me a lot about being a creator. The world is so full of stuff that it’s easy to sit back and just consume it.
| A．However, creating is hard. |
| B．I became curious about life. |
| C．I became an active hunter-gatherer of ideas. |
| D．Music opened up to me on a whole new level. |
| E．The beat and the sounds even made me dance. |
| F．You’ll transform from a consumer to a creator some day. |
| G．This required a whole new way of thinking, seeing and listening. |
【推荐3】One of the most famous buildings in the United States is Carnegie Hall, the home of classical and popular music concerts in New York. Carnegie Hall is known not just for its beauty and history, but also for its amazing sound. Carnegie Hall is named after Andrew Carnegie, who paid for its construction. Construction of Carnegie Hall began in 1890 and the official opening night was on May 5th, 1891.
The hall was owned by the Carnegie family until 1924 when it was sold to Robert E Simon. The building became very old and in 1960, the new owner made plans to destroy it and build an office block. Isaac Stem led a group of people who fought to save Carnegie Hall and finally, the city of New York bought it for $5 million. It was then fixed up between 1983 and 1995.
Advertisements and stories in newspapers about how Carnegie Hall needed help to recover its history led people to send in old concert programmes and information from all over the world. Over 12,000 concert programmes were received and with these it was possible to make a proper record of Carnegie Hall's concert history.
Carnegie Hall is actually made up of several different halls, but the Main Hall, now called the Isaac Stem Auditorium, is the most famous. The hall itself can hold an audience of 2,804 in five levels of seating.
Because the best and most famous musicians of all time have played at Carnegie Hall, it is the dream of most musicians who want to be great to play there. This has led to a very old joke which is now Part of Carnegie Hall's history. Question: "How do I get to Carnegie Answer: "Practice, practice, practice."
1. It can be inferred that people wanted to save Carnegie Hall mainly because____.| A．it made a lot of money |
| B．it was worth visiting |
| C．it made some players become famous |
| D．many important concerts were held in it |
| A．Through old concert programmes. |
| B．Through newspaper reports. |
| C．Through old photographs. |
| D．Through old jokes. |
| A．Because it is difficult to find your way to Carnegie Hall. |
| B．Because you expect the answer to be directions but not advice. |
| C．Because Carnegie Hall is a place where musicians practice a lot. |
| D．Because you don't expect the answer to repeat the same word three times. |
| A．A joke about Carnegie Hall |
| B．The history of Carnegie Hall |
| C．The dream of most musicians |
| D．The best musician having played in Carnegie Hall |
