3 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

The Greatest Audience

I was 16 years old, and like many other teenage boys, I was in a band. One day, we were told to perform for a charity event at a large rehabilitation (康复) hospital. It wouldn’t pay much, but it was our first real job. For two weeks we practised hard, getting together every day after school to sharpen our skills and learn enough songs to fill a one-hour show.

Finally came the big day. We showed up early to check out the stage, then the hospital’s entertainment director came over to us. “OK, boys, I just want to share some details with you,” she said. “A lot of the people in the audience are suffering from severe physical or mental disabilities. Many of them are old, in their sixties and seventies. These patients have very few chances to see live entertainment, so they enjoy any kind of musical talent that we can bring in. Just play your regular show.” With that, she left, going into the auditorium (礼堂) to assist the patients to their seats.

Soon it was show time. As we picked up our instruments, we got our first real look at the audience. The auditorium was full. The majority of the people watching us had either been seriously injured in accidents or born with major birth defects (缺陷). Some were talking quietly, but most were just sitting there. The quiet was disturbing, as we were used to energetic audiences.

Tommy, the lead singer, signaled us to start the first song. Everything was perfect, and we played probably the best show of our lives. We hardly missed a note on any of our songs, even the ones that we’d only recently learned. My guitar solos seemed to flow effortlessly out of my fingers, and I felt surrounded by a wall of music. However, we couldn’t enjoy our performance.

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As each song finished, we didn’t receive thundering applause.

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What happened next shocked me more than anything.

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4 . Music is present in any part of the world, and it is appreciated and felt everywhere. Without its presence, life could be boring. Studies show that music is good for your body and mind.     1    

Music can increase pain management. Listening to music can help increase your pain tolerance (耐痛性).     2     Listening to music can help you gain a sense of control over your ability to deal with pains. If you have a certain pain, for example, listening to music that you enjoy can help reduce the pain that you experience.

●    3     Listening to certain types of music, such as relaxing music, can naturally reduce both your heartbeat rate and breathing rate. Additionally, music has shown promising results as a treatment for heart disease. Whether it involves listening to music or composing music, the calming effect that music produces further improves your heart’s health by supporting it throughout the healing process.

●Music can reduce anxiety and depression     4     When it comes to anxiety and depression, music treatment can help to reduce the amount of stress hormones. For example, listening to music that you enjoy can naturally decrease the amount of cortisol (皮质醇) that your body releases.

●Music can improve self-expression and communication. Self-expression and communication are an important part of the human experience, especially when it comes to basic emotional and mental health needs.     5     By listening and singing along to music, kids who struggle to interact and communicate with others can practice using the very skills needed to do so.

A．Music can improve heart health.

B．Music can increase your heartbeat rate.

C．Here are some benefits of music treatment.

D．They are two common pains in your daily life.

E．It has been proved to be helpful for anxious and depressed people.

F．Listening to music can also help decrease the strength of your pains.

G．For kids weak in both areas, music treatment can help develop their relative skills.

5 . When watching sports events, we often notice athletes with their earphones on while preparing in the locker room or entering the stadium. They keep their eyes shut, and gently nod along the beats. It seems as if the music is empowering them and toughening them up for the competition. But is there any science behind such practice?

According to a recent research, it turns out there is. Music actually does make us feel powerful, but not all songs have the same effect. The research was led by Dennis Hsu of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in the US. His team had people listen to 31 songs of different types. The listeners felt powerful after listening to some songs, such as Queen’s We Will Rock You and 2 Unlimited’s Get Ready for This. Researchers also found that high-power music made people want to take control in social events and come first in competition. As for the reason for music’s magical power, Hsu’s team came up with one possible explanation: When people hear music that expresses a sense of power, they mimic these feelings in their mind.

So, when choosing music, we need to look at the type of music. In previous research by the Music in Exercise and Sport Group at Brunel University in London, they found that pop was perfect for slower, more repetitive-type tasks. Dance music was found to be best suited to strength and weight training because it’s “fast and rhythmical”. During high-intensity workouts, though, you’d better not listen to rock. Its different changes in tempo can affect your rhythm.

1. Why athletes were mentioned in the first paragraph?

A．To list things athletes have in common with other people.

B．To describe athletes’ common habits before sports games.

C．To get readers to wonder whether music matters in sports.

D．To explain why athletes like listening to music before games.

2. Which of the following statements might Dennis Hsu agree with?

A．Listening to music can always boost the athlete’s performance.

B．People listening to powerful music are likely to produce similar feelings.

C．The result of a game is mainly affected by the physical condition of the players.

D．Most athletes don’t know the effects of high-power music on their performance.

3. If you want to cool down after exercise, what kind of music will be suitable?

A．Pop music.

B．Dance music.

C．Rock.

D．Blues.

4. How did the author make his points clear?

A．With comparisons.	B．Through examples.
C．By giving general rules.	D．Through listing figures.

8 . Musical instruments range from simple to complex. They differ from one part of the world to another. But all instruments produce sound the same way, by means of vibrations (rapid back-and-forth movements). These vibrations reach our ears as sound waves.    1     Vibrations come from striking, plucking (弹或拨), and blowing on instruments, or by moving a bow across them. Faster vibrations produce higher notes.

Instruments we strike

    2     When we shake a rattle, objects inside it strike the rattle’s wall and make a sound. Instruments that make sounds by striking them have been used since the Stone Age. Striking the instrument starts the vibrations.

    3     This kind of instrument is a drum. The stretched membrane vibrates to produce the sound. Drums are found in nearly every culture around the world.

Instruments with strings

Some musical instruments, such as violins and harps, have strings that vibrate. Stretching the strings by plucking or striking makes them vibrate. Violins, violas, and cellos are played by drawing a bow across their strings. The guitar, lute, banjo, and harp have strings that are plucked with the fingers.     4     Pressing a key on the keyboard causes a string to be hit with a small hammer.

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Flutes, trumpets, saxophones, and other instruments produce sound through vibrations of air. A flute sounds when we breathe air into a hole on its side or its end. By covering finger holes on the flute, we can change the pitch of the notes—how high or low the notes are.

A．Instruments we blow on

B．The piano has strings and a keyboard.

C．We strike gongs and xylophones.

D．We can group musical instruments into families by how they produce vibrations.

E．Sometimes we strike an object that has a skin or other membrane (膜) stretched tight across it.

F．Instruments we strike range from hollowed-out logs to complicated bells.

G．But we usually think of musical instruments as objects specially created to produce the sounds of the music we know—folk, rock, classical, and all other types.

9 . Fine arts are important in the curriculum (课程) because of what they do for learning. In other words, the arts, especially music, should be an important part of every school’s curriculum.

Students would be much smarter if they had some music experience. They would improve their classroom skills, like paying attention, following directions, and taking part actively. People develop all these skills when they learn music. Musicians are better in math, and they get higher SAT (美国高中毕业生学术能力水平考试) scores. While they make music, they use their imaginations, unlike playing video games. It provides students a chance to try out their own ideas.

Music not only makes children better students but also gives them something positive to do. Parents can enjoy listening to their children’s music instead of seeing them always playing computer games or watching TV. In a music program, children can be part of a band instead of joining bad people. They can communicate with old friends and make new friends through music. While they learn and make music, they can also be thinking about a possible career.

Music builds self-confidence. To make music is something for them to be proud of, and it lets kids practise performing in front of groups of people. It gives students a feeling of importance to have a skill someone appreciates. Music gives children a chance to express themselves, and that helps develop their self-confidence. They are also learning how to complete something from beginning to end and actually come out with a product that they can take pride in.

Though important, many schools exclude music lesson on the pretext of delaying students’ studies. Then what shall we do?

1. What can we know from the passage?

A．Music gets one to be more creative.

B．Music helps one to get a job earlier.

C．Famous people should love music.

D．Outgoing people learn music more easily.

2. The last sentence suggests that ________.

A．the author wonders whether music is necessary

B．the author has no way to solve the problem

C．music lessons should be part of the curriculum

D．all kinds of lessons should be included at school

3. Why does the author write this article?

A．To blame the present education.

B．To attract attention to music education.

C．To make people enjoy music.

D．To take children away from computer games.

4. The statement “So music makes children well-rounded students” should go to the end of ________.

A．Para. 1

B．Para. 2

C．Para. 4

D．Para. 5

10 . 假定你是李华，你校英语俱乐部正在征稿，主题是“音乐的力量”，请你分享你的故事。内容包括：
1. 你对音乐的体验和感受；
2. 音乐如何给你鼓舞或激励。
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2. 请按如下格式作答。

The Power of Music

The school English club is calling on all the students to contribute their best essays themed the power of music.

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