1 . 假定你是李华，上周日你校举办了音乐节活动，请你为校英文报写一篇报道，内容包括：
1. 活动目的；
2. 活动内容；
3. 活动反响。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式作答。

The Music Festival

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2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does the man think of the video?

A．Amazing.

B．Traditional.

C．Boring.

2. What makes the dancing special according to the woman?

A．The music.

B．The costumes.

C．The routines.

6 . 你校上周日举办了一个音乐节，请按下面要求写一篇有关这次音乐节的英语短文，在你所在的英语微信群里交流。
1. 音乐节的活动；
2. 你的感受或认识。
注意：1. 词数80字左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

7 . From Mozart to Metallica, tons of people enjoy listening to various types of music while they paint, write, or draw. Most believe that music helps increase creativity, but an international study conducted by English and Swedish researchers is challenging that view. The study results were echoed by scientists from Lancaster University, and the University of Gavle, saying their findings show music actually weakens creativity.

To reach their conclusions, researchers had volunteers complete verbal problems designed to inspire creativity while sitting in a quiet room, and then again while music played in the background. They found that background music significantly weakened the volunteers’ ability to complete tasks connected with verbal creativity. The team also tested background noises like those commonly heard in a library, but found that such noises had no influence on subjects’ creativity.

The tasks were simple word games. For example, volunteers were given three words, such as dress, rise, and flower. Then, they were asked to find a single word connected with all three that could be combined to form a common phrase or word. The single word, in this case, would be “sun” (sundress, sunrise, sunflower). Volunteers completed the tasks in either a quiet room, or while listening to two different types of music: rock music or light music

“We found strong evidence of weakened performance when playing background music in comparison to quiet background conditions,” says co-author D. Neil McLatchie of Lancaster University. He and his colleagues find that music negatively influences the verbal working memory processes of the brain, preventing creativity. Also, as far as the library background noises having seemingly no effect, the study’s authors believe that was the case because library noises create a “regular state” environment that doesn’t affect concentration.

“To conclude, the findings here challenge the popular view that music increases creativity, and instead show that music, whatever type it is, is always a disadvantage for creative performance in problem solving,” the study reads.

1. The underlined word in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by ________.

A．challenged

B．accepted

C．doubted

D．heard

2. What were the volunteers asked to do in the study?

A．To play music.	B．To combine given words.
C．To create new words.	D．To connect words with music.

3. What can we infer from the study?

A．Quiet background inspires creativity best.	B．Library noise does no harm to creativity.
C．Music has a bad effect on language ability.	D．Music types matter in creative performance.

4. Which is the main idea of the passage?

A．Quiet Environments Prevent Concentration.	B．Background NoiseAffects Concentration.
C．Composing Music Weakens Creativity.	D．Listening to Music Reduces Creativity.

8 . When I was a boy, I played the piano six hours a day. I love the instrument. My mother________ me to read notes, and my father showed me how to control the ______. At first I played on clunky (沉闷的) Chinese keyboards ______, but the best we could afford. Later my parents bought me a Swedish piano, but I broke half the keys on it playing Tchaikovsky.

To be a serious ______, I would have to move to Beijing where millions of pianists in China were competing for fame. To remove to Beijing with me, my father ______ a great sacrifice. He quit his concertmaster’s (首席小提琴手) job and my mother still stayed in Shenyang to keep working to ______ us. Before we ______ Beijing, they both warned me, “Being a pianist is hard. Can you live without your mother?” I said, “I want my ______!” But I knew I needed to be in Beijing.

Suddenly my father and I were newcomers—outsiders. The only apartment we could afford was in an unheated building, with five families ______ one bathroom. My father became an house-wife mostly.

I was miserable, but not from the poverty or ______. My new teacher in Beijing didn’t like me. “You have no _____, ” she often told me. “You will never be a pianist.” And one day, she ____ me.

I was just nine years old then and I didn’t want to be a pianist anymore, I wanted to go home to my mother. For the next two weeks I didn’t touch the piano. ______, my father didn’t push. He just ______. That day I told my father what he waited to hear—that I wanted to study with a new teacher. ______ that time on, everything turned around.

1.

A．allowed

B．asked

C．taught

D．forced

2.

A．sounds

B．voices

C．strings

D．keys

3.

A．safe

B．cheap

C．fine

D．convenient

4.

A．scientist

B．genius

C．musician

D．doctor

5.

A．created

B．produced

C．got

D．made

6.

A．support

B．understand

C．provide

D．supply

7.

A．left for

B．turned to

C．got in

D．stayed in

8.

A．mother

B．father

C．hometown

D．friends

9.

A．cleaning

B．living

C．keeping

D．sharing

10.

A．pleasure

B．pressure

C．success

D．leisure

11.

A．talent

B．patience

C．money

D．confidence

12.

A．prevented

B．stopped

C．fired

D．punished

13.

A．Unfortunately

B．Hopefully

C．Sadly

D．Wisely

14.

A．cried

B．waited

C．smiled

D．shouted

15.

A．Until

B．From

C．Since

D．After

9 . Nashville, Tennessee is already known to many Americans as Music City, which is famous for country music in the United States and is home to many recording companies. But recently, music recorded for video games, television shows and movies has earned Nashville a new name: Soundtrack(原声音乐)City.

The city is known for very good studio musicians. They work mostly on recordings rather than live performances. Musicians in Nashville have helped to make the soundtracks for some of the most popular video games in the US. These include "Madden", "FIFA", "Call of Duty" and "Star Wars".

Also, more production companies have been bringing their film and TV soundtrack recordings to Nashville, including Netflix, Sony and Focus Features. A program the state of Tennessee established last year gives financial support to companies for doing business in the city.

"Nashville has become one of the major places in the world to record for films, games and television," Steve Schnur told the Associated Press. He is president of music for Electronic Arts (EA), a video game company. In the past, Schnur worked for MTV and music production companies such as Arista. He also worked as a music supervisor on films before joining EA. For a long time, EA recorded soundtracks for their games with orchestras, or large groups of musicians, in Los Angeles, London and Eastern Europe. That changed about seven years ago when Schnur came to Nashville to record music for a game called "Dragon Age Inquisition".

"I work with the musicians in Nashville now. They are both fast and skilled," Schnur added. This proved true even on complex songs written by well-known composers such as Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, Jeff Russo and John Debney. The music of video games is often very important to the gameplay in creating both emotion and attachment to the storyline. Kris Bowers is the remarkable composer behind the award-winning film "Green Book". He came to Ocean Way Nashville Recording Studios and successfully recorded the soundtrack for "Madden NFL 20".

1. What makes Nashville called Soundtrack City?

A．The achievement in soundtrack.	B．The increase in live music performance.
C．The film production.	D．The record of country music.

2. Which of the following is a film and television production company?

A．Ocean Way.	B．Call of Duty.
C．Netflix.	D．EA.

3. What does Schnur do now?

A．He is a musician from Los Angeles.

B．He is president of the Associated Press.

C．He is a music supervisor on films in Arista.

D．He is a leader recording music for video games in EA.

4. Why does the author mention Kris Bowers in the last paragraph?

A．To show the popularity of folk music.

B．To attach importance to video games.

C．To introduce his award-winning film.

D．To stress Nashville's musical success.