A.They should drive Jack’s car this time. |
B.She is not interested in spending the weekend in London. |
C.She is not good at driving. |
D.She would rather spend the weekend locally. |
A.The job pays poorly. |
B.The woman is satisfied with her new job. |
C.The woman can’t bear too many business travels. |
D.The woman decides to quit her new job. |
A.She is using a wrong study approach. |
B.She has failed the final exam. |
C.She hasn’t finished the reading task. |
D.She hasn’t listed the study difficulties. |
A.his being not able | B.him not to be able |
C.his not being able | D.him to be not able |
你所居住的小区,虽地处闹市,但因建成较早,当年规划的300个停车位早已不能满足500户居民的停车需求。小区业委会(owners’ committee)现正就如何缓解小区停车难这一问题征求居民们意见。在小区公众号留言,谈谈你的看法。留言中包括:
1.你的建议;
2.你的理由。
(文中不得出现考生姓名,学校等真实信息)
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The music in you
Any party goer can tap her heel to an unfamiliar song without realizing it. Yet when asked on site, she might reply: “Music? I don’t know anything about that.”
Maybe you’ve heard a variation on this theme: “I don’t have a musical bone in my body.” Most of us make music publicly just a few times a year, when it’s someone’s birthday and the cake comes out. Privately, it’s a different story. We belt out tunes in the shower and create rhythm tracks on our steering wheel. But when we think about musical expertise, we tend to imagine professionals who specialize in performance, people we’d pay to hear. As for the rest of us, our bumbling private efforts, rather than illustrating that we share an irresistible urge to make music, seem only to demonstrate that we don’t enjoy essential musical capacity.
But the more psychologists investigate musicality, the more it seems that nearly all of us are musical experts, in quite a surprising sense. A lot of the most interesting and substantial elements of musicality are things that we all share. We aren’t talking about instinctive, inborn universals here. Our musical knowledge is the product of long experience; maybe not years spent over an instrument, but a lifetime spent absorbing music from the open window of every passing car.
In fact, for all its remarkable power, music is in good company. Many of our feelings are governed by a similar rule. We don’t know how we come to like certain food more than others. We don’t know why we fall in love. Yet in the very act of making these choices we reveal the effects of a host of instinctive mental processes. The fact that we respond to music so naturally and normally actually speaks to its strength and universality.
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